EMBEDDED VIDEO ASSIGNMENT

link to original-----http://www.ubu.com/film/wegman_deodorant.html


I chose this video because as I was looking through the hundreds of videos my brother happened to be sitting next to me on the couch and I looked at him and was like, take your shirt off, we are filming this just for fun, let's see how it goes. And surprisingly it worked out pretty well. I chose to do this video even before we watched it in class, and when we did watch it in class I was slightly disappointed because I didn't want everyone to think I just copied it after class because it looked simple and quick. I chose this prior to the viewing in class because of it's irregular humor and approach by focusing on his armpit rather than his face. I am familiar with William Wegmen's other works and I really enjoy his style and approach with film and abstract visual art. He tends to focus more on the object than the human, and I think that is so unique and unusual because in nearly all of his works there is a person in the film speaking or acting, yet they are rarely the focus of the piece. In this particular film the deodorant is the focus and the camera is directed at the armpit and the deodorant spraying onto the armpit rather than the man's face who is speaking.

Due to the small amount of time I had my brother for, and his negative physical reaction to the unpleasant effect the cheap body spray we used had on his armpit (basically that spray was not meant to go on the body as much as he did...whoops) Overall, I tried to make the angle and approach the exact same as that of William Wegman's and creating the video effect of "old film".