The FIrst YeAr AT ItP

Flash isn’t still easy to me. Here is my short work, “listening to music.” I wish it’s longer a little bit, It’s short again. Anyhow, now, I love it.

Amanda, Corey and I directed the movie, “ParkChase.” It was totally fun. We went to the Central Park and taped. Even though weather was chilly, Estee and Oscar acted well. They are awesome. Special thanks to actors!!

We all members edited and have a lot of time to discuss for scenes.

Woman: Estee Wah

Man: Oscar Torres
Policeman: Corey Menscher

* When we shoot, putting camera on the same position was difficult because, even though we filmed depending on the each place, we had many unexpected situations, such as passersby, camera checking, and recapturing.. etc..

AfterEffect part was on the Estee’s running. She imagined herself to be murdered on the newspaper….

Corey, Amanda, and I choose the running idea among bunch of other ideas.

Amanda and I drew.

‘Comic is one of the milestones to see the people’s otherness’. This is the most interest concept in this book to me. When people read comics, one single line can make the vacuum world and people substitute themselves by a character and comic environment.

The phenomenon of this is because of one single line instead of detailed description, closure, and unconsciousness. Understanding comics said.

Comics lied in shadow to me, like comics itself it did. I did not know there is a philosophy in comic world. I just had read comics for fun in the past. That’s it. However, in this book, Understanding Comics, It says that comics are the special language that makes symbol, shows the people’s mind, and makes communication in that the mixture of pictures and writing. That is, the combination of received information and perceived information. Through this, it can expand people’s senses with imagination. By following the each box, boxes makes environment of time and motion as well.At this point, there is the ‘Subject’ changed into the ‘Other’. Because of human’s unconsciousness, “closure” allow comics to become real story.

Simple lines instead of the detailed description help it, too. I think the line has the enough room people break into for imagination.

The more I understand about comics, the more I think this sequential art is related on the people’s mind.

This is the first work using flash that i”ve ever made . sooo, simple!!

I lost fla file of the work. So, I took the flash movie on the camera.    :p

Amanda and I drew the pig and tear of the pig’s eye on the paper. Another two eyes on the paper moved. Each shoot of the scenes made drawing, erasing, and moving was captured using “Imotion.”

Marshall Mcluhan is, I think, an incredible theorist because he could see the future and logically described what we are doing now not exactly though. (Even though technology and media he mentioned was out of date ranging from alphabet to radio, the latest media like radio was new at that time.)  To grasp the most his idea,  hot and cool media concept is important because, depending on thins standard, we can understand the attributes of some media. But, still I am not sure what the cool and hot concept is and how I can divide which one is which.  Actually, it’s too hard. New is gone as an old fashioned. It has been changed.

Through all chapters, now, the word ‘numb’ is in my mind. Like ‘Orality and literacy’, I agree we, human, are getting around by audible environment.  Our sense is awaken. We automatically experienced the extension of our sense to this technological society. This concept meets my thought what is the end of the sense? I mean people can’t satisfy easily and threshold is getting higher(a crucial movie is the best example). They want more.  Even though there was always meeting of two media for a moment of freedom from numbness in the media history, I feel this basic concept of the media from Mcluhan takes hold for years and our sense could be off or could be meet each other.

by Amanda, Matt, and me.

So fun project~  We  recorded two cat sound (Matt and I) and Gollum’s voice(Amanda).

You can hear my laugh just before starting Gollum’s voice.

      Corey, Kim, and Me went to the Washington Park for collecting sounds.  We brought the shot gun microphone and audio recorder. It was amazing time because shot-gun mic was totally different experience with another one. When I just hold the mic  toward  anywhere. It grasped sharp sound pointed microphone.  swing, dogs barking, and  phone conversation…. etc.

Using Audacity, we made a collage of sound.

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assignment2 - this is mine

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