The layering of B-roll audio:
Voices fade in and out of each other
Linked by a word, phrase, idea.
A river of shrill and sonorous tones,
ascending then descending the line of silence.
I am drawn to Avedon's portraits because of their startling mix of sublime beauty and grotesque reality. He captures the essence of a person through the microexpressions on the face: the subtle crease in the beekeeper's brow; the heavy lidded eyes and pensive mouth of Marilyn Monroe; Dovima appraising herself in the mirror, wrought both with glamour and insecurity. What surprised me most was how Avedon engaged his subjects during the shoot. He would ask them questions to elicit a response, usually an emotion he was after.
-A series of portraits based in a relaxed state
-get them to tell their stories.
-record the twitch at the corners of mouths
-the manic whites of eyes.
-record the surface expression of emotion.
-Find universals, common threads, shared hopes and fears
needs, wants.
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