Thursday 19 May 2011

Poem used for voice over

When it came to editing we thought the sound effects of the dog wasn't enough so we decided to find a poem for a voice over. We used the poem 'What The Dog Perhaps Hears' by Lisel Mueller which we liked as it's from the dog's point of view. I did the voice over for this, we breaked it up so there were pauses and we choose the right scenes for it to be used.



         WHAT THE DOG PERHAPS HEARS


If an inaudible whistle
blown between our lips
can send him home to us, 
then silence is perhaps
the sound of spiders breathing
and roots mining the earth; 
it may be asparagus heaving, 
headfirst, into the light
and the long brown sound
of cracked cups, when it happens. 
We would like to ask the dog
if there is a continuous whir
because the child in the house 
keeps growing, if the snake
really stretches full length
without a click and the sun
breaks through clouds without
a decibel of effort, 
whether in autumn, when the trees
dry up their wells, there isn't a shudder
too high for us to hear.

What is it like up there
above the shut-off level
of our simple ears?
For us there was no birth cry,
the newborn bird is suddenly here, 
the egg broken, the nest alive,
and we heard nothing when the world changed. 
             Lisel Mueller

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