Monday, November 28, 2022

Post #15 - THOMPSON AND BORDWELL - FILM AND VIDEO HISTORY KATE HORSFIELD - BUSTING THE TUBE

The Film industry was a prolonged process of excepting different works. Films outside the mainstream/average production, like Experimental films, were usually short, and they were produced outside the film industry. Experimental films were much different than average films. They differed in that they didn’t have to tell a story. They don't have to include characters. There doesn't have to be a message of any kind. It can be visceral (relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect). or mundane (a complete bore). It can be highly personal or overtly political. It can be literally anything – just like a description of performance art. This was another reason for how quickly it got off the ground because so many directors and creative people decided to show the world their view of this new type of art. Now narrative and documentary films don't necessarily use all of these artistic elements. They keep it simple by focusing on creating an enhanced sense of narrative rather than creating pure aesthetic art. The best part of the new production styles in the film was that there were no wrong answers. People were now allowed to think outside the box and take gambles on the ideas they imagined and produced.

GRQ

  1. Hans Richter & Richter

  2. Ruttman

  3. Rene Clair

  4. Germaine Dulac

  5. Cinema Pur

  6. City Symphony

  7. Vertical Cinema

  8. Film Lyric

  9. Maya Deren

  10. Norman McLaren & McLaren

  11. Brakhage

  12. Bruce Conner & Conner

  13. Visualizing Effects

  14. Non-Linear Editing Software

  15. Portable Camera

  16. Feedback

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Post #11 - Reading and GRQ, Margot LoveJoy


The forerunner to the photographic camera was the camera obscura. Camera obscura (Latin for "dark room") is the natural optical phenomenon that occurs when an image of a scene at the other side of a screen (or for instance a wall) is projected through a small hole in that screen and forms an inverted image (left to right and upside down) on a surface opposite to the opening. This started it, but it was shortly improved by the years, slowly in form and quality. The size was a huge difference. Before the invention of photographic processes, there was no way to preserve the images produced by these cameras apart from manually tracing them. The earliest cameras were room-sized, with space for one or more people inside. The growth of all of this was done by scientists as the structure and way of getting a photo from the camera to a physical copy was experimented with for decades. Many scientists and inventors such as Schultze and Wedgwood made contributions to the study of photosensitivity it was an artist/printer, Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, who made the first real breakthrough in the link-up between the optical principles of the camera obscura and light-sensitive chemistry.

1. camera obscura
2. light sensitive chemistry
3. daguerreotype
4. negative/positive
5. "aura"
6. commodity value
7. exhibition value
8. cult value
9. photomontage
10. appropriated elements
11. cinematography
12. photomechanical reproduction
13. Eadweard Muybridge
14. Jules-Etienne Marey
15. Dadaists
16. John Heartfield
17. Raoul Hausmann

Post #15 - THOMPSON AND BORDWELL - FILM AND VIDEO HISTORY KATE HORSFIELD - BUSTING THE TUBE

The Film industry was a prolonged process of excepting different works. Films outside the mainstream/average production, like Experimental f...