TREATMENT (drama)

PROGRAMME TITLE:unknown

DIRECTOR/
CAMERA OPERATOR:
Blake Retter

DURATION:5 min (max)

FORMAT:DV

AUDIO:Recorded sounds of sounds around the town and skate park and day to day objects use for freeze frames main soundtrack is a band song played though out

OUTLINE OF AUDIENCE: people at my age teen to around 20 years of age ]


OUTLINE OF STORY:
Journey from skate park into town showing people living day to day life's also in shops showing people working from how busy the shops can be and how busy it is around town and showing the enteramemt that the public enjoy the video has a point where it gets up to then rewinds its self back to the Begin as if you live the same thing every day. on cernt points there will be a freeze frame on all different parts of the video where the sounds of objects eg a coke can will be herd to give it a sense of strangeness to the piece the sound wont be a match to the freeze frame picture though it would be a completely different sound. that would cut in from the band song which would be played though the whole peace.

CHARACTERS: There will be number of characters in the video because it will all be shoot some pictures at the skate parka and around the town of friends living their daily life. Any one there at the time who will volunteered

The girl chewwing gum

Name of film The Girl Chewing Gum

Name of creator or films artist john smith

Duration 9min

The girl chewing gum is filmed in black and white or edited into black and white and uses diegetic sound because the sound used is only the director giving narrative over top on the video telling us what he wanted to see. Doll face Is about the director telling us what he saw over top the video taking us away from seeing what’s really happening. To be hoisted I didn’t think much of this video its not like the others it doesn’t really keep me interested and make me want to keep watching.

Telling Lies

Name of film telling lies

Name of creator or films artist simon ellis
Duration 4.20 mins

Telling lies has a phone call about telling lies about the night before. Iot uses no visual images only all different sized fronts and colours show clearly what they people are saying. Telling lies uses diegetic because the only sound used in the video is of the people speaking.
Telling lies is based on this one man having several phone calls about the night before from breaking up with his girlfriend, the phone calls lead to a lot of lying. The film left me thinking that it was a rather good video it’s a very straight forward video which I understood right away it even made me laugh at times

Doll Face

Name of film doll face

Name of creator or films artist: Andrew Huang

Duration 4min

Doll face is a robotic machine with a human face on it watching this television set which has a similar image of the face but with applied make up which it changes through out the film. The audio used was non diegetic because it had no vocal in it. The video was about a machine with a human face trying to make it look like the image of the face on the television screen so it gives out a message that what we see on the television is what we want to be always wanting to be what we see.The thoughts I had after watching doll face was that I thought it was really good video mainly because it gave off a message to me that everyone wants to be some one they are not

Audience, and audience interpretation of the work

There are many audience interpretations on Koyaanisqatsi it gives off all different meanings.

I myself thought the whole film meant all different things like whole the worlds involved from the start of the world to what it was like when the film was made. But it could mean all different things from the name life out of balance.

Telling lies and doll face is simple to get the same idea as everyone else with doll face is that everyone wants to be like some one on television and telling lies its just about a phone call making but lies on what happen the night before.
Everyone is entitled their own option to what they think the film is all about but some times like telling lies and doll face its pretty obverse what the film is about.

Narrative and non-narrative structures

I don’t think any of the experimental videos I watched was based on a book or any thing like that but they seem to have a traditionally story line to them like with 1001 night all the different stories told put into any other older it would still give us the same susceptive to what we where watching. But koyaanisqatsi has the same beginning he end of the video which makes it go around in a loop. 1001 nights wouldn’t effect the meaning of the video if it was all changed round in order of the people talking because they are all talking about completely different events so its not like the next person would be carrying on what the person was talking about before. You could have it all played backwards and it would still give out the same meaning.

How these works might inspire your own work

Koyaanisqatsi inspire me a lot with how it shows what the world is like all around even in space and also how it’s all involved over time and how they think it has changed. I like this idea but wouldn’t be able to go as far as they did when making the video but I could always do it around where I live show how it’s a different place everyday. The girl chewing gum didn’t inspire me one bit because I didn’t like the fact he was saying what was going to happen because the whole point of a video is that it keeps you interested and want to watch to find out what happens next but he just told you before it happened. Doll face that gave me completely different ideas to what I had before about when I make my experimental video because it uses green screen and animation which I would love to use to use animation but also in doll face showing that there always some thing out of reach to us all the time

The use of technology and techniques and styles

Doll face and The girl chewing gum uses a complete different way of making the videos with the technology that was around when the videos where made, also by the amount of money spent on the videos.

Doll face was able to use computer graphics with green screen by taking the face of a person and adding it to the animation, but the girl chewing gum is completely different it uses no computer graphics its not in colour its just mainly shot through a black and white camera.

Koyaanisqatsi is allot different to them to because it had the money be hide it in order to go and film the places featured. Also has allot of computer technology be hide it being able to cut the sense's and have them all time with the backing track used. Using computer technology is allot more cheaper than trying top use a camera to catch and feature what you want happening in the video

the effects used in the videos don't effect the meaning of the video because you don't really need stuff like green screen to show that people want to be what others look like on TV like shown in doll face you just could video some one dressing up trying to look like some one famous.

Reviews

One of the experimental videos we watch was called Koyaanisqatsi which was directed by Godfrey Reggio. The videos running time is 87minutes long the whole video is made in colour also made in 1983

The name of the film koyannisqatsi is a Hopi Indian word that means Life out of balance also have other meanings which I found on a website ("crazy life," or "life in turmoil," or "life disintegrating," or "life out of balance," or "a state of life that calls for another way of living) I found this on www.thecityreview.com/koyaan.html

The film was based around on the day to day life though out the whole world showing you what the world looks like today all over he world in all different places.

The other film I watched was 1001 Nights By Jananne Al-Ani it was made in 1998 the video was made in colour and has a running time of 6 minutes long.

the othetr one we watched was telling lies which was based on a phone call about the night before and basicly making up lies as the phone calls went on.

The similarities between the films is that telling lies and 1001 nights was based on events which where spoke out but Koyaanisqatsi is showing images of some of the examples talked about in 1001 nights for example when we watch an explosion that happens in Koyaanisqatisi.