My Process Chance Piece

I’m working on a piece right now for my Experimental Media class that involves “process” and “chance”. What this means is that the shooting and audio decisions of my project should be based on a certain random process of chance, rather than be subjected to my own subjective perspective. So, this is essentially an objective assignment, where the outcome is totally left up to a chance process. For my project I am basing it off the chance of rolled of dice. For my first rolls, the first dice will be assigned shot movements, (pans, trucks, zooms) and second dice will be assigned scene selection (different materials and textures, like grass, carpet etc…). One the second roll i determine the audio selection. I have recorded six different instruments playing six different keys per instrument. So, the first dice determines the key and the second dice determines the instrument. One the third and final roll, i will only roll one dice. This dice will determine the length of time per shot. Each number on the dice equals one half second, so a full die of 6 numbers totals 6 seconds. However, this may be subject to change.

What do I wish to accomplish with this piece? I don’t really wish to “accomplish” anything. But I think it will make interesting sound and video “collage” that maybe says something about where I live and the different textures and colors of human inhabited enviornment?

I don’t know, it is what it is. I’ll post it when I’m finished.

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