My Reaction to Len Lye

When watching the Len Lye film in class, my immediate reaction to the film was that it reminded me of pizza. In the beginning of the film, we see shapes coming across the screen that showed some triangles with circles on them giving me the impression of a pepperoni pizza. Maybe I was a bit hungry. As the film went on, I noticed that the music and the shapes and lines coming on the screen moved in rhythm to the music. It was like the music was taking physical shape, creating patterns upon patterns. The amount of work that went into the film was impressive and I'm excited to see what else we watch in class.

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The Ranking of all the Projects

1. My favorite video we had to do was the Direct Address video letter. I decided to use a scanner to make my video. I had a lot of fun manipulating the scanner by moving objects around to create a distorted look. I used a couple frames to create a sort of stop motion effect. I also messed around with the colors of the frames so they didn't always look the same. I figured I'd address the audience by putting up words they could read instead of just saying them out loud. This was mainly my favorite because of the freedom that it allowed us to create. 2. My Next favorite was the Bollex long take. Going outside and staging our film was a lot of fun to do. Getting everyone together and seeing it on the screen was a treat and showing our sensory elements was cool too. 3 My third favorite was the Rhythmic edit. Teaming up with Porshia to create two different videos showed how crazy our ideas could get. Editing Porshia's video was a challenge but I'm glad about how it turned...

Daniel Tammet Different Ways of Knowing Response

After watching the Ted Talk's on Daniel Tammet, I had to applaud him for the fact that even though he is a savant and autistic, he didn't seem like it. Most media portray autism stereotypical and it was refreshing to see someone like Tammet, go above that and even made a joke about how savants are thought as. Going into the Ted Talk, I really enjoyed watching and seeing how his synesthesia makes perceive things differently. When he was talking about how he sees numbers as colors and shapes, I found that very interesting. I see numbers as just numbers, not as a spectrum of colors and shapes. I also liked that he can see the numbers as art, like when he made a painting out of the number pi. Art can be found in almost anything that we can think and Tammet strives to find it in anywhere he can. I also liked his idea of what a word can mean by how it sounds. It is a concept I can get behind and that is how I usually think of words when I try to figure out what they mean. Finally, th...

My Rough Theatre

After reading through Peter Brook's "The Rough Theatre", I realize my own experiences with film is varied by the different ways I have made films. I have made documentaries, experimental films and narrative films, but each can made in many different ways. Documentaries, for instance, you can tell them by in strict objective terms, doing a "Voice of God" or speaking for a group of people but not letting them tell their stories. You can also create reenactments for events that happened in the past that you want to portray. I did a documentary where we filmed these Roller Derby girls, asked them questions and watched them play a game. Sadly our audio didn't record so we ended up having to trash it but it was a good learning experience. Experimental films, on the other hand allow the filmmaker greater freedom to create what they want and the viewer to view the film in more interpretive ways. There is no right way to make an experimental film, you just explore ...

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