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.
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