FACTORY
Artist: Miwa Matreyek's
Miwa Matreyek’s piece of work conveys many
different meanings to the viewers through visual language. One way it is
interpreted is that Miwa is trying to show in an abstract way in which in
todays working society the labour required it very boring stuff. In our days
technology is so advanced that they have found a system or machine to do
everything for us that there is no skill or fun involved in work anymore. The
cost of life is extraordinary and people are forced to work everyday with no
freedom and no fun.
The film “Factory” shows the day off a
working factory. The whole film is black and white and has very much detail
using different shades of greys. The style of animation is very complex and it
looks like some form of iStop with the use of Photoshop as well. Each element
in the factory looks like an individual photo that has been edited and placed
to form a working system. This shows that lots of little things put together
can create a bigger and better overall result. This is simular to the running
of a factory itself. All the different station and element come together to
form the overall product.
Right from the beginning of the movie with
the workers going into work their body gestures tell us they are not happy or
excited to be there as they are walking fast in a straight line into the
building. The colours are very dull and
plain however there are quite a lot of detailed objects in the background,
which includes the smoke coming out of the building. As they enter the building
it shows people at work. One lady looks like she is in charge of several
computers and machines. Her movement on the computer is repeated several times.
This gives us an idea on how repetitive and boring the work must be.
Now in modern days as technology has
increased machines and computers do a lot for us however it leaves us with a
very boring simple job. The very busy and detailed background in the factory
gives the impression with a complicate busy workplace that there is a lot to
get done. However the abstract side of the film creates a more humerous affect
on the workload and overall film. The hand in the background is acting like a
mechanical claw this portrays a metaphor. Matreyek is trying to interpret the
way it used to be. Before all these machines were created to pick up and
transport things such as the mechanical claw, everything was done by hand,
which was hard labour. The workers aren’t complaining however it has just made
the workforce a boring place to be forced to work at. Towards the end section a
man is using the gigantic spanner to fix a problem. Usually a spanner is a
smaller item, and this spanner that is being used is bigger then himself. This
is implying that for big jobs you need a big tool to get the job done. In this
section Matreyek has added a more humorous aspect of the workforce.
Matreyek as obviously thought out this film
very thoroughly as when you look closer there is so many meanings that it
portrays from the use of visual language and the overall point of the
film. Overall it is a very clever film
in the fact that it is so detailed yet such a simple idea. Every part of the
movie is there for a reason and Matreyek has done a very good job portraying
these messages.
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