Girl Chewing Gum-John Smith

The video 'Girl Chewing Gum' by John Smith was made in 1976, in black and white. Its 12 minuets long and persists of authoritative voice-over-pre-emps, the events occurring in the image, seeming to order cars, people, objects moving all in a normal street in the camera's view. The film draws attention to the control and the directional function; judging, imposing and creating a image.
The concept of this piece is about how media manipulates and judges people, John Smith starts the film by voiceing over the camera footage and imposes to the audience that he is directing the people and moving objects around, he then starts introducing charcters and judging the charactors then starts making up storys for example "This man has sweaty palms, because he has just robbed the bank." and makes the audience belive everything he is saying. By the end of the film, he confesses that he filmed the footage earlier that day, and edited the footage placing his voice over the top.