Regan

Over the course of the film's development, the two stand out clips which seem to drive the narrative of most the edits are the slo-mo tree clip and the 30-minute clap-a-thon of Regan's speech.

Although, it could be argued Regan's clip isn't relevant nowadays seeming as he has been dead a while. There is a lot of parallels you can draw between him and Trump and there largely useless political points that seem to be widely celebrated by the wrong types of people. This is referenced in the film by the 'SKY NEWS' channel reporting 'live' updates from the Whitehouse with various vague references to what he is to talk about. As Regan sits and eats ice cream to the slow satirical sound of trumpets playing the 'Star-Spangled Banner'.

I feel the clip became more aggravating after I added the section where it says 'The next president won't be a woman..." which discovered while researching the layout of 70s Sitcoms as it was attached to 'Three's Company' credits. I was frankly so disgusted by the sexist views I thought placing them in the film would further infuriate the audience while expressing our group's views towards the rather belittling commentary fo this clip. However, it did create a nice tie in to the idea that there is a presidential message coming up in the film which the audience doesn't get to hear because of the channel hopping. Adding to the frustration of the film.

Finally Giving the Tree a Context and Slo Mo

It hasn't been discussed much on here but relatively early on Lillie's slow-mo tree clip became the fascination and fixation of our tutor Matt and one of the most agreed on clips to be shown in the film. However, In the initial drafts, it came off to random and seemed out of place. Then came the joy of a creative context within the new film format.

The tree became the 'Dave' channel. The reason for this choice as it was kind of the odd thing you would see on that channel. As the clip was shot on a phone I decided to give it a blue border to fix the colour scheme and conventions usually found on 'Dave'.

Lillie later found audio from a BBC short on one of the most dangerous bus routes in the world. What I liked about this audio were its overdramatic macho sounding music and voice-over narration which made the tree clip have added tension. To then create the frustrating element, I intercut areas of where this audio became mute so you could never hear the full story. I did this using the Tv iconography fo a mute button. I did the same with the other slow-mo clips in the middle of the film.

Creating the History Channel

The 'History' channel was one of the first channels I made in relation to the new film format.

I used the bowling, the haircut, waiting for a train and the rubber mill clips we collectively found on archive sites.

The reason I grouped these particular clips together was that they were all shot on black and white film and had the same aspect ratio. Which in my mind made them look like a documentary on olden times. And where do we find documentaries like this? On the History channel.

Of course as learning from John Smiths 'Power of Language' short. I learnt although these clips all looked similar they had no context to them without sound. So I began to look for audio.

Mariam suggested this mining documentary from the 1950s she found called 'The Captive'. The key theme of the film was the frustration of miners being made redundant. Which eerily fitted the times we currently lived in. Mariam then sent me a list of time codes for quotes she thought would be useful to accompany the looping of the clips.

This particular audio, in my opinion, drives the main messages of the film such as 'generation after generation repeating the same dreary lives as their parents'. As it displays the frustration we feel on a more collective level of our generation.

To further authenticate the feel this is the "History Channel'. I searched on Google for the History channel logo and narrowed it to 'labelled for reuse' so the image was copyright free.