Deja voodoo - Zadoc Nava

This sort video is not stop frame or anything snazzy, shows a young man hearing a car screech and seeing a person laying at the side of the road, he runs down to help and sees that the person is himself, their replica lying on the floor points at a balloon and as he dies he wakes up and realises it was a dream, he then goes out and sees a girl holding a balloon and nearly gets hit by a car, then an old man drops a flower pot on his head, which was actually the cause of it all.

this video has a deep concept about deja'vus and about how they can actually come true or they are slightly twisted into making you believe something is going to happen but it turns out to be something completely different.

Khoda - Reza Dolatabadi

Khoda is a stop fame animation, using over 6000 paintings to make and took just over 2 years to create this 5 minute video.

"even in the mind, is escape ever possible" - this is a psychological thriller about how the minds works and how that it can lead you on the wrong way.

My concept of this video is . . the man is only imagining it because hes dreaming and this video shows all the bad things that can happen in your dreams that you can loose yourself but still break free of things happening to you if you put your mind to it.

Eulogy for things left unsaid - Rob Chiu

Eulogy for things left unsaid is an emotional experimental video exploring the themes of loss, regret and the future.

This video is about the life and the future of a child and what he has done in the past and how that can never change and that you don't get a second chance to relive what you have missed out on, it has a deep and emotional meaning to it.

Forever is never forever is the last line in the film this is trying to say that nothing is going to last forever so make the most of it whilst you still can e.g. when you are young or when you have the opportunities to do it.

Muto annimated wall art.

Muto street annimation has been created by a artist group called Blu. it was created in 2006 and is a stop frame annimation, which mean they have take alot of photos and put them together to create a flowing effect, there is an average of 25 photos per second so that means there will be hundreds of photos for the muto annimation.
This artwork is quite weird and had a different effect on eveyone but i think the concept of this video is how stages of life have gone past(different ages of time) and also all the sorts of weird things that atually happen in the world that not many people actually know about, and just his general style has its own meanings thats he is expressing.
His work has deep a deep meaning, and its just life going on but in a different view.

Chapter 2

The use of technology and techniques and styles - Over the years technology has increased greatly, now nearly everything uses some sort of technology but back when it was still quite new to use computers and cameras new forms of art started to emerge and hit the scene as experimental videos such as Girl Chewing Gum which was filmed in 1976 in black and white which was what they filmed in in those days and it got edited with voice overs which is a more modern technique so this is mixing old technology with new.
Compared to when doll face was made which was in 2006 the technology has become alot better and annimations now are easyer for artists to create and can be easier than using real life and probarly cheaper but the use of technology differs all the time, no video is the same and they all use different bits of technology to create it, some jsut use a camera to film others use computers to make the whole of it, but in my oppinion technology is alot better than it used to be a few years ago.

Chapter 3

Narrative(Story Line) and Non-Narrative structures - Some pieces of video artwork have non-narrative structures like Muto's wall animation and the artwork we went to see in Brigthon, this is because they do not have a beginning. middle or end and there is no actual structure to the videos, muto's work is Non - narrative because it doesn't have an order and is just how the artist wanted it to be and with the Brighton artwork it was just recorded images of peoples emotions projected onto a TV to resemble our emotions.
Others work we have looked at have a narrative structure like Andy Huans Doll Face and Koyaanisqatsi (1982), having a Narrative structure means that the video has a Beginning, Middle and End, so in Doll Face it starts of with a blank TV and a modern looking Jack In The Box, then the woman's face comes out of the box and starts to try and reach the TV, this is the middle part where the doll face is copying what the TV is showing, the at the End shes out of Reach of the TV and breaks herself trying to get to it, this is the simple structure of Narrative work, and the same thing happens in Koyaanisqatsi starts of with cave men paintings which shows the first signs of human life the goes through other stages of life in the middle and finishes of at the end with the most recent technology for the film which is a space ship exploding.
I don't think that it matters weather a video is narrative or non - narrative because if people are not interested in a film they will walk out even if it has a story line just like some artwork, but for some films it is important so people can understand what is going on.

Chapter 6

Audience, and audience interpretation of the work - for each video we have watched in our lessons and outside of lessons, we have all had different reactions and interpretations for the videos we have seen, apart from the basic outline of the videos because everyone thinks of a different sort of concept for the videos and we all see them differently.

The reaction to watching something like muto's animated wall painting was pretty much all the same a bit confused but quite amused at the same time, but we all had different views on what the concept of it was.
It doesn't matter if people have a different reaction or concept of something we have watched because none of us think or are the same so we will all feel very differently about what we have seen.

I don't think that it matters if people don't have the same concept reaction because its up to you what you think about the video and its about how you analyse it, if everyone else thinks the same way then there would be no point in writing about it.

chapter 1

The two artists i have looked at from the past are Girl Chewing Gum by john smith and Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio.
These two video's look completely different when you compare them, one being about life and the planet and the other is just some old footage with someone commentating over the top, two completely different styles but they do have there similarities, they both lead you on to believe something that's is slightly of the truth like in girl chewing gum its as though the commentator is actually predicting whats going on, but then it starts to become a bit obvious and you catch on that hes only doing a voice over and in the koyaanisqatsi video some parts seem really calm and relaxing as though nothing is going to happen, then suddenly something destructive happens and completely changes the mood of the film.
But then they do have their differences, girl chewing gum has narrative over the top but koyaanisqatsi is a non - verbal film.