I originally started this post on August 18th but didn’t mange to finish it. I wanted to update my blog again today but without this post it seemed that there was a piece of the journey missing, the following post is as I left it in August.

With the picture edit fairly settled I have done a bit on the sound design continuing on from the starting point that I had (I will write about this in another post), but have mostly been deliberating on the script for the voiceover. In my last post about the VO I was scratching around but really felt like I hadn’t got close to any clarity about what I wanted to say yet, or how.

I have been reading a series essays and book extracts that have been looking at social theory in relation to changes and trends in contemporary society. This is a theme that I have returned to in a number of blog posts this year, even if I haven’t really got near addressing it in my work. In particular, Is Is still ok to dream of utopia?, I referenced the ideas of technological pessimism. I wanted further arguments on these questions, I needed to read others grappling with it.

I in no way feel that I have a full and complete reading or critique or the writers that I have engaged with but I feel that I am beginning to arrive at a place where I have the confidence to say what I want to for this film, now, I reserve the right to be wrong but this time I don’t feel like I have to put that clause in the work. I intend that through the abstraction in the visuals and soundscape I will have established the space for interpretation in the work allowing me to make a series of statements in the voiceover as starting point for that analysis.

Script

Crimes are committed in the name of progress

But progress is not a crime

Crimes are committed in the name of modernism

But modernism is not a crime

Crimes are committed in the name of making a better world

But wanting, and striving for a better world is not a crime

Peace, not a crime

Love, not a crime

Understanding, not a crime.