Research 1.3: Observing ‘Scratch video’


TASK: Scratch video manipulates the order of the frames in a filmed sequence. The film Death Valley Days: Secret Love, cited in the previous research task is an example of ‘scratch video’. Look at the following examples and consider whether scratch video can be a form of animation or not, and what it can offer as a technique?
Write up your thoughts in the learning log and include any other examples of scratch video you might want to reference.

George Barber, Absence of Satan (1985)
Emergency Broadcast Network, Comply (1993)