Brighton Pictures
Monday, 10 November 2008
Exhibition Space Plan
As my video is about representation and life in a style of Koyanisquatsi, it wouldn’t matter how I view my video in my opinion so I would like to show it in a classroom so I can hopefully gain easier access to get an audience around college because it doesn’t matter who the audience is- it can be anyone. I would also like to use the projector because Koyanisquatsi was shown in cinemas to get a big impact, then I would like to show this on a projector.
Friday, 24 October 2008
Treatment- Experimental video
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)
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)
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
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
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.
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.
Monday, 29 September 2008
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.
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.
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.
Monday, 22 September 2008
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.
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.
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.
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