1001 Nights and Koyanisquatsi Review

1001 NIGHTS
I didn't really think much about 1001 nights but I know that it exceeds in an experimental video, directed by Janane- Al- Ani.

I think that the six minute video was very plain and cheap which what the director wanted it was all diegetic and the women who were in the video were talking about wars and rhino's which I thought was weird. But then I understood that it represented wars in iraq. And I thought that the video was about dreams and fear.

After the video I felt very empty and intrigued by what the director wanted but now I know.

KOYANISQUATSI

This film was made in 1983 and I thought that it was very clever how Goddrey Reggio did the speed ups and down. Helped by Francis Ford Coppolla, this was very engaging and I tried to put my self in an audience in 1983 and I think I would be really confused. But I understood it straight away because it started slow and in the middle it was energetic, rushed and fast- paced. And at the end I saw a rocket blowing up.

So after the film I knew that this cinematic experiment represented a persons life abd the cycles. I really liked it because I have never seen anything like before.

My Comparison and Review Of Jan Kouren And Girl Chewing Gum

When I first saw Girl Chewing Gum I thought that it was quite inspiring because at first I thought that John Smith, the director was directing people on the street such as "woman walk past from the left and rub your eyes". It was nine minutes long and thought it could drag on but it was actually, surprisingly dragged me in, trying to think of what was going on.



Girl Chewing Gum was non-diegetic but I thought that Jan Kouren by Gisele Kerozene was a diegetic, just like I thought that Girl Chewing Gum was a diegetic but a matter of fact, both were non-diegetic and added on in editing. Girl Chewing Gum was a black and white and very different.

What Does Craft And Conception Mean?

I watched Jan Kouren by Gisele Kerozene and it was done by stop/start animation and I noticed that this was a crafted piece of experimental video because it had no idea, but it was all done using a crafted piece of software. It was used by people jumping up and down on the broomsticks but we don't see them jumping we see them riding on the broomsticks. This video was a non-diegetic sound with people on ther brooms yelling noises. The story in this crafted piece was a race with witches, I call it "Wacky Witch Races". This was a time consuming video which would of lasted for hours trying to get the video together. It almost looked like a cartoon because it was energetic and comical in a strange way. So craft means doing with your "hands". In my opinion crafting is an easier way of doing an experimental video.

Later I watched Girl Chewing Gum Directed by John Smith. This was a more concept idea which used a diegetic and non-diegetic audio. It was nine minutes long and it was a man narrating the whole thing. But at first I thought he was a man directing. Basically, it was a man who wanted to play with the realism on t.v which was simple in the time it was made, the 1970's. So concept means what the reason was behind a persons project and here it was a experimental video, narrating and showing that it was used in a non-diegetic way in the end, because at the end of the video we saw a field of the same sound which was used in a town centre.

So what can I expect to do in experimental media?

I would definetley like to do something that other people wouldn't do, something where I can experiment with colours, scenery and make things look big even if they are really small like a leaf or some rubbish on the floor. And then I can change colours and zoom in into different aspects of the leaf or something and make it abstract.

I would like to get people to think what was that? And also to be influenced on the thing i'm doing or the the thing they were doing so I can be influenced on that aswell.

What Does Experimental Mean?

Experimental means that what ever you do, even outside the media you got to try something new and take risks and see whether you would do it again or see if it works.

In filming it is about trying something unreal or unusual. For me it is not giving it a meaning to an audience but in my own head. But for people watching an experimental video it might mean something else to them or not meaning for them at all.

An experimental video can be really abstract or it can even be really normal but editing it in a really different way. Also in production with camera angles can be unreal and different. For example, tilting can be a weird way of experimenting in videos.

Also you can experiment with the colours in production and post- production and it can be very paranormal.