Addition
Throughout the whole music video, addition as used as Dan Black brings things in from other texts and mixes them together, such as the drum beat from 'Umbrella'. He also uses things from many different genres, as with shot of a man (presumably himself) with a bunny head; this shot is almost exactly the same to in Donnie Darko, as well as the shot of the moon as in E.T.
Deletion
The linear structure could be said to have been taken away; the clips that he has copied have almost simply been thrown together with no clear reason as to why they have been at the specific points, as a narrative would usually have. However, there is a montage of shots at the end- all the fonts from various different films- saying 'The End', clarifying that the video is over.
The linear structure could be said to have been taken away; the clips that he has copied have almost simply been thrown together with no clear reason as to why they have been at the specific points, as a narrative would usually have. However, there is a montage of shots at the end- all the fonts from various different films- saying 'The End', clarifying that the video is over.
Substitution
Basically everything but the outline of all that Dan Black has used in the video is a substitution; as he cannot simply take the clips from all of the films that he uses, he instead copies them, using himself and other random actors/actresses in replacement.
Basically everything but the outline of all that Dan Black has used in the video is a substitution; as he cannot simply take the clips from all of the films that he uses, he instead copies them, using himself and other random actors/actresses in replacement.
Transpotition
As I have previously said, there is no real connectinion between each of the clips used, therefore no conventional structure, so he has brought together various disconnected things from different genres. For example, Donnie Darko does not have a single thing in relation to Catch Me If You Can, however they are both included, connected in that way.
As I have previously said, there is no real connectinion between each of the clips used, therefore no conventional structure, so he has brought together various disconnected things from different genres. For example, Donnie Darko does not have a single thing in relation to Catch Me If You Can, however they are both included, connected in that way.
The intertextual references in 'Symphonies' include Donnie Darko, E.T, Catch Me If You Can, Starman, Lost Highway and King Kong. Dan Black has included these references, along with all of the others, to represent the fact that nothing is purely 'original' as everything is taken from something else and modified to how the creators want it to be.
As the clips that Dan Black copies in 'Symphonies' are all from various different styles and genres, this is an 'eclectic mixture' as ideas for the video have been derived from a large variety of things and thrown together, therefore conforming to Charles Jencks' view on postmoderism. ('Postmodernism is fundamentallly the eclectic mixture of any tradition with that of its immediate past.')
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