Chapter 5- How these works may inspire your own work

I have decided what I'm going to do in my experimental video, I'm going to be exploring themes of loneliness, aggression and emotion seclusion. The main idea for the video would be a visual and audio representation of my own personality. The whole film shall be filmed in black and white or in the production part i shall see if i can drain the colour so the colours will be quite dull, i shall also use a lot of subliminal messaging. The main inspiration for my experimental video was the little movie in the ring futhermore many of the pieces i saw such as Euolgy of Things left unsaid and Doll Face were further inspiration.

Eulogy for things left unsaid by Rob Chiu

Eulogy for things left unsaid by Rob Chiu is a very depressing piece of experimental video that explores the concept of loss and regrett. The video has a incredibley depressing atmosphere becuase it has depressing music and a very sorrowfull voice over futhermore the film use alot of woods and big open spaces which creates the feeling of lonliness, the over all colours also seems to be quite dull which was obviously done in the producing part of the film.

Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio

Overview of visual images:

• Has a very tribally look to it with shots of the Grand Canyon

• There is a rocket also pace of the scene changes

• Lots of destruction images and clips featuring Abandoned Building/Warehouses being leveled by explosives

• Ghetto like environment is also shown in juxtaposition with the city

• The visual images go back to footage of the rocket this time following it into the air until it explodes

Overview of Audio:

• The music starts quite but changes pace/tempo whilst the images get more violent like and over time the music will decrease pace/tempo when the scene becomes peace full again
  

• The only exception would be the last shot of the rocket again exploding, the music is the same tribal one from the beginning and has a juxtaposition with the footage on screen

The concept of the film could be:
To show new and old in a juxtaposition

• Also to show fast and slow

• Man-made and natural materials

• Opposites

Chapter 4- The use of exhibition space to create meaning.

The use of space can effect the meaning a piece of art work has, this happens because, the space tends to create a different atmosphere for the casual observer, for example, a piece of art observed in a classroom would create a different feeling from observing the piece of art, say in an art gallery. In an art gallery the piece of art would feel more important as it would have been given some space and tends to stand alone, with other art works, around it within the room furthermore the atmosphere in an art gallery is quite like a library so you would be subconsciously conforming with the environment so the person would therefore speak more quietly etc whereas if the art work was viewed in a classroom the atmosphere always seems to be full of energy and general noise, so the piece off art wouldn't be deemed of any great importance to the casual observer. If a person wandered into a blackened room in an art gallery such as, Tate Modern, the person would feel they have entered a cinema like place thus causing them to go quite because people are trying to watch the video art. This same rule applies with everyday life because the cinema atmosphere has created a taboo to speak in a blackened area because of its association. One piece of art i saw was Anywhere Out Of The World By Phillip Parreno.

Doll Face by Andy Huang

Doll Face by Andy Huang, is a computer animation which appears to be quite shallow and basic but upon further investigation the viewer discovers that it has lot of depth, meaning and metaphors for todays reality. The short movie is primarily a craft but has a lot of hidden concepts, the movie starts with a metal t.v. and a metal box in front of it, as the computer animation progress, the metal box opens out to reveal a sort of jack in a box figure, the face is of a woman, who appears to struggle with identity, as she copies the face on the t.v. she slowly climbs futher up which would could show how far people could be willing to go to be perfect, at the end she reaches so high she can't go no futher but she ends up destroying herself, this could metaphorically represent that a part of her is holding her back from succeding which also relates into real life with the fact there is always something holdling you back from you achieving your end goals.