Comm?union

This is one of the first videos I ever made (with some video logging help from my friend Mike), and is the only video I have available that I used Final Cut to edit. After graduating I no longer had access to the equipment, so I switched to Adobe Premiere. I took about 40-50 minutes of footage of each of the 5 participants, and edited it down to 6 and 1/2 minutes. Obviously it's a little rough, and I would love to go back and re-edit it someday. Regardless, here it is in it's original glory. Considering it's an artistic piece, which wasn't originally designed to be viewed alone, please read the description below about it's origins.

As a senior at UC Santa Cruz, I was involved in the annual theater festival known as Chautauqua. The festival is made up of entirely student written, directed, acted and produced plays and films. One of the interesting works that was accepted that year was a Italian Futurist "script". I put script in quotes because in the true vein of Futurism, it was just an one page diagram with abstract designs and words written all over it. Four directors were chosen to interpret this diagram and produce a short staged version. As you can imagine each director took it in an entirely different direction and all 4 productions were as interesting as the were divergent. The process fascinated me so much that I decided to do a short video project about it I interviewed the author (Kelly) and the 4 directors and cut together a video which was also shown in the festival. Originally I wanted to make the video itself follow the theme of Italian Futurism, fast, chaotic and inevitably confusing. It wasn't pretty, so I started over to create a more acceptable version. In the end, I found a nice (I would say post-modern) editing balance of enough jumping around and rough edges to respect the ideas of Italian Futurism, but narrative enough to actually tell a story. I hope that the viewers felt the compromise worked.

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• UCSC
• Chautauqua