Task 4 Final Evaluation

The experimental video I created called "We are all the same" explored the difference in people’s reactions when they view different words. How people associate different words, actions and emotions with different genders. And how everyone is equal it’s just lifestyles and cultures that separate us. And my main plan was to show this fact in a creative and unusual manor.

Before I choose to exhibit my final piece, I wrote a questionnaire for people to fill out once they have viewed my video. They were a simple set of questions that ask what people’s opinions on the video. The questions were;

What did you think the video was about?

What is your opinion on the video you just viewed?

Did you like the video Yes/No?

What did you like or dislike about it?

What did you feel when watching the video?

Which words were in the video?

What do you think the words meant?

Did the feelings towards the words change when you saw them on the male and female?

Describe the video in three words Are you male or female? Any other comments or questions?

With these questions I hoped that I would get a wide range of responses from the audience. Whether or not they were positive or negative responses, they would still be a wide range of feedback. Feedback which would be helpful for me to evaluate myself and the work I have produced. It would also be a clear indication of if the audience understood the message I was trying to put across and if they actually paid attention to what they were viewing. An example of me trying to find out if the audience was paying attention was the question "Which words were in the video?" The answers given to this question would show how many of the 18 people I showed the piece to were actually paying attention. I was glad to find that the majority of audience members did remember at least three quarters of the words that featured in my experimental film. Unfortunately, a select few of the audience members found it apparently hard to remember the words they had scene, and only put a few of the words down when answering. The two conclusions I have made about the lack attention show by some of the viewers were; they were too distracted by the human forms in the piece to remember. Or, they were not fully engaged into what they were seeing on screen.

I wanted additionally to see if people understood the overall premise of the piece, of everybody being the same, regardless of visible differences. I planned to find out this by asking the question "What did you think the video was about?" This question was important in finding out if the message I was trying to put across actually made a significant impact, or was just lost on the audience. When I had received all the feedback questionnaires I looked through them and found that most of those who saw the installation piece got the idea of everybody being the same. This told me that I had succeeded in creating a piece which will show the similarities of human beings.

Another thing I was hoping to do was record the different feelings that people were experiencing when watching the experimental video. The question I asked to record this was "What did you feel when watching the video?" This question was a simple way of find the feelings of the audience. The range of responses was between confused and depressed to confused and cold.

In conclusion, when I had completed the pre production plans, carried out the filming, edited the footage, planned the installation space and showed the video to an audience. I had made an experimental video which had a clear cut and relevant meaning to today’s modern world. I feel that the piece was well made; I thoroughly enjoyed the production process and have learnt a lot about how different camera angles can creates different affects. The opinions of the audience matched my own. All of the people who viewed my video said that they enjoyed watching it. However, I did not just receive compliments about how good the video was. There was a question “Any other comments or questions? “In the feedback questionnaire, where there were some criticisms. The main criticism was that the video was slightly to long and it dragged on a bit too long. I do agree with the comments that it was a bit long at 4 minutes 9 seconds, but I feel that in order to truly make an impact the video had to be slightly repetitive and longer than only a couple of minutes. A second criticism was that the camera movements were not smooth and did not flow well. However, this was the effect I was planning to create with the camera. I wanted the movements to be slightly jumpy and less flowing than what is known in film making. I have used unconventional camera movements to create an experimental feel to the video. Finally, I feel that the end product I have created is very similar to what I originally planned to do. This is pleasing considering I have not had much experience in directing and film making. The only thing that changed through the post production process was that I had to change one of the female shots into a male shot. The shot was of the eye lid of the male where the word "sex" is written on it then the eye opens and closes again it has the word "fear" written on it instead. The reason for changing was, the eye lid of the actress I used was too small to write a word on clearly. I therefore changed the plan and wrote it on the actors’ eyelid because it was bigger.

I have chosen to take the fair criticisms on board and I now see that some of the techniques I used when filming could have been improved if I were to ever reshoot the video. With all things taken into consideration, I feel my experimental video “We are all the same” was a good quality piece of work, for a first video assignment. And it is a strong foundation on which to build my skills and confidence from in the future.

2.3 Post Production

On the 24th of November 2008, I began the vital process of post production. I began at 9 in the morning when I started to import the clips I had filmed the previous day. I imported them onto the editing program I was going to be using. When I had finished importing the saved clips onto the program, I reviewed them and began deciding which shots I wanted to include in the final piece and which I needed to cut or edit. I then started to drag the clips I needed into a timeline order. The order of which will be in the finished video. After that was complete, I choose to experiment with different screen effects. First I tried putting a blue filter across the screen. This would create a cold dark affect. When I viewed the shots with the blue filter, I felt that the look of the affect would make the video seem to cold and detract from the hope, love and compassion themes of the piece. So I then decided that a black and white affect would be suitable for my video. The lack of colour and the only difference in colour being light and dark would highlight the theme of equality and that everybody is the same. At the start of the second day of post production (the 25th November 2008), I decided to started to think about adding a soundtrack to the video I had sequenced the previous day. I had an idea of what I wanted in the soundtrack; A heavy repetitive beat, with calm and slightly disturbing lyrics. I searched through a number of CD's I had in my collection and eventually found a song which had the things I was looking for. This song was "Lucky you" by Deftones. I listen to the song a few times before I added it to the video, just to make sure it would fit. When I was finally convinced the song fitted in with the piece, I imported it into the editing program and imported it to the video. Once it was added, I listened and watched the edited video. I was happy with the contents. Then I moved on and added credits to the video. By the end of the day I was satisfied with what I had created and I knew that I would this complete version for my final product. After a good night sleep and a good deal of thinking, when I got into college (on the 26th November 2008) I started to consider experimenting with the soundtrack. My reason for wanting to try different soundtracks was that I wanted to see if the meaning and feel of the video, changed when the mood and type of music changed. I searched through the songs which I had on my ipod. I was searching for songs with a different tempo, tone and beat. I created a shortlist of tracks which were different in interesting ways. I experimented with a track which was quite dramatic, and had lots of volume changes. Another song I tried was a cover of the song “hero” After about an hour of listening, improving and deciding whether or not to really use the new soundtracks. I finally decided to not use the new soundtracks because; the first was to dramatic and it subtracted from the chilling and affective shots being seen on screen. The second was essentially a love song, and it just didn’t fit. So I just decided to keep my original soundtrack.

2.3 Production Diary

My video production took place on the 23rd of November 2008. Before filming I went out and brought the body paint and paint brushes which I needed for production. Then I prepared the shooting location, by clearing all furnishings and large objects from the room. This just left a clear white wall and a plain wooden floor. After I had set up the shooting location, I checked and set up the camera, tripod and lights in preparation for filming.

The actor and actress I had asked to film arrived at 11.30. They first got changed into the costumes in which I needed them to wear for filming. The costumes were a black bra and shorts for the actress and black shorts for the actor.

At 12 Noon, I started to paint the words I needed on the actors. I had done the actresses words as I would be filming her shots first. The painting took 30 minutes to finish. At 12.30pm I white balanced the camera. Once that was carried out, I shot the first part of the actresses’ scene. When filming I had to reshoot some shots, because the lighting was poor or the camera movements were poor. The shooting of the actresses’ parts took one hour. I then moved on and started to shoot the second half of the video. This was the scene with the male actor. I filmed the required shots with relative ease. The shots took another hour to shoot.

After the shooting process was finished, I rewind the tape and watched the footage back. I then removed the tape from the camera and packed up the camera and the tripod.

In total, the production time of the video was three hours and went without any major problem throughout the filming process.

exhibition space photos

the first photo is the viewpoint of a audience member would see when the room was sealed. the second photo the viewing space when nobody was inside the room. and the thrid picture is the point of view an audience member had when viewing my video.

Task 2.2 part 1 Synopsis of instalation

The premise of my experimental video "We Are All The Same" is what are a person perceptions when different words are read. Then when an audience sees that the words are written on a females and males body, do thier feelings and reactions to the words change.


So when i exhibit the video to an audience of my peers, I plan to use; A small square room with only one door and no windows. Cover the the walls and large objects within the room with black plastic bin liners. Cover the back of the door too, so that no light can enter the room once the door is closed. In the a corner of the room, will be a black laptop computer, setup ready to play the piece i've created. When inviting audience members to view the piece, I will only allow two people at a time into watch. This is to make sure that the two people look at each other in a different light. different in the sense that they could realise that the people around them are capable of the range of emotions and feelings i have shown in the video.



Hopefully, with the blackend room and enclosed environment, the audience will be more inclined to pay attention to the video because there will be a minimul number of distractions, to split attention. Also with the room being changed into an unusual environment, audiences members may feel disturbed by the change or intrigeed by the change. i feel that if an audience member is durstured by the installation space, they will be disturbed and feel sickend by the content of the video.

Task 1 - part 4 The use of exhibition space to create meaning

After I viewed the different experimental video installations created by; Susan Hiller, Jonas Mekas, Dan Graham, Pawel Kwiek and Dominique Gonzalez. I now have a deeper understanding of how the space in which a video is viewed can influence perceptions and opinions. I have also learnt that a person’s thoughts and feelings when viewing a video can be changed if the piece of video has been taking out of its original context. Two examples of this are "Psi Girls" by Susan Hiller and "TH.2058" by Dominique Gonzalez.
Susan Hiller's piece has five different video's playing at the same time, being shown on a long wall. All the videos have one common denominator, and that is the main characters within are girls with physic or telepathic abilities. The difference to in the videos is the coloured filter which is applied to them; the colours however, change ever time between the five videos. The Colours used are; blue, yellow, green, red and purple. By simply applying a different coloured filter every time, Hiller has taken the videos out of its original context and scraped the original concept and has created new ones by the simple change of colour.
"TH.2058" by Dominique Gonzalez uses a video projection of scenes of destruction and broken society. These images have been sampled from a number of movies made after the 1970's. On there own, the pieces of film have thier own story and meaning, but when they are placed together in a long feature, it creates a new context and meaning.

Task 2.1 part 1 Video treatment

Btec National Diploma In Media (Film and TV)

TREATMENT (drama)




PROGRAMME TITLE:

DIRECTOR/
CAMERA OPERATOR: Lewis-Dane Fry

DURATION: 5 minutes max.

FORMAT: DV

AUDIO:

OUTLINE OF AUDIENCE: This piece will be created so that a range of audiences can view and take away many different perceptions of what the piece represents. I feel that this piece would be helpful to those in the performing arts. An actor or director could use this video to show how any human can harbour and express any emotion when forced, or shows it through choice. It also has the concept of what you are led to believe when you read different words.


OUTLINE OF STORY: This piece has no regular structured narrative. It is more of a statement about people perceptions and stereotypical views, regarding who is capable of doing certain things and words which you associate with people you see. The piece will start with many different views of written text. The first set of words seen by the audience will be words such as “love”, “hope” and “sex”. After the words have been seen, it will be revealed that the words have been written on the body of a female. The calm tone will suddenly change when a male character splattered with a red substance will appear. Then let out a primeval shout at the camera. The camera will then pan across the male actor’s body, to show words of a darker nature such as; “hate”, “fear” and “war”. In the closing moments, the words “we are all the same” will be written on one hand of the female and cross over the male character.


CHARACTERS:

Name: Female
Age: Unknown
From: Unknown

Name: Male
Age: Unknown
From: Unknown

Experimental video reviews - Telling Lies

Simon Ellis' clever and sometimes funny experimental video, "Telling Lies" is a text and sound based film. It documents are series of phone calls made and received by main character, calls from his mother and to his ex-girlfriend, his best friend and a mysterious woman. In four short minutes, you find out what happened the night before, and why it was a complete disaster for the main character. The main character supposedly got very drunk, split with his girlfriend, perused another woman, while his girlfriend slept with his best mate. He wakes up the next morning, finding himself looking for answers, and answering some of his own.

The film has no visual use of actors; all that is seen in the shot are the words being spoken over the phone. Sometimes however, the text on screen does not match the dialogue being delivered by the characters. It actually shows the true thoughts of the characters at the time. As a way of identifying the different characters; the text seen on screen changes colours, this makes it easier for the audience to separate the characters and follow the story. In order to make it easier to follow the rapid text, it is placed on top of a black backdrop. The colours of the text then seem to be a complete contrast to the dark background. This piece has also been heavily edited in post production, as every sentence and single word phrases had to be created individually in separate frames. They were then pieced together and sequenced at the correct speed to match the soundtrack.

The soundtrack within "Telling Lies" is non-diegetic sound created by the actors. The dialogue used however, has been scripted. The sound heard by the audience is that of a number of unusual telephone convocations. As the convocations progress the tone of voice and speed of diction varies regularly, giving a sense of reality to the audience. The last kind of sound heard by the audience is the sound of a dialling tone. This too is non-diegetic sound, which has been added in post production.A key theme which Simon Ellis has created in "Telling Lies" is that it is far easier to lie to somebody over the phone. Mainly because the person you are lying to cannot see the expressions on your face or read your body language when you are lying.

Experimental video review - The Girl Chewing Gun

"The Girl Chewing Gum" created by John Smith, is a 9 minute piece of footage taken from a street in the mid 1970's. A director character instructs the people seen on film what to do, the timing of camera panning and add stories and scenarios to those seen. As the film progresses, the director character is giving even more detailed instructions to his cast, until he reveilles that he is actually 15 miles away in a field, and he is actually just commentating on previously filmed events.

The key visual sense within the piece is that it has been filmed using a very low definition black and white lens. The camera is uses a number of different shots and panning techniques including extreme close up, long shots and low angle panning shots. Throughout the 9 minutes of film, there are only two uses of the cut. Which occur in the later moments of the film, meaning the shot seen by the audience is a continuous shot.

John Smith's video has an interesting use of sound. There is no use of diegetic sound just non-diegetic sound. This sound is created by two sources. The first is the alarm bell ringing continuously throughout the piece. The other non-diegetic sound is the voice of the director character. The audience never sees him but can always hear him. In the closing moments of the film, the directions being given by the male character become far more complex and the timing of which he gives them becomes more irregular.

"The Girl Chewing Gum" has a strong message within it. It highlights how people can be fooled by others, when they do not know all the facts and the information being given by them is incorrect. This leads those receiving the information to believe that the provider is in control; Even though the control is false. This also tells the audience that trusting their assumptions and what they think they know can sometimes be incorrect. Therefore indicating that people need to savvy about who they trust or what they trust.

One word that can describe this interesting piece is betrayal. If somebody you don't know can influence your thoughts and lead you to trust them. How easy could it be for somebody you know, trust and love to do the same and betray you?

experimental video reviews - Koyaanisqatsi

The 88 minute experimental film Koyaanisqatsi, created by Godfrey Reggio, is seemly a sequence of random footage of real life, with the images being speeded up and slowed down in unison with continuous music. The word "Koyaanisqatsi" translates to "life out of a balance" and the images seen by the audience support this.

In the opening moments of the film, the images seen in shot are those of simple caveman drawing on the inside of a cave, the shot then changes to a number of birds-eye, landscape shots of vast natural landscapes. While we are viewing these shots the word "Koyaanisqatsi" fades into the shot in bright red letters stays there for a few moments the fades out again. Throughout the film the camera shots are in colour and the speed of the cuts varies depending on the pace of the sound.

The non-diegetic sounds heard within "Koyaanisqatsi" are created by classic music composer Phillip Glass. It is a mixture of natural and technological type music, which plays throughout the film. There occasions in the film when the music speeds up, it looks as if the music dictates the pace of the images. However, there are times when it appears that the images are dictating the tempo of the music. The music is unique in the sense that there is no understandable dialect for those who understand English. Also, because there is no use of actors in the film, there is no dialogue.

Upon the surface of "Koyaanisqatsi" it will be easy to think that the images being presented by the creator have no relevance to anything or no narrative to it. In truth there are a number of different underlying themes in the 88 minute feature. The narrative of the piece shows the development and evolution of mankind in the sequence of images collected. In addition, it shows the repetition of life through seeing the actions of machines and industry being repeated thousands of times.

A thought which crossed my mind when watching Koyaanisqatsi was, that I would not be surprised if the car company Honda created this to be one of their advertisements. But it the occurred to me that, many things in the media, have used Reggio's revolutionary film, as a basis to work from.

Task 1 - part 6 Audience, and audience interpretation of the work

All Video including experimental video, is created for audiences to enjoy, help inspire and sometimes hate. No single opinion on a piece of video can ever be completely similar, even though they could be very close. The way videos are critically analysed by an audience member can depend entirely on the type of person they are; type of personality, age, gender and time in which they grew up. It is because of this that Experimental video works so well, it allows the concepts within the videos to be read and understood on a number of different levels. In reflection, some videos have no real meaning and purpose except creating questions in an audience members mind. A director can do this to challenge the perceptions and beliefs of a person; and lead them to question things within their own life, or whether actions they carry out or thinking about are right or wrong.

For many people born in the 1990's they have been brought up in the world of the information age, where technology is rapidly developing and society has changed dramatically compared to the 1970's. So for those born in the 1990's viewing John Smith's 1976 video "The Girl Chewing Gum" some may find the pace of piece to be very slow and the environment shown to be very boring and dated. Some may even find it hard to believe that there was life before the existence of television and mass media.

While the young could be challenged or confused by the primitiveness of the 1970's piece. A Majority of those born in the 1950's may be extremely confused and mesmerised by the sheer quality of "Doll Face" created by Andy Huang. It may confuse previous generations because is hyper advance in comparison to what they have become accustomed to throughout their upbringing. Therefore, leading to naivety about the use of technology and sometimes fear of the technology itself.

In addition, both the younger and more mature generation can relate to the concepts being shown within both of the videos. "The Girl Chewing Gum" and "Doll Face" are centred on one key theme. The theme that you are always being told what to do, what to wear and what is acceptable. You are told these things mostly through the media and those in positions of power and control.

Task 1 - part 1 Discuss both past and current artists and works

Experimental video has been adapting continuously since the concept was first created, in the 1960's, when video was brought into art galleries. Early examples of experimental video are "The Girl Chewing Gum" by John Smith in 1974 and 8 years later (in 1982) Godfrey Roggio created the film "Koyaanisqatsi" Both of these videos are highly concept based. As times have progressed and technologies have advanced, the quality of experimental videos have improved, but the level of concept base pieces have not changed.
When you look at an early piece of experimental video like "The Girl Chewing Gum" it is easy to see that the technology being used is very basic and lacks quality that many modern pieces have. An example of the increase in quality is Andrew Haung's computer graphic piece "Doll Face" created in 2003.
"Doll Face" introduces the audience to a jack-in-a-box character, which is plain and lifeless. That is until it sees a number of images on a screen, one of which is a beautiful woman wearing make-up. The character then starts trying to imitate the image it has seen. In doing this, it pushes itself until it goes to far and breaks. The concept behind "Doll Face" is the idea of somebody can push themselves so much in the pursuit of perfection, but if they push themselves to far, they can end up destroying the very essence that makes someone who they are. And people are pushed so far because of what the media dictates is perfect. Similarly, Media dictating opinions and context of what is being seen is a concept behind "The Girl Chewing Gum". In this video, you are lead to believe that a director is giving instructions and controlling the action that is taking place in the shot. Then it is later revealed that the "director" is not controlling the action, he has just added audio commentary to action filmed previously. The level of craftsmanship in John Smith's short film is considerably less than Andy Huang's. The only piece of advanced is the adding of non-diegetic sound. Whereas, "Doll Face" only works because of extremely well created craft of the graphics.
By today's standards the level of craft involved in "Doll Face" is incredibly impressive. Back in 1982 "Koyaasqatsi" was released. It was created entirely through filming of everyday events and environments, then edited heavily in postproduction, to create the 88-minute film created by Godefry Reggio. At the time, this was seen as revolutionary and impressed many who viewed it. It is still considered as an inspirational film in present day. Both Reggio’s and Huang's films are very well made and enjoyable to watch. They offer views on life that cant always be seen and spark thoughts about the state of the world, even though they have been created decades apart.

Task 1 - Part 2 The use of technology and techniques and styles

A fifth video I viewed was "Gisele Kerozene" by Jan Kounen. There is a very unique style in which this video has been made using stop frame animation. Stop frame animation is where an image is created, and then captured, and then a new similar image is created. This process is repeated (sometimes thousands of times) over and over. Once the images have been gathered, a creator then plays the images together. The slight change in positioning, and movement, gives the impressions that the images create a flowing piece of film. "Gisele Kerozene" is about 3 witches chasing another witch, which has stolen something from them. Only a single camera has been used to develop this piece of video. Whereas, Simon Ellis’ video "Telling lies" is compete opposite. It doesn’t even have the use of a camera. The images seen by audience are text only, and have been created through use of advanced technology in comparison to "Gisele Kerozene" "Telling Lies" is advanced when it is compared against "The Girl Chewing Gum" by John Smith. John Smith's film was created in the 1970's, when camera and video technology was expensive and only just starting to make its way into mainstream society. Unlike "Telling Lies" made in 2000. In the todays modern world, camera and video equipment is affordable for many people and quality of the products has greatly improved from the 1970's.
Due to the difficultly of buying and using camera equipment in John Smith's time, it ment the video was made on a tight budget, therefore affected the aesetics of the video, though there was still scope to be creative.

Task 1 - Part 3 Narrative and non-narrative structures

The traditional structure of a story is to have a beginning, middle and end. Out of the four experimental videos I have seen, three stick to this structure, even if it is very loosely. "Koyaanisqatsi" "Telling Lies" and "The Girl Chewing Gum" are the three which keep to this structure. However, the closeness of which the videos keep to the beginning, middle and end, differs. An example of this is "Koyaanisqatsi" It has solid narrative, it has a clear beginning of the cave drawings, the middle of development and industry and then, the clear end of the destruction and going back to square one. In direct contrast, the video "1001 Nights" throws the audience into the middle of 5 different stories. Without the traditional build up of a beginning, the stories seem to be a small extract of a much bigger tale. It then leaves the stories without conclusions. Additionally, the use of pace change; within the videos have a big effect of the structures. "Koyaanisqatsi" uses change of pace, to compliment the story. It works especially well during the middle section of the film. The speeding up and slowing down of the soundtrack and images, highlights the way mankind has developed industry, it has periods in time where it has been so rapid, that it seems impossible to keep up. Following the speed comes the slow down. It shows how technology and society almost stops to grow in a beneficial way, as it waits for a breakthrough. In comparison, "1001 Nights" is continuously slow in its diegetic sound and seemingly minimum editing. even though it is heavily edited in post production. The slow pace shows the calm of the 5 female characters, even though the stories, on which they are relaying to audience, were very fast paced.

Task 1 - Part 5 How these works might inspire your own work

After I viewed the experimental videos of "1001 Night" "Koyaanisqatsi" "Telling Lies" and "The Girl Chewing Gum" I feel that there was only one video which I feel that has inspired me to explore an idea. This idea is the use of text in a shot, or an image and how the words can be used to spark thoughts and feelings for audience members. "Telling Lies" by Simon Ellis, uses text to give a visual stimulation to the Non-Diegetic sound of the characters voices. Also, it is used to show the true thoughts of the characters, without having to see their faces. Text, I feel, can sometimes be stronger than an image, so I plan to use words more predominately than images.
The meaning of words and the way in which they are viewed by different people has always interested me. The word "freedom" has a different purpose to some people compared to others. It can mean the right of every human-being to one person. On the other hand, it has seen as something which is worth going to the extreme of human animal nature, in order to gain. As a way of showing the difference of words and there meanings, I plan to print words onto one actor, work which indicate peace and calm. Then introduce a second, who has words of a darker nature on them.

Experimental Video Reviews - 1001 Nights

The experimental video "1001 Nights" created by Jananne Al-Ali, documents the slightly surreal accounts of 5 women who have been affected by war or conflict. Within the 6 minute duration of the video, you (as the audience) are briefly introduced to 5 women. All the creator allows you to see are the heads of these women.

The women are organised in a straight line, running along the screen. The women’s faces are in colour, opposed to the black, lifeless backdrop in which dominates the shot continuously. I feel the creator has set this effect up, so the audience can see that the concept of the 6 minute video is dark and that the characters feelings and stories reflect the lack of colour surrounding them. The use of sound in "1001 nights" is minimal.

The only sound heard by the audience is the diegetic diction coming from the 5 female characters while delivering there separate monologues. These extended moments of speech, are every woman’s account of war and conflict. However, though these stories have a serious tone to them, if you were to take small quotations out of a number of moments in the video and take them completely out of context, they would seem confusing and sometimes comical from an outsider’s point of view. An example of this is when the 4th woman says "...we see an enormous rhinoceros come round the house..."

If this was possibly taking out of context, the woman could be referring to a trip to the zoo that she once took. Or that a rhinoceros is a military vehicle. In my opinion Jananne Al-Ali has let the audience make their own decisions about what the women are talking about.

Experimental Video - Film content review 2

Name of film: Telling Lies
Name of Creator or Films Artist:
Duration: 4 Minutes

Briefly give an overview of the types of visual images used in this chosen piece (B/W, colour, locations, actors etc.)

• text in the shot
• black background
• background colour flashes green and distorts when a convosation is ended
• the text doesn't always match the soundtrack
• the text changes when the true feelings are being hidden
• the text changes colour, for different characters
  

Briefly give an overview of the types of audio used in the video. (Is the audio diegetic or non-diegetic, does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)

• diegetic sounds
• dialling tone
• listening into phone convocations
• tone of voice changes as the subject of the convocation changes
  

What do you think the premise or controlling idea of this video is?

• It is easier to mask your true emotions when your not looking at someone in the eye what motivates us to lie?
  

What thoughts are you left with after you have viewed this film?

• I can relate to the characters in the video, i have said somehing on the phone in the past, and have been thinking a complete and other thing.
  
  

Name of Film: The girl chewing gum
Name of creator or films artist: John Smith
Duration: 9 Minutes

Briefly give an overview of the types of visual images used in this chosen piece (B/W, colour, locations, actors etc.)

• Black and White
• Panning Shot, to long and angle
• zooming in and out
• Continuous shots

Briefly give an overview of the types of audio used in the video. (Is the audio diegetic or non-diegetic, does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)

• Non-Diegetic sound - director shouting, belling ringing
• The instructions are becoming more complex
• The directors instructions seems to be becoming more delayed
  

What do you think the premise or controlling idea of this video is?

• Control
• Prediction
• Courage
• Assumed control
• Control by a higher figure
  

What thoughts are you left with after you have viewed this film?

• I picked up that the sound was added after
• The actions of the people in the shots, have made up stories
• Things are happening which are not instructed
  

Name of film: Gisele Kerozene
Name of creator or film artist: Jan Kounen
Duration

Briefly give an overview of the types of visual images used in this chosen piece (B/W, colour, locations, actors etc.)

• Stop montion
• Point of view filming used
• Colourful costume and make-up against a cold, colourless setting
• Shots are flowing
• On one of the walls the word "jump" is printed on it

Briefly give an overview of the types of audio used in the video. (Is the audio diegetic or non-diegetic, does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)

• Non diegetic sound
• Sound track is added
• Non understandable speech

What do you think the premise or controlling idea of this video is?

• Making a stop motion frame animation, just to show that the creators can make a stop motion piece.

What thoughts are you left with after you have viewed this film?

• very entertaining
• Best stop motion ive ever seen
• The storyline is very crude

Experimental Video - Film content review

Name of Film: 1001 Nights
Name of Creator or Films Artist: Jananne Al-Ali
Duration: 6 Minutes

Briefly give an overview of the types of visual images used in this piece. (B/W, colour, locations, actors etc.

• close up shots
  
• simple
  
• black back drop
• 5 women
• women are in colour
  

Briefly give an overview of the types of audio used in the video. (Is the audio diegetic or non-diagetic, does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)

• audio diegetic
• monolouging
  
• stories of war
  

What do you think the premise or controling idea for this video is?

• describing there experiences of war
  
• all different types of people

What thoughts are you left with after you have viewed this film?

• the 5 heads all placed in a row is quite unimaginative
• the predictability of the order is irritating
  

Name of Film: Koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance)
Name of Creator or Films Artist: Godefry Reggio
Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes

Briefly give an overview of the types of visual images used in this piece. (B/W, colour, locations, actors etc.

• red title
• zomming out from a stone wall with drawings carved into it
• unsteady camera shot
• a slowed down view of a shuttle launch
• the shots linger
• landscape shots used

Briefly give an overview of the types of audio used in the video. (Is the audio diegetic or non-diagetic, does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)

• non-diegetic, harmonic music
• music speeds up and slows down throughout
• no dialouge
• music raises and drops

What do you think the premise or controlling idea of this video is?

• industry
• destruction
• the passing of time
• war
• broken society
• repetition

What thoughts are you left with after you have viewed this film?

• i would not of been surprised if at the end of the film, this was an advert for Honda

Brighton Photos

This first image of Brighton really highlights the reality of the British seaside. it shows that it has a darker less friendly personality, which looks unattractive and sometimes dangerous. The rusted padlock is interesting, because you would not usually associate a looking device, with an environment where freedom and care free fun is encouraged. Also this photo has a sense a mystery surrounding it. "Why is this door locked?" "Who locked it?" and "What is behind this door?" are all questions which i thought of when i saw this.

Experimental video

The term "Experimental" suggests that something is unproven and investigational. So the term "Experimental Video" suggests that, when producing a new piece of video, that the maker is approaching the making of a video, differently than previously known. However, just because it’s a new way in which to make a film, it does not mean that it will be successful. "Experimental Video" can occur in both film and television. An example of experimental video is the E4 program "The Fonejacker" this show allows the audience to see the lighter and sometimes infuriating side to prank calls, in a experimental way.