Treatment

Btec National Diploma In Media (Film and TV)

TREATMENT (drama)




PROGRAMME TITLE: Plan

DIRECTOR: Benjamin Edward Pitt
CAMERA OPERATOR: Benjamin Edward Pitt

DURATION: From 30 seconds to maximum of 5 minutes.

FORMAT: Mini Dv

AUDIO: Non Diagetic / Diagetic

OUTLINE OF AUDIENCE: I would like the audience of my film to be as vast and varied as possible. The main character in my story is inspired to create art just through seeing something in everyday life, the main point is that he was inspired. I like to think that everyone can be inspired and that it is a universal emotion. Although my work will focus on how a graffiti artist is inspired I hope that even if the audience cannot relate to the character of the graffiti artist they can still relate to the idea of inspiration and how that can bring about creativity and positive actions. 

If I were to be more specific about who I think would definitely enjoy my film it would be people who like the graffiti culture and also people that enjoy fast paced short films. 

OUTLINE OF STORY: The film centers on a young man who is bored and disillusioned with what he sees as his dull and uneventful life. One day whilst traveling on a train he spots a wall of graffiti which inspires him to be more creative. With this surge of new found energy he decides to go home and fulfill his artistic ambitions.

doll face review

'Doll Face’ is a short 4 minute film created by Andrew Haung
The film is computer graphic based and very craft like.
The film is a robotic head coming out of a box with a ladies face
Staring at a television screen.
Each time the face looks at an image on the television the face changes their image to the same one on the tv screen. When the tele moves further away the robitic head follows continuing to change image every time.
When the tele gets to far away from the head the head cant extend any more so it snaps and breaks.
Andrew was trying to challenge the media with what he done in this video as he showed a face trying to be like what it sees on TV.
When we see this well when I saw this it make you think about women and how they make themselves look like people on the television.
Some celebs go too far with trying to make themselves look good and I think this is what Andrew Haung done well with in this short computer graphic based film.

.great concept
.great craft
. Good audio
Fantastic film deffinatly worth a watch

MEDIA NINE 1

audience and audience interpretation of the work

Audience and audience interpretation of the work

The way people interoperate these sorts of films may be completely different to the way in which I look at them.
But like what people say about art it’s the way you interoperate the world and with film such as John Smith’s ‘Girl Chewing Gum’ my first interpretation of it was about one man in power over everyone else.
With things like this people could take what ever feeling away with them and they would not necessarily be wrong.
People have different interpretations of film because some people may have seen things that are similar and may have brought that same kind if interpretation.
Things such as Andrew Haung’s ‘doll face’ for me were about how the media make women feel insecure but for people who don’t read the paper or watch much television would maybe have a different interpretation due to these things.

The interpertation of this film for me is quite simple but could be interoperated the wrong way which would defeat the subject matter the artist was trying to give.
with any peice of the work the artist does it for a reason but you can sometimes be misunderstood.
i dont think many people would find it hard to understand this peice of work or read anything else other than the subject meaning into it.

How these works might inspire your own work

How these works might inspire your own work

The works I have spoken about in the last posts are all fantastic pieces and all have individual qualities but if I had to choose one that I found truly inspiring to what I want to create in the future it would have be koyaanisqatsi.
It would have to be because the editing and the narrative of the film were so great.
I find it very craft like and it also has a great concept to it.
I thought the amount of time lapses and fast paced scenes were fantastic and made the viewing of the film a whole lot more enjoyable.
The other thing that I would comment on is the music I think it went fantastically.
Out of all the other films I have watched koyaanisqatsi would have to be the most inspiring with a great concept and craft envolved all throughout.

narratives and non narritive structures

Narrative and non-narrative structures

One of the films that has a great narrative behind it is Andrew Haungs doll face.
Doll Face is a computer graphic based short film which shows a robotic head coming out of a box staring at a TV screen.
It shows the doll face change its appearance every time a different picture appears on the television screen.
The story behind it I believe is about the media and how it makes women fell insecure about their appearance.
Andrew Haung has challenged the media with this short film which I believe is a great way with using experimental media not only with the narrative but also with the way Andrew has used computer graphics.
For me I believe there is no non narrative structure as I believe it is straight forward to see the narrative behind Andrew Haung’s work.
It’s also very interesting how the robot breaks when the TV gets further away I believe this shows how women get stressed about the situation of how the media make women feel ugly.
It has one similarity with Koyaanisqastsi and how its shows life in ruin, I think this is the sort of message Godfrey Reggios was also trying to create.

The use of technology,techniques and styles

. The use of technology and techniques and styles



Past films such as john smith’s girl chewing gum won’t compare technology wise with films such as Godfrey Reggios Koyaanisqatsi.Girl Chewing Gum is very simple like I have spoken in my last post as it was shot back in the 1970s, this would also mean that that some styles are different in way of shooting the film, such as in Koyaanisqatsi you see lots of very advanced difficult shots and good editing but in Girl Chewing Gum its all very simple, this I believe is to do with the year in which the film was made but also the budget of the films.
These two films I believe are very well matched in the way of concept (in my point of view) but there are things such as the technology, techniques and styles.
· Technology would be different due to the years of both films
· Techniques would also be different as they both have different narratives and some shots may need to be different to one another to tell the story in a better way and also directors normally have their own style.
· Styles are very different because of directors but as there is a gap in years some styles may have been discovered during this time such as different ways of shooting film.

1. Discuss both past and current artists and works

1. Discuss both past and current artists and works

John smith’s 1970 film girl chewing gum contains a scene of a street with various people walking around doing everyday things, the camera just seems to pan from side to side and up and down.
You hear what we first perceive to be a director who we think is their directing but it becomes apparent that it is a pre recorded scene with voice over put on, when you first see the short film it seems diagetic but then after watching some more shots which make the viewer confused its obvious that it is pre recorded and has a non diagetic sound.
The concept of this film is that we believe the directing man is in a position of power and that we always believe what we here, but after realising it was pre recorded it shows the viewer not to always believe what we here.
John smith has challenged the media with this piece of work fantastically.
As for the craft of the film there is non it’s very basic,
The film has also a very low budget.


(A classic of the low-budget world of 1970s London experimental filmmaking,
http://www.channel4.com/fourdocs/archive/chewing_gum.html)

A film that challenges and compares to this is godfrey reggio’s koyaanisqatsi
An experimental film made in 1982 with a big budget.
Koyaanisqatsi is a great film with great shots envolved. It has a very interesting concept to it that we can compare to john smiths girl chewing gum.
Koyaanisqatsi is all about life in ruin and about the state of the world, I thought this was similar to girl chewing gum as this also, challenged the media and the state of the world today.
koyaanisqatsi has more craft based shots as girl chewing gum is more simple.