Project #5 Explanation

Project #5 may not be very long. It may not be very exciting. It took a lot of work, however. Getting three others to collaborate with myself was kind of tough... and then came the algorithm. I did decide to expand on Project #4, which I thought, although adhering to the prompt, was a little drawn out.

For this project, I took the everyday, the real events, and turned them into a kind of poem. The algorithm follows as such: myself, along with three others, sat own with our cellular phones. Starting with me, and my most ancient "out" text message, I scrolled up three. And wrote that. The person to my left scrolled up three from their oldest "in" message. If it was a response, it took. If not, up through until it was. I wrote that. And then, they took the action and scrolled three more to their oldest "out". I wrote that. And on and on through the collaborators, until I came up with this.

Like I said, it isn't very exciting. I took the really neat juxtaposition of thought, word, and added to it. Through a short series of visual messages and the "typing" audio, and the visual "TV snow" and audio static, my project was born. At first, it is all purposefully aligned. As you move through the piece, however, it purposefully becomes chaotic. This echoes the actual collaboration. We had a great time, and a lot of laughs, forming the foundation for the project. It became more and more hectic and loose.

I created a sort of movie that started out with a visual and audial match up and then let it flow, much as the feelings I had when gathering the information. This project deals with the everyday, the banal, the real event. It mixes it up in a way that is not real, at least for the participants. All of the participants knew their own question or statement, and knew their own answer. After awhile, I allowed the audio and visual to blend together in an unexpected way.

I personally appreciate how this turned out. Although not obvious to the viewer, it is really "mixed up."