Kathleen Ferrier

The Bio:

The story is an interesting one, having been brought back to media I was forced to think on my feet and to create a new museum piece. I thought back to all the exhibits I had seen and I remembered the exhibit on the singer miss Kathleen Ferrier, upon revisiting the museum It soon became apparent that she was a very big fish in the music world as an internationally acclaimed contralto opera singer. As I continued my research into this woman I began to feel quite passionate about the work as I could feel myself making a connection to the story of the eponymous singer. I decided to create what I though would be a short audio biography. I approached this a television biography, I recorded commentary narrated by myself, I gathered several of Kathleen Ferrier's recordings and then compiled them into a suitable order or so I thought. 

What happened over the course of this period was an exercise in continuous creativity. All throughout the period of creating the documentary I was continuously reinventing my approach to the piece. the soundtracks involved in the process also altered considerably, originally the piece was going to consist of commentary interspersed with the music of Kathleen. Though as I intensified my research and realised that the song would take longer to produce than I originally expected it became apparent that more music was required. And so I intercut the commentary with several pieces of delicate piano music (as is the convention of oh so many biographical documentaries) and in the section of her death I included a particularly ominous and innovative soundtrack from the video game Devil May Cry.   

The resulting soundtrack was included with non-diegetic sound relevant to the moments that they occur in the film. 

The piece I make bold to say was a triumph. I was pleased with the overarching theme of it aswell as the many and varied aesthetic qualities it possessed, form overlapping dialogue to appropriate diegetic and non-diegetic sounds paced adeqautely to allow for easy and inquisitive listening.