Experimental Video:Koyaanisqatsi-Life out of balance

I thought Koyaanisqatsi's 'Life out of balance' was amazing. The use of light and camera angle were incredible.
The different types of images produced in this experimental film range from speeded up traffic through new york to cave engraved pictures and images.
All the images in this film are very powerfull and the camera angles used only help the emotional effect that this piece has on you.The piece almost shows how civilization has delveloped, from cave paintings to huge sky scrappers and traffic with motor cars.
The music used in 'life of balance' suited the imagery down to a key. For example right at the begining 0f the film the first frame is the cave paintings and the music behind it is almost tribal music, and then when the film cuts to the speeded up traffic and sky scrapers the music goes very fast paced and almost angelic with a sence of achievment for what human kind has created.
The concept of this film is that Koyaanisqatsi is trying to create an emotional effect on the audience which is acheived and very well.

Chapter 4 -Use of exibition space

Yesterday when we visited the Tate gallery in London we encountered and viewed a variety of amazing and interesting art, what was more interesting was the space it was displayed in.

• Surrealism art- Located in a bright white spacious room with works from artists such as Dali and Picasso the relationship i think the space because it is a crisp white colour creates and open mind for such surreal art, it is quite eire walking into a room also which is pure white i think they were trying to achieve that also.The space in the room like i said before was very big small pieces of art had a large amount of space i think this is mainly because they wanted the viewer to be able to focus on the piece of art and nothing else around.

One of the specific things i looked at was a a piece called 'thirty pieces of silver' by Cornelia Parker. The piece was pieces of silver cutlery bonded together hanging from the ceiling. I fund this piece interesting because the use of lighting against the shinny silver was amazing as they had a skylight above where the pieces were hanging from. The room the piece was in was completely separate from the other rooms as it had its own room to be in, which created a lot of space.

Experimental Video....Andy Huang-Dollface

I absolutely loved this piece it was a very emotional with many of hidden meanings. The video was a face attached to a machine she was staring at a television set constantly changing her image to look like what the television was showing.
This piece is trying to get across a message that everyone works like a machine as the face in the piece is attached to a machine, it also showed that she was chasing a dream and or an image that she cannot ever achieve which is a lot like people in our society today.
The piece portrays what people would do to achieve perfection, and how she is trying to fit in and be and or achieve something that she is not and trying reach an unobtainable goal.
The piece also shows how television in a way influencing our thought process and mesmerises us to think that people on television are perfect this piece shows how following this perception of perfection on television eventually can lead to lead to destruction as at the end of the piece the machine breaks and her face smashes, this could mean all sorts of things for example life issues like anorexia.
Dollface seems like a simple less craft piece,however,there has obviously been a lot of animation and computer graphics in this piece too create the machine and how it works. The piece is highly conceptual for all the reasons i have stated above it has so many different meanings and can be seen in so many different ways. Putting this piece into context, it is obviously Andy's main goal is getting across the point of there is a price that comes with beauty and he shows this in so many brilliant ways in the piece.

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