one of my favourite of the sketches that we went through in class last week was tiana’s sketch about the french fries at her work. and no, it’s not because i have a never ending crave and lust for chips (ok, that may be part of it). but i think it was because, of all the videos we watched, this one had the strongest narrative. and that seems crazy to say about a 6 second video that was just following the constraint of “something square”. especially because fries aren’t square, they’re rectangle (but that’s not important right now). but it did! it started with a frier. it could have had anything inside. the shots changed to different angles and we were intrigued, what was being fried? and then finally, the climax and conclusion, it was chips, golden and glistening. and we felt satisfied (except maybe our stomachs). compare that with my video of something square which was just six seconds of filming a painting on the wall of my house. hard to imagine much of a story there. so it fascinated me that in 6 second tiana could create a narrative using a frier and some chips. and i feel this really paves the way for the videos and tasks for the rest of semester, showing how things like i-docs and korsakow films can create stories and narratives out of simple, abstract videos about seemingly random and unrelated objects. wooooo for connectivity!