Role
Built the story through edit
Writer, Editor & Director
Narrative
This project was Light’s first university assignment at RMIT and marked an early return to structured video-making. The brief asked students to construct a two-minute edit from supplied footage and audio options, which gave Light room to test how far tone, pacing, and juxtaposition could reshape existing material.
Rather than leaning fully into parody, he became more interested in how the footage could be reframed into something surreal and unsettling. The combination of This is Marshall McLuhan and the distorted audio of Violent Earth pushed the piece toward discomfort, repetition, and visual unease, establishing a clearer emotional direction for the final cut.
His process was intentionally exploratory. Light scrubbed through the source material repeatedly, pulling out fragments that could be recombined into a sharper narrative rhythm. A storyboard helped sequence key images, although the project also taught him that planning becomes far more useful when it captures not just order, but the intended emotional function of each moment.
As the edit developed, he focused on repetition, escalating cuts, and layered sound to create a mounting sense of brainwashing and instability. Static, warped music, and environmental noise were combined to make the soundtrack feel increasingly oppressive, while the visual pacing gradually compressed into something more intense and claustrophobic.
The final result became an early study in tone-building through montage. It showed Light’s instinct for reshaping raw material into a more authored emotional experience, while also reinforcing the value of clearer pre-production and stronger thematic planning for future moving-image work.
