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This is my favourite example of video art that I found on youtube. It's a triple screened and heavily edited ride through India from the point of view of a taxi driver. Sounds are used to make a rhythm and a 'remix' effect is created. It was done by Andrea Manenti. To create this the artist visited the location and took video observations of life there; specifically life seen from the point of view of an average taxi driver.
Form: These are excerpts from 'Man with a Movie Camera' Dziga Vertov's 1929 film made up entirely of documentary footage, showing urban life in Odessa Ukraine and other soviet cities, innovatively edited together. It works as a surreal montage and served as a commentary on existing ideals in the soviet world. Process: To create this Vertov took documentary footage of the rhythm of life and machines. The sequence is littered with footage of the editing process. This breaks the fourth wall, making the audience aware of the process
Process: abstract documentary footage edited in a way that evokes some sort of tenuous narrative about the city. Editing techniques like slowing down, speeding up, running backwards and superimposition. At this time these effects were made by physically cutting and fixing film together.
Content: Vertov work relates to a socialist idea of 'the people' being the most important in society. This is why his subject matter is everyday life from the normal citizens of Odessa. Some of the subjec t matter is presented straight, with no stange editting techniques and some of it is distorted or abstracted such as the eye in the lense.
Split Screen: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Form: This video is a cover of Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' Your Guardian Angel by a trio of strings (1 violin and 2 violas). However the three string parts are all played by the same man (Youtube name: drbilderburger). The screen is split into three, with half of the frame belonging to one shot of drbilderburger playing the violin and the other side divided into two other shots of him playing the viola parts for the song. When put together it sounds and looks like drbilderburger is playing in a trio, but they're all him.
Process: To do this video, drbilberburger must have listened to the original song and wrote out a sheet music score, then arranged it as a trio for violin and 2 violas, and then performed it. He recorded each part separately and synced up and mixed the 3 parts on his computer with sound wave and video editors.
Content: drbilderburger did this simply because his girlfriend liked the song and he wanted to surprise her for valentines day. However this doesn't stop the fact thaty what he's doing is very intelligent and a great example of a splitscreen working in harmony, literally.
Content: Vertov work relates to a socialist idea of 'the people' being the most important in society. This is why his subject matter is everyday life from the normal citizens of Odessa. Some of the subjec t matter is presented straight, with no stange editting techniques and some of it is distorted or abstracted such as the eye in the lense.
Split Screen: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Form: This video is a cover of Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' Your Guardian Angel by a trio of strings (1 violin and 2 violas). However the three string parts are all played by the same man (Youtube name: drbilderburger). The screen is split into three, with half of the frame belonging to one shot of drbilderburger playing the violin and the other side divided into two other shots of him playing the viola parts for the song. When put together it sounds and looks like drbilderburger is playing in a trio, but they're all him.
Process: To do this video, drbilberburger must have listened to the original song and wrote out a sheet music score, then arranged it as a trio for violin and 2 violas, and then performed it. He recorded each part separately and synced up and mixed the 3 parts on his computer with sound wave and video editors.
Content: drbilderburger did this simply because his girlfriend liked the song and he wanted to surprise her for valentines day. However this doesn't stop the fact thaty what he's doing is very intelligent and a great example of a splitscreen working in harmony, literally.
