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Discuss both past and current artists and works(200 words)Discuss the artists you have looked at comparing general similarities and differences between them. Not your own opinions!

In telling lies they story has beginning middle then an end but the visual effects are different. In telling lies the beginning is a man waking up from the night before then receiving a phone call. The middle he has received a few more phone calls and you gradually build up an idea of what happened the night before. In the end his mother calls up and he tries to explain what happened.
In john smiths girl chewing gum it is a lot older and is all in black and white. This short film has a beginning, middle and end. In the beginning it starts with a truck driving out of the view of the camera. In the middle you see the girl chewing the gum walk past the camera then out of shot again. In the end you are in a field and you can still hear the sound of the alarm and it gives of the idea that he has control and can do any think he wants.

The use of technology and techniques and styles (100 Words)How does the use of technology differ think about when they where made was the technology new then.

The short film Doll Face is a computer generated film and is recent compared to girl chewing gum. The use of the computer generated images in doll face is very well done as there is a face coming out of a box and then the head turns to the TV. The head then tries to look like the person on the TV, but the TV moves back then the head eventually pulls itself of the arm then dies. In the girl chewing gum the effects are all real as they did not have the technology to have computer generated images and the budget of the film is allot less than doll face. the budgets for these films were very simular. the difference in the two films are that they are made decades apart. the effects are very different as in doll face it is all computor generated and girl chewing gum is live action.

3. Narrative and non-narrative structures (100 Words)Discuss the story line is it simple structure Begin, middle, end or is there a more complex or different structuring happening?

in doll face the structure of the story starts with the face coming out of the box, this is the beginning of the story. In the middle of the story the face is trying to look like some one from the TV screen, this makes you think people try to look like people from the TV. In the end the TV pulls away from the face but the face wants more and tries to keep up with the TV but it pulls its self apart and then dies, this could give the idea that it isn’t real. In 1001 nights they are talking about different wars and when they are talking they put in details such as explosions but when they talk about the wars they are all different. In this short film it doesn’t really have a beginning, middle and an end. Instead of that structure it has lots of beginnings, middles and ends as it has a few people sitting the talking about different things and within those stories they all have beginnings, middles and ends.

4. The use of exhibition space to create meaning (100 Words)How does the exhibition space change the meaning of the work. To be done later next week.

List the work title next to the artists name
Susan Hiller: PSI Girls
Jonas Mekas: States of Flux
Dan Graham: Two Correlated Rotations
Pawel Kwiek: Video A and Video P
Dominique Gonzalez: Felix TH 2058

Give a brief description of each work
1. alot of films being shown but insted if the actual colour they are all in the same colour on one screen it was yellow and another red, and the film clips being shown were from the craft, matilda and the terminator.

2. there were lots of flashing images which then made the images in to a good experimental peice

3. two people filming each other and running around in circles

4. a man was drawing some things and then it went into a film

5. there were many bunk beds and was set in the future and the bunk beds had books on them it gave a sence of boredom as they were stuck in a bunker.

List all the denotations from the installation, for example list everything that makes up the entire video piece i.e. screens, projectors, blackened room.
1. there were 5 video projectors in a black room and the screens were in different colours

2.very dark room with a screen in front of you and the seats in front of the screen it felt lik a cinema

3. black room with the screen in front of you and the film was in black and white

4. black room with the screen in front of you and the film was in black and white

5. was a very big piece and there were beds all over the place and the screen was in front of you and was in colour

Choose two works and describe how the video installation either changed, enhanced or detracted from your understanding of the video work

TH 2058 was good as the understanding of the peice was resonably easy as it gave you the sence that you were actually there as there were beds around and radios playing music were as psi girls it showed you girls who could do magic and there wasnt really any sound or atmosphere


5. How these works might inspire your own work (100 Words)Talk about your own ideas and how they may have been inspired by the work that you have seen.

These works may inspire my own work as in doll face I enjoyed watching it and it gave me a few ideas what to for my own work as doll face has everything in the film and it is only 4mins long. It has life and then it dies but shows you what happens during the lifetime of the doll. The kind of film I would enjoy creating would be something to do with kung fu. when creating the film it would be good to use effects like slow motion when some one is goin to throw a punch or a kick at another person. and there is things like puting the picture in the negative or in black and white.

6. Audience, and audience interpretation of the work (200 Words)Was the reaction different within the group? does this matter? is it important that we all have one interpretation?

The reaction in the short films were all very similar but different as in 1001 nights all it had was people telling stories about different wars so you have to use your imagination to get a picture of what was happening. A lot of the time it seemed a little mono-tone so you really have to think about it to get a picture of what is happening. In doll face you didn’t really have to think about it to much as it explained it all the way through and there was a picture to get an idea of what is going on.