There are many ways in which I would have liked to compose this piece differently, being able to stick to my original idea or just have more time to create a more polished version. However what I want to focus on here is critiques of the actual outcome I ended up with.
I don’t think I thought enough about the inside and outside spaces that occur in the film. I feel like I could have differentiated between them in a clearer manner. Perhaps through reverb or other effects. My final piece uses just the raw recordings adjusted for volume with some fades in and out with the rest being grm modifications including distance. I have realised I often don’t use any effects in my work keeping the closeness to the initial recorded experience which I am not sure how to feel about. I partly avoid it because of lack of experience with daw plugins (which due to my poor time management I never make time to try) so sometimes feel I am missing out from taking my work to the next level for the sake of supposed authenticity. In fairness however, my process especially with no input finds the reverb through hardware used unconventionally – some pedals when fed back into itself have an haunting resonance to its noise – which fit in nicely with this project.
In the same vein I feel like I could have edited the recordings in a musique concrete manner to better achieve the morphing aspect of the images (this would have been closer to the original sound)
Furthermore, I think I could have considered perspective and POV more. A question that always lingered in the back of my head was if I am composing for an octophonic ring why am I only facing one way as if there was a front side.
I didn’t think about where my work is positioned within the film until after finishing it. Considering the unique point of view of the film, I think I was always composing as if I were following what the camera saw (behind it) rather than thinking of being in that abandoned space (being photographed). It would be interesting to work with projections in a manner so that you are surrounded by the image just like the sound (curved screens, multiple projectors perhaps). However I think my noise works situated with the audience, separate from the film as this was to me less about immersion and more about experience.