For ACTIV’s “Are you Proud Shroud?” video I wrote up a loose script/plan so that the video conveyed the necessary narrative elements that I had included in our initial prose narrative of the story.

It’s hard to make a video about drawing on a poster exciting or at the least dramatic. To do this I display some of my terrible acting skills and threatened Jeff. In hindsight drawing on someone’s poster isn’t all that threatening of provoking but I like to think that the idea is more symbolic. The video was shot about 6pm behind building 9 so subsequently there were people wandering past as we were shooting. I’m not sure what they would have thought…

To make the video more ominous I decided to use some royalty free electronic music from Jamendo. The clip has two tracks one of a more ambient at the beginning before it moves to the other track that is more of a Death Grips like piece. This last section of the video is comprised of a montage of posters being defaced and balaclava wearing figures. Although the video didn’t gather an comments as we’d hoped it fulfilled its role within the narrative. The use of music also helps to give ATIV a sinister side alluding to their darker past that will be revealed in the immersive theatre installation.