In class today we looked at a few examples of how we could approach our Assignment 4 audio-visual products. These included an interactive media product using tools such as Korashow, and video collages using Adobe Premiere Pro. While I have been playing around with the idea of using aspects of collage in my final audio-visual product for this assignment, similar to how Max Schleser uses overlapping and masking in my previous research post about his product ‘Midtown’, I hadn’t really given much thought to an interactive final piece. However, after experimenting with the tools and watching Ceci N’est Pas Embres (This Is Not Embres) by Matt Soar in class today, it is most likely going to be the style I use for my final product.

Matt Soar is a filmmaker living in Canada who took his family to a small village in France for half a year and decided to make an interactive film portraying an outsider’s/newcomer’s perspective on the town and its lifestyle. As an audience member, you have full control over what you want to watch, learn and experience of Matt’s time in France, whether it be the neighbourhood dog that could open unlocked doors, or his families worry about the weather before their trip. Soar does this through a seemingly endless string of connected videos, based on keywords set by the filmmaker, using the application Korashow. This app allows you to link videos together, and create random branching timelines based on themes, ideas or pure chance for the audience to experience and work their way through.

This style of audience-driven experiences and their process of interacting with the film based on what they notice and are interested in is incredibly unique, and something I have never experimented with. I would love to have a product where each person’s interaction with the film is somewhat different from the next’s, similar to what Soar has created with Ceci N’est Pas Embres.

Soar, M., 2013. Ceci N’est Pas Embres. http://embres.ca/filmE/