chapter 5

at the start of the assignment i had many different ideas about how my experimental video would be. now that i have seen some examples of experimental video's my ideas are now limited and my ideas are now a work in progress. some of the video's i watched did inspire me and i gathered lots of vital information from them. koyaanisqatsi is a brilliant experimental video and gave me some ideas for my own video. one of the ideas i gathered from koyaanisqatsi is that my video does not need to include any actors or actresses and i can just use the outside world for my video. another idea that i got from koyaansiqatsi is one of the shots that they do is sped up in post production and i could do this for my experimental video. "girl chewing gum" was also another brilliant experimental video which had many brilliant concepts. "girl chewing gum" looked like it was pre- filmed and this could be used in my video.

koyaanisqatsi (life out of balance)

koyaanisqatsi is a unique film created by Godfrey Reggio and it's duration time is 1hour and 23Min's. the film is unique in many different ways, first of all the visual images chosen in this piece are different from most films. it is different first of all because it is fast motion and switches to slow motion, also at the start the opening images are of cave men drawings. also at the start the music is a regional chant and is weird but also relaxing. the music doesn't have to much too it but it seems that it is always building up to something. i think that the concept to this video is very weird and unique because we have violent images with calm music and the modern era against the old. i think that the concept has something to do with how we have changed or evolved in the wrong way and it is a problem throughout the world. after watching the film I'm am still left with an intriguing question, what was the film all about? i am still not quite sure but i know that koyaanisqatsi means life out of balance and godfrey reggion might be showing us how look at the world from a different perspective.

4. the use of exhibition space to create meaning

A piece of art is beautiful in many ways but where the piece of art is being shown also plays a key factor to what you feel about it. for example if a peaceful picture of a field full of daffodils was shown in an art gallery it would make you feel peaceful and relaxed, however if i moved that picture into a busy town centre it would change your feelings about the picture and you would not fully appreciate it. people in town centre's would not pay attention to the beautiful piece of art because they would not expect to find art their. however in a art gallery it is a sort of ritual to look at beautiful pieces of art and appreciate the beauty behind them.

the atmosphere of a room can really change the way you feel about a piece of art. when i visited the Tate i saw some brilliant pieces of art but i also sense that it was the atmosphere of the room that made me feel this way, for example there is a piece of art at the Tate which is very unique. it is a very large mahogany dinner table which is in a a big brightly lit room. It has four humongous chairs and a large table in the middle of the room.

girl chewing gum

"girl chewing gum" by john smith (1976)

Girl chewing gum is a short video clip of a normal day to day life in 1976. the clip took place of a normal busy street and john smith is filming the scene and is the director/narrator.

john smith mentions a scene when a man is walking down the street with his hands in his pocket and john smith says he has just robbed a bank, we do not know if it is true or false because we don't know if this is in the right concept. we are made to believe that what john is saying is true but it might not be.

this clip was pre-filmed so this means that john wasn't actually at the scene at that moment. john could have been in a field adding his voice to the scene.