The 4 parts so far

Ok, so I've created versions of three of the four sections to test how effective they can be.

The first section is a quick single minute of me flicking through spaces, a shortened version of what I was working on in the edit. Conversations with Rod helped me sharpen what I needed form this, it'd devolved into an exercise in utilizing all the footage I'd found and inserting myself rather than creating the narrative momentum I was after.

The tricky section is the shift to where the audience becomes a part of it all. Ideally I'd like to actively depict the in screen audience watching the clip itself, and then the second remote signals a shift so they're watching him. I want that shift to be explicit, not implied. This is perhaps a potential use of some of the excess shots of screens, to shift it so that I'm the media in the context of the audience's space. That shift so I'm a smaller part also breaks up the monotony a little. My main issue there is sound, I don't want my section to shift to something with a lot of sound, but the diagetic noise from the screen I'm replacing will be an issue if I want to retain the audiences own noise as a part of the piece. The Truman show is invaluable in this area, producing diverse generic audiances, although to fit the theme that I still have control of which audience is there I need to diversify my found footage.

I'm actually reverting back to my work in the first year with the final sections, jump cuts indicating transition and a performance with significant nods towards silent film. This is the point where absurdity and humiliation become a somewhat threatening situation, as the control of the main character is turned on himself. The obvious solution would be to simply leave the frame but for a number of reasons this is not considered by the protagonist.
-Media objects are always trapped in screens for one, regardless of their own actions, it's their purpose.
-The protagonist is trapped within their own relationship with the media. Breaking that is difficult.
-They are attempting to exert control within that space through the usual means.

Of course it also comments on how confusing and diverse that means of control is, but that's more of a surface interpretation.

The final section is also without a visible audience observing me. I plan to insert differing generic audience audio with each cut to continue the prior theme.

The most useful part of this is being able to pace out the beats within my own performance, as well as address concerns about shifts in lighting quality or set backgrounds. The four minutes or so I have is really helping me shore up my weaknesses within this project and create a detailed annotated script for the shoot proper.