Ballet Mecanique- Fernand Leger (1924)
- Flashing images
- Music
- Mirrors/ reflection
- Female characters mainly shown
- Light/ shadows
- Fast cuts
- Black & white (old)
- Focus on specific female features (eyes/ lips)
- Strange objects- viewers imagination
- Repetition
- Not afraid to show camera in reflection
- No narrative
- Seemingly random images with no link
- Words on screen (French)
- Music doesn't link to images
- Found it a hard watch as i didn't understand the idea behind it. For the era it was made it's brave but very arty- cubism
- Music is annoying but is used to build pace & feeling for the images it's showing
- Representative of the industrialisation of society after WW1
Star Guitar- The chemical brothers (2002)
- Industrialisation explored again but it seems in a more positive way (music)
- Switch between night & day
- Cuts between locations shown by a passing train
- All shot from a moving train
- Up tempo music makes it easier & more fun to watch
- No real ending
- Colour
- Repetition- train passing
- Smoother camera work- increase in technology
- Like this better because there's more of a story to it and it's easier to watch & take in
- Representation of society's acceptance of industrialisation- switch from train station & wires to a neighbourhood
An Optical Poem- Oskar Fischinger (1938)
- Music represents on screen more
- Repetition
- Shapes & colours
- Happy colours- fits music
- Do quite like it, it just gets a little repetitive and drags on a little too long
- Different shapes represent different sounds
OM- John Smith
- Man in foreground- black background, smoke rising up
- Constant annoying humming of 'OM'
- Changes sound
- Add in head being shaved- makes 'OM' fit to the shaver noise
- Stops when shaver turned off
- Interesting representations- start by thinking of a Buddha- ending with a Nazi skin head
- Like the idea just the sound gets annoying
Fisticuffs- Miranda Kennel
- Repetition of a man entering a bar and causing trouble, ending by him getting punched/ kicked/ headbutted
- Normal pub sounds/ conversations
- People walk/ fighting in background/ foreground- other people oblivious
- Mirrored situation
- Man gets involved & wins
- Seems a little pointless
- Ends with a bell, everyone goes silent & carries on like nothing happened
- Fighting continues
- Everyone once again oblivious
- Bell & man gets K.O
- Ends with the destruction caused & closing of pub
- Nice idea in the filming & the way it was shot
- Trying to lift violence out of Western TV into everyday British society
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