Thursday 8 October 2009

Task One - Chapter 1 Past and Current artists

Some of the experimental videos I have seen have similarities, although they were made at different times. Girl chewing gum by John Smith was made in 1976 and is in black and white, however there are still some similarities to this film and Doll Face by Andy Huang made in 1998.

Doll Face is a futuristic short experimental film, it is about the media's effect on people and part of it is the media lying to people to make them believe people can be "perfect," and look like the airbrushed, stick thin girls we see on TV.

Girl chewing gum is similar to Doll Face because throughout the film we hear a voice over of what who we are led to believe is the director who is giving the actors direction. However at the end we find out it has been pre recorded and he has just done a voice over to trick us into thinking he was directing it.

Both of these films are similar because we are being lied to but in different ways. Throughout Doll Face it is the media who is lying to us and throughout Girl chewing gum we are being led to believe something that is not true.


The differences between these two films are that Doll Face is computer animation and has taken alot of craft to make, but Girl chewing gum is made in black and white and is quite a simple film to make.

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