Final alterations- Trawled through THX1138, Death to Smoochy, Thank you for Smoking, WWE's One Night Stand, 24 Hour Party People and a Cock and Bull Story last night to fulfill crowd noise requirements and additional footage. Originally I was going to use 4th-wall breaking segments from several of those films to intermingle with my final section but whilst doing so I came across an image of the eye of Jesus from THX 1138
This brought me back to what the scene was supposed to be about, reversing the audience relationship. In light of that I'm bringing footage of spectators into the scene instead in quick montage segments. The crowd noise is now almost entirely sourced, all I may require is one more audience and my edit will be finished.
I've also removed the green audience labels in light of a discussion with Cluna. It's better to blur that line with images than words.
I sourced the crowd noise from Friends (since studio laughter is a highly recognisable thing), wrestling shows, JFK and Scream just to round out a variety of ideas. Most of them are just crowd noise but the JFK reference is a nice easter-egg for those who know the film, since "back and to the left" are words spoken by Costner repeatedly as a strip of film repeats.
This montage idea of media references and the joy of recognition is really what this whole project is about. In Montage Sam Rohide talks about using the 24 frames a second to "create the illusion of movement and conformity". I could have played with time but the consistent pace aids in the feeling of lost control.

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