#algorithmic editing

I will soon begin exploring our options around automated (algorithmic) video processing. The idea is that the software will take in content hosted on third party sites such as YouTube, Facebook or Instagram and using identifying tags string together sections of related content. Users can then dynamically navigate through extensive user-generated content and transition as seamlessly as possible from one video clip to the next to explore common themes and build up an experience of the universal conventions of travelling.

In his books “Film Form” and “The Film Sense”, pioneer film director Sergei Eisenstein developed and extensively studied montage, a process of assembling, juxtaposing, overlaying and overlapping images over time. He treated montage not merely as a series of visual techniques but as a methodology that conveyed meaning beyond that given by filmed content. Eisenstein described five formal categories of montage: metric, rhythmic, tonal, overtonal and intellectual. These montage types were guided by different rules of construction and assorted treatments of the part-whole relationship; many of them functioned according to musical principles.

Sources: http://www.rasa.net/writings/alchemicalframes.html

http://socks-studio.com/2011/04/21/sergei-eisenstein-sequences-diagrams-for-alexander-nevsky-and-battleship-potemkin/