Video editing reflection

My video editing practice has recently been completed. The outcome of this work, visually, I am moderately pleased about. I hope this isn't because the content I used enhanced it and I do wonder if using my own material could still give the same reaction. The outcome conceptually and as a development of my overall project was surprising. I did not understand fully when making these edits what it was I was doing it for.

Through this process I decided to test the experiment on someone else. See what would happen if a person unfamiliar to the show was to watch it and see what they could recall a day later. Their outcome gave recollections quite similar to mine but what was difficult to understand was how exactly it appeared to them outside of what they were telling me. This was how I understood that I am making these clips to come as close to a simulation of what I was picturing in my head when I was recalling them, which is not what the recording devices are doing even if our intentions for them is.

What this means is when we go out and use recording devises to take images and videos as ways of collecting experiences and moments we don't fully understand what we are wanting for the outcome. The outcome we get from the devices we think we are satisfied with because that is the only outcome we have seen from the devices. If the visual output was to look as it might in the mind (which my practical work narrows down on that comparison) what would the reaction be like? The video I made however may only be fully understood by myself as I was the one who know/sees both outcomes, memory recall and video output. Really this is all a stage of how I am looking at human intentions with technology and the right satisfaction from an outcome.

Another question to ask is are we are using these 'devices' for acting as our brain or using them because we think they are better than our brain? Do we want the recollection from the camera to be the same as the memories?  

 References

Hunter, T. (n.d.). Mad Men. Mad Men. AMC.