Experimental Video...John Smith-Girl chwing gum

Experimental video-.....Simon Ellis-Telling Lies

This video is about a man going through serveral phone calls the night after he has spilt up with his girlfriend and had a one night stand with someone.

There was no camera shots in this piece it was text on the screen. The text was cleverly done though because the man who was talking was saying one thing and on the screen came up with what he was really thinking, this aplied as well when he was talking to his friend his ex girlfrienda and the girl he had a one night stand with.

Ther effect of just having words i think is in some cases just as effective as having images becuase its almost as if the artist who made this piece has someone to hide by using words and it keeps the audience watching and thinking something is going to happen.

Chapter 3- Narative and non narative structures

The story line of Dollface is a machine with a human face whom is constantly trying to achieve the image she sees on the television. Dollface does have a narrative structure, it has a beginning were the face first sees the image on the television. A middle were the face sees the new image and try's changing itself and an end were the face sees another image but by this point the television is to far away to be able to change and eventually stretches to far breaks the machine and smashes her face.So in this piece i think there's quite a simple beginning middle and end and it is not complex.
In the piece by muto its in an continus animation on a wall of various images and faces, however it does have the idea of re-birth and possibly reincarnation so in a way it does have a structure but it is a more complex one than dollface.
I think that structure is not necessarily important in experimental video you can have jumbled up images and still take a concept from it like in muto for example.This is because an audience member should be able to walk in and out of a piece freely for example if it was in a gallery adn still manage to take a meaning even if they havnt sat through the whole thing.

Experimental video....SamuelChristopher--Angel

This film is very dark and gloomy there is a slight sence of fear when i watched this the music is very key to hoor and thriller films. The piece was about angells and desribing them and what they are like and if you belive.
The lighting used in this is amazing the contrast of white black and just one colour red gives a ghostly effect the camara angles only add to the effect of being dark and gloomy with fear inset in viewers.

Experimental video....Rob Chui--Eulogy for things left unsaid

This video i found visually powerful in the same way that i did with koyaanicasi the camera's were very high quality and made beautiful high and low angle shots, likewise to Koyaaniscatsi. There was a voice over also with a very powerful voice saying things about life whilst these shots were being portrayed.
I think the concept of this piece to show the earth's beauty and how visually powerfull it is.
The context of this piece is like i said before showing how beautifull the world is to us and the voice over to make the watching expierience alot moire powerful.

Chapter 2-How does the use of technology differ think about when they where made was the technology new then.

If you take two pieces for example 'Muto' and 'Girl chewing gum' the technology is vastly different in 'girl chewing gum' the cameras were low quality and the lighting was not very good as it was a plain shot of the street.For the time the cameras used were probably the highest quality and were probably were quite expensive cameras.
In something like 'Muto' its is a very different story they obviously used high end quality modern cameras which were probably HD and they used the technique of stop frame animation which is very high craft where as 'girl chewing gum' there was not a lot of craft.
For example if you look at 'Koynaanisqatsi' which was made in 1982 the camera shots and quality was amazing for its time also the high angle shots which were probably done on a crane.
The reason for this is because they had the funding to do this expensive shots that are brilliant quality for the time.

Chapter 1-Discuss both past and current artists work

There are a huge amount of differences and similarities between 'Girl chewing gum' for example to 'Doll face' for another.
'Girl chewing gum' was made in 1973 and you can see that the cameras a obviously lower quality to the modern day camera used in 'Doll face' which was made in 1998.
In 'Girl chewing gum' there is not a lot of craft involved in making it however in 'Doll face' there is a huge amount of animation involved and modern camera techniques,However, both pieces have the same message that someone is lying and deceiving you in 'girl chewing gum' the narration was a lie as it clearly played out that it was a voice over narrating the scene and no one was there. In 'Doll face' it was the media deceiving and lying to this robot about how it should look. So both do have the same concept in a way.

Chapter 6-Audience interpretation

The audience interpretation of 'doll face' was a mixed reaction. The piece is highly conceptually driven there is craft that has gone into making it however it is quite simple at the same time.
Some reacted by saying that it didn't make sense and that it was boring, however most reacted to say that it was incredible and beautifully created and were able to come up with many conceptual ideas for example there comes a price for beauty.
I found the experimental piece amazing because it had such an emotional impact but was so simple and i think that's why it was so effective.
it is not important that everyone in the class has the same interpretation on the piece because everyone takes a different meaning from it, and everyone is different.
The artist may have made this piece with one concept in mind, however, because of personal expierience of the audience they may take very different meanings it could mean someone thing personal to them.Once the artist had published this piece it is completely out of his hands and the audience can take different meanings from it, there is complete detatchment form the artist and the person who is viewing i think this is important because then then person who is viweing can take a much more personal feeling from the piece.

Chapter 5-The effects that the tate modern had on me

The Tate modern did interest me however i found there was not a lot of works there that were abstract which is my personal preference but the works there were amazing even though i found there wasn't a lot there.
One of the things i did see at the Tate was an experimental video being shown in a dark room with only a few seats in it it was quite a power full piece and was very interesting.
The reason i think for there not being a lot there is because the use of space within the gallery was amazing they made sure that each piece had a significant amount of wall space and was lite very well.
The effect that the Tate and its works will have on my own experience are, the use of lighting and post production i will be more aware of these things after seeing the experimental video at the Tate. I will be aware of how put my emotion into the piece so i can draw an emotional effect out of my audience