This weeks class was quite two sided to say the least. Starting off with the film Media Burn was a bit on the lighter side as it did a parody of President Kennedy and his speech that introduces the special built car to drive through a stack of TV sets. This while pretty funny and light hearted it did have a good message and presentation of it. The sale of novelties among other things were quite funny for such an event. But the real film of the class that I feel had a significant impact on me was by far the "Kennedy Report." This film... where to start with it. The fact that it started with a lot of audio and little to no video was haunting for the most part. The film consisted mostly of audio clippings from news broadcasts or interviews regarding the Kennedy Assassination and the events leading up to it. The film itself had this nerve racking feel though.. emphasized even more by certain elements, the countdown for one was very disturbing to watch actually due to the fact that you get into this rhythm that it will reach one and possibly something will happen. At that moment I truly did think the movie would show the infamous clip of JFK being shot, which more or less I did not really want to see, but with these build ups and countdowns, not to mention the audio discussing the shooting it was hard not to think about how it was all going to end. It was unsettling to say the least but also very well done in its presentation. The audio/video matching was amazing (really liked the old commercial footage spliced with presidential audio).
Over all going from Media Burn to the Report was pretty two sided, but it was good to see a different side maybe even different interpretation of each event in completely different contexts. Over all though I really did enjoy these films.
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