Widescreen is a good example to show how the technology influences film developing. In the early 1950s, the size of screen changed enormous. The main reason is not film producers want to try their best to make film more realistic and more attracting, the real reason is that the amount of film audiences fall sharply, because lots of people move to suburb and they have to abandon the habit which go to watch film once or two per week. So film producers decided to change the size of screen to make watch film become a specialization and advance the amount of audiences. So widescreen has a important mission to deal with the economic crisis in film industry.
In the early widescreen, cinerama used three bioscopes to make screens widely. Audiences can find the two broken lines easily. The most of films belong landscastpe card and topical films.feature film is few. Producers think the early widescreen is not good for story-telling.
To analyse the wildscreen, cinerama (1;2.6) is proved too expensive which depend on the film screen standard. 3-D system is cheaper, but it has lots of technology problems. The simply widescreen (1:2.35) system can be accepted by producers and audience, because it passes muster in three factors: scale, novelty and realism. Panavision (1:2.25) is the most suitable system and used broad in the cinema.
2009年10月12日星期一
Screen aesthetics, what is that?
Screen aesthetics, what is that? Theoretically speaking in contemporary current, aesthetics is already misapprehend by film aesthetics. Such as violence aesthetics, sex aesthetics and medium aesthetics. It seems everything can use "aesthetics", and everything is aesthetics. So it must be considered and understood firstly what screen aesthetics is ? In my opinion, though there are lots of articles which relate screen aesthetics, in fact, screen aesthetics can not make clear. To analyse those articles (include some articles in our course), lots of them expatiate technique and experience, include feature, cut and camera lens. So they do not analyse screen aesthetics, they make clear the film's characters, the basic film theories and elements. In my opinion, motility and image figure are the biggest features in film. So screen aesthetics can be defined "movement". In the film of The Best Years of our lives, Dana Andrews has a screen to show my theory - aircraft graveyard. He goes back to aircraft graveyard to see the planes which used in the war. In this scene, his movement-scrub away sweat by frightful remember proves abundantly that lots of people who suffer the wrong war are anguished and live floundering.
WEEK 9
In this week, Jason Nelson talked about Cyberutopia. I got some information from my classmates and I found I miss a great lecture. Jason Nelson make a good lecture and talk some crazy ideas in this lecture. I am without luck and miss it. Because Jason Nelson did not follow a regular lecture format. I am really puzzled ........
week8
In This week, the lecture main talk about the distinguishing between cyberpolitics and eDemocracy
Cyberpolitics, the politics of the internet that exists predominantly on the internet. Cyberpolitics stretches from the powerplays around the actual structure and functions of the internet that are decided by the Internet Society and ICANN through to the political activities that occur on forums, between bloggers and even in games.
E-Democracy, the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning on the internet and the government's use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people's use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.
I must to say I do not understand both of them clearly. Accounting to some references, I found that theISOC (Internet Society) founded in 1992, is dedicated to providing leadership in Internet related standards, policy, and education. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is another non-profit organisation, started in 1998.
Cyberpolitics, the politics of the internet that exists predominantly on the internet. Cyberpolitics stretches from the powerplays around the actual structure and functions of the internet that are decided by the Internet Society and ICANN through to the political activities that occur on forums, between bloggers and even in games.
E-Democracy, the internet's intervention in and contribution to real world politics that exists predominantly off the internet. eDemocracy covers everything from political campaigning on the internet and the government's use of the internet to raise awareness and debate on issues to the people's use of new technologies to criticise governments and reveal their mistakes.
I must to say I do not understand both of them clearly. Accounting to some references, I found that theISOC (Internet Society) founded in 1992, is dedicated to providing leadership in Internet related standards, policy, and education. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is another non-profit organisation, started in 1998.
week7
In this week, the lecture shows the differences between propriety software, free software and creative commons.
Proprietary software is a frequently used term in the computer field. It refers to software that is owned by an individual or a company and is protected from unauthorized use by patents, trademarks and copyrights.
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. This is to say, the freedom to run the program, for any purpose .The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor and the freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Free software does not mean non-commercial. A free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization. It devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. Renata Avila analyses that " Creative Commons gives voice to creativity, and allows us to share symbolic space within society, charting alternative routes to inclusion across the continents, in all languages."
Proprietary software is a frequently used term in the computer field. It refers to software that is owned by an individual or a company and is protected from unauthorized use by patents, trademarks and copyrights.
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. This is to say, the freedom to run the program, for any purpose .The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor and the freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Free software does not mean non-commercial. A free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution.
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization. It devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. Renata Avila analyses that " Creative Commons gives voice to creativity, and allows us to share symbolic space within society, charting alternative routes to inclusion across the continents, in all languages."
Week 6
The topic is consumption and production. It analysis the two screens in our life. One is "big" screens. It includes cinema which shared with other members of the public, TV which shared privately within our homes and PC which is for personal and shared use. The other one is "small" screens of life. It includes personal media players(ipods) and mobile phones.
It obvious that consumption is becoming increasingly personal especially with mobile devices. For example, television, internet, MP3 players and mobile phones. In the latest technology, I think mobile phone belongs a big market, because people can use mobile phones on online everywhere. On other way, mobile phones are convenient, this is key point.
In my opinion, customers belong to important producers and consumers. They purchase commodities and attempt to innovate.
It obvious that consumption is becoming increasingly personal especially with mobile devices. For example, television, internet, MP3 players and mobile phones. In the latest technology, I think mobile phone belongs a big market, because people can use mobile phones on online everywhere. On other way, mobile phones are convenient, this is key point.
In my opinion, customers belong to important producers and consumers. They purchase commodities and attempt to innovate.
2009年9月24日星期四
Ang lee,Chinese famous director
I analyse the transnational cinema of Ang Lee. Though the Lee's films, they can define the main elements in transnational cinema. Accounting to this essay, it also analyse the aesthetic strategies in Lee's transnational films, such as the "Father knows best" trilogy, include Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman, and another one famous transnational film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Ang Lee, as an Academy Award winning Chinese film director, he succeeds to span subject matter between China and west, and make a great success in American market. In lee's transnational films, they are identified by Chinese and western culture, this is one of the most important reason for success. For example, In his first film, Pushing hands, the Chinese and western culture collided each other, and come into being a attractive dramatic effect. Some of them came from lee's personal experience and attention, because of the special experience in his life ( Ang lee was born in the town of Chao Chou in Pingtung which is a southern county in Taiwan. He studied in Tainan for High school and went to the US for University. Lee's father imbued him with studying Chinese culture and understood western culture when he studied in US), he had a strong curiosity about the cultural diversity between Chinese and western culture.
Chinese traditional culture
Lee took full advantage of Chinese traditional culture in his transnational films. In his "Fahter knows best" trilogy, the Chinese traditional cultural atmosphere existed in everywhere, includes the custom and formality of marriage, the living style and diet in daily life. They are the most ordinary and idiomatic symbol about Chinese traditional culture.
For some traditional culture which have a long history and Chinese traditional symbol, Lee used a supernatural ploy to make a wonderful effect. For instance, in the films of Pushing hands, Tai Chi is belong to a Chinese Kung fu and is also a exercise method. Following the development of plot, audiences found that Tai Chi is very supernatural: Tai Chi can push over some strong people; one people can fight some gangsters and one policeman. Except that, Tai Chi can save people's life. In the screens, When the old man used Tai Chi to cure old woman, audiences can see the smoke in the foreground
Ang Lee, as an Academy Award winning Chinese film director, he succeeds to span subject matter between China and west, and make a great success in American market. In lee's transnational films, they are identified by Chinese and western culture, this is one of the most important reason for success. For example, In his first film, Pushing hands, the Chinese and western culture collided each other, and come into being a attractive dramatic effect. Some of them came from lee's personal experience and attention, because of the special experience in his life ( Ang lee was born in the town of Chao Chou in Pingtung which is a southern county in Taiwan. He studied in Tainan for High school and went to the US for University. Lee's father imbued him with studying Chinese culture and understood western culture when he studied in US), he had a strong curiosity about the cultural diversity between Chinese and western culture.
Chinese traditional culture
Lee took full advantage of Chinese traditional culture in his transnational films. In his "Fahter knows best" trilogy, the Chinese traditional cultural atmosphere existed in everywhere, includes the custom and formality of marriage, the living style and diet in daily life. They are the most ordinary and idiomatic symbol about Chinese traditional culture.
For some traditional culture which have a long history and Chinese traditional symbol, Lee used a supernatural ploy to make a wonderful effect. For instance, in the films of Pushing hands, Tai Chi is belong to a Chinese Kung fu and is also a exercise method. Following the development of plot, audiences found that Tai Chi is very supernatural: Tai Chi can push over some strong people; one people can fight some gangsters and one policeman. Except that, Tai Chi can save people's life. In the screens, When the old man used Tai Chi to cure old woman, audiences can see the smoke in the foreground
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