Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Artefact 2 Evaluation

EVALUATION

In Artefact 2 the documentary Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio was shown to focus groups, discussions and questionnaires were used to obtain the results in finding engagement opportunities in documentaries that are opposite to the clip shown in Artefact 1.

The documentary non narrative style allow viewer free interpretations of the film using personal experience and knowledge to decipher the visuals into a narrative. Therefore the viewers become the storyteller providing their own knowledge and experience to expand, add depth and manoeuvrability to the narrative and to gain a thorough understanding. These interpretation differences are compared to combined together to create a narrative that the viewer can at best relate to or empathize with. Therefore it is a collection of views and previous experience that creates and controls the narrative the viewers choose to acknowledge. This deciphering is to recognise the director’s purpose/message/intent of the documentary therefore there is an expectation for informative information with a narrator or actor to guide the viewers through the documentary meaning viewers become reliant on a narrative or a narrator to establish a relationship to the documentary. The arrangements of the visuals are an important part of the understanding showing development and representation of time. Although a change in the visuals sequence would affect the purpose of the documentary, it would depend on the scale of re-arrangement. Whatever the sequence, the audience will try to combine various visual elements/stimulus to complete/discover the narrative.
The results show that the value of the documentary was the intention to discuss and engage about the subject matter by collaborating to find the narrative therefore opening the opportunities for different interpretations and extracting expectations, linearity and simplicity from the documentary.
The music/score gives depth and meaning to the imagery adding intensity, movement and understanding thus simultaneously creating engagements between the viewer and documentary.

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