Sunday, September 22, 2013

Response to Aesthetics of Video and Video Production

I enjoyed this article because I enjoyed the editing and distortion part of film, more than the actual recording. I am fascinated by the ability to take a situation, and give it a whole new meaning by standing on one side of the scene versus the other end. I think to often the average person forget how important the person behind the screen is to the outcome of an artwork. Anyone can pose the right way, smile or not, but if the camera zooms in or zooms out, or is at the wrong angle that great smile won’t be perceived by the camera. I think is especially cool to play around with because it is surprising how much size affects how something is perceived. There are details that are usually just assumed, but when you find it was special effect and that what you saw is not really what it is, it is mind blowing. In regards to short focal length lens exaggerations, the passage reads, “this can be deliberate, but it can also happen automatically” (Aesthetics 168).  By not moving the camera downwards or upwards, or having at eye level with the figure in the view, or zooming out of the figure and putting it in the corner- a whole new idea is created. It truly is incredible what the lens and the eye fail and/or succeed to perceive.

This video demonstrates how ssing a camera to portray perspective is just an extension of perspective in everyday life. If we’re close to something or farther away, both generate different perspectives. In this video, a quick demonstrations of how our eye automatically makes assumptions based on perspective. Something small and close up looks big and farther away than something big and far away in the background.

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