chapter 1 - discuss both past and current artists and work.

There are a few similarities and differences between modern experimental videos and older videos.

For example the video girl chewing gum has similar concepts to doll face, in the way in which the artists make the audience aware that the video is based on lies, in girl chewing gum the voice over towards the end of the video even admits that he s an a field miles away and has tricked the audience into thinking that he is someone important. This is also portrayed in doll face, however the lie that the robot encountered was part of the video – in a sense the media from the television was lying to the robot.

Both doll face and girl chewing gum rely heavily on concepts, both a move the audience, however the difference is in the emotions, girl chewing gum may provoke anger and annoyance through being tricked, but doll face could make the audience saddened and upset because beauty is a relevant issue to any age and gender.

The differences between the videos is not so much the concept but more the craft, as you an see in girl chewing gum the camera stays I the same position and only follows characters and zooms in and out according to the voiceover. The sound quality is also older, it is crackly and muffled, although the artist that created the video, he may have wanted to achieve a more raw effect, you can still hear a fuzziness which you wouldn’t in a modern recording of something. Doll face has been heavily crafted with use of fantastic computer effects and animation; it is obvious to the viewer that the mot modern equipment has been used to make this film. The sound quality in doll face may be non descript and does not play a main part in the video because it is based on the visual interpretation, however, it is crisp clean cut and polished, the polar opposite to girl chewing gum.

Doll face was made in 1998, girl chewing gum in 1976 only twenty years on and the main factor that is evident is that the quality and technology has developed so much, however this will never effect the ideas that artists have, merely extend their capability to convey their ideas to the audience.