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FMXH 211 Photo/Film

4 • PHOTO & FILM

Artists  interpretation of themes from painting => Film: Study of Breugel’s Hunters in the Snow (1565) as related to the Limbourg Brothers February  (1416) => Tarkovsky’s Solaris 1972 => Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia 2011
Additional Links: Interview with Manuel Alberto Claro, Melancholia Cinematographer
Solairs NY Times Review 1976
Melancholia NY Times Review 2011

 Dührer / Camera Obscura: Abelardo Morell + Petapixel / Daguerre #1 #2 / Muybridge / Etienne Jules Marey / Edison Kinetoscope 1894-5/ The Great Train Robbery 1903 / Lumière / Méliès: Trip to the Moon 1902 + HUGO Martin Scorsese / Pierre et Gilles / Balla: dog /

Compare and Contrast scenes: The Great Train Robbery 1903 v. Skyfall 2012

Evolution of film in the 20th century
BW => Animation => Sound => Color -> Stereoscopy => large format => Sensorama #1 #2

History of Photography Timeline
Photo 2
The speed of Photography through the ages
Phantom Camera Demo
www.filmsite.org
leisure diving / ballet dancers in shower : pictorial Vs vernacular -> youtube documentary
Vernacular photography examples
Alternative Photography + Processes

Data shows film evolution

Assignment:

Go to a thrift store and purchase an old book that you will use to create your own flip page animation. At least 200 frames on 200 hundred pages so you can flip through the entire animation in one direction.

DUE Thursday October 10th on your blogs. Include still images, a video of  the flip book and a short statement on the concepts behind your project.

Criteria for evaluation: 
Flipbook animation 90% (Interpretation of story 45% / visual narrative 45%)
Statement on how the animation relates to the book you choose 10%

Outline – Topics Covered in this Module:
A brief history of photography => cinema
Photography and painting
Frame rate and slicing time into images

Links

Jason Theodor – Creativity = The act of connecting things in unexpected ways

Movies: Landmarks of Early Film Vols 1 and 2The Great Train Robbery – Edwin S. Porter / Eisenstein: Potiomkin / Griffith: Intolerance / Man with the movie camera – Dziga Vertov / La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc – Carl Dreyer / Metropolis – Fritz Lang / The Jazz Singer – Alan Crossland / The Blue Angel – Josef Von Sternberg / Casablanca – Michael Curtiz / Wizard of Oz – Victor Fleming / Gone with the wind – Victor Fleming / Singing in the Rain – Stanley Donen / The Birds – Hitchcock / Citizen Kane – Orson Welles etc….

Animation

LOTHAR DOGGENDORFER: POP UP BOOK
Emile Cohl #1 #2
Winsor McCay Little Nemo / NEMO / Gertie
Lotte Reiniger: BBC mini doc
Walt Disney How did he create Snow White • Steamboat Willie / Skeleton Dance / 12 principles of animation
Felix the Cat History / Feline Folies 19 / Marcel the shell
BLUBLU / Bottle #2 / Broken Fingaz / Hudson / Eness / Varanese / Japanese Pop Stars / Kinna Grannis / White Stripes / N.A.S.A / Oren Lavie / Move on (yarn) /
Animated gifs: Scifi – Hypnotic – Kevin Weir – Cinemagraphs #2 // Ray Harryhousen
Zoetropes Eric Dyer

Stop Motion:
PES
Jodie Mack Times Square

Examples
D. Fusari
K. O’Neil
M. Markakis
R. Pollock
S. Cwalina
F. Erni
H. Nye
A. Triscritti
K. Adams
J. Asaro
L. Termini
M. Torrech
N. MCabe

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