INTERNET VIDEO
How did we get here?
What is the language and medium of video and where did it come from? How has it been changing?
Narcos Trailer (10 million views)
-Entire TV shows and movies produced by streaming content companies with huge budgets.
-Basic video editing and filming has become so easy absolutely anyone can do it
Jillian Mayer, I am Your Grandma
-Internet videos as art
Surprised Kitty (almost 80 million views)
-So many cats on the internet.
-Internet videos challenging power structures and racism to inspire social change
http://www.policebrutality.info/
Chad Mcghee Shoutout to the Knox City Greyhounds
PewDiePie - A Funny Montage
Around 75 million views
The Let’s Play genre
Etc etc etc etc etc…...
Let’s start by going back to when video first started...
Part 1: MODERNISM
The Grand Narrative of Progress: late 1800s - early 1960s
Arrival of a train, 1896 by the Lumière brothers, said to be the first filmmakers in history.
A reaction to the effects of the 2nd industrial revolution and the morals and formalism of the Victorian Era
ELECTRIFICATION
AC motor
MASS PRODUCTION
The Source of the Ford Car, documentary from 1932
FACTORY WORK
Short clip from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, 1936
RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS
THE NEW LANGUAGE OF CINEMA
The History of Cutting - The Birth of Cinema and Continuity Editing, youtube documentary on early film
The History of Cutting - The Soviet Theory of Montage, youtube documentary on early film
-A film is born during the editing process, or, montage.
“LOW” CULTURE
Laurel and Hardy’s The Battle of the Century, 1927
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle & Buster Keaton: THE GARAGE (1920)
Man With a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov, 1928
VS. THE AVANT-GARDE
Voted 8th best film ever and best documentary of all time
From Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov invents, deploys or develops many of the techniques we still see in film to this day:
-extreme close-ups
-footage played backwards
Premiere Pro tutorial on fast motion, slow motion and footage played backwards.
Premiere Pro tutorial on jump cuts
Premiere Pro tutorial on split screens
Premiere Pro tutorial on freeze frame
SCIENCE-FICTION
Le voyage dans la lune, 1902, Georges Méliès
Metropolis, 1927, Fritz Lang
Trailer
SURREALISM
Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, 1929
Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer at Bauhaus, 1922