Look At The Order In Which You Do Things
...is one of Eno's Oblique Strategies . In music, it's easier to start with sounds because you won't have to deal with them later. The way it used to work is that writers would sit in front of a piano or use a guitar, and even notate it on staff paper. Orchestrators and arrangers were the "producers" then, who gave music a sound beyond just piano and voice. Ever since the recording studio (and the internet) became instruments, it changed the order in which a piece of music was produced. The corollary in film is to get a look for the film, then weave in some kind of a narrative. But that order seems to now be reversed: now it's all about narratives, and the look of the film is less important. Similarly, if you make a video that includes captioned text or subtitles it puts watching before reading. (I still don't fully understand why people put English subtitles on English videos. I find myself doing it). The order in which we do things is also changed in ...
