Media 160 Final Project - The juice The story of a young man and his unworldly desires... Based on a true story.
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MOMI blog post
The most memorable installation at the museum of moving image is perhaps the rotating sculpture Feral Fount, created by Gregory Barsamian in 1996, which used the visual techniques of optical illusion to create a life like animation of a faucet releasing a drop pf water. The drop would then fall and turn into a bomb, which was then caught by a hand and ultimately transformed into a paper airplane. The entire sculpture was composed of many smaller ones; each sculpture differed slightly from the one preceding it as it turned. The smaller sculptures were the “frames” in the optical illusion’s flip book style appearance, with a strobe light going off to make the whole sculpture look as if it was morphing in real life. The feral fount is a creative use of a more low tech of moving image, with its mechanism only constituting of a motor. The illusion of animation is created by the split seconds of darkness before each strobe light flash. The lights flash thirteen times a second, creating a th...
blog post #3
For this assignment I chose the tap dance scene from the indie movie gummo, in which one of the characters lifts makeshift weights in front of a mirror while his mother tap dances in her deceased husband’s tap shoes in the same room. the mirror is very significant in this scene as it covers an entire wall and thus allows more of the setting to be seen in a shot. What is interesting about the director’s use of the mirror is that it allows for the all of the shots in the three minute scene to break the 180 degree rule. In fact, the shots are so dynamic in position they switch from all sides capturing the subjects in 360 degrees. The mirror almost gives the impression that the characters are in more places than one, so the cuts from all sides merely add to the entropic demeanor of the film. The chaos that the movie depicts throughout is captured in an organized manner by the compositions of the seemingly random shots. The eyeline matches of the subjects to themselves as they look at thei...
Sound walk journal
Media 160 sound journal 10/28 This weekend I went to Massachusetts on a short family vacation to my Godfathers house in Great Barrington. Sure enough, his home was surrounded by mountains lush with trees the colors of fall, and there were plenty of outdoor walks to be had. On my longest walk out, the sounds of nature filled my ears in a harmonious manner; the animals, the wind against the plants and my shoes against the dirt kicking small rocks as I walked along a trail in a quaint environment. The most consistent noise besides my footsteps was the sound of birds chirping, which seemed to be one of the essential background sound elements that made me feel immersed in the nature. Once and a while a crow would break through the harmony of bird chirps, and along the way I picked up a walking stick; the end of it tapping the ground in sync with my steps. Occasionally a gust of wind would rustle the trees around me adding another ambient element to my surroundings. At the end of my walk I ...