Girl Chewing Gum By John Smith

Girl Chewing Gum was made by John Smith in (1976). The film doesnt have a storyline it is simply a video of people going about their everyday life. You are watching as people cross the road and kids make there way to school, whilst you hear a voice over of what you think is a director. The voice over will say things like man enters from right walks across road and looks to the left, making you believe that he is the one directing the actors. However at the end you discover that the man doing the voice over is not the director, the film was pre recorded and he is actually miles away in a field.


The film is made in black and white and doesnt use alot of craft at all. It is a very simple video, but the concept has taken alot of thought. I think that the concept behind this film is that most people believe what they are told whether its from hearsay, television, newspapers,magazines or radio. And we will take up a certain opinion and perspective on something from what we are being told in life in general. And that maybe we shouldnt all be narrow minded about things becuase like in the film when the truth was revealled it completley changes the perspective. And it can be the same in life, when the tabloids put a certain spin on a story we believe what we have been told, but what we have been told may not be the truth.