Artist research (Corey Pope and Neesmith Onzeur '$$$ - trailer'

Corey Pope and Neesmith Onzeur are two american artists who work using VHS and other retro filming devises to create there work. There joint project '$$$' is made by editing straight from VHS, it is filled with home movies, found footage, blockbusters, cult classics and lots of random footage in between. They have used lots of different techniques to create the project even the layout and sequence of the clips are interesting like switching between using the full screen, to using two monitors to then playing one video while another plays as a background.  

                                                                                The use of sound bites in this project are key, they work along side the clips and are edited in such a way that you forget you are just watching a lot of short clips. Even the mix of sound bites work together. Flicking from the audio of a home video to the audio of the film 'Friday' works perfectly. 

Although I really appreciate the video I am mainly interested in the distortion that accrues in the edited VHS clip. The static that runs across the images, the thick scan lines and the bizarre flashes of colour when to clips meet. I love the feel hand shot film gives, a rough style thats works perfectly with the crackly footage.  




I am trying to recreate this feeling in my images. I am using photoshop to add all of the little details that makes hand shot VHS film so interesting to look at. My attempt can be seen on in 'How to create at VHS style image'.