Reflections 11- Pitch Idea

Main Idea

For my main idea I've decidedly look at the relationship between music and memories and how difference prices of music can trigger certain emotions and memories. I feel I could do this by interviewing different people of different ages and asking what songs perhaps make them feel nostalgic. Another way I could approach this is by finding out a song that is special to someone for a specific reason and surprise them by playing the song and film their emotional response.I looked at the term 'Echoic Memory' which id never heard before, which is a component of sensory memory, which allows us to remember certain sounds/snippets of audio for a short term period. I feel as if sound is such an important integral part of our lives, and without it we wouldn't really have memories. What im thinking of doing perhaps is to muffle the sound in parts of the film to perhaps confuse the person watching, or I will muffle the sound played to them and see if the interviewee can still recognise the song. 

The concept of this idea was originally from an article I read about a documentary that showed people with dementia or Alzheimer's. An interesting quote found on the article by the creator of the film, said that: 

'Music can help dementia or Alzheimer's sufferers "wake up" their memories'

I found this fascinating, however the idea itself has already been done and I felt it would be difficult to approach it that way, thus the idea of interview footage to do with how of that triggers memories/emotions.

During the film, you see footage of the look on the people's faces. Some smile whilst others may sing along or dance, which I find really interesting as it goes to show how important music is, in reference to memory. 

                        A still from the film 'Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory'.

The challenge would be extending the film between 5-10 minutes, however some reactions may vary in length and if I can interview a variation of people then I feel I can get interesting results. Another challenge I face is making the film experimental and different. I thought of perhaps re-enacting these memories however the memories themselves might be too difficult to re-enact.