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Really liked this edit. It had a great rhythm and there was a real atmosphere to it. A tension, like something was going to snap. Great use of sound.
And I felt like it was making a point... But I felt a bit let down by how it ended. I felt the tension dissipated towards the end and I lost a bit of what it was about. What the point was. What the tension was building to.
yeah i have to agree. this did seem like it was saying something. I think that of all the footage available for the project, there was something totally fascinating about the audience scenes. Reception is so interesting to observe, and the fact that these people are well-known only made it more intriguing. Even before the editing though, why the hell do these people look so fucking evil?! It's odd but they all seem to exude what I can only describe as 'damnedness'. There's just something so undeniably fascist-feeling about a fashion show - the idea of an aesthetic ideal and ideology of vision etc. I know that the Galliano one was a purported exception but that front row of spectators are always there, always eyeing everything sneeringly or baring their teeth like hyenas.
Perhaps the dissipation towards the end wasn't such a bad thing. I think for this film to look too much like an unequivocal critique of the fashion industry would be facile and overtly polemic so the backstage excitement wasn't necessarily out of place
but what kind of editing isn't gimmickry? - it's all a manipulation of sorts. i think that in this film it made you linger on the moment more, it prolonged it so you would contemplate on it
