Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Digital Nation Discussion Question

1.)  Digital Nation accounts the opinion of the top college professors on the use of laptops in their class.  One comments that even though the students are present and all the answers to a test are given prior to the test, they score terribly due to the access of laptops.  These professors mostly blame the laptops.  However, the students of the class argue that the laptop is not the issue, and that they are well capable of multitasking.  Who do you believe to be right?  Could this be evidence of a larger overlying issue?  (Focus, Priorities, an education system not up to snuff to the newest trends of technology/society)?

2.)  Technology has progressed with little resistance in terms of communication advances.  There was little dispute over the advent of the telegraph, telephone, fax, email, etc,.  What about laptops and smartphones do you believe to be so much more controversial?
     -) Consider a person who spends most of his time on the computer vs a person who spends the same amount of time reading books.  How do you suppose society would view the two differently despite both haphazardly living vicariously?  What does that say about our society?

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Project 4: Grayscale Lesbian - Maybe if You Hit it Harder

Statement: Project 4 - Shooting a movie~!  This project involved picking an already made video and emulating the style.  For this one, I chose to use Chris Mann's "Maybe if you Hit it Hard" (http://www.ubu.com/film/mann.html).  Why, because Sean, that's why.  This video was shot at home with the use of a camcorder borrowed from the @ONE. Editing was done via VDSC Video editor.

The video in question was actually quite easy on the editing side, as the video itself was shot with little to no dynamic camera movement or techniques.  By the looks of it it was done strictly with a tri-pod, which is the route I used.  I added in a blur every now and then to simulate refocusing, but other than that it seemed that the more nifty editing used on the vid the less it emulated the original work.  That said, Chris is a weirdo.  Trying to mimic his patterns was quite annoying.