Response to On*****Media

The article introduces how different modern technologies are able to capture different pictures from different angles of the real life. Firstly, Hovagimyan talked about how different of a war is presented in people’s perspective by using painting and photography. Painting shows war to people in a form of colorful recreate as the painter can choose whatever forms they like to present the war, heroic, historic or bloodiness etc. However, different from painting, photography cannot be created or modified. It shows to people a realistic scene, which actually happened in the real life. In my opinion, the most significant difference between painting and photography is the way of their present. Painting can transfer a sense of emotion or feeling towards the audiences by the painter. It means the audiences are able to tell the thoughts of the painter.  However; photography is more straightforward to the audience, so the audiences are quite hard to approach the photographer.

With more advance mediums are developed, older mediums are being occupied. Instead of getting to know the world through painting or photography, nowadays we have film, video, TV etc. Those new medium present to audiences not only sound but also information, thus they can present more vivid scene for the audiences. I like new techniques; therefore I quite appreciate the born of the new mediums.

In addition, advance mediums are able to edit the scenes that they capture, such as the technique of filmmaking.  I remember one of the film techniques is called “flashback” which is using the last scene as the beginning and the first scene as the ending. One of the famous “flashback” films I familiar with is called Memento. Memento is a complex and skillful edited film, which has two parallel story lines. One shows up by using flashback in color section and the other appears by using narration in black and white section. The audiences have already known who died at the beginning and the scenes are flashback to track and figure out who is the killer. This is a very technical skill used in the film to capture people’s eyes. I really recommend to take a look at this film.