Wow i just watched the link of the video for the Harvard undergrad library. Its actually amazing what the music did. The graphics of that video were amazing and left me with my jaw hanging, I kind of wished i knew what was going on, but it still looked pretty cool. The "cinematic feel" that Prof. Estevez mentioned in the main class page is also mentioned in La Jette. This flim either captured your attention because of the sporadic changes of the pictures and music, or can bore you to death with the monotone voice of the narrator. The music and cinematics worked hand in hand to throw me into a state of daze in La Jette and sometimes found myself lost in my own thinking of things and had to get back into the film. I'm glad you mentioned that we're going to watch it again so we can get a different feel for the film the second time around.
In response to the genre bending of those films such as the Shining, Marry Poppins and the West Side Story, I found myself laughing throughout all of those previews. Its amazing how music can alter the mood of which the film puts you in. I also think the way the story/plot of the film is told by the narrator can be different. In this link below, comedian Pablo Francisco narrates through an incredibly ridiculous movie preview.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn3Xp2jkTZQ)
The voice of the narrator automatically puts me in a sense of alertness and anxious to see some sort of action.
Stay Warm everyone and enjoy the break...
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Good log, Yianni! My overall point is that we often miss the importance of the audio track; in other words, film is not just visuals. I think that a great deal of how la Jetee works is that it IS so conventional, despite its seeming unconventionality. Our next film is probably much less conventional both in narrative structure and use of sound...
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