1. Identify the article you have selected and why you chose it.
I picked the "Brainstorm: The Art of Instant Gratification" article by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg because the main pic, which is a pic of a digital camera with a variety different pictures flashing on the screen. This particular image caught my attention and made me to find out what the article is about. I love taking pictures and I figured that this reading was going to be about photography or something similar of that subject.
2. What are the main points of the essay?
A big portion of this article discusses photography and its past, and it's rapid growth and popularity since it was first featured. One of the paragraphs mentions the "almost biblical" feeling that the early photography process has with all of it's steps and procedures and how amazing the photograph would seem after being processed. It goes on talking about Kodak and their brownie camera and its contribution to the history of photography; and how technology and Kodak reduced the process of photography down to about 2 steps. Polaroid won over pop culture however with it's instant "picture taking" increasing the gratification by eliminating numerous, tedious steps that once stood between photographers and their photos. And it also talks about the digital camera and how it brings the people of the 21st century instant gratification with it's one,two,three, click process. The photographer's of today's world have a different perspective of memory because the album of this century is on the Internet in"cyber space" and can be digitally enhanced by various websites.
3. How are the ideas or arguments in this article relevant to your own practice as a media artist?
As a film major the history of photography is vital because it's like the mother of film; and as a media artist it important to know how this form of art started off in order to continue its process.I'm also very interested in photography so I really connected with this article on that note.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Drift 2 Video hardware/Software Response
1. How was your experience with the Olympus digital camera? How did it compare with other still or video cameras you have previously used? Were you able to successfully implement your Image Capturing Strategies using the features of this camera? In an ideal world, how would your still/video camera of choice function?
My experience with the Olympus camera was pretty regular, the quality of the pictures were pretty good. The one thing I didn't like was the fact that I couldn't zoom in while recording unless I had already zoomed in when taking a picture. I have a Kodak camera and the Olympus camera has more of a finer focus when taking portraits but I like my camera better because it's easier to delete footage and add effects while shooting.One of my strategies was imitating bouncing and this camera was pretty steady the picture wasn't perfect but at the same time it wasn't completely blurry while I was making the camera "bounce". My ideal cam would be the new touch screen cam that recently came out. I like that camera because I like things with touch screen and I also like all the special effects and extra things it features.
2. Discuss your choice of video-editing software and describe your history with this software. If you used this software for the first time, explain why you chose this particular application and how you think it helped you to accomplish your creative goals (or proved detrimental). Will you use this software again for future projects?
I used windows movie maker for my first two silent clips and Quick Time for my other clips. I used windows at first because it was the only software available to me at the time and I used Quick Time because it was recommended and it seemed like it would be better for me to use because I really didn't know what else to use. This was my first time using Quick Time and I liked it allot but I just wish I would've been able to see all of my frames instead of constantly exporting constantly. It would've been easier for me to edit my clip if there was a sort of framing track or something like that. The effects and filters impressed me and I really had fun using them for this project, I will probably use Quick Time again but only for smaller projects because I really did have a problem with the exporting.
My experience with the Olympus camera was pretty regular, the quality of the pictures were pretty good. The one thing I didn't like was the fact that I couldn't zoom in while recording unless I had already zoomed in when taking a picture. I have a Kodak camera and the Olympus camera has more of a finer focus when taking portraits but I like my camera better because it's easier to delete footage and add effects while shooting.One of my strategies was imitating bouncing and this camera was pretty steady the picture wasn't perfect but at the same time it wasn't completely blurry while I was making the camera "bounce". My ideal cam would be the new touch screen cam that recently came out. I like that camera because I like things with touch screen and I also like all the special effects and extra things it features.
2. Discuss your choice of video-editing software and describe your history with this software. If you used this software for the first time, explain why you chose this particular application and how you think it helped you to accomplish your creative goals (or proved detrimental). Will you use this software again for future projects?
I used windows movie maker for my first two silent clips and Quick Time for my other clips. I used windows at first because it was the only software available to me at the time and I used Quick Time because it was recommended and it seemed like it would be better for me to use because I really didn't know what else to use. This was my first time using Quick Time and I liked it allot but I just wish I would've been able to see all of my frames instead of constantly exporting constantly. It would've been easier for me to edit my clip if there was a sort of framing track or something like that. The effects and filters impressed me and I really had fun using them for this project, I will probably use Quick Time again but only for smaller projects because I really did have a problem with the exporting.
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