Sunday, March 7, 2010

Recycled Images - Haiku Editing Response

In some vein with my 3-part film, I wanted to continue my thoughts about the conveyance of information. In line with this thinking, I chose to chop up two educational films, one titled "The Human Brain" and the other, a National Geographic film having to do with how we hear sounds. Somewhere along my four hour voyage of footage scrounging, I came across this clip of an old woman sneezing, but instead of her nose creating the sound synonymous with a-choo, she belts out this foghorn noise.

I couldn't stop laughing. (Possibly simultaneously weirding out everyone in the editing room)

Something about it stuck for me, so when I found the synopsis footage about the "Human Brain" that really didn't make any sense out of context, I wanted the lady's sneezing to almost be a way of calling "Bullshit!" on whatever was being presented on the screen... and to be funny too. Even though it's only three cuts, I wanted it to function as if it were just found as an educational film print, as if someone could try and glean something from it. Sometimes that's how I feel about "educational" films, past and present, that overlook certain editing aspects that could be seen as comical from a cynical student audience.

I did like when we viewed it in class with the picture off, because I was really editing for sound and not picture as much. I think for it to function as I intended, it needs to be much longer with more strange footage.

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