What the video I'm developing now means to me.

PROLOGUE:

Like most art, my video's meaning will be pretty subjective unto the audience and I'm OK with that.

Why do I bother opening this post with the allegedly obvious statement above? The meaning I feel is most important to this work (apart from subsidiary layers of meaning) is concerned foremost with honest personal expression of feelings that may well be obscure the majority and again, I'm OK with that. Of course I hope my video will end up constructed well enough that some viewers can relate to it and like it.

I preface with this form of disclaimer so as not to waste production time on conversations about changing its meaning to something else. That's not the idea here.

That said, I'll be open to suggestions on improving how I'm conveying the meaning. It's a fine balance between too explicit and too obscure, or perhaps critics just need to relax a little and reconsider substance before style. Anyway, I've begun to consider using text titles and/or narration as a major feature of the work and would surely request feedback if I reach an impasse.

MESSAGE:

*****I'll write this later. Having spent too much time writing the above, I need to get to class now.

The plan

I will be doing intensive re-editing of my previous project, with the aim of a creating a two-part (tentatively estimated at 3 minutes each) video work.

My current ambition for the 2nd half of the project is to edit a significant part of it on a single-frame basis; a strobe montage technique. From work I have already done on this over the break, I'm aware of how time-intensive this is.

I will likely be integrating a small amount of the footage from my previous, previous film.

Though writing the score from scratch in SuperCollider code is also time intensive, I plan to develop the soundtrack in tandem with the video.