Hysterical Alphabet, sarah christolini

I went into this knowing very little information about the history of Hysteria, however i don't feel like that ruin the experience for me at all. The artists involved made the most important information accessible to the viewers despite their different levels of knowledge on the subject and made it entertaining through the humor of the juxtaposed images to the words being spoken aloud. I was intrigued to see many of the types of montage used and found myself picking out sections of rhythmic and metric montage, however i think in it's overall entirety this montage was very much a tonal montage because of the paring of sound effects, spoken word, and moving image. I also enjoyed the use of stock video because each image came with an already established history and meaning, however when cut and paired with audio it changed the meaning completely and allowed the artists to have it mean whatever they wanted. It really inspired me to think more about audio's importance with image and the idea of having live audio, like during the silent movie era (which worked really well for a history lesson on hysteria). I am really excited to start working with audio mixing in addition to montage. It was really exciting to think this was a traveling show, that since they were performing the audio and such that each show would always be slightly different, which added to the allure and excitement of the show.