PROGRAMME TITLE:
DIRECTOR/
CAMERA OPERATOR: Daniel Glynn
DURATION: 1 – 2 minutes
FORMAT: DV
AUDIO: My own created music, people from town.
OUTLINE OF AUDIENCE: People from all ages as this issue can effect anyone of any age.
OUTLINE OF STORY: We start off with the life of one person who finds life too noisy and wants everything in life to quiet down. After a while the person becomes deaf and we find out how life is for deaf people and that without the sounds we have, whether it’s music or people talking loudly, these are the things that make the world more interesting and without it the world would be a boring place.
CHARACTERS: James.
Friday 24 October 2008
Monday 20 October 2008
Film Review
Film content review sheet
Name of film……………
Name of creator or films artist…Daniel Glynn
Duration…1 – 2 minutes
Types of visual images used in this chosen piece. (B&W, colour, locations, actors etc.)
I will use a variety of visual with B&W and fading out to black. Also I will speed up and slow down some scenes. For locations I will mainly be outside from various places, and for the audio I will go into Crawley town. The actors will be Harry and Chris. I will not need many actors for my video.
Types audio used in the video. (Is the Audio Diegetic or Non Diegetic , does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)
Audio will be a mixture of diegetic and non diegetic. I will be using sound from people in the town with no edited audio. But I will be using music as well.
What is the premise or controlling idea of this video is?
How we would cope in life for the people who feel there is too much noise in this world, how would these people cope if they were to lose their hearing?
What thoughts do I hope the audience are left with after they have viewed this film?
I hope that people will find the video interesting with a good use of audio and visual.
Name of film……………
Name of creator or films artist…Daniel Glynn
Duration…1 – 2 minutes
Types of visual images used in this chosen piece. (B&W, colour, locations, actors etc.)
I will use a variety of visual with B&W and fading out to black. Also I will speed up and slow down some scenes. For locations I will mainly be outside from various places, and for the audio I will go into Crawley town. The actors will be Harry and Chris. I will not need many actors for my video.
Types audio used in the video. (Is the Audio Diegetic or Non Diegetic , does the soundtrack fit the imagery?)
Audio will be a mixture of diegetic and non diegetic. I will be using sound from people in the town with no edited audio. But I will be using music as well.
What is the premise or controlling idea of this video is?
How we would cope in life for the people who feel there is too much noise in this world, how would these people cope if they were to lose their hearing?
What thoughts do I hope the audience are left with after they have viewed this film?
I hope that people will find the video interesting with a good use of audio and visual.
Tuesday 14 October 2008
6. Audience, and audience interpretation of the work
Everyone in the class had their opinions on the films, some different and some the same as each other. I think everyone agreed that The Girl Chewing Gum was a bit disappointing after finding out that it wasn't real and the lack of editing and music which is important especially for experimenting. Along with 1001 Nights, to look at visually everyone agreed that it wasn't very interesting but the same could be said for Telling Lies, but however this film has comical values which the class found funny which makes more interest even if we only see text on a black background. Gisele Kerozene is also a comical piece which everyone found amusing, but again this was different from the other films because of the stop animation, which made it even more comical and creative.
On Koyaanisqatsi, some of the class thought it was interesting with the long slow scenes wheras others found it drags on too much therefor making it boring. Having differences on opinions is a good thing because we can share our own views on what we think is right and wrong and that is how most films are to the audience, we all react differently to a lot of things. It is important to directors to have mixed reactions instead of all reactions being good because if all was good then the director wouldn't have anything to work on in future projects and there would be no challenge.
On Koyaanisqatsi, some of the class thought it was interesting with the long slow scenes wheras others found it drags on too much therefor making it boring. Having differences on opinions is a good thing because we can share our own views on what we think is right and wrong and that is how most films are to the audience, we all react differently to a lot of things. It is important to directors to have mixed reactions instead of all reactions being good because if all was good then the director wouldn't have anything to work on in future projects and there would be no challenge.
5. How these works might inspire your own work
From watching these films, there has been more inspiring ideas. Telling Lies is one of the ones that were more inspiring, because of the text changing from the audio when a lie is told. I would have never thought about using text as a form of truth against the lie of the audio so I think it is a good idea, but some people could find it difficult to concentrate on two things at once, especially if the text moves too fast to keep up with the dialogue. Koyaanisqatsi is also good due to the difference in pace movement, and the fact that you don't need commentary over the footage to understand the concept of the film. All of what I have seen from these films give out ideas for own creations. Gisele Kerozene uses stop animation which I find very creative and I was a big fan of the Wallace & Grommit films which use this same procedure of stop motion but it does take a long time to make. Out of all the films, the least inspiring to me would be The Girl Chewing Gum. There is nothing visually that stands out in this film, and it is in black and white. Using black and white though however is good to use in new films in some scenes, but this film is uninspiring due to there being no editing.
Friday 10 October 2008
3. Narrative and non-narrative structures
A narrative structure is basically the story and whether the film has a beginning, middle, and end. The Girl Chewing Gum goes straight into action and doesn't show an introduction but it does have a beginning, middle and end. The narrative of this film changes as we think at the beginning that this is footage happening live as the director speaks, to finding out that it's not real and the footage is pre recorded.
Koyaanisqatsi definately shows clearly a beginning, middle and end. At the start we are on a deserted island, to completely changing pace in the middle to more fast paced action, and ending slowly again, with the ending being similar to the beginning. This is showing how life is a continuous circle, things can never stay the same forever but can always at times become repetitive.
With 1001 Nights we are not told the whole story. We hear the 5 women telling their stories but not in whole, we are only hearing half of what really happened, and we only hear what they say, not the questions asked. At the start we are not clear as to what the film is to be about as there is no introduction, we are just brought straight in as the first woman speaks.
Telling Lies has a clear beginning, middle and end. We first hear the phone ring, then we hear the conversation taking place, then ending by hanging up the phone.
Narrative structures are not always in use, therefor aren't always important, depending on what type of film we are viewing, like Gisele Kerozene, can be viewed as an entertainment based piece rather than a story happening. Some films will have an ending told before we reach the middle of the film so we know what happens at the end, but most of the time a film will run through a linear based structure and to fully understand the endings we need to have a beginning and a middle. 1001 Nights doesn't use this narrative structure and the stories we hear aren't in full detail, we don't have a beginning and we don't really have an end either because much more could be said.
Koyaanisqatsi definately shows clearly a beginning, middle and end. At the start we are on a deserted island, to completely changing pace in the middle to more fast paced action, and ending slowly again, with the ending being similar to the beginning. This is showing how life is a continuous circle, things can never stay the same forever but can always at times become repetitive.
With 1001 Nights we are not told the whole story. We hear the 5 women telling their stories but not in whole, we are only hearing half of what really happened, and we only hear what they say, not the questions asked. At the start we are not clear as to what the film is to be about as there is no introduction, we are just brought straight in as the first woman speaks.
Telling Lies has a clear beginning, middle and end. We first hear the phone ring, then we hear the conversation taking place, then ending by hanging up the phone.
Narrative structures are not always in use, therefor aren't always important, depending on what type of film we are viewing, like Gisele Kerozene, can be viewed as an entertainment based piece rather than a story happening. Some films will have an ending told before we reach the middle of the film so we know what happens at the end, but most of the time a film will run through a linear based structure and to fully understand the endings we need to have a beginning and a middle. 1001 Nights doesn't use this narrative structure and the stories we hear aren't in full detail, we don't have a beginning and we don't really have an end either because much more could be said.
Tuesday 7 October 2008
2. The use of technology and techniques and styles
The Girl Chewing Gum was made in 1976 and is in black and white with just one camera in the town with no editing at all until near the end when we are we are taken to a different scene on a field. Not much money was put into this film, but The Girl Chewing Gum doesn’t need a big budget with special effects because it tells the story without need of a big budget, as does Telling Lies because this film doesn't even have any camera footage so maybe they weren’t able to afford to use a camera, and this film was made in 2001, so it shows that even now there are low budgets put into filming, but also shows how you don't need to have video footage to sell a story in a film because you can read the text and listen to the audio, but it doesn't have the same affect. The late 60’s early 70’s were the time where people were being introduced to colour television and video production was slowly building up but the costs were too high for most people to be able to use high tech equipment in those days compared to now where we can use CGI to really make a film stand out in the looks which is what Doll Face is and is why this film differs from the other films because this is the only one to use CGI. Gisele Kerozene uses just one camera for capturing images, and once all images are captured then they are placed together to look like video footage. This is a cheaper solution to using video footage and is more creative and adds the entertainment element which some big budget films will lack because too much has been spent on trying to make the visual side O.T.T. and lacks the entertainment side so even the cheapest of films can still come out on top.
1. Discuss both past and current artists and works
The films I will be comparing are:
Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, Telling Lies by Simon Ellis, and Gisele Kerozene by Jan Kounen.
Koyaanisqatsi and Gisele Kerozene were both made in the 1980's where as Telling Lies was made in 2001. I was surprised to find out that Gisele Kerozene was made in 1989 as I thought the film looked rather new. All of these 3 films differ from each other in pace. You have Koyaanisqatsi which varies in pace but is mainly slow whereas Telling Lies and Gisele Kerozene are fast paced throughout. These 2 films are both voice recorded after the film has been complete so for audio they are very similar but the visual side of it they differ because Telling Lies is just text and Gisele Kerozene is stop motion picture, but both are not actual video footage, this is why Koyaanisqatsi is different because all of what we see is video footage. The colours in the 3 films are all colourful, even Telling Lies which is just text on a black background, but the text changes colour throughout. This is why I was surprised by Gisele Kerozene because the colour looked sharp and recent as to that 80's look that Koyaanisqatsi has, but taking in to account that Gisele Kerozene are all pictures instead of video camera footage.
All audio in the 3 films are non diegetic because we do not hear audio from what is happening on scene, Koyaanisqatsi is just music which is obviously put over the top of the footage, Telling Lies is voice over as is Gisele Kerozene but Telling Lies is a phone conversation so the characters don't see each others reactions.
Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, Telling Lies by Simon Ellis, and Gisele Kerozene by Jan Kounen.
Koyaanisqatsi and Gisele Kerozene were both made in the 1980's where as Telling Lies was made in 2001. I was surprised to find out that Gisele Kerozene was made in 1989 as I thought the film looked rather new. All of these 3 films differ from each other in pace. You have Koyaanisqatsi which varies in pace but is mainly slow whereas Telling Lies and Gisele Kerozene are fast paced throughout. These 2 films are both voice recorded after the film has been complete so for audio they are very similar but the visual side of it they differ because Telling Lies is just text and Gisele Kerozene is stop motion picture, but both are not actual video footage, this is why Koyaanisqatsi is different because all of what we see is video footage. The colours in the 3 films are all colourful, even Telling Lies which is just text on a black background, but the text changes colour throughout. This is why I was surprised by Gisele Kerozene because the colour looked sharp and recent as to that 80's look that Koyaanisqatsi has, but taking in to account that Gisele Kerozene are all pictures instead of video camera footage.
All audio in the 3 films are non diegetic because we do not hear audio from what is happening on scene, Koyaanisqatsi is just music which is obviously put over the top of the footage, Telling Lies is voice over as is Gisele Kerozene but Telling Lies is a phone conversation so the characters don't see each others reactions.
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