Collage

Make a collage film an art director would sign: pictures cut from real material and put together by hand, so that what they make together says what none of them says alone. Surprise us; the expected version is not the goal.

What has to be true

• Every piece says something. Each picture, word and scrap is there for what it means in this film, not to fill space. If the same pieces could tell another story, it is not done yet.
• Every picture's source is clear: the person's own, licensed, public domain, or made for this film. A made one is never passed off as a real person, place or record.
• People as they are: their photos are cut, cropped, colored and printed, never their faces changed.
• Words spelled right, and readable, in the titles, labels and clippings.
• It holds up next to the best collage work you know. Watch the whole film as a viewer would, and keep refining until it does.

What you have