Btec National Diploma In Media (Film and TV)
PROGRAMME TITLE: TBA
DIRECTOR/
CAMERA OPERATOR: Martin Ladd
DURATION: TBA
FORMAT: DV
AUDIO: Diegetic audio
OUTLINE OF AUDIENCE: Any audience! Because anyone can understand the plot after the video has ended. It doesn’t target females, males or age specifically.
OUTLINE OF STORY: Basically, it’s about representation in every day life and as my experimental video goes on, hopefully the audience will have different perceptions in objects, animals and human beings etc. However, the main concept of it is in the Koyaanisquatsi way with life but there will be other concepts in the video such as hate, love and education.
CHARACTERS: None
EXAMPLES OF SHOTS:
· An open space (Long shot)
· A building, possibly the library or another building in construction (A whole range of shots)
· Laughter in people ( ECU on their faces)
· Immaturity such as people acting stupid in town or something weird ( mixed shots shaken
which gives the idea of excitement)
· Windscreen wipers ( maybe shows teenagers getting older and passing there test. It will
speed up and shows as they get older they are getting under pressure)
· Animals ( any sort of animals that shows love)
· Automatic doors opening and closing ( shows busyness and the mid life crisis)
· Also showing all movements around town ( speeded up and show different colours)
· As it ends the life of someone, leaves falling off a tree decaying slowly, no back track at all slowly and surely getting blacker and blacker which shows death)
Brighton Pictures
Friday 24 October 2008
Friday 10 October 2008
Critical Analysis On Experimental Video And Exhibition
In this assignment I will review and show critical evaluation of my chosen artists and also analyse them. And I will include examples in my work. I will then be using reviews to create a critical analysis on experimental video and exhibition. (Taken From Blogger, Main Site).
Discussing both past and current artists and works
On this chapter I will discuss:
The Girl Chewing Gum
Koyanisquatsi
They are all different experimental videos. Also they were made in different decades and they made a different impact on the audience. Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1973 and directed by John Smith. Koyanisquatsi was made ten years later which was directed by Godfrey Reggio and was helped funded by Francis Ford Coppola.
Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was way shorter than Koyanisquatsi because it was a short video experimental which was only nine minutes compared to Koyanisquatsi which was a full feature length movie.
Girl Chewing Gum was a non-diegetic video experimental which was made to believe that it was a diegetic because it sounded that the narrator was actually there. The same goes for Koyanisquatsi which was also a non-diegetic film, although the whole of Koyanisquatsi was all music. Whereas the Girl Chewing Gum’s non-diegetic sounds include an alarm and the narrator.
These two films are nearly the same, they are both non-diegetic, no CGI is used compared to other experimental videos. The only thing that is different is the colour of the video. Girl Chewing Gum was a black and white film and Koyanisquatsi was all colours.
Koyanisquatsi is a well crafted film and also a concept because the film has a meaning of life with the caves at the beginning and the busy traffic that gives the idea that it is a mid- life crisis and finally the conclusion with the rocket falling apart represents death. Girl Chewing Gum is not crafted as it uses a normal camera viewing street life. But it is a concept because we were meant to believe that the person that is talking has a power that is controlling everyone but as we get to the end he was actually narrating what was happening because he would have been narrating at the post-production stage.
The use of technology and techniques and styles
On this chapter I will discuss:
Doll Face
Koyanisquatsi
After seeing Andy Huang’s video, Doll Face I already see a difference in this compared to most experimentals. Koyanisquatsi was made in 1983, therefore it wouldn’t have the best technology in today’s world although it does use originality and it used technology that speeds things up and down which looked good in that time and looked good and different because it was in everyday life. But Doll Face was an all CGI video as it is in the current day but is nothing new to us because as an audience in this current time it is the same as we all see it. But with Koyanisquatsi it would probably have a different impact.
Narrative and non-narrative structures
On this chapter I will discuss:
Girl Chewing Gum
Koyanisquatsi
Girl Chewing Gum does not really have a story in them basically. But it does have a meaning that it isn’t about what you hear or what you see, but what the story is trying to get. So in that context, it is a different structure because it is not a simple story.
However, Koyanisquatsi is a simple story but might not get the audience to understand quickly but only after the film. The start of the film is the caves which was a slow pace that represents a person being born. And at the end, it shows a rocket falling with flames that represents death.
Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1973 so it was an original take on the structure of the story. But Koyanisquatsi was made in 83 and is a totally different story. So the gap of when they were made has nothing to do with it.
The use of exhibition space to create meaning
In this chapter I will discuss
Susan Hiller's CPSI Girls
Dan Graham's Two correlated rotations
Firstly, both video's used more than one screen and would seem hard to exhibit this in your room. CPSI girls had five screens in a large room. It looked like a job to work on to do the video but Susan Hiller easily but cleverley chose other artists work to show girl power through the mind.
Dan Graham's Two correlated rotations had two screens next to each other but joined from corner to corner. His video was also cleverley done, on one corner he showed one person filming another person but on the other corner that person filmed the guy filming her. There was an old projector playing in the room. It was done in black and white but wouldn't get a feel of this in my room and wouldn't work if it was done on one screen because we would only watch one person film another. In the Tate, the room was black and the video was black and white and so it gave a feel of mystery.
CPSI Girls gave an almost cinematic feel to it as it was a big room with five big screens. The screens were all different colour, when the video ends it just fuzzes out and restarts to different screen to the same colour. One of the video's used by Susan Hiller was Matilda. In that film she had to work hard to get her power and when I was watching CPSI Girls, I felt in the room that I had to work hard to get the concept of the video.
So out of these two video's they gave me a different perception of how these might inspire my own work. So when I choose my exhibition I will choose wisely where to locate it and try to get the audience to have one opinion when the video's end because it's in one place it would give you the same feel instead of being seen on the internet.
How these works might inspire your own work
Girl Chewing Gum actually was the video that I was mostly in a way, inspired by because I thought that it was a good twist at the end, even though I didn’t understand the twist straight away. If I decided to use this structure in my experimental I think it would be a very simple thing to do.
But I do think that Doll Face was influential to me because the robot woman was influenced by the media on the television.
In my experimental video I want to use representations of images and objects in everyday life. But show the objects and things in a false representation to show that everything doesn’t have to be right. So in a way I was taken in by the visualisation and narration in Girl Chewing Gum and the wrong representation in Doll Face.
Audience and audience interpretation of the work
I heard people’s reactions and they were slightly a different view to each video we saw. But first it isn’t important that we all have the same interpretation unless the video such as Doll Face because that was targeting one story and that was copying the media. With Girl Chewing Gum I saw the class just waiting to find out if it was worth the watch as it looked as though they were gripped by it because we were all wandering if there was a concept behind it, there was silence when it ended because it was hard to understand the conclusion.
Personally I think that in a way all of the audience understand the concept of all the experimental videos because all of them that have a narrative have only one concept in them.
The Girl Chewing Gum however might have different interpretations in them because the narrator could have been psychic or just seen the people beyond the camera’s lens.
We all appreciated or even were critical towards the crafted pieces, such as Gisele Kerozene Directed by Jan Kouren. As it used stop animation in 1989.
But with all the experimental videos there should be only one interpretation because when I watched all of them, I couldn’t get my head round them until a few minutes after or if I got told what the concept was.
So all of these experimental videos use craft and concept and try to target the audience mostly in one idea but also make them hard to understand during the video.
Discussing both past and current artists and works
On this chapter I will discuss:
The Girl Chewing Gum
Koyanisquatsi
They are all different experimental videos. Also they were made in different decades and they made a different impact on the audience. Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1973 and directed by John Smith. Koyanisquatsi was made ten years later which was directed by Godfrey Reggio and was helped funded by Francis Ford Coppola.
Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was way shorter than Koyanisquatsi because it was a short video experimental which was only nine minutes compared to Koyanisquatsi which was a full feature length movie.
Girl Chewing Gum was a non-diegetic video experimental which was made to believe that it was a diegetic because it sounded that the narrator was actually there. The same goes for Koyanisquatsi which was also a non-diegetic film, although the whole of Koyanisquatsi was all music. Whereas the Girl Chewing Gum’s non-diegetic sounds include an alarm and the narrator.
These two films are nearly the same, they are both non-diegetic, no CGI is used compared to other experimental videos. The only thing that is different is the colour of the video. Girl Chewing Gum was a black and white film and Koyanisquatsi was all colours.
Koyanisquatsi is a well crafted film and also a concept because the film has a meaning of life with the caves at the beginning and the busy traffic that gives the idea that it is a mid- life crisis and finally the conclusion with the rocket falling apart represents death. Girl Chewing Gum is not crafted as it uses a normal camera viewing street life. But it is a concept because we were meant to believe that the person that is talking has a power that is controlling everyone but as we get to the end he was actually narrating what was happening because he would have been narrating at the post-production stage.
The use of technology and techniques and styles
On this chapter I will discuss:
Doll Face
Koyanisquatsi
After seeing Andy Huang’s video, Doll Face I already see a difference in this compared to most experimentals. Koyanisquatsi was made in 1983, therefore it wouldn’t have the best technology in today’s world although it does use originality and it used technology that speeds things up and down which looked good in that time and looked good and different because it was in everyday life. But Doll Face was an all CGI video as it is in the current day but is nothing new to us because as an audience in this current time it is the same as we all see it. But with Koyanisquatsi it would probably have a different impact.
Narrative and non-narrative structures
On this chapter I will discuss:
Girl Chewing Gum
Koyanisquatsi
Girl Chewing Gum does not really have a story in them basically. But it does have a meaning that it isn’t about what you hear or what you see, but what the story is trying to get. So in that context, it is a different structure because it is not a simple story.
However, Koyanisquatsi is a simple story but might not get the audience to understand quickly but only after the film. The start of the film is the caves which was a slow pace that represents a person being born. And at the end, it shows a rocket falling with flames that represents death.
Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1973 so it was an original take on the structure of the story. But Koyanisquatsi was made in 83 and is a totally different story. So the gap of when they were made has nothing to do with it.
The use of exhibition space to create meaning
In this chapter I will discuss
Susan Hiller's CPSI Girls
Dan Graham's Two correlated rotations
Visiting the Tate I wanted to have a frame of mind that when I watch the video's in the museum I would imagine them on my t.v at home and see if they compare in anyway, and see if they would have a different feel. But when I saw these two experimental's, I noticed a huge difference betweeen an exhibition space and at home.
Firstly, both video's used more than one screen and would seem hard to exhibit this in your room. CPSI girls had five screens in a large room. It looked like a job to work on to do the video but Susan Hiller easily but cleverley chose other artists work to show girl power through the mind.
Dan Graham's Two correlated rotations had two screens next to each other but joined from corner to corner. His video was also cleverley done, on one corner he showed one person filming another person but on the other corner that person filmed the guy filming her. There was an old projector playing in the room. It was done in black and white but wouldn't get a feel of this in my room and wouldn't work if it was done on one screen because we would only watch one person film another. In the Tate, the room was black and the video was black and white and so it gave a feel of mystery.
CPSI Girls gave an almost cinematic feel to it as it was a big room with five big screens. The screens were all different colour, when the video ends it just fuzzes out and restarts to different screen to the same colour. One of the video's used by Susan Hiller was Matilda. In that film she had to work hard to get her power and when I was watching CPSI Girls, I felt in the room that I had to work hard to get the concept of the video.
So out of these two video's they gave me a different perception of how these might inspire my own work. So when I choose my exhibition I will choose wisely where to locate it and try to get the audience to have one opinion when the video's end because it's in one place it would give you the same feel instead of being seen on the internet.
How these works might inspire your own work
Girl Chewing Gum actually was the video that I was mostly in a way, inspired by because I thought that it was a good twist at the end, even though I didn’t understand the twist straight away. If I decided to use this structure in my experimental I think it would be a very simple thing to do.
But I do think that Doll Face was influential to me because the robot woman was influenced by the media on the television.
In my experimental video I want to use representations of images and objects in everyday life. But show the objects and things in a false representation to show that everything doesn’t have to be right. So in a way I was taken in by the visualisation and narration in Girl Chewing Gum and the wrong representation in Doll Face.
Audience and audience interpretation of the work
I heard people’s reactions and they were slightly a different view to each video we saw. But first it isn’t important that we all have the same interpretation unless the video such as Doll Face because that was targeting one story and that was copying the media. With Girl Chewing Gum I saw the class just waiting to find out if it was worth the watch as it looked as though they were gripped by it because we were all wandering if there was a concept behind it, there was silence when it ended because it was hard to understand the conclusion.
Personally I think that in a way all of the audience understand the concept of all the experimental videos because all of them that have a narrative have only one concept in them.
The Girl Chewing Gum however might have different interpretations in them because the narrator could have been psychic or just seen the people beyond the camera’s lens.
We all appreciated or even were critical towards the crafted pieces, such as Gisele Kerozene Directed by Jan Kouren. As it used stop animation in 1989.
But with all the experimental videos there should be only one interpretation because when I watched all of them, I couldn’t get my head round them until a few minutes after or if I got told what the concept was.
So all of these experimental videos use craft and concept and try to target the audience mostly in one idea but also make them hard to understand during the video.
Monday 6 October 2008
Critical Analysis On Experimental Video And Exhibition
In this assignment I will review and show critical evaluation of my chosen artists and also analyse them. And I will include examples in my work. I will then be using reviews to create a critical analysis on experimental video and exhibition. (Taken From Blogger, Main Site). I will compare Girl Chewing Gum, Koyanisquatsi and 1001 Nights.
Discussing both past and current artists and works
The Girl Chewing Gum, Koyanisquatsi and 1001 Nights are all different experimental videos. Also they were made in different decades and they made a different impact on the audience. Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1973 and directed by John Smith. Koyanisquatsi was made ten years later which was directed by Godfrey Reggio and was helped funded by Francis Ford Coppola. And finally, six minute video 1001 Nights was directed by Janane- Al- Ani ten years ago in 1998.
Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was a black and white film and it was focusing on people walking past, cars going from side to side from the camera and pigeons flying
Discussing both past and current artists and works
The Girl Chewing Gum, Koyanisquatsi and 1001 Nights are all different experimental videos. Also they were made in different decades and they made a different impact on the audience. Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1973 and directed by John Smith. Koyanisquatsi was made ten years later which was directed by Godfrey Reggio and was helped funded by Francis Ford Coppola. And finally, six minute video 1001 Nights was directed by Janane- Al- Ani ten years ago in 1998.
Firstly Girl Chewing Gum was a black and white film and it was focusing on people walking past, cars going from side to side from the camera and pigeons flying
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