Thoughts on the Camera Obscura presentation by Ethan Jackson

I thought that was very interesting would i walked in that small room and saw live images of outside being shown on a wall upside down. When I saw this I felt like maybe i would like to do something like this. It is not that expensive to do that either. All he did was cut a hole in a box big enough for the lens that would show outside and project the live images on the wall. I kind of like that it was an overcast day because the sun peaking through the clouds was a beatiful image. It would have been nice if there would of been more activity outside to make the obscura feel more lively. When he showed us that film during his presentation it showed me that these camera obscuras being projected on a wall gives you three a four different types of things you may be seeing when looking at each side of the wall that it is being seen on. Camera obscuras make you see things in a few different ways and thats what i liked about seeing examples of the obscuras on video. I would of like to known how doing a camera obscura would like at night but he had no examples. It was nice learning how easy it can be to do one and how much time it would take to set one up. I really enjoyed the visit and the camera obscuras were interesting to see because not everything is shown to you live like that was.

Thoughts on March 5 films

This weeks films had a lot to do with seeing things through a projection booth, also through 2 frames on top of each other and following the camera as it moves and gives you different views of an image. I think these films were good resources for showing how your eyes work and understanding what you see from looking at something with two viewing frames on top of each other like in the film called Performist artist. The undeveloped eye really makes you stay focused and in away you can see those hallucinations that your seeing on the screen be going on in your head also. The film i thought was the strangest was by Brant Coconnor in which we observed pounding noises coming from the left side of the screen and then to the right side of the screen. I was having trouble understanding the point to this film until i saw images which were a boy on a bike and them showing the woods, and people on a roller coaster ride. I think this film was showing someone relieve their past and show us some of the things they have experienced in life. It also my be how they feel about there life they might think that they are always on the move like a bike or always have lots of ups and downs like a roller coaster. I thought these films used the camera well and these films really dealt with the topic of camera obscuras which we are now starting to learn about in class and will be learning more about it next week.

Thoughts on this past weeks films

I enjoyed the visit by Laura marks on Monday. You could really tell she enjoys films by how she talks about them in a exuberant way. She seemed to be thrilled with all the good questions asked by the students in the class. I thought the best film of the day was the film called resistance. I could get a sense that shapes and designs going in different directions made me imagine that it was a person dancing like the film was portraying. I think the music which was kind of exotic and free going would be perfect music for a belly dancer to use. I thought the reading we did called Convulsive fables reading was associated with the film we saw we people stood on that sacred church and were looking up to the heavens for help in life. I thought the film that had the most going on it was In this House because it showed the man talking about the house, people digging for something they were looking for and had a separate section on the screen that indicated who was talking at the time. I think that film is a good example of how the media can put a few productions on at the same and still make it easy enough for you understand what is going on while viewing a particular film like the one. In all I thought the films were good and it was nice to see how people of other countries observe the religion they believe in.