The Big Bird Cage

For this video, I was inspired by a preview for a cheesy, exploitative grindhouse movie called The Big Bird Cage.  I got a kick out of the terrible acting and outrageous subject matter as well as the repetition of the god-awfully schlocky title, and rather than making a video full of obvious, somber, cliched prison metaphors (the movie does that anyway), I decided to make a more playful movie which explores some of the more interesting quirks of the English language and how we mentally interpret verbal communication.  The images which flash by during the refrain of "The bird cage, the bird cage, the big-the big- the big bird cage" are intended to alter one's mental preconceptions of what a "Birdcage" looks like, or a bird for that matter.  The idea behind this is that words are tied with images, and often very specific images.  When one is asked to think of a tree, for example, one might think of the same tree every time, or one of only a few trees in their "mental image bank."  My hope is that people watching this video will leave with a slightly altered way of visualizing words, and a smile perhaps wouldn't be out of the question either.  This video uses a fairly random assortment of images which all have to do with birds or cages in some way.  I also wanted to incorporate some pop art references and visual puns to help drive home the message of this video, while at the same time avoiding being outright "goofy."