Artist Influence - John Baldessari

While filming the shots using the frame we began to discuss whether our hands should be in the shot while we were holding the frame or not. To try and help decide we thought it would be best to take shots where you could see hands holding the frame, and then shoot it again where you couldn't see hands holding the frame. After still being unsure about which looked best we decided to research how other film makers of experimental film or artists have achieved a similar concept.

After some researching Hannah came across an artist called John Baldessari who uses his hands as the frame across a lot of his artwork. This is something unique that I had not seen so consistent in someone's art work before and really liked the idea of making our film unique in that way. We had a look in the library for a book full of his art work and came across many images of him using his hands including this one

This is a screenshot from our film and our approach to showing your hands in the shot