High Spirits

Did you ever do this at school? Your teacher showed you a film of a piece of landscape, for example snowy hills, and overlaid it first with an uplifting piece of music and then with something which sounds more forboding.

This is just the same, only it's a day in the rain. Technically, as far as I can tell, this is actually two companion pieces using the same piece of film and different soundtracks. The images are interesting and, of course, it is true that a soundtrack does affect our perception of film - but is this film really doing anything new?

As a student experiement, it's fine, but it has no lasting message. Nice to see Ken Wardrop make a film that doesn't involve a member of his family, though.