On postproducing Sean

While in the early stages of postproduction, I found one of the most 'natural' feeling methods of editing the video involved focusing on processes with a definable beginning and end, and breaking them up with smaller clips of an implied process or lack of process. So the basic editing process for the earlier part of his day can be reduced to something of an explicit/implicit/explicit/implicit series of images, or perhaps even process/contemplation/process. However, this isn't a hard and fast rule and many clips cut to different stages of one single, explicit process, in order to give it a beginning and end, and often the process is also invoked implicitly. An example of this would be Sean's rather drawn out process of making breakfast - the entire process is begun by his walking into the kitchen and concluded by his leaving it, but it is comprised of several internal processes which often conflict with one another, such the realisation of separation components of the meal. But I consciously edit with the general rule kept in mind, and improvise where required.

Editing Sean and possible Alexandra

At the moment I am trying to edit the video I took of Sean together sequentially, something proving harder than I had anticipated. However, there is one line of continuity I can look for inbetween videos: on the day, Sean was suffering a recently swollen elbow, and was having trouble reconciling this with the relative hardness of his computer desk and the plastic arms of his chair. Because of this, during the course of the day he cycled through three different computer chairs, at first switching to a nearby chair with padded, elbow-friendly arms, and finally, finding even this too much to bear on his joints, he threw caution to the wind and comandeered an armless chair from the main administrative office. I am therefore using these separate chairs as technical signifiers for a sequential narrative of continuity - one of several narrative structures in Sean's day I have discovered retroactively. Below are screenshots of his first and second chairs, as well as his hasty acquistion of the final chair.

























On an unrelated note, I have secured another volunteer for the project - a jewellery student named Alexandra. Now, I need only negotiate a date for filming and make the necessary preparations.