Experimental Video Review #1

Telling Lies- Simon Ellis

We were shown 6 videos in class. Telling Lies was the first one we were shown.
It was a story told through a series of phone calls that piece together the story of a night out gone a bit wrong.
There are no pictures but there are words... the catch is that the words show us what the people who are talking are really thinking.
You could argue that the audio is non-diagetic because the words and thevoices are saying different things but i think the sound is diagetic because it fits the imagery.

It was a pretty funny video and my favourite out of the 6 we saw.

A piece of video art I enjoy

... It's not like I haven't been trying to find a piece, it's just I'm not into the whole 'arty' thing. I'll edit my post when I can find one.

My First Assigment

So I have to write 100 words on what I think experimental video means... well that's 14 right there lol.

Ok serious now... I think experimental video is exactly what it says on the tin. Experimenting with different styes to create an awesome video. If I'm entirely honest I have not had much experiece in this field (my talents mostly lie in tabloid journalism) but I have messed about with home video before. Not a lot of it would be the sort of stuff I'd like to share with other people, especially my class, but we did try out making a proper film with scripts and lighting and everything.
Needless to say it wasn't very good. In fact it was bad, really bad, like the worst kind of bad, like the sort of bad that makes you cringe when you even think about it. But I had fun and that's all that matters... NOT!

During this assigment I expect to experient with different ideas and create short but interesting pieces of cinematography (woo made up words!)

141 words a little overshot but... meh!