Chapter Five- Experimental Video

I'm planning on filming Horsham park and adding in some still images. The concept of my idea is to show the good memories that I have had the past few years and how much the space means to me and what events have happened in Horsham park.

First of all I am going to borrow a camera and get together some still images of the duck pond and maybe get some people to act out a few memory's I have had in the park such as playing rounders. Then I'm going to get a video camera and film Horsham park for a couple of minutes, after I have the two I will then put them in together. I will start it by showing apart of the park being filmed then suddenly stop and go on to a still image I then will continue to do this for a Minute or two.

koyaanisqatsi

koyaanisqatsi created by godfrey reggio

The film had many different contrasts such as old things like cave man drawings then a rocket taking off, a rocket is more modern and new. I think the creator chose to do this because he wanted to show us how the world has changed over many years and how it will continue to keep changing, also for example he shows the Grand canyon and how its very natural and will always have its history and be appreciated where as in a town there's old buildings that aren't worth anything anymore so there just destroyed and replaced by new buildings.
There was a lot of destruction like buildings falling down as well as other buildings such as a bridge. The city is shown a lot differently during the day than it is as night, Godfrey shows how the day is really rushed and uses rapid music to help present this, the scene is also shown in slow motion I think this was done so we could watch it in more detail and see how the daily routine goes. Night time in the city is presented very calm and peaceful with an over view of the city's sky scrapers and other nice buildings all lighten up.
The background music fits in well with each different scene such as during the day its very fast rapid music in the city and at night its calm slow music and when the rocket takes off its very slow piece full music and there's also a chant going on.

Chapter Four

How does the exhibition space change the meaning of the work?

When your in an exhibition you look at the art a lot differently than you would anywhere else. An Exhibition is a quiet area in an art gallery if you were to enter you have to be silent. Being quiet helps you to understand and respect the piece of art. When you enter an art gallery you automatically think its art even when it might not be. Having an Art gallery allows peoples work to be appreciated because it has its own area where as if it was in a house people wouldn't understand the meaning of the piece and just see it as a picture because you go to some ones house as a guest so if you were to have a piece of art there they wouldn't necessarily want to know about the piece. Where as in an art gallery you go there to learn about a piece of art your there for a reason, your there to see art and understand it where as your wouldn't take the time out in some ones house to hear about it. Although not everyone sees it as a piece of art a lot of art becomes what it is because of people’s opinions and making of the piece of art.

When I went to the Tate Modern art gallery I viewed a video piece by Paul McCarthy called material gestures. The video was viewed in a dark room played through projectors when I first walked in the room I didn't expect to see what I did the film was very indecent, there was a random man covering himself in chilly sauce and abusing himself I felt slightly uncomfortable watching the film because I wasn't the only on in the room. After a while I began to see the funny side to it but I was left quite confused to why someone would want to film something like that. I Can understand why it is art because for someone to think of something like that and actually produce the piece of art takes a lot of confidence because some people do video's like that every day and get looked down at. The room that I viewed the video in I think made an uncomfortable atmosphere because it was just a big room and I got the impression I had to be quiet and really concentrate. I found that because there was projectors aimed at both walls and there was about 6 projectors playing a selection of different clips as well as pictures coming up I had to really concentrate and make sure I watched a bit of them all which I found quite hard because it got confusing trying to watch all of them at once. Also people would get in the way of the projectors which made the video hard to watch.

Girl Chewing Gum

'Girl Chewing Gum' By John Smith (1976)
Girl chewing gum is a video clip about everyday life on the street. John Smith is a voice in the background directing every ones actions.

CONCEPT
When he says the man walking down the road has just robbed the local post office we don't know if this is the right concept because he could be right or wrong.

CRAFT
The video clip had already been filmed so John isn't actually at the scene at that moment in time he is somewhere in a Field adding his voice to the video clip.