“Boys Next Door” by Kubism (Sydney, 2015)

What I would incorporate from the influence of digital collage is investigating a non-linear approach to film-making. I’m intrigued by combinations of different filming techniques and the aesthetic product (especially those that are easily identifiable as a particular trope of a genre or time period). I’d like to be able to pinpoint these, and utilise their differences to exhibit contrast between scenes/perspectives/locations/genres. I also admire how a contrast of different cinematic tropes/techniques/aesthetics can contribute to a feeling of incongruity; confusing or unsettling the audience. It would also be interesting to collate found footage or orphaned footage with that which I make myself, and how these could enhance a narrative.
Collage interests me as a media student in this cross-disciplinary class because I’ve always found the process of script-writing, and constructing a narrative in general, very linear. Whereas digital collage traverses time and genre, combining influences and styles with no depreciation of their individual aesthetics. I’m still unsure how I’d like to integrate this pursuit of mine into this course, but hopefully I get to experiment with it. Perhaps with my own footage combined and edited with found footage, which I’d hope would elicit different emotions from the audience than if it were just a regular scene. Or even to demonstrate how the character feels sans verbalisation (e.g., in a scene where the script’s dialogue has a character hearing news they’re unhappy about, but having no outward reaction, very quick edits of rough, vintage footage showing violent imagery etc.)
It would also be fascinating to use in heightening scenes of sexual tension (very fast multiple splices of soft-core porn into scene etc), or to show someone’s decent into madness. I think collage could be used in this course to go where the script can’t, and by adapting aspects of digital collage into the big print, more of the character’s interior thoughts or the future of the plot could be made clear to the viewer.

my room and my collages