Task 4

For my evaluation I will review all parts of my filming, what I could have done and what I have done.
First my idea was based around the concept of using the experimental as a way of showing people the effects of being blind. But I realised that this was not a good idea as someone in my group was doing the same idea. I then thought about other topics around the world today so I took the responsibility of using Global Warming for my topic. This idea had to based around the effects of what can and what has happened so I thought and planned how I would use people, transport and the environment in one idea.

Pre-Production

My first day of pre-production started with doing some storyboard production and this was how I would start and mould the beginning of the film.
My first thought was to have an eye at the beginning of the film (non-crying) and one eye at or near the end of the film (crying) to show the emotion that some people feel towards certain topics. Then I thought of using the idea of linking the environment and what people do so I used the rubbish on the streets and the filming of normal civilians to create a somewhat link.
The other use of humans was in their cars because no matter what you read or hear cars damage the environment and was someone I felt I needed to include in my film .
Most of the other pieces of paper I needed to write were based around health and safety.

Production/Filming

The filming I thought went alright. This was becasue most of the shots I wanted were actually available to film but there were set backs like the fact that the weather wasn't the best for some peices of filming and that I lost most of my filming between days of filming through the Mac laptop that I own.
Most of my filming was based on using long-shots and medium shots of my topical subjects like rubbish bags or motorway traffic. This is because you can see more of what I aimed to show the audience. Overall most of my filming was completed within a couple of days.

Post-Production

My post-production went very well but yet it wasn't easy. It started when my camera footage wasn't compatible with the apple computers so this ment using for part of my post-production the newer version of I-movie. After uploading my film to the computer i started looking through my footage and editing my movie into the order I wanted it to be in using my storyboard.
Once I had got all the necessary pieces of film and putting it in the right order I set about using the correct parts of video effects and how this would make my film more intresting, and from here and saving my work onto thawspace it was uploaded onto a dvd and was used in my exhibition.
After I had showed my video I handed out questionairre's I started to review what they wrote and here are some the examples. To the question 'Was there anything that you would change with the film' some people put that there was not enough congestion or anything to do with oil.
This means that it wasn't quite a good enough to make an impact on my audience.

2.3 Post-Production Diary

First I uploaded my video's to the Mac computers using a firewire cable from the camera and imported them into Imovie HD.
After doing this I took the time to browse through each video to rearrange the video's into the order I wanted them using my storyboard.

I then browsed each clip for any footage that was unclear or not needed and simply deleted the footage. Then I used the crop tool to take away any parts of the footage I didn't need so it was easier to catergorise them into order. After that I added in any affects I might have needed for the link between any footage.

The last step was to put my animatics piece (storyboard) and my finished product onto a DVD which I will use for my exhibtion.

2.3 Production Diary

First i set up a camera outside woolworthes and filmed up towards County Mall using a long-medium shot nad then I went over to the car park to capture some films of the traffic for around 10-15 minutes. I then used a pigeon and and one of my sandwich boxes to use the effect of man taken away nature. I filmed this shot two or three times for around 30 seconds to a minute each time.

Most of my other shots came on day 2 where I was filming two or three shots above a jorgecarriage way near Broadbridge Heath at around 11'0 clock at night. Some of the otehr shots earlier that day consisted of some more shots of people round and about Crawley and outside McDonalds for a shot of the rubbish collecting on the streets. I filmed these shots for around 5 minutes each so I got some more prospective film for editing.

2.2 Exhibition/installation plan

1)The video installation i am doing is on the environment and the video is based around the amount of people and cars. Becasue of this and by making some decision's over a number of places to show my film, I have decided that my house should be the place I will show it.
This is because just down the road from my house is a big carpark and a busy road so the effect of showing this in my house to the general public might make them see that we are overdoing our part on 'killing the environment'.

2)The layout of the plan will be that the film will be shown in a small room in my house where the room will be blacked out so they can only concentrate on my film and not on each other. They will have only a couple of chairs to sit on and that this will hopefully make them feel uncomfortable. This affect wouldn't work if you used a sofa as they would feel more comfy than if they used chairs. The TV will be up against the wall rather than be towards the centre of the wall so the TV seems smaller and so does the video. This is because not many people are worried about this topic so this might suit it well.

3) Some of the questions I will ask are:
- What did you think this film was about?

- What were your feelings towards the style in which the exhibit was laid out, and did this make you feel umcomfortable?

- Did this film make you think differently on how you view the crisis of the environment, if so please explain why?
- Was the video good quality or clear enough whilst viewing it, please explain your answer?

I want to get a detailed answer so i can recieve a clear overall explanation of the what people thought so when i go to write my evaluation i can recieve a hopeful wide range of answers.

Chapter 4 How does exhibition space change the meaning of the work?

I think that the space a piece of work is in can change the meaning or a concept of a piece of work because the amount of people or maybe the space given to that video can dramatically change the impact.
For example if I was to give the piece of work TH.2058 a small space without the rest of it’s exhibition then the way that the video is played it would lose all of it’s meaning and in my opinion that might have been felt in a larger space is lost as well.
In my opinion the way that as you enter the space and you see this truly strange line after line of bunk beds if this video was shown in a classroom in the light then all this feeling of being stranded whether inside or out could make the difference to how people might view this video.Another video that can have it’s meaning changed on the size of the room is “Psi Girls”. This is because she uses five projectors to show films, all on girls with powers. The meaning of each video could be changed from the colour each video might “jump” into. I use the word jump because each video doesn’t just go to the right or left but each video might jump to or three spaces at a time.

Film content review sheet

Name of film

Name of creator or films artist Stuart Cox

Duration Approximately 2 to 3 minutes

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

Some of the ways I will film this project are using black and white and also in colour.
I will use places such as the ninth floor and maybe if I need it the fourth floor. I will use memorial gardens for the opening shot and maybe the end as well and
The actors in my film are myself (behind the camera) who is playing a teenager and he is suffering from being deaf. The others in the film are Chris, Dan and Harry who are his friends.

Briefly give an overview of the types audio used in the video. (Is the Audio Diegetic or Non Diegetic, does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)

I will not use much of an audio sound track in my project as I will be displaying text as a substitute in the actual film. This is because my character is deaf and to create an effect I will not use sound in my project to make the audience feel involved. I will use the track to build up a feel of the story.


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

It is to make people more aware that deaf people try to live their life normally yet they do have difficulties that we are not aware off. This is the main point of my project yet another reason is to show that people with disabilities have trouble fitting in with others to have a normal social life.


What thoughts are the audience left with after they have viewed this film?

I would hope to say that people are left thinking about the film in a positive light and to see that people with difficulties can still have social life yet still see that no matter whom you are there’re problems fitting in with others around you.

6. Audience, and audience interpretation of the work (200 Words)

No matter who or where you’re from many people will have different interpretations to the same video. This is because different people will view a subject in a different manner depending on when they were born and that people will have similar opinions but always the same.
For example the film 1001 nights was not to my liking and this was because I enjoy films with lots of video and CGI effects but yet some people do like it because of the truth and the concept behind it.
However a film like Doll face is something I would watch time and time again. My reason for this is because being a teenager from the modern era where technology is really advanced and to some point still advancing. I understand the concept and meaning behind the video. It is because the world circulates around the media and it affects the audience in a way that maybe someone from the 70’s might not understand, because they were not aware of such effects and what the media represented.
The film Koyaanisqatsi is from the 90’s and this is were technology started advancing and yet because it’s modern I can understand this. My opinion of the film is that because of the technology and science behind what we do the world changes with us and that technology will go so far before it can go no further. I liked this film because of the way that by using simple repetition you can create so much and effect so many.

5. How these works might inspire your own work (100 Words)

The idea for my experimental video is about the world and changes to the world around us. This might involve using media and the use of fast and slow motion to help me show this to the audience. I will also text and certain points to help the viewer through the video or create a lasting image.
I would say that the film Doll face might inspire my work because it’s way of showing us a view of the media and how it revolves around us. It’s concept of using a women and making herself better and better until she cannot make herself go any further is a good way of making a lasting impression on us.
But I also believe that the film Koyaanisqatsi would inspire my work because it uses fast and slow motion to make the viewer look at this work in a realistic light. For example looking at people walking really quickly (fast motion) may show us that the world is changing around us quicker than we know it to be and yet we manage to cope.
The last film that might help is telling lies and this is because it’s use of text. The entire film of telling lies which being based around voices and using text to show the audience truth could help as the way it’s used. The text doesn’t just appear on our screen it flows in some places with the voices and that creates a more visual image.

3. Narrative and non-narrative structures (100 Words)

Using three of these films Koyaanisqatsi, 1001 nights and the girl chewing gum. I will try and explain how each of these films have there own style of structure.
The first I will use is 1001 nights. I think this has the basic structure because we are introduced at the start to 5 female actresses. At the start of the story we are introduced to the first women and this continues to the third women who out of the five is the middle part of this story and we end the story on the fifth and final woman.
This is slightly different to the one we see in the video Koyaanisqatsi and this is because the storyline we see in this video is that in the beginning we are introduced to some cave drawings and then into what we may presume is a fire. So as the film goes on we can tell that the peak of this story (middle) is switching between fast and slow tempos and that soon using some repetition we can expect the story to end. This is done by using the opening clip of cave drawings.
The final clip the girl chewing gum is similar more to the video 1001 knights more than the film Koyaanisqatsi. This is because that the film Koyaanisqatsi has a beginning, middle and end yet the girl chewing gum and 1001 knights we are taken into the story ands the middle of a scene.
These three stories all have a narrative structure yet with the film Koyaanisqatsi structure creates the sense that we look at it differently to the other two. The girl chewing gum has a tiny introduction yet we are able to grasp the story further and further on we go because we are given more detail. Even towards the end of the film we can tell that even though we can understand we are learning more as we go along.

1. Discuss both past and current artists and works

I will compare the film Koyaanisqatsi to two other films. They are The Girl Chewing Gum and Doll Face.
The film Koyaanisqatsi when comparing it to the film The girl chewing gum I can tell that they are different in craft and concept. The craft in Koyaanisqatsi is that we see the effects that we can do nowadays to that we could do in the seventies. An example of this is slow-motion and fast-motion something that may have been available to John Smith but he may not have able to afford this. John Smith’s craft behind it lacks effort because he is dubbing over the film. The concept between them is different as well because Koyaanisqatsi shows us the effect humans have on the world today through global warming and destroying the earth. Yet the concept for The girl chewing gum is to show us that we should not always believe what a narrator tells us. His reason behind this is that most documentaries shot at that time used a narrator.
If I was to compare Koyaanisqatsi to Doll face I can see that Doll Face is completely different.
The craft is different because Andy Huang uses CGI to create his work and to the other artists he uses a far superior amount of technology to make this affective. His concept is that people are more obsessed with the media and how they look and are pushing themselves to make them more like the models in the celebrity magazines you might find on the shelf and soon we will not be able to go any further.

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

The differences in technology and style between the three films are down to its difference in technological equipment through time. For example in the girl chewing gum we can see that the film is in black and white using a man narrating as a voice over, which is down to it being filmed in the late seventies. But the difference between this and a film like telling lies (2001) filmed in colour which uses animated text is down to what was available and what would be affective. Another thing to consider is that the styles are very similar between the two. I think this is because the audio on both films are using different ways of using voices. If I was to add the film 1001 nights we can see one of the major differences between the three films. The film the girl chewing gum uses a non-diegetic voice track because as we progress through the film it becomes clear that the soundtrack has bee added after the actual recording. Now take Telling lies which I suppose we can take as diegetic or non-diegetic. This is because we can almost guarantee that the recording takes place but after that it gets problematic. The problems are that there is no visual reference to the actual voices or the text which means that video can be taken as a non-diegetic or diegetic piece. Also that the telephone noises could be done during the recording or added afterwards. The last film 1001 nights I can say is certainly diegetic. It is diegetic because the actors on screen are a visual reference to the voices and we can see it is them speaking at that time.
The post production is also important to establish the difference in technology. In The girl chewing gum the producer might not be able to edit all the clips but he can add into the film a voiceover but in the film telling lies which is a modern production, with the help of computers with editing software they makers of the film where able to add text and extra graphics to the film. They also have the capability to add in extra sounds like a telephone to the background.

This is also the case of the film 1001 nights. Although the film shows all five women at the same time. It could be possible that the film was shot five times and then they put them into one joint film. They too had the technology to black out the background and add in the occasional sound.

The girl chewing gum

The creator is John SMith and last's for 9 minutes.

This film is about some pretending to be someone there not. We see people on street corners and people walking in and out of the shot. We notice pretty early that this guy has given himself away when he starts to get out of tempo with the film and later on he confesses that he is not the director but more of a commentator.

Experimental Video - Telling Lies

The film Telling Lies has a duration of four minutes.

Something I notice at the start is that there are no actores on screen. We persume is that this conversation is over the phone and that text apperas on screen to show us what they realy mean.
Some of the non-diegetic sounds we hear are people talking about relationship and hangovers.
I think that the premise is to tell people that what we say is not always what we mean.

Experimental Video - 1001 Nights

1001 Nights was created by Jananne Al-Ani and is a 6 minute colour film.

Some of the visual images we get are that there is a black background with the actresses in colour. There are five women eyes are closed before they talk.
On screen we can hear female voices talking in monologues yet of creen I can hear people talking and at one piont my mind played tricks and I can hear gun shots.
I think the premise is something to do with war and that innocent people do get killed and that people who witness war get physically and mentally scared.

Experimental Video - Koyaanisqatsi

The first film is Koyaanisqatsi also known as Life out of balance. The creator of this film was Godfrey Reggio.
The duration of this film is 1 hour 23 minutes long and it revolves around the idea of changing between audio and visual.
Something I notice that there is a lot of non-deigetic noises such as the repition in the name of the film. Others are that the music tempo would start of slow and would the nget faster and then might slow down soon after. At some point we also hear a tone that sounds like a hospital machine telling you of death.
I think the premise behind the film is to show us what the world is about such as conflict, nature and maybe death.
It left me at first confused but later I start to understand this film and that there is no set subject but many.

Craft, Concept and Context

The meanings for the following words are:

Craft: It is to show the actual meaning for something which shows the skill involved such as Gisele Kerozene.

Concept: It is the skill behind the project. It is the reason for it's being.

Context: This meaning is what you are lead to believe as it is formed around our understanding. Our knowledge if you like.

Brighton Pictures 02

This picture doesn't show our usuall image of the seaside because of the burnt out pier. The image we usually see is the new pier in the background maybe with a sandy beach. However this beach is all pebbles and has remains of the derilict pier which they would never show because in would not attract people to the beach.

Brighton Pictures

I think this picture of bottle caps and broken glass on the beach is not what i would call an acceptable image of the British Seaside because on postcards and leaflets we see golden beachs and blue skies but they wouldn't show this because it would drive tourists away.

Brighton Pictures

Using the following pictures i will try and explain how these do not meet our expectations of the British Seaside.

I think the picture of the beach with the bottle caps isn't what we would picture on the british seaside because on the British seaside postcards and leaflets they won't show rubbish because it would make it seem and unlike a family holiday.

What is Experimental Video?

I think experimental videoing is where you are to film in different forms from things such as film making. I think it could use such methods of use such as maybe not wanting to properly show the image in question or maybe having very poor lighting on the lens.

An experimental video I have done before was my horror trailer from btec first.
We used such effects like these and they are very easy to create. Not only are they easy to create but they add really good effects to your work.