The Shallows Homage Film

3.) Make a detailed comment on a blog post (which should be effective by end of class or near) containing our final short film over The Shallows. Include three things-

1. - Your favorite transition/editing trick in the film.

My favorite editing trick is around the 3:40 part of the video, when the clocks are over-layed on top of the other, the idea that time is controlling your entire being really seems to set in. I also really liked how the whole film has different types of digital media from film, to documentaries to cartoon. I also liked the feeling given by (around the six minute mark) where inventions are shown and sped up, you are given the feeling of how quickly technology became an extra appendage in today's society.

2. - What most struck you visually as loyal to the book/chapter.

I think that the video truly followed the string of time. The entire piece showed the concern with humanity and time and how it dictates how, why, and where we do things.The most visually loyal to the reading would be the beginning of the film where human mind development is shown. The growth of our minds from understanding minute concepts to things that we can't even see was very accurately shown.

3. - The separation between reading the chapter and "watching" it.

The reading did not seem as foreboding until I see it in film. The power of technology and the ability for it to be used as good or bad seemed to be shown more in the film. The reading gave you more time to sit and marinate on the words, and to form different visuals to illustrate his sentences. The film does not allow as much time to let the message sink in. I liked both though and I wish they could be shown together somehow.

11/19/12 Manovich

A- Manovich's reading seems to follow along a vein similar to last week's reading "The Shallows" in that time and digitization are combined but are inevitably seen with discriminating eyes. If the production of "digital" images is our reality, has the concept of time been changes with technology? Can we use this technology to capture a moment in time, then reproduce it over and over without loosing the validity and essence of the object being captured?

B-Manovich discusses the loss of information when an image/data file is copied and reproduced which compromises the original. If digitization of images/files has become the main source of public viewing, will there ever be a way to reproduce an image/file without compromising the original? Technology is not leaving us, it is only expanding and become engrained in our everyday lives, are we going to lose the power of art if it is compromised when shared?

In Rounds with the Ghiggles

In Rounds with the Ghiggles