Drawing inspiration from Omer Fast’s work and Anri Sala’s Ravel Ravel Unravel, my main objective for Project 3 was to create a collage of video and sound. Over spring break, I visited my family in North Carolina while I was still working on compiling footage for the project. My cousin Steven who lives there happens to be a talented musician and we both had this eureka moment. I scrapped my previous footage and would instead record him playing the instruments he had around the house. I recorded him playing his keyboard, midi controller, old toy piano, glockenspiel, guitar, ukulele, and melodica. Steven’s process was entirely improvisational but he played all of the different instruments at the same tempo. He only asked that I frame each shot so his face would not be visible. While compositing the clips in After Effects, Steven recommended that I should set each instrument to a different loop. The numbers in the lower right hand corner represent the timing of each loop. I inserted the timing text on each clip to make the editing process easier, and chose to leave it in the final version so the viewer can see our creative process. No instrument gets looped after the 2:00 mark and so each video ends depending on how long it is and where the last loop concludes. The resulting collage and amalgamation of sounds has a somber tone, so I added a black and white filter to heighten the feeling of sadness. Steven’s choice to wear a shirt that read “sadface” was purely coincidental. Thus, Sadface was born out of an opportune collaboration.