March 23, 2006 at 8:29 am · Filed under Uncategorized
What a fantastic evening! It was an amazing effort from the students and faculty (thanks Nick) to bring together such great installations for the film festival. Seeing all of these people enjjoying themselves and generally getting to know each other was a great experience. Plus, the films were great!
I’m glad to have been able to participate!
Here are two images from the evening:
The first: part of my installation entitled, “chromosoma”
The second: a shot of three of “The Funambulists” who stole the show or brought it to you- depending on your point of view…
March 16, 2006 at 3:26 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I’m thinking about the objects and non-humans and how they relate to the human protagonists. How do I make all of these public? How does science make its processes public- i.e. how does the narrative flow and progress?
The answer is suspense.
Today, the the film class instructor discussed two types of suspense:
Impure- broad suspense
-Delay
-Uncommunicative,
restrictive narration
keeps the audience in the
dark
-Viewer in a state of “anxious uncertainty”
This IMPURE type is largely the current state of affairs, I’d say.
Pure- local suspense
-Deadlines, Acceleration
-Highly communicative
narration keeps the
audience informed
-Viewer in a state of alert
attentiveness
The PURE type (e.g. Hitchcock) is perhaps what we are after in terms of making it public.
“Suspense is the most powerful means of holding onto the viewer’s
attention… It is indispensable that the public be made perfectly aware of all
the facts involved… [The] conditioning of the viewer is essential to the buildup
of suspense”
- Alfred Hitchcock
The pure type often involves cutting between the actions of the characters and other non-humans- clocks, trains, bombs, animals, etc…
The impure type focuses only on the protagonists so that when anything significant happens, it is a surprise to the viewer. As such, their responses can vary more widely depending their prior knowledge.
March 13, 2006 at 6:57 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Image and Meaning
Go here to see a short video about scientific visualization activities.
March 9, 2006 at 8:46 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
These are my students. They are fantastic. Sometimes it can be a bit difficult to get them all engaged and actively participating, but hey….
So I gave them a short script from “Annie Hall” and asked them to shoot it applying some of the concepts of editing and cinematography in film form that they were learning. They had to edit everything in the camera and they also only had 40 minutes to do it. I’ll be posting the results soon, but here they are in action.
March 8, 2006 at 8:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized
March 5, 2006 at 7:47 am · Filed under Uncategorized
