too beat for a creative title.

For my "writing new media" project, I chose to do a video with the files that my professor/advisor had given me to work with. I could have done a photo essay, but i work with photos all the time, so i thought that would not be challenging enough. I could have done a podcast story, but i have one for my portfolio already. it's actually a quite funny piece in the style of NPR about noah's ark that i did in 2002. So here is my first attempt at video (except the few flash animations i've done).

From beginning to end, this two minute movie took me about 6 hours. i hadn't used windows movie maker before nor have i used a time-line in years. My computer is lacking a sound card, so there is no sound to this, but i think the text works better than the actual song to these lyrics would. I like how it turned out (but please tell me if it's too karaoke!!!)

Making the words match up to some of the specific frames was probably the most complicated of all this project. There aren't very many effects - only the same two effects per clip and only two transitions in the entire video. The words, however, have a few different styles applied to different parts, but for the most part it is me adding a few extra words to the previous texts to try to tell a story.

When i figured out i wouldn't be able to use sound, i decided to use words and searched my brain for something i've read about walking or passers-by. I ended up using lyrics by one of my favorite bands, Ulver (it's Norwegian for "wolves" in case you were wondering). When their Perdition City album first came out in 2000, the were getting a lot of criticism for turning too experimental. Hey, i thought, i'm experimenting too! Perfect!

I've worked with text and images before and of course a picture says a thousands words, but this was a little different for me because i feel like i'm forcing the viewer to accept my interpretation of the images. It's no secret that sometimes i feel like a drone that has nothing to say and even if i wanted to say it, it'd get lost in the "torrent of sound and images that overwhelms our lives."

You can interpret this story whatever way you want.