Progress of experimental video.

I've never really thought about my experimental video piece as i've been getting sidetracked with many ideas for my experimental audio. It wasn't until last thursday (17th november) that I had a chat with John. We just started of with a fluent conversation about what John loves best, his playstation three. We started talking about the new Call of duty game, what the story is about etc etc. We then just started talking about the world war and conspiracies behind the attacks on september 11th 2001 and where we were when we heard about it, also we talked about the July 7th bombings in the capital (London.) We both had a chat of how we heard about the news, I was told by my gran when I was coming out of school and John had just arrived at a Holiday destination and was told by his rep. For some reason this just gave me some sort of inclin as to what I could possibly do with my experimental video. I thought about researching some of the major events that have happened in mine + parents lives up to present, say from 1960 onwards. From the assassination of JFK, the ever so famous speech by Martin Luther King right through to the recent 2011 Royal Wedding. With this in mind I thought why not do a 3 minute video that would consist of me picking between 6-12 major events that have occured in the past 50 years. I don't know why I chose the past 50 years it just seemed a good idea due to me having a bit of knowledge of major events from the past 50 years.
Now visually I had a brief idea on what to do. After picking the historic events I would research some more about them and then try to find some video footage of the event, usually this would be available on youtube or some type of DVD from the libary. The only think I had'nt planned ahead for was to see how I could develop on how to stitch the video together. Me and John had a discussion and I came up with an idea but with Johns help he made it alot simpler. I had in mind that I could find a wall clock that had the Date&Time aswell as the year present. By doing this I would be able to put together my research with the date and year that the event actually happened. John put another way of doing this across and to be honest it seemed the much easier and feesable option. If i were to draw a clock on a big piece of card then get a split pin that will go through the centre i could attatch dials to use to signify the specific time. Also a the year at the top. Visually i would'nt state what event that I am playing is. This will play as part of a guessing game.
I've created the clock formats for the actuall layout, I plan to place it on a white background and through the camera hopefully just be able to get the frame of the creation in picture.
Today I took one bigger step to completing the video as I have now downloaded all the archive footage of all the events, from actuall footage of the event to how they were first broadcast on news television and even the middle of an american football game in 1980's. I have trimmed all the footage down of the archive, alltogether I have around 11 events. I need to now film all the footage of the clock changing from year to year and time to time to signify the change in time. I am currently still in working progress.