Planning the Video

Today me and my partner started planning what we were going to do for our film part of our experimental project. In our meting with our seminar leader we got some feedback which was very helpful when we started planning our experimental film. She suggested the idea of using the 'Prelinger Archive' to find footage of people from the 50s/60s handling food. From that idea we decided that we would make our film more about preparing and cooking meat and contrasting the harshness of our handling the meat to the way that a housewife in the 60s would when she was preparing dinner.

We also decided that our piece was going to be linear as throughout the film you will see the process of how a cow will become someone's dinner. Although, this piece will also have elements of a collage as we are using both our own footage and footage from the archives.

After we had decided what we wanted our piece to include we started looking at films in the 'Prelinger Archive' by searching for the word 'meat'. We found quite a few clips that we wanted to use in our experimental piece.

How to Buy Meat (Part I and Part II)





These films includes a woman talking about how to buy a quality piece of meat. This will be good to use in our piece as we intend to juxtapose clips from this film to clips of us handling raw meat and quick cuts making it seem quite dark.


Beef Rings The Bell



This film is about the process of producing meat, from the cattle ranches, to the factory, to the BBQ. We will use clips from this film as it shows all different parts of the production process which we can use to juxtapose against our clips that we will film. An example of a clip that we will use is of a calf in a field, which we will then cut to a clip of meat being cut and blood going all over the table, therefore making it quite uncomfortable to watch.

We have also decided that we will use music that you would imagine to be in a film about a 50s housewife as the atmos track. This is because it will work very well with the archive footage that we are going to use. Also the music will create a contrast between the happy music and the disturbing imagery.