tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post5928173372587675776..comments2024-01-22T00:39:34.849-08:00Comments on melissa shook: Conceptualizing, Organizingmelissashookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-78248233984768674082010-01-14T10:39:47.130-08:002010-01-14T10:39:47.130-08:00First, I'm so glad you are pursuing this proje...First, I'm so glad you are pursuing this project. I remember reading your post about this late last year. I think you are going about this the right way. See-sawing between the objective editor and your subjective point of view. Of course YOUR message is the one that must prevail. How to get there is the hard part. I don't think there are shortcuts, there never is when it comes to quality. Keep going!Dutchbabyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00844296297519447526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-24167381198138750392010-01-13T14:49:53.929-08:002010-01-13T14:49:53.929-08:00This documentary sounds fascinating. I love readi...This documentary sounds fascinating. I love reading about the process of putting it together. Not an easy one by the sound of things. <br /><br />I, too, share your fascination with memory, it's unreliability, the way two people in the same room can see an event so very differently, almost as if they were in different rooms and this only ten minutes after the event. <br /><br />It must have something to do with perspective and capacity. For this reason so much of what we remember is constructed anew each time we remember it. <br /><br />I find this fascinating, too. It's a way of redeeming the past from its sheer awfulness. It helps me to make the unthinkable thinkable. <br /><br />I suspect it's a process similar to what happens when we remember our dreams. We force them into a coherent shape. <br /><br />You seem to be doing this in some ways with your documentary. It's your vision and I think it is at least fifty percent of what will in the end bring the stories to life. Your selection of images and their sequencing which is idiosyncratic to you, colours the experience for each viewer, but each viewer will in turn bring their own view to bear. It's like ripples in a stream ever widening. I love it. <br /><br />Thanks so much for this, Melissa.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.com