Monday 28 September 2009

Koyaanisqutsi


Koyaanisqatsi's 1982 life out of balance has a wide range of imagery and built up of lots of different scenes and camera shots.
The types of visual images and videos used in the film have a wide range from destruction to construction of new and old times, which i think show the evolution of the world, and how humans evolving has a bad effect on the world.
The range of locations change from Big, Busy, Crowded city's like New York, to natural shots like water falls, fields full of crops, and this shows you how the world is all different and all the things that go on in our world and the destruction that humans have caused.
The Music has a huge effect on the images you see on the screen, it starts of creepy with images of cave paintings and an explosion, and slowly breaks into something more happy when it is showing natural scenes like the waterfall, but when there are images of destruction the music completely changes and becomes all dark, evil and it really suits the mood and makes you see the film in a different way.


The Film has no dialogue and the music throughout the whole film is Non - Diagetic which means the music is from outside the frame.
The concept of this video has quite allot of different meanings, it shows how the world is being built up so fast that the natural parts of the world are getting destroyed without having a chance to try and exist. The music in the film also is part of contrast because without the music you would not get the same effect and it would just be lots of random video clips without any noises.

1 comment:

  1. Good stuff Tom, can you add more about the concept and then try chapter 4.

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