Rootclip

Published on May 16, 2008 in Lifes Little Pieces. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Rootclip is a video project where the site owners seed a video narrative by providing what I think is the opening minute. Anyone can then contribute the following minute and the community votes on which of those submitted is preferred. And so it continues. This is a community based sort of storytelling which, in terms of a narrative practice, is interestingly odd. If I paticipate then I can see all the possible versions for the current chapter, but once the decision has been made these possibilities are gone. To this extent it is very similar to traditional cinema editing and narrative – prior to an edit all the stuff in the trim bin is available, and once the edit is committed then the sequence is fixed. Another interstitial form, collaborative, some possible notion of community, with the production of an indeterminate narrative during composition. So improvisation in some manner would seem to be important here.

Tags: practice, Vogging

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