FAS359:Video and Sound

Response on Assigned Articles, Videos, Podcasts and Audio Samples

The video which I selected is John smith's Girl Chewing Gum. In this video, this author

attempts to incorporate by using authoritative voice-over to predict the events

happening in the ima·ge, seeming to order not only human being, cars and all moving

objects within the screen but also the actual camera movements operated on the

street in view. In relinquishing the more subtle use of voice-over in television

documentary, the film draws attention to the control and directional function of that

practice: imposing, judging, creating an imaginary scene from a visual trace. The

narrator continues to describe the thing will happen next 3 seconds. He used first

person point of view to describe the thing will happen in the future. God's-eye

perspective is a wonderfully appropriate point of view for this particular story trying

to narrow the consequences of this video. In fact, this narrative perspective can help

the narrator acts like god in the entire video from subconsciousness. Audiences may

think the narrator is predicting what will happen in future. This 'big brother' is not just

looking at you but ordering you about as the viewer's identification shifts from the

people in the street to the camera eye overlooking the scene. The resultant goes up

against an uncanny angle as the dullness of the scene appears differently in relation to

the close 'mysterious' identified with the voice. The ost amazing impact is the

simplicity with which portrayal and depiction transform into phantasm through.