Digital Discord

 My aim with this project was to create an ominous, foreboding atmosphere while using only footage taken by my phone within my dorm room. The sound in the video is sound taken from the same videos. I applied a simple EQ filter and reverb in order to dampen the noisy high end of the sound, and to deepen the background rumble in order to add to the strange atmosphere. I used a combination of slow, rhythmic, abstract scenes, interspliced with quick cuts to several different objects. This strange rhythm attempts to slowly increase tension, while evoking the 'unknown', as much of what the viewer sees is entirely abstract or out of context. After the initial part of the video concludes, the final scene is the recurring image of the mirror as the camera slowly rounds the corner. This section is presented entirely without sound, further increasing the uncomfortableness of the scene, and heightening anticipation of a sudden climax. The climax never comes, however, leaving the viewer wit

  My central argument is that, though The Beatles have been analyzed countless times in terms of popular culture, and their music "as it is written," such analyses fails to take into account the essential new medium by which The Beatles' distinctive sound was enabled: recorded sound.  The Beatles - Formed in 1957 as teenagers - Gained massive popularity in the years 1962-64.​ -As their popularity grew to unprecedented heights, they began to feel more free to experiment with their music.​ -As their music began to utilize more and more studio recording techniques and sound manipulation, producing the same effects at live performances became increasingly difficult.​ -The Beatles retired altogether from live performance in 1966.​   The Beatles' retirement from live performance signaled that their true medium was not as performers, but as recording artists. With the ability to record sound, suddenly the "allatonce," enveloping nature of the aural world was subjec