S.O.S. Research

Amy & I decided to watch films based on cooking & chef's to listen to how they use the sound in the cooking & kitchen scenes. We have done this to gain an understanding on how they capture the sound to see how they can help us with our Sense of Space project.

Julie & Julia - Nora Ephron - 2009
Unfortunately I could not find any video clips or sound extracts of this film showing the use of sound.

At 33 minutes & 26 seconds in Meryl Streep’s character Julia is in a cooking lesson along with her fellow trainee chef’s cooking what seem to be pancakes. Amy & I both like how the volume of each sizzle of melting butter from each chef is captured on the same level throughout, even when there is speech & the saucepans are off screen (this is the same with the clattering of the saucepans onto the cooker). These two sounds together are of high emphasis, repeated over & over & the volume is also raised when the mixture is added to the saucepan.

Amy & I believe this gives a sense of pressure & stress to the trainee chef’s but also a sense to succeed which is definitely what Amy & I are trying to capture for our Sense of Space project. However we will use a lot more different cooking sounds that are in kitchens, layering them over each other to get a more claustrophobic, manic & stressful sense of space.