I’ve been doing some thinking over the weekend (and even
though these are published back to back in a hurry, these were thought
processes over several days), and I’m torn between two ideas on video
organization. One on hand, I really like the idea of having some type of spoken
word (not in the poetry sense) in the background while the clips are playing,
but I also really like the idea of having nothing, just silence. I would like
the spoken word to have something to do with the interaction between human
activity and its environment (of course, human beings are a part of nature, but
we have this contemporary idea of being above it, greater than it in a way). I
asked my friend and second grandma Alexia (with whom I worked with at a local
forest Brushy Hills, picking out invasive plants) if she wouldn’t mind being
interviewed about this subject, with her audio being edited, cut, and placed
over the clips. And while she was really excited about the prospect of being
interviewed, she wasn’t sure that she would be able to fit our meeting in
during the weekend. So it’s looking like we’re going with silence instead,
which I might actually prefer. It brings this sense of dread… In a really good
way! I’m excited!
I too have been in limbo about what to do with sound versus silence. I really like your thought process though and the the depth you took into thinking about what you wanted. Even though she won't be able to do it, I truly believe that silence is equally as powerful as sound, and since you are doing part of Woods Creek, there is a layer of silence to the trail itself and nature in general.
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