Surrealism Assignment

Surrealism is a movement that started at the end World War 1 where countries were in disarray. It is an unrealistic art form that can challenge ones perception of reality.

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This piece of surrealism art is by Vladimir Kush


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This famous piece of is the Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali


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This pieces of surrealist artwork is called the False Mirror.


This modern surrealist photograph is by Margot Knight

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I think that it was done by taking the photograph,with the worm I'm thinking that they had a snake-like object to fill the space where the snake would be.Then they might have got a picture of a snake and put it over the snake-like object, using it as a sort of guideline.

1) I did like this video because it went into black and white issues and misconceptions. It was two guys talking about racism through a game of chess.

2) The video gets it's point across in a kinda creative way. From the discussion you'd think that they're talking about racism but they're really talking about the chess pieces.

3) Though the video did not have any voice-overs or anything it did have a look at shots of the chess board, and of the guys talking. When the black guy's face(his name was never mentioned)showed annoyance at being the black pieces because he thought that being the white pieces would give him an edge in the game.The video its self is more if a dialogue than a narrative.The shots showed emotion such as annoyance,and confusion. The PSA didn't have a dark of serious tone at all, but I fell it got the point across nicely.

Phenakistoscope


I went to the site http://courses.ncssm.edu/gallery/collections/toys/opticaltoys.htm. It is an optical device website. Our assignment was to give a report on one of the optical toy on the site.

A Belgium physicist named Joseph Plateau and his sons introduced the Phenakistoscope to the world.
The mechanics of the device were adapted from Newton and a Greek mathematician named Elucid.
There are two discs, both with successive action. When spun it look like the couple is dancing.

Here is a Quick Summary of the article I read:


Sequencing is the foundation of any video story. Compressing the story really is the best way to go about it because filming every thing in real time will BORE THE AUDIENCE TO DEATH. Filming a scene for ten seconds per frame will get the point across without showing you the viewer every single detail.It is important for things like this to learned because theses are the fundamentals of editing. The question of where the scene is going is important, if the movements are anticipated it will make for better structure in the scene. Don't pan of zoom, just let the scene come and go. Throwing in two of the same shots are bad. It does annoy the audience or it at least raises questions. And last B.roll is good to have in some instances. It gives the editor more to work with and it'll make the editor's life A LOT easier.


http://www.b-roll.net/tv/view_video.php?viewkey=bc3dc5eefc89334cacdc&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr

http://masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/sequencing-the-foundation-of-video-storytelling/