BLACKBOX PROJECT 2
"THE VIDEO"
Ahhh....the video cassette. A perfect blackox right? You go into the video store and pick out the movie you want to view. You take it home and happily place it into your VCR. You push play and the blackbox goes to work. You put in information (in the form of the cassette) and information is thrown back out to youu (in the form of the moving picture on the television screen). So simple right? I mean, you know exactly what you are going to get. But what if the blackbox failed you? What if you put the cassette into your VCR and you didn't get the movie you expected at all!
So for project 2, Adam and I decided to explore the blackbox of the video cassette. We picked a widely known movie The Sixth Sense and re-edited it down to a five minute piece. We put the end of the film at the beginning and selectively chose scenes to repeat for emphasis. We then printed the movie back to tape so it would appear to be a standard video cassette. We did not tell the audience what we had done and instead played the movie with no explanation. It started with the tradition opening where you see the production house's name and the name of the directors and such. But it was soon apparant that the film was not what the audience was expecting.
I think we gave the audience a look at how video cassettes are blackboxes both literally and figuratively. Here's our re-edited version of the movie...