Flip Book

As you may know, I attend University of Tampa in Tampa Florida. My point being is that I attend a private school and I am extremely broke. Saying this, the book I chose for my my flip book had literally zero relevance to the story I wrote. I went to the used and unique book store right across the bridge in downtown Tampa and picked the cheapest book I could find which was 50 cents.

The story I tried to portray was a clashing of universes and creation of planets. The story starts out with arrows gradually growing and entering a small hole. The whole gets bigger and bigger until it fills the entire page. Once the page is filled, a sun starts to rise. The sun mutates into different kinds of shapes and different kinds of sun beams. The sun sets and the sky rises and becomes filled with stars. Once the sky becomes filled, the different kinds of moon crescents leads up to a full moon. The moon goes further and further into the distance and as the moon goes further out, a man and a daughter appear. The man takes his daughters hand and flies into the moon. Once they reach the moon, the moon implodes and creates another blank canvas. As we zoom in and in more, we see another planet, similar to earth and the man and daughter are standing on it pointing towards another blue planet. It gets closer and closer and some kind of rays appear from this new planet vanishing the man and daughter. The planet slowly vanishes while emptiness fills the page once again. Well anyway, enjoy.

Just seeing the word animation excites me so I thank you for that. Over the years, I have been intrigued by stop motion. I have had many attempts at making stop motion in previous film courses and failed miserably. This is my favorite stop motion, even though it was on the list of assigned videos... There is just something about the complexity, the time put in, and the effort it takes to make a masterpiece like this. It's not just some program designing the images, but hand made, hand moved, and it takes hard work to create something good.

The Great Train Robbery and A Trip to the Moon

The film industry has come a long way. The Great Train Robbery is an example of one of the first films created. Black and white of course, with the exception of a few hand colored frames throughout. Also, if you noticed there are literally zero camera movements besides a few cuts. Compared to film today, this bland, boring, and basically just painful to watch. Theres a single story line and no dialogue, with no idea what the characters are thinking leaves out a huge part of a story line. Emotions play a huge role in film today. A trip to the moon is little more exciting but barely. The use of color is expanded upon a bit. They also treat the moon animistic which i found extremely interesting. The personification of a non living being fascinates me. Although, these movies are bland, they were the stepping stones to the extravagance we endure today.

EARTHQUAKE

Unfortunately, my parents are not very film challenged, so they have not seen the movie earthquake

Clockwork Orange, Singing in the Rain

              A Clockwork Orange is on my top ten favorite movie lists. As being a huge of Stanley Kubrick and his work I know that exact reason why alex sings, singing in the rain while he is raping and beating his victims. It may not be the most exciting reason but Kubrick stated the reason why Alex sings that song. McDowell, who plays Alex, was the one who actually chose the song. Kubrick left the decision up to him. McDowell chose singing in the rain only because that was the only song he knew all the lyrics too. I know, its sucks, stupid reason to choose the song, but Kubrick shared this with the public in a written interview about 1 and half ago. Ironically, when Gene Kelly saw the movie, he never spoke to Kubrick or McDowell again. Shitty reason but, indeed is fact.

Abelardo Morell

This is my favorite example of camera obscura. I actually have had the chance to experience using a camera obscura. it was one of the most interesting pictures i have experienced taking. The house-sized camera obscura is on a whole new level. It is absolutely incredible the way a tiny hole can reflect and refract light. It is a natural phenomenon which there are few left in this society. I especially like this example beacuse the furniture and plants inisde the home match the outside exhibit almost perfectly. Everything in this picture just looks like it should be there which is incredible. If i had the chance, i would love to do this.

contempory blackface

In tropic thunder, which was made in 2008, Robert Downey Jr. plays an actor playing blackface. Its pretty bad to say the least. He changes his voice, his attitude, and his appearance to what he thinks an african american would play. I mean he goes all out, never steps out of character for one scene. Just as racist as it was in the 20s.