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