I picked ‘Light is Waiting’ for my analysis.
There is a lot of layering done in Light is Waiting by Michael Robinson. Light is Waiting uses this trick and even layers audio with video that doesn’t really match but the effect is still clear. I enjoyed that it started like an old show with an audience off screen in order to have said audience laughing in the background after someone does something stupid.
The voice editing with the ‘broken record’ like sound is very interesting in a way where you can still tell what the person is saying but the extra noise is almost distracting in such a way in which you could miss the words but that may not be the point. In the start the world feels very normal, two kids sitting down to do homework and wanting to have fun at the same time but unlike current times they couldn’t just put some videos on their phones and have that going while they watch the news.
They were working with the limitations of the time the world was set in but after the crash of the TV that reality shattered into something coherent and yet far away. The scene changes from siblings doing something foolish to landscapes and then to mirrored scenes and then to overlaid video that is set so that each frame is a few frames apart giving the appearance that there is a kind of blurred state of being going on.
The mirrored videos are back along with having the blur of overlapping frames and all this is interrupted by the error screen that shows up when signal is down or a screen breaks and has the rainbow lines to indicate so. The ‘error’ is accompanied by the classic sound that goes with it, the ear splitting screech of an incessant beeping that refuses to stop no matter what.
Looking at things like this just makes me realize that the people who do this kind of stuff for a living are really talented in what they do because I don’t think I have the raw talent for things like this but I can give it my best shot and learn where I’m supposed to be.