Looking at editing examples

'Decasia' by Bill Morrison

My first thoughts on watching this video - The sound first caught my attention as it was very creepy and alarming it almost made me feel like I was about to watch a horror film, it was definitely disturbing so I was a bit cautious on what to anticipate for this video based off of the music alone. Once the title had played and the different clips started to play it was intriguing to see the effects Bill Morrison used. A lot of the effects reminded me of water, and it was like the water was just streaming down the film clips and kind of distorted the movement of the original clip (the water going vertical and clips moving horizontal). While others were more like blotches that played with the characters in the clips.

"Since he began making films in the 1990s, contemporary artist and filmmaker Bill Morrison has looked to the past for inspiration. Early in his career, he would make new film look old by distressing it with drain cleaner. Then he started salvaging actual decaying films from archives and piecing them together into experimental compositions in which he foregrounds the countless ways in which film shows the marks of age. As the nitro-cellulose base of much of the early film stock with which he works gradually decomposes, and as the fixing chemicals weaken, the images appear smeared, blotched, fuzzy, or otherwise distorted. Morrison capitalizes on these effects, finding them evocative, and has likened the disappearing images to memories, ghosts, or ciphers. “I became enamoured of the way time could ravage film,” he has said" - MoMA

It's been very interesting learning how Bill Morrison created these films and how he used techniques that were physical to alter/edit his films. It blows my mind that it was done without any digital editing and I guess it's because i've grown up in the age of technology but I can't imagine how hard it was to get these unique techniques Morrison uses right.

Timber - ColdCut & Hexstatic

First thoughts on this video- I'm not going to lie, this video did give me a bit of a laugh. But it was the creativity and clips that made me laugh and it was in a good way. Who would have ever thought of these sounds would made a good music track, it's insane but not unusual for my generation, but being from the 90's it impressed me a lot. It's like acapella but with sounds of wood being cut. The video shows great timely editing with the constant looping going along with the sounds and the over laying of clips blended together.

"I created Timber in 1997/98 working with Coldcut and footage mainly from Greenpeace and various sources. It took me many months to make using a Power MAC 8100 with Videovision edit board. I got the computer second hand for £2000 with a loan from the Princes Trust. I used Adobe premier like a music sequencer using markers to creating 16th note timings. I took the audio loops into Coldcuts Clink Street studio where we pieced it back together to make the final track with the help of the late Paul Brooke who worked with Coldcut as an engineer/programmer. I then edited the video back to the final mix." -Youtube Stuart Warren-Hill

This video gave me a lot of vibes for the viral video by Seth Everman a couple years ago. It's not the same but it has the same principle of using (some) natural sounds to create music by layering them together.