Monday 19 October 2009

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.

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