Photography Motion Artist through history have tried to
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Photography & Motion • Artist through history have tried to create the illusion of motion in a still image. • Eadward Muybridge devised a method to take pictures of a racehorse. • He set up 24 cameras, each connected to a black thread stretched across the racecourse. • In 1887, he published Animal Locomotion, his most important work. He showed people & animals in sequential motion. • As films & cameras became faster, photographers discovered the ability to stop motion to the split second. • In the 1950 s, Berenice Abbott shot a multiple stop-action • photograph of a pendulum.
Eadward Muybridge devised a method to take pictures of a racehorse. He set up 24 cameras, each connected to a black thread stretched across the racecourse .
In the 1950, Berenic e Abbott shot a multiple stopaction photogra ph of a pendulu m
FILM The History of Films & Filmmakers
The works of Edweard Muybridge’s Studies of motion • Muybridge's photos showed the horse with all four feet off the ground • Muybridge went on a lecture tour showing his photographs on a moving-image device he called the zoopraxiscope
zoopraxiscope
Commercial application of motion pictures evolved after three major developments. • In 1888 George Eastman introduced celluloid film, allowing for stringing images together. • Thomas Edison created the first genuine motion picture in 1894. • The creation of film projector.
Thomas Edison Fred Ott’s Sneeze. 1894
Cinematographe camera/projector designed by Auguste and Louis Lumiere March 1895
Exploring the possibilities: Special Effects and Animation The word animation means, “bringing to life”.
A Trip to the Moon, directed by French filmmaker George Melies. 1902
Winsor Mc. Cay. Gertie the Trained Dinosaur. 1914
• Gertie the Trained Dinosaur uses a technique called pixilation. • A frame-by-frame making several drawings of the image in sequence to suggest motion. • 12 to 24 drawings are required per second of running time in order to create the illusion of smooth motion. • Ex. a three minute cartoon in length would require up to 4, 320 individual drawings.
Epic • “Epic” in films suggests a picture that’s long, crowded, and grand. • Epic film has a story taken from significant points in history or the Bible. • Epic film has a moral to preach to its audience • The pioneer of epics was David Wark Griffith or D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith THE BIRTH OF A NATION 1914
D. W. Griffith innovator in filming techniques • A Shot -is unbroken sequence of movie frames with the camera rolling. Before Griffith, the standard in film had been the full shot, showing the actors from head to toe. • Griffith experimented with a range of shots for dramatic effects: The medium shot (from waist-up) The close-up (head and shoulders) The extreme close-up (part of the face) The long shot (seen from a distance He perfected the technique of crosscutting in which two or scenes are alternated to advance the action of the film. He used the iris shot (the edges are blackened to create a circle of interest) effectively. • • •
Soviet Russian film-maker Sergei Eisenstein • In filmmaking editing is fundamental to storytelling. • Sergei Eisenstein is one of the most influential early masters of editing. • interested in the expressive possibilities of editing, changing the rhythm of how quickly one shot succeeded another, breaking a single action down into several shots, alternating shots of different subjects so the viewer would understand a symbolic connection between them.
The Battleship Potemkin, directed by Sergei Eisenstein. 1925
Studio Systems • Studios are organizations that produce movies on a large scale. • The organism they developed for making movies is called a studio system. • Under one roof, studios such as Paramount, Warner Brothers, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)-integrated all aspects of the film. Writers, actors, directors, professionals such as camera operators, costume and set designers, scenery painters, lighting experts, make-up artists, etc.
FILMMAKERS Charles Chaplin David O. Selznick Orson Welles Ingmar Bergman Federico Fellini Alfred Hitchcock Woody Allen
Charles Chaplin ‘Modern Times’ is considered to be his greatest film. The theme of man vs. machine.
David O. Selznick “Gone with the Wind” Color photography for films was introduced in early 1930 s
Orson Welles “Citizen Kane” in 1941
Ingmar Bergman “ The Seventh Seal”, made in 1957
Federico Fellini “La Dolce Vita “from 1959 translated “the sweet life”
Woody Allen “The Purple Rose of Cairo” 1984
Artists and Film Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel Andy Warhol
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s surrealistic “An Andalusian Dog. ” 1928
Andy Warhol. Empire. 1964. 16 mm film, black and white, silent, 8 hours 5 minutes at 16 frames per second
Independent Vision • “Art Cinema” an independent movie that does not conform to popular storytelling techniques or aim to please a mass audience. • That has a single vision. An Auteur approach. • Shown in small specialized theaters, by cinema societies, or by art museums • (venues apart from major commercial theaters).
Star Wars - Revenge Of The Sith • half of the film created digitally. • numerous artists worked on 21, 000 shots • layering digitally rendered sets, computer animated characters, and computergenerated effects over footage of human actors or scale models.
Video Art With Video art the image is created on the television screen by manipulating dials, selecting colors, combining figures and other elements • Nam June Paik. TV Buddha. 1974. Closed-circuit video
Peter Campus’s Three Transitions, 1973
Tony Oursler. Insomnia. 1996. Six pillows, cloth, LCD video projector, VCR, vidoetape; tripod performer. Engaging the viewer.
Tony Oursler & Tracy Leipold. Coo. 2003. DVD Projection on fiberglass sculpture, height 43”
Shirin Neshat’s “Rapture”
- Which of the following is true concerning hurricanes
- Was caused by breathing impure
- Have you really tried to save gas poster meaning
- Is abstract photography same as conceptual photography
- A trapeze artist swings in simple harmonic
- Why have there been no great women artist
- I consider your behavior rude irresponsible and
- Pune, india, has tried to increase its rainfall by
- Tried people
- Clean3. hali
- The old man tried to stop
- The old man tried to stop
- The old man was _____.
- I'll be a friend to jesus
- Is jumped an action verb
- Mr tongue twister tried to
- Harlem night song poem
- Jamie tried to solve an equation step by step.
- Nasoaural
- Elephant and telephone poem
- Present simple ed
- Lesson 4-2
- Who tried to warn caesar
- Why shouldn't juveniles be tried as adults
- Ever tried ever failed no matter
- 8 vertices and 6 faces.
- History of digital photography
- Film photography history
- Conceptual photography history
- Abstract photography history
- History of product photography
- What did richard maddox invent
- History of double exposure photography
- Sin entered through one man
- Through and through furcation
- What is timber conversion
- The poem night of the scorpion
- Friction and air resistance
- Range of motion active and passive
- Shm equation of motion
- An object in motion stays in motion
- Chapter 2 section 1 describing motion answer key