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.