Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Video

The second film we saw was called Koyaanisqatsi, by Godefry Reggio in 1983. It is 1 hour and 23 mins long.
We only saw about 20 mins.

There were a lot of visuals, some included fire, traffic, city, people, and everyday life in general. Most clips were made faster or slower than normal speed. The end of the film is similar to the start. At the start and end it is slower and the middle is faster.
Audio is non-diagetic, the backing music was specially made for the film, and it is the only audio on the film apart from some chanting at the very start and end. The chant is simply the name of the film.
The premise of the film is about life and destruction and how we live on the world. The speed of the film can show that we run about to much and don’t appreciate life as much as we should.


Another film was girl chewing gum.
visuals are a road and building with people walking past. clips are in sepia tone.
audio is non digetic as the actual speech is narative. the viewer at first thinks it is a director on set telling people what to do but asb the fil goes on ut becomes obvious that it in narrative.

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