Process Piece

https://soundcloud.com/madison-huber/duck-pond-1-1

My process piece is designed to show the transition one person goes through when leaving the busy crowded people world, to the busy crowded nature world.  He basically exchanged one chaos for another, because he prefers the second.  At the beginning of the process he’s in a crowded building.  He then walks outside and is on a busy street.  Eventually he makes it to a very loud, and disordered duck pond.  You hear the bag opening, and he starts feeding them bread.  When he sighs, you know he’s reached a state of peace.

                Something that influenced my decision to move forward with this idea, was the elemental narrative that was just discussed in my TMA 114 class.  Instead of doing a man-v-nature theme though, it was a man in harmony and peace with the nature.  This idea appealed to me, because it’s not something I really feel.  Now, I love to observe nature, and to be in the middle of it.  But being in harmony with it is not my thing.  I am honestly kind of terrified of nature, and all the horrible things it can do.  If I was a character in an elemental narrative, the likely result would be man being destroyed by nature.  However, I wish I wasn’t that way.  Representing someone who was willing to escape the hub bub of everyday living, for the hub bub of nature seemed a little bit brave to me. 

                 I was influenced most heavily by “The Smokehouse” short film we watched.  This was an amazing example of a man being at harmony with nature.  Not only that, he had learned how to use nature for his benefit.  Also, the sounds being highlighted in the film, were distinct to his world, and easy to identify.  At the beginning you hear birds juxtaposed against the sound of a chain saw.  This man was living in between both worlds, and doing it beautifully.  The main person in my process piece has  to go somewhere to find his fix of nature, and has to separate the two worlds.