*UPDATE*

VOCAL PERFORMERS: Having heard a bunch of contributions layered on top of each other, I realize what we really need is PRECISION so that the words remain intelligible.  Let's make our recitations (I'm gonna do one soon now that I'm back in the REC Room) as close as possible to the original computer generated recitation.

Here's a link to the original video -- http://www.hitrecord.org/records/141257

And here's a link to the words transcribed -- http://www.hitrecord.org/records/142571

VIDEO ARTISTS: CameronSmith and Kavonne have done great early versions of a video for this.  Watch those.  And let's find more footage along the lines of what they've got going.  Whether you actually cut video or not, you can really help with this.  MAKE AN ALBUM, go through the site, find appropriate video clips.  It'll be even more helpful if you write in your album's description which clips you think might go well with which part of the text, even specifying times in the videos, like for example, "This clip from 3:53 to 4:07 would go well with the part of the text that goes 'you have forgotten how to dream because we have removed it from your language.'"

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You might know our record "and a new earth", it is definitely one of the most impactful short films to have come out of HITRECORD and we play it at all of our shows. I was thinking that Sundance 2012 is a great reason for us to make another version of it!

I absolutely love the original, it's a beautiful piece both in style and in substance.  wirrow wrote the text and set it to a timelapse from the site while adding an instrumental track that he had made. The simplicity of it is what makes it so impactful. (here is the link to the original or you can check the resources below. http://hitrecord.org/records/141257 )

But I've always wondered what it would be like if we took it to the next step because I feel this piece is really conducive to our mass collaborative creative process. 

So here's what to do: 

• Vocal Artists, Actors, Poets - record yourself reading the text of the original video.  You can read it however you like, but it may be that the more similar to the original the better.  Be as close as possible to the original.


• Audio Mixers - Mix together a large creative combination using these different recordings of everyone reading the text. 


• Video Editors - Let's start providing and editing visuals into a big montage that corresponds to the text. Remember, sometimes it's not the most literal connection that is best, but maybe something less obvious that still provokes the same sentiment as the text. 

I wanna screen this at Sundance, we've got about a month... so let's get to work. 

Thanks again