We've looked at editing images in sequence to portray passage of time, to convey rhythm, to intersect with word or image, or to inform other images in a series or catalog. Now we will combine these, with a special focus on MONTAGE, or the creation of a new narrative/image through the juxtaposition two distinct and separate narratives/images.

You are to create a work in video that portrays 'A Day in the Life.' This may be a day in the life of anything - a whole city, campus, or building, a plot of grass, an individual, an animal, anything.

Consider how your choice of shots, as well as how you edit the shots, portrays what makes one part of a day different from another - which parts of the day seem longer, which seem shorter, or fly by incomprehensibly? Use what you learned about rhythm and duration in the first project to create contrasting passages of time. At the end of a day (or of your film) what stands out from the day? What kinds of images recurred more frequently, and what images might seem to be missing?

TECHNICAL PARAMETERS:

Your edited final work should be close to two minutes long (no longer than three.)

Sound is optional.

Do not vary the speed of your clips to portray passage of time - aim to create passage of time through editing instead.

FORMAL PARAMETERS:

Attend to these three main characteristics of film sequence editing:

Montage, or how we infer a new third meaning from the juxtaposition in time of two images.

Visual Analogy, or how two or more images in succession point to some common formal, functional, or emotional prototype.

Rhythm. How long should we see various images, depending on what part of the day or what activity they represent? Think of your film as if it were music - where should we perceive a regular beat, where should it be a jumble of random pacing? Where there is a beat, how fast or slow should it be? Will there be a chorus and verse type structure?