Chapter 2

In this chapter I will discuss how the use of technology differs within the videos. In Koyaanisqatsi the video was vastly different from anything ever done at the time. Most people who saw it were in awe with the wide screen shots that graces most of the film. Also the soundtrack was very unusual, even though synthesizers were used in music alot at that time, most people have never heard synthesizers in the way they are used in Koyaanisqatsi. Nowadays the people that watch the video are less awestruck by it. What they don't seem to realise is that Koyaanisqatsi was the first video of it's kind to do that kind of shooting. Most documentaries nowadays are inspired off of Koyaanisqatsi and I think that we take this for granted most of the time. Doll Face on the other hand is very much modern and up to date. It is an animated movie and the soundtrack that is played sounds like it could be used in a Radiohead album or a downbeat electronic album similar to something Radiohead would do. The technology used is up do date animation software, possibly Blender. Even though this is used, it doesn't have the same impact that Koyaanisquatsi had when it was released. This is because there were already very many animated films created before Doll Face so people were not as over whelmed with Doll Face as they were with Koyaanisquatsi. However it does have the same meaning and pollitical impact as Koyaanisquatsi did, just on a smaller scale.