My pilot aims to explore the self-referential nature and addictive voyeurism of television and other screen media. In the beginning we see for the first and only time the perspective of the television watching the viewer, the gaze that is impossible to actually return. By adding the convention of static to the image I reduced the viewer to just another aspect of the medium, immediately it is implied that there may be no clear level of reality we are supposed to identify with. As we move between the films we see one influencing the other but doing so in ways that heavily reference other material. At the end we see there is no further screen to move through, disrupting the center of those characters lives. The act of watching has become habitual, even addictive.
For the full production I need to perhaps establish both more elaborate ways of moving through the levels. By the end I want to be moving so fast that we shoot through maybe ten clips in a minute. I'll need to elaborate on the effects and editing I've already managed in order to make the final product work as a finished piece. I also need to establish and place my own segments within the sequence, once I've picked out which films and shows best fit my theme and can be placed within it I can create segments that bind together those segments, designing them around the existing text and making the transitions more cohesive.
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