Interview with Gary Gowans
Introducing the Film of The Big Music
Gary Gowans (Senior Lecturer and Course Director in Graphic Design, DJCAD) says:
"The Big Music effortlessly conjures up visions of the beautiful landscape of the far North of Scotland, but also communicates the deeply felt spiritual connections with the land. My film presents these as a series of ‘kinetic paintings’: the material presence and weight of the land, the natural colour of ‘the grasses and the water, and the sky’. The composition is largely dependent upon horizontal and vertical plains. No ‘Dutch angles’ or quirky camera work, no post-production enhancements – the landscape had to do all the work. The film’s tempo is dictated by the sonorous tones of Brian Cox’s reading and the lyrical pacing of Kirsty’s words. Animated typography, synchronized with his voice creates another layer of visual interpretation. I wanted the words to have an ethereal quality, like the quick changing mists that shroud the hills in one moment and are carried off by the wind in the next.
‘Real’ people inhabit this story, but I wanted the human element to be implied rather than individualized. “This image of a man born seventy-eight years ago” appears as a translucent monochrome shot of a sculpted head filmed in high contrast, reinforced by a cut to a ‘subjective viewpoint’ as the camera slowly pans through reed beds by the side of ‘The Strath’. I hope this suggests a sense of ‘otherworldliness’ and leaves space for the viewers’ own imagination of “this man”."
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