Intent2_RobertM

Autobotography Intent

Summary: Editing footage of people in a manner that makes it seem like they’re saying something they’re not.

“Identity” can mean many different things for different people. Some people have a fixed identity that doesn’t change because they hold their identity close to them, while others have trouble forming an identity of their own. Everything you post publicly on social media automatically has the potential to reach an enormous amount of people.

Portraying one’s identity on social media proves to complicate that word even more because you can portray yourself as anything on social media, even as somebody else.

For my project, I’d like to make a short video featuring either myself, others, or both. My intention is to compile footage of people talking, perhaps I’d make a prompt so the dialogue is kind of similar. Once I have enough footage of each person talking, I’d break the speech into clips, and rearrange the clips and make them say something completely different. I know it would be blatant that the video’s been chopped up and spun around, but I think it would still be effective in emphasizing the fact that people aren’t always representing themselves/identity in an effecting manner. I’ve seen things like this before, like editing footage of news people and making it a song, and in other means, but I’ve never seen it directed towards younger people who have various presences on social media.

Timeline –

week 1:

make prompt for interviews

shoot footage of people talking

put audio into text to visualize the speech

week 2:

plan out what it is you want/are able to make people say

start to break footage/words into clips

edit videos together

post on some form of social media (with participants permission)

Budget-

premiere pro monthly subscription: $20

time spent editing video:$50