This weeks reading was concerning editing in a narrative, simply stating it is a cut and paste task. I suppose it less of a ‘putting things together’, and more of a ‘taking things out’ approach, especially when relating this to Korsakow.

A couple of things I found interesting (mainly the highlighted sections… which is mainly what I read… which I think is all I had to read)

“Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason, and I want to say, no, it doesn’t”

I beg to differ David. I think that everything in a story happens for a reason, maybe I’m interpreting this wrong, but it is the author/director etc. that edit the narrative for their own specific reason- even at random it is still with the reason to be random.

“The main question collage artists face: you’ve found some interesting material, how do you go about arranging it”

This statement got me into a philosophical debate about the artist being humanity and the collage being life and so on, I suppose it is something we all do, arranging and rearranging our life schedules as films do with placing different shots in a different sequence order, designing which clip comes up after clicking another on my korsakow film.

Reference:  Shields, David. Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. New York: Vintage, 2011. Print. (Extract, PDF.)