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What is HyperNarrative?
From PowerPoint to Final Cut and Green Screen
I began my experiments in “one-man film” in 2012 using Microsoft PowerPoint animated slides to create extended multimedia presentations and animated art pieces. Then finding PowerPoint inadequate, I moved to Final Cut Pro, a professional video editing program, to achieve something more like film, if not exactly film itself.
I've used the so-called green screen technique to superimpose video images of myself against a "virtual set" of still photos, paintings and landscapes.
I was determined to produce a complete video production entirely on my own.
For better or worse I am: Writer, director, performer, editor.
From PowerPoint to Final Cut with Green Screen
I began my experiments in “one-man film” in 2012 using Microsoft PowerPoint animated slides to create extended multimedia presentations and animated art pieces. Finding PowerPoint very limited, I moved to Final Cut Pro, a professional video editing program, to achieve something more like film, if not exactly film itself. I've used the so-called green screen technique to superimpose video images of myself against a "virtual set" of still photos, paintings and landscapes. I was determined to produce a complete video production entirely on my own.
For better or worse I am: Writer, director, performer, editor.
I began my experiments in “one-man film” in 2012 using Microsoft PowerPoint animated slides to create extended multimedia presentations and animated art pieces. Finding PowerPoint very limited, I moved to Final Cut Pro, a professional video editing program, to achieve something more like film, if not exactly film itself. I've used the so-called green screen technique to superimpose video images of myself against a "virtual set" of still photos, paintings and landscapes. I was determined to produce a complete video production entirely on my own.
For better or worse I am: Writer, director, performer, editor.
The "HyperNarrative"
Gradually I have developed a form which I call variously a “narrative videodrama,” a “multi-media monologue,” or finally, "HyperNarrative."
HyperNarrative denotes a hyperbolic, didactic presentation, even a psychotic effusion posing as a lecture, supported by slides or other visuals you might have in an academic talk or PowerPoint presentation.
There will usually be some sort of text: A memoir, personal correspondence, journal, lecture notes, recovered scrolls, that will be voiced in monologue. These recitations are then subject to further interpretation and reflection, overlayed by quotation or paraphrase, and supported by still and moving images or slides as you might have in a lecture.
Working in Final Cut, and using a my home green screen studio to facilitate the video layering process, I have created a number of videos ranging from 30 minutes to an hour in length.
Please view short synopses and excerpts of each piece by clicking below. Ask to see full length versions if interested under the Contact tab.
Recurring Themes
Themes:• The Formalization of the self• The power and the artifice of aphorism • Metaphorical immortality of art vs cryonic immortality • Metaphor as the workhorse of perception• The vertigo of self-reflection (“Three degrees of reflection, absolute tops!”• Pet thoughts vs profound thoughts• Ideas as a kind of fever • The instability of irony• The shelf life of vanguard thought• The memoir as an escape strategy• Unique pain of bruised intellectual feelings
Devices• Liberal use of superimposed headlines to emphasize statements and thoughts• PowerPoint metaphor to depict interior mental events • The private dialogue vs public facing dialogue• The use of music to ornament ideas
Devices• Liberal use of superimposed headlines to emphasize statements and thoughts• PowerPoint metaphor to depict interior mental events • The private dialogue vs public facing dialogue• The use of music to ornament ideas