Project: Killer Entertainments : By Jennifer Terry : Designed By Raegan Kelly
You can view Killer Entertainments Here
This project is composed of three different screens in which clips are played on. The viewer decides when to view these clips and if they want to view them or just skip to the next one. There are also a series of dots around the screen in which content is written about various topics related to the clips. At random while playing the clips they will stop and certain words will come up on the screen, sometimes leading to longer descriptions, and other times simply fading off the screen when your mouse scrolls over.
The whole project is about the war in Iraq, and the video clip are various clips taken by soldiers, mostly from hand held cameras taped to their helmets. The clips are mostly of different firefights, and there is a disclaimer as the viewer enters the site explaining that they are disturbing.
The aesthetics of the three video screens is very interesting. It gives the viewer the option to play more than one video at a time. It gives the viewer a sense of surveillance. The information around the screen can be read while watching the videos. It is a very interesting project that would take a lifetime to go through everything.
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Chris -
My reactions to this post echoes my thoughts on your Blue Velvet post. That is to say: helpful enough summary, but it'd be good to hear more reaction from you.
You do mention that the work is "interesting" which suggests thoughts stirred, more to say. Elaborate? Also the idea of surveillance here is interesting - I'd agree but with the cameras on the soldiers' body, there is also an immediacy. It is also like a video game. Can we be detached (surveillance) and involved (p.o.v. shots)? Is this a new definition of surveillance?
Also, as with one's attitude toward Katrina in the other piece, what is the value of this format here? How does our experience with this site impact, inform, influence our knowledge or sense of the soldiers' experience, the Iraqi war, engagement in combat, being an American, or whatever? Why would one go to this site rather than read an article or read web articles?
So, again, tell me more. There's a lot on this site as well, so feel free in the next blog to isolate a specific aspect and corral your explanded thinking around that.
And yes, feel free to respond to my comments but you may - however counterintuitive it may seem - want to drop me an email alerting me that you have done so.
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