Stop Making Sense
The 1984 film «Stop Making Sense», by the American band Talking Heads, conquers the hearts of fans and non-fans of the band even today.
In his film, David Byrne presented to an unsatisfied Western commoner the concept of a missing morsel from Asian theatres. The scene was literally gathering in front of the audience.
This project takes note of the ideas that Birn has put forward and, as the opening chips, slightly anticipates the coming deployment of the submission. For example, sound escorts are the primary instrument of deployment. The first and key need for credits for such a work is the absence of obvious and popular melodies that would cause a clear conflict with the film 15 seconds after it began. Therefore, the track used is not, for example, the band’s music, but it contains sounds that reflect the episodes of its formation.
For example, the first sound to be heard is the sound of police sirens and the news. On March 8, 1977, in New York City, a serial killer was killed by Virginia Voskerician, a student at a local university. These events impressed young David so much that on their basis he wrote the first song of his new band, Talking Heads, which is probably still their main hit and guest card.
Other sounds also somehow reflect the group’s creativity: a clipping of a personal interview with Birn as a reflection of the closedness of his character and himself, an African gloom, inspired endlessly by all the members of the Talking Heads, gun shots and horse rusting, as an integral part of turning «dramatic» from Birn’s own words.
In turn, the visual composition of the credits is an abstraction based on the juggling of the principles of light as one of the key visual techniques at this concert.
It also helps to empathize Birn’s hero, because the thoughts are half abstract, like light. In combination with the sound, he seeks to convey the light tension and «strangeness» that the famous musician has shown.
