David Lynch is a film maker, visual artist, comic book artist and a musician. One of his films is called Eraserhead and is about a man called Henry and is about him and his girlfriend Marry X and there mutant baby that doesn’t stop crying. In the end his girlfriend levees him from the baby’s crying and Henry kills the baby and himself. One of the installations that he did was called the “Alphabet”. This has a childes voice singing the alphabet song while the film is animation that has the letters of the alphabet appearing into the scene that is being created. It then stops and a large A with smock coming out of it appears then going into a strange figure that spurts out blood and makes strange shapes. Then there is a little girl in bed that has a white face. The song is played again and when the letters are said she is posing in different ways. Then when the song is finished she is in bed with green dotes that cover the sets and her face. She then jerks around with blood coming out of her mouth. It was created with illustrations and with some real live footage. The style of the animation is similar to Monty Pythons animation as they were done in the same era that was 1968. The feeling of this video is very creepy and confusing to the point that it brings up. The meaning for this video is about the fear of leaning and the girl in the video is having a nightmare of the alphabet torturing here. Another video that he did is called “rabbets”. This is about three rabbets that live together. The rabbets conversions are all mix up and don’t make sense until later on in the video. When one of the rabbets levee and then renters to the room there is a cheer and in some of the conversions there is laughter in the background like a sickcom. There is also a screen were the lights go out and then it turns red with a face that is in the corner saying something. There is bits were the camera blurs the frame out and a single rabbet comes in and describes something to the audiences and then is cheered. Also in the background a march is lit and it burning. The style that it is film in is like you are looking into someone’s living room and its film with actors being the rabbits. It has a sinister and unsealing feeling about what is going on. One of the meanings for this video is about being reborn and karma. Something that is concerting these two videos and the style of the arties is how they don’t make sense until you find out the meaning or message they have. This arties has influents my idea by have a meaning and a point behind the video but not to make it to clear what’s it about. This could be by using different metaphors or things and people were they are not meant to be to explain the point I want to get across.
Simon Ellis is a film director, editor and cinematographer. One of the films that he has done is “telling lies”. This is a phone call that has words over the top that they are saying. The text is in different colour to represent the different voices and there is white text that is saying what they are thinking or if they are telling lies to the person on the other end of the conversation. The film revolves around one man and the people that he knows and the people that he has met the night before. The film is just a black background with the colour text appearing in a typed way as they speak over the top. Another video is “thousand”. This is has music in the background and when different notes are played there is different flashes and shapes. There are also bits where to edge of the film can be seen. When different instrument are played in the music there are different colour static. There is lines and jerks and shakes with the colour. It was created with damage film and computer feedback with the sound track other the top of the video. In my opinion I fort that the effect that the colours and the static appearing when the notes are played was cleverly done. They way this has influence my idea is to keep it simple and you don’t have to go over the top with the images shown on installation. The thing that connects the two videos is how simple that they are made and the way that they are shown in with the black backgrounds and the bright colours over the top. I will probably not going to something like the style of “telling lies” and “thousand” because I don’t want to be that simple with the point that I’m trying to put out. It also shows you don’t have to be very in your face with it you can just put you point. It also shows you don’t have to have actors or people in the installation it can be animation or just colours.
The things that I can take from the two artist is that a video with not a strong narrative because it lets you show the video and the way it’s been filmed better. They also showed me that you don’t have to get the video to enjoy it or not to. It also showed me that the video can just be crazy and make no sense at all to be one. It also showed me that the video can be very simple and artistic to get a point or opinion to the people watching like having text on the screen. It also showed me that it could be a combination of the both within the video to show your point. It also showed me that the age of the video doesn’t matter it’s just the way that it’s made.
