Found Footage Assignment #1

PROPOSAL DUE BY FRIDAY JANUARY 27

Create new meaning from a selection of archival material.

1. Re-edit clips provided to add new meaning to the work.

2. Use Dialectics and create visual tension and patterns with montage

3. You can add visual effects to the piece, remove the sound, or re-edit the sound and image to create a third effect.

4. VIDEO must be atleast 1 minute long.

Optional:

4. Use Vide Effects Tools: Warping, color, to shift the look of the image.

Links to Found Footage Videos:

MATTIAS MUELLER HOME STORIES

EXTRA CREDIT:

READ "ARCHIVAL APOCALYPSE" IN CATHERINE RUSSELL'S "EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHY" AND WRITE A SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER/REPSONSE. 200 WORDS.

ARCHIVAL APOCALYPSE

Assignment January 24:

1. Create a Foound Footage Montage ROUGH-CUT
2. Attend the Whitney Museum's Dreamlands Exhibition and Write a Response.

DREAMLANDS AT THE WHITNEY


Write a 300 word response to the exhibition. How did the videos address appr!priation?
How did they use motnage editing techniques? Watch the Bruce Conner piece! How
did the repetition work in this video? How did it affect you? Did you find the work
in this show truly immersive? Which pieces did you think were strongest and why?

Answer of Week1 Reading_Nan Zhang

1. EXPLAIN WHAT DIALECTICAL MONTAGE IS

A:

Dialectical montage is a process of superimposing, which arises from the collision of one by one independent shots. These shots have spatial depth, which means they are arranged longitudinally. And also because of this, shots in dialectical montage appears on the top but not next to the former one.   

2. WHAT ARE CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF DIALECTICAL MONTAGE

A:

Pudovkin’s “The End of St. Petersourg” and “Mother”

Otzep’s “Living Corpse”

Dovzhenko’s “Arsenal”

Esther Schub’s “The Russia of Nikolai 2” and “Lev Tolstoy”

Abram Room’s “The Death Ship”

3. WHAT ARE THE OTHER KINDS OF EDITING THAT EISENSTEIN DESCRIBES IN HIS

ESSAY?

A:

1.     Conflict of directions: Purely linear, “anecdotal”, Retaining natural unity and anatomical correctness, an ideographic kind, Color.

2.     Dualistic Division: Sub-title and shot, and Shot and montage

3.     Conflict of motives: Purely verbal utterance, Gesticulatory expression, and projection of the conflict into space

4.     Conflict between colliding shots: Graphic conflict, Conflict of planes, Conflict of volumes, Spatial conflict, Light conflict, Tempo conflict, Conflict between matter and viewpoint, Conflict between matter and its spatial nature, Conflict between an event and its temporal nature, Conflict between the whole optical complex and a quite different sphere

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THIS WEEK:

READ "A DIALECTICAL APPROACH TO FILM FORM" - SERGEI EISENSTEIN

1. EXPLAIN WHAT DIALECTICAL MONTAGE IS
2. WHAT ARE CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF DIALECTICAL MONTAGE
3. WHAT ARE THE OTHER KINDS OF EDITING THAT EISENSTEIN DESCRIBES IN HIS
ESSAY?