I chose the image below because of its title, Baden-Baden, which suggested something beautiful and European. Visually, the photograph feels elegant but somewhat dry. Pairing it with the Andalūzijas romance song adds warmth. The title of the photo also made me think of Better Call Saul, where Baden-Baden is referenced by Werner Ziegler as a place of respite. I then recalled how Vince Gilligan uses music to transform visuals into layered experiences—something this pairing attempts to do by letting sound reshape how the image is felt rather than what it shows.
Baden-Baden 10-2015 img13 Hector Berlioz Park by A.Savin, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Audio:
Andalūzijas romance (public domain sound recording), from Wikimedia Commons.
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Hello Viviana, this picture alone is already beautiful, and you somehow made it even more beautiful with your music choice. One would probably expect to hear water rushing from the fountain, but with the music I can almost imagine myself strolling through that park somewhere in Europe as a street performer plays nearby. I also really like your connection with Vince Gilligan’s work, as I’ve also noticed and enjoy this technique of his– though I’ve only watched Breaking Bad and am yet to finish Better Call Saul. It’s great to have a real-life example of how mixing sound and image can shape a story. My only suggestions would be to embed the audio so that we can more easily listen while viewing the image, and to shorten your links to text-based links.
Thank you for sharing your work! I really liked the song you included, it reminds me of something you would hear in an old black & white movie. To me, the movement and shrillness of the piece lends itself well to the antics of a comedy movie. But, I think it pairing it with a more simplistic naturalistic image pulls the combination towards elegance, but overall there still a playfulness that can be found in the music and movement of the image. I do think in this way, that the music elevates the image, because without it the image is a little plain on it’s own.
On the technical side of things, I do think it would have been better if the image was included at a larger size, because some of the details are a little lost. The audio was also initially a little hard to find because it was not embedded in your post, and you have several long links to your sources instead of the shortened hyperlinks attached to text.
As for my own thoughts of what other audio could have been included to shift the meaning, I think it could have been cute to add children’s laughter as the audio to indicate that, although maybe you cannot see them in this image, this is a park with kids running around enjoying the outdoors.
Tiny image you have there. The fountain itself rings a minute beauty, like the sort of thing you’d see in a park tucked in the city. I can almost hear the cars wooshing by on the nearby highway.
Though I think this was unintentional, the audio rings a very similar way–perhaps the grain of the recording or how few instruments are involved? It’s homely, it’s local-theatrely, it’s a touch to the grandiose without being able to reach it. I think they accent each other well. (Attaching an actual audio of cars wooshing would be a neat contrast for the lay viewer, but certainly not as pretty).
As the rest have said, clean up those links, and properly link them.
The image of the fountain is beautiful, though it is a bit too small to fully enjoy. The audio you chose made me feel like there was about to be a gondola pass by were the picture to start moving. It feels almost as though it could be part of a romantic comedy where hijinks may ensue on that very gondola. I enjoyed that you picked an audio that was not expected and took it from just a serene picture of water to something livelier. I would suggest embedding the audio next time to make the experience smoother for the viewer. The only other suggestion I have would be to shorten your link text to make it more visually appealing.