Thatthatisis

Here is our Project 1 Video about language




This video uses abstract shapes to represent language. The shapes being passed between hands depict the ways in which human beings use arbitrary word to make up the language with which they communicate. The shapes are simple and abstract to show the randomness with which a word corresponds to that which it depicts in a language. The shapes are passed between disjointed arms and finally assembled into coherent but still abstract shapes. More mechanical shapes come in later to show the nature of language as a construction and the fact that eventually language will be gone, and that it is increasingly being replaced by artifical representations, and all that will be left are these mechanical representations of language (or the remains of them). Our noun was language and our verbs were bloom and fracture. We used a stilted quality of movement and a sporadic-sounding soundtrack t represent fracture and a slow start building up to a frenetic ending (both in the music and in the pace of the images) to represent the word bloom.