“more junk in the trunk than a honda
i know you wanna do the JANE FONDA
one, two, three, four
get your booty on the dance floor.
work it out, shake it little momma
let me see you do the jane fonda.
five, six, seven now
if you dont know, let me show you how
to work it out..work it little momma
i know you wanna do the jane fonda” (Mickey Avalon)
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Those horrendous lyrics written by the rap artist Mickey Avalon were the first thoughts I had when experiencing the Scott Stark video “More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda.” In Stark’s video he uses an old Jane Fonda instructional workout tape, as the background/plot to help tell the story of her personal life, and her thoughts of the Vietnam War, through text. The images that Stark uses through out his video, is Stark himself working out to the tape in various places and/or situations, such as a public parking lot, houses, fields, ect. With Starks choice to use himself as the central image and not the actual Jane Fonda workout tape is not as surprising as I first thought, you can hear the tape clearly playing as the soundtrack and through out the video I found that not actually seeing the tape was somewhat expected, if he would have cut to clips of the tape I would have felt letdown. After seeing the thoughts of both Jane Fonda (sound & text) and Scott Stark (visually) I have different prospective, on Jane Fonda as a person, and on styles, techniques, and purpose to video making.
