Entry 5

I have finished my experimental video all is under way, have show it and had reasonable feed back. Overall I think that the video went pretty well, a few mistakes here and there, the feedback I was given, is that the experimental video was far to short, the backing tack went well, and the concept was respected.

Diary entry 4

Now that I have put my sounds track over the images of my work it all works and fits together very well, now that my experimental video is the way that I want it, I now have to add my titles and photo to the opening screen on the DVD and it is ready to be exhibited, to some family members.

Diary entry 3

Today I decided to finish of on garage band and add a freaky but annoying sound track to the video, I had the same sound throughout the video, I also tried to change the tempo of the sound track throughout the video to a fast tempo at the begging and fading out into a slower one, but that didn’t quite work so I slowed the whole sound track down and figured out that the tempo that I had just created was much better suited to my experimental video.

Diary entry 2

After taking all of my phones for my experimental video, I then put them on a Mac and began editing, then I had to import all my photos on to imovie which didn’t work and had to move to a standard computer to import them onto a memory stick which took much longer than expected, nearly an hour! Then I had to go back over to the Mac room and try import them from my memory stick to imovie again, which still didn’t work. Once they had all been imported, I had to drag them along the time line in the correct order as mine all messed up and mixed up whilst they were imported which took much longer than expected too. Figuring out how long each frame should be was the most tactical part of the editing, currently I am making am trying to make a track on garage band to go with the video.

Diary entry 1

After half term when we came back to college, I started taking my pictures, which I will therefore use for my stop frame animation experimental video, when taking some pictures I found that some were harder than others but then managed to sort them out. Some example of this is, when taking the pictures of the two pairs of shoes moving towards each other and crossing on the stairs meet you couldn’t see the smaller pair which meant I had to change the shoes over, so that they were seen, I stood holding the camera almost in a birds eye view in the corridor, not moving while the shoes where being moved by two other students helping, all was going well until I noticed how much longer the pictures were taking than planned, so I had to cut some of my clips from my story board, so I had to re-do my story board to fit the video and scenes within that.

Discussion between past and current artists work, ‘Doll face’ and ‘Girl Chewing Gum’, when watching the video you the viewer would believe that the two videos are completely opposite, but under the surface the two videos are very similar portraying the truth in the Media. ‘Doll Face’ is a modern computer animation, but on the other hand ‘ Girl Chewing Gum’ is a screen shot from a gloomy day in Hackney with a voice over. But when looked at closer the two films have a lot in common how they both portray the media to be telling the truth, ‘Doll face’ is about how a women is determined to be equivalent to the women on TV and react the unreachable. The differences and more clear that the similarities ‘Girl Chewing Gum’ is in a typical street in Hackney filmed in 1976 with a director coming across telling people, cars the camera shot and objects what they should be doing but thought the video the viewers realise that is appears the director is lying and isn't actually at the film location. ‘Doll Face’ on the other hand is a computer animation creates in 2003, which is about a robot with a women's face trying to reach closer and closer to the TV as it moves closer away as if reaching for the unreachable, mimicking every flaw erased from the women in the TV.

Narrative and non narrative strustures

Narrative and non narrative structures the beginning, middle and end but also the more complex structures. When in the Tate Modern I noticed that when viewing different videos in completely different rooms, that not watching the whole video did not effect the concept I received from watching the small amout in a short time so a non-narrative structure worked a lot better in the particualar piece of art work that I watched called ‘Self Mutilation’ which was litrally a collection of alike images which the viewers can watch from the very start or part of the way through the film, and come out with the same concept.
On the other hand, some films do work better with a narrative structure as the viewers are more likely to understand and appricaiate the piece more. An example of this is ‘Doll face’ by Andy Huang which has a very strong narrative structure that cannot really be missed unless the viewer did not watch the entire film, from the begging we see and ordinary girls face, which addapts to be similar to the girl seen on the tv infront of her towards the middle, finally the girl dies as the media took control! Throughout the film I was wondering what was going on, but finally towards the end the concept clicked, without a non-narrative structure I belive the film would not have worked as well the concept and meaning wouldn’t have been as strong as with a narrative structure.

Girl chewing gum by John Smith

The concept of girl chewing gum, is as simple as it actually is. The video involves a voice over which then pre empts the events occuring during the experimental video, which the voice therefore co-ordinates to the images, cars, people and moving objects within the screen playing, but also on the focus and movements in which the camera makes on the street being viewed. In reality the use of voice over draws your attention too and make you establish whats going on weather is judging, dauting or even making a fantasy scene from what the world is actually producing. Is this experimental video the voice over isnt only looking at you but ordering you around the scene giving the viewer orthority to also look at the street. The way that the voice over is speaking is in such a magical but real experience shot in black and white on a grey dingy Hackney day. But also how the viewer is pulled into beliveing what was said through the power of language.

2. The use of technology and techniques and styles

Many unlike videos have different techniques and styles this is due to the concept of the video in itself for final production and the point the artist is trying to give across. Techniques and styles may be completely different even in similar films due to the time and money used in creating them or even the century they were produced. For example girl chewing gum, is a very low budget experimental video, this isn’t because of the time it was produced but due to only using a video camera and voice over to create the product. On the other hand Doll face by Andy Huang was a very high budget experimental video due to all the computer animations and time put into the making of the extremely high Tec animation. The different styles of video also play an important part in the technology used and different uses of video due to new technology in that era. The technology and money shouldn't therefore affect the concept that the artist is giving across, even though the concept can be exaggerated and made clearer through the technology and styles used, for example in Doll face by Andy Huang the point made that the audience are becoming robot like was shown through the animation, as the face happened to be controlled by a robots body.

5. How these works might inspire your own work

Much of the work that I have seen and listened to has greatly inspired me for my own experimental video. My experimental video is on the concept of fate, that everything is suppose to happen for a reason. When in reality I believe that things happen as you make them happen so my experimental video is exactly that, many things happen which are considered bad luck for example, walking on the cracks in the pavement, crossing on the stairs, walking over three drains and walking under a ladder however, at the very end of the video something really significant happens, they happened to win the lottery meaning that all the bad luck signs which happened previous had just been a flux to make you believe something bad was about to happen. doll face my Andy Huang really influenced me, just because my thoughts on his video where that people make themselves be controlled by the media for following it in the first place and adapting themselves slightly to be like media intended.

The use of exhibition space to create meaning

The use of exhibition space to create meaning, the use of exhibition space when creating meaning is very important due to the atmosphere the art exoduses' whether its a quite and relaxed concept or a hyped up and enthusiastic concept, changes dramatically to the people and environment where the artwork is situated, for example Robert Therriens' Table and four chairs sets the perfect example of how exhibition space creates meaning, I noticed that when in the gallery, the audience seemed very relaxed and intrigued by that particularly piece of art work. Many variables can be seen that act upon the context/concept the art is viewed in, and the statement that the art exodus for example:
- size of the room
- colour of the room
- amount of noise and distractions within the
- number of other people in the room
- amount of other pieces of art in the room
In the gallery art will be protected and covered which gives the impression that its worth a lot and that it is extremely important on the other hand if a piece of art work was exhibited on the street the art wouldn't be as appreciated if situated in a gallery where art is appreciated and treasured.

Audience, and audience interpretation of the work

Audience and audience interpretation of work. When an interpretation is made other peoples opinions and interpretations play an import part on every ones individual concept. Whether the other persons understanding of the work may be completely opposite there reading plays an influential part in every ones explanation. Therefore if a group of people have different reactions and emotions to that particular piece of work, that is exactly what the artist wanted. In an experimental video it is crucial to have different opinions and views for example, Muto by BLU, many people have different comments and reactions about this experimental video whether you believe that that concept means re-birth or evolution, your reaction to the video is completely your own interpretation and view. It is important that we all have our own interpretation and do not just agree with another persons interpretation in the case of Doll face by Andy huang some people may say that the experimental video is about how women are forced and controlled to look and change to the impossible images on TV, but other peoples interpretation may be a whole interpretation of how people are just generally influenced by what they watch on TV.

Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio (1983)

Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi translates from Hopi and Indian term meaning (life out of balance), where the experimental video opens with Ancient native American cave drawings, with non diegetic chanting music playing in the background. When watching Koyaanisqatsi, the visual images vary from extremely dull colouring of the Ancient native American cave drawings to the bright coloured clothing of Americas 1980's dress sense, when observing the imagery used throughout the experimental video, i came up wth the conclusion that the audio used throughout scenes clashes completely with the images shown, for example, when Reggio was focused on the cloud formations over America, the music playing was of a hauting non diegetic nature showing the natural forces that nature intended. I think that the concept of the video is trying to give across is completely up to the audience, i belive that Koyaanisqatsi is giving the message that we are technology, a state of life with another way of living.

Doll Face (Andy Huang)

Doll Face, is a computer animation with the concept that media influences everything and anyone.
With a robot symbolising an ordinary girl, watching a tv screen, in an empty room, as if being pressured to want to look as the media intends. Focusing on a womens face, applying make-up, whilst the robot watching the screen mimics the face she then sees but, when the face changes, the robot would then change again to look more similar to the current image. The TV screen starts to flick through many channels; the news things that actually matter, but then only emphasises on the womens face, as if thats all that matters to the girl. Meaning that people try to alter there appearance to either fit in or to be as if meadia intended.

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