Jeremy Bowtells raised some very good points in this weeks Lecture. The rhythm of the editing is a key component to juxtapose meanings using spaces and gaps. Using the ideas brought up i will dissect a video ( more series) i have come to love over the past weeks.
John Winslow ‘how to keep smoking’ is like nothing i have seen before. Its purposefully bad bad video with an unconventional message (like many of his videos). John talks in a stuttery and sometimes coughy voice when he dubs over many many shots of his journeys in NYC. each sentence juxtaposes the image we see, and ends as the footage ends, continuing as if a never ending sentence, that just keeps on going and going.
He carries a VHS camera everywhere he goes, and recording random occurrences, odd things and everyday people. Its a guerilla shoot as he doesn’t go for permission to use people in his video. Its truely substance over form as the story is the most important aspect.
John always “makes a cut for a positive reason”. This reason is the rhythm of the videos cutting. Rarely does he have footage of one or 2 seconds. Virtually every shot it 5seconds long ive noticed. it is not ‘stale’ as later in the video he breaks this cycle for the underlining or ‘big philosophical’ question. its what makes his videos different and exiting to me.
I really want to explore the wittiness, awkwardness and Lo-fi attributes of johns videos further in some upcoming projects.
Author Archives: Alec Wilson
Attention music
Again returning to the topic of hyper attention these are some of my favourite study tunes. its really just background noise
https://soundcloud.com/omgtsn/scood
https://soundcloud.com/ethan-peglar/ive-always-wanted-to-do-one-of-these
My hyper and deep attention last week
While reading the passages, in the back of my head all i could think about was how i was reading it, while processing and thinking about the content. In a way, the passage was made meta in this the exercise because we were forced to undertake a traditional institutional learning approach of reading. I only moved towards hyper attentionish techniques (writing notes and underlining) because i realised i might have to write something about it later. It was a waste of time however because the notes were on the paper, and i lost the paper, so now i have nothing but fading memories
Media 1 already off to a good start with 13 posts already done
Upon completing the first week of Bcom Media i’ve just realised that im well behind the blogging benchmark; 0 post have been completed (not including this). I dont know what to talk about so i guess this topic is a good way to start. Ive been trawling through blackboard and mediafactory websites to see if ive missed any work or information for week two. I feel like im already at the “All the work while crying/deadline” spectrum in that powerpoint. Ive found on media factory theres a reading called ‘Blood in the gutter’ which i need to read for this week. The download link takes me to blackboard but unfortunately theres no download buton there. #justgoogleitmate? When i search it online it comes up with 1 million other results of mediafactory blog posts. I dont feel like reading anything at this time but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to read them later. Thanks for reading this far. thats all.
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