Intention

The point of this project was to edit and shape existing media content to create a new story. I decided to use the story of one of my favorite books, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Since we were constrained to starting with video or audio data, I used the 2007 film “Into the Wild” based off the book as my content. I chose this story because it tells the tale of a young man on a physical and emotional journey in which he clearly grows and changes over time. I saw potential to tell another story here by changing the point of view by re-ordering important pieces of the timeline of his life. Time is something we usually think of as regular, linear, and straightforward, where every event follows causally from another. But in this project I attempt to prove that we can extract a fairly logical sequence of events that is not chronologically consistent.