Todays guest speaker Liam Ward spoke about editing. He described it as fragmenting clips and piecing them together again like a mosaique. By placing 2 things side by side we create meaning and association. Composing fragments and creating a sequence allows the audience to read into the story. Audiences are automatically searching for meaning and sense in the things they view. We tend not to just accept what we are seeing, we have a desire to create an association between frames that are pieced side by side. I used to fear editing my clips, I didn’t like breaking the shots that I had worked to hard to compose. By cutting and re-piecing clips I was able to create rhythm and movement in the sequence. I found that composing the clips this was more intriguing to audiences then viewing mass chunks of footage. Ward mentioned that editing in conjunction with the way the human mind works, enables us to create magic tricks and games with footage. He made an example using Taylor Swift lyrics. These simple white words on a black page caused our brains to disperse out to images and snippets of Taylor Swift. We hear the song in our heads and recall personal associations and memories we have with song. The bigger the gap of association between the 2 juxtaposed images the harder the audience has to work to draw a connection. This makies it more satisfying as the audience is forced to interpret the piece, it has a higher artistic elements.This reading again tied into what Liam Ward spoke about in class. It deals with perception and the mental blanks our mind automatically fills in order to create a complete and fluid image. I used to always find old school TV`s intriguing, as a young kid I would sit up close to the screen wondering how a collection of red, blue and green lights could create a moving, multicolored image. Our reality consists only of what is right in front of us, our brain assumes that there is an existence outside our familiar surroundings. As Lancaster Dodd said in the film The Master – ‘I’ve never been to the Pyramids have you?… and yet we know that they are there, because learned men have told us so’. This causes me to ask the question, what do we really know? We only know what we are told, we know a pen is a pen because we have been told so. We can identify the colour purple because we have learned what it looks like from a young age but how do we know if our perception of purple is the same as everyone else’s? Maybe my purple looks like your yellow, similarly maybe my idea of the taste of chicken is the same as your idea of the taste of tuna. Films like The Matrix, Inception, The Adjustment Bureau and The Truman Show cause me to question my reality. I used to wonder if I was the main subject in a snow globe, living in my own little bubble, in a synthetic world with extraterrestrials looking down and observing me. I also used to question whether my life was a massive science experiment. An experiment that everyone else was in on and I was the guinea pig, blissfully unaware. The reading also spoke about closure and how the mind fills the gaps. We automatically want to tie and loose ends, maybe that’s why films with typical Hollywood narratives are so commercially successful. They conclude with a happy ending leaving us feeling satisfied and complete with our expectations fulfilled.