They had a couple of authentic props from old movies such as The Exorcist, which i thought was awesome. I mean how can you not think this is awesome?
We learned about the advantages of match on editing, with The Exorcist and A Nightmare on Elm Street; in The Exorcist they showed a shot of Regan, the possessed girl, sitting in bed while slightly turning her head, and switched to another shot of the life-sized doll of Regan turning its head 360 degrees; in A Nightmare on Elm Street, they made a giant replica of Freddy's sweater so people would be able to walk out of the sweater as if they came out of Freddy.
We also learned about how when quickly moving a series of frames -- like on a strip of film -- a moment of darkness between each frame is what makes us think it's moving, because our brains are slower than our eyes; when we see a different frame, our brain is still thinking about the previous frame, so we totally ignore the brief moment when there wasn't an image at all; this is called the "persistence of vision."
This is similar to animation, except in animation each frame is instantly switched to the next. Switching from image to image creates the illusion of motion. We were able to create our own animation with cut-out pictures of frogs, a background of two islands, an overhead camera, a monitor, and record, stop, and play buttons. I moved the frog, my partner took a picture, I moved it a bit more, she took another picture, etc., so we were able to create the illusion that the frog was moving across the islands.
We finished off learning about television, which included the history of televisions and how a television uses scan lines to project its images onto its screen.
No comments:
Post a Comment