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Christine Southworth
Video
A music video documentary
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WAR
(1994) is a video documentary made by using a combination of still
photographs, computer-generated
drawings,
and video clips. By taking photos from various issues of National
Geographic Magazine, a book on Pearl Harbor (Pearl Harbor - The Way
it Was; published in Hong Kong by Island Heritage Limited, 1977),
and film clips from various sources, I tried to produce a thought-provoking
piece on the horrors of war. I scanned or video captured the images
on a PC with a Targa 2000 video board and transferred the files to
a Macintosh, and either left them as is or converted them to black
and white and drew color interpretations using Adobe Photoshop and
Fractal Design Painter. I made this video for a coffeehouse at my
school, and obtained permission from National Geographic and the
other sources to use the original material solely for educational,
non-profit purposes.
The final video was editted with Adobe Premiere on a PC and output as an SVHS video with the Targa 2000. A clip is available here. WAR was used in a film course at Northwestern University and in 1995 was shown in a museum at the University of Technology in Munich, Germany, as an example of combined technology and art. |
