Last week we spent a large amount of time discussing the fact that narration plays a large part in how video artists create their work and how audiences view it. Even before movies became a popular form of entertainment, humans have had a natural tendency to put things in sequential order. Now that movies ARE a large part of modern society, humans are not only looking for cause and effect, but are expecting a plot and purpose to all videos they view. This is in serious contrast to many video artists who attempt to break this story telling barrier by remaking famous movies' scenes or creating videos that have absolutely no story plot.
However, I am skeptical about the idea that artists can completely remove narration from their work. After all, they make their videos to express emotions, which are often times best portrayed in a story. If the story telling aspect of videos can never completely be removed from either the artist making them or the viewer watching them, then is there such a thing as originality? No matter what movie one watches, there are only a handful of plots emotions, and related expressions to help the viewer interpret these things. I believe that video art is no different. All artists only use a handful of devises to get the audience to experience their video in the intended way.
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