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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Stealing Fire From the Gods
“We can become the gods we’ve always been striving to be. We might as well get good at it.” -Adam Jensen, Deus Ex: Human Revolution Transhumanism is a movement that has its aims in understanding and evaluating the chances for … Continue reading
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Jim Carrey, Please Meet Me in Montauk
In an article by James Hughes, entitled The Politics of Transhumanism and the Techno-Millenial Imagination, 1626-2030, published in Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, transhumanism is defined as “a modern expression of ancient and transcultural aspirations to radically transform human existence, socially and bodily” … Continue reading
Blog #8. Transhuman Reflections
During the past three weeks, we have investigated a range of sources that touch on themes associated with transhumanism. Some of the assigned readings directly address links between emerging media, cyborg identity and the transhuman movement. Other readings at least anticipate these … Continue reading
Movie “Magic”
Bernard Dick defines a subjective shot as representing “what the character sees” (56). This means that the camera stimulates what the character is seeing so that the audience sees it as well. In one scene in The Graduate (1967), Benjamin … Continue reading
The Magic Behind the Curtain
For my first concept, I chose to explore the subjective camera. At one point in his article, Bernard Dick defines the subjective shot metaphorically as, “a one-sided take on reality”. However, the subjective shot is more easily understood by one of … Continue reading
Basic Film Techniques: Exhibit A
Subjective Camera: Dick defines the concept of the subjective shot/camera, as the shot that “represents what the character sees”, later explaining that it “offers a one-sided take on reality”(Dick 56). In other words, the subjective shot is captured as though … Continue reading
Girly..Girly..and More Girly
For my second blog of the class, I have chosen to pick three certain concepts to explain to everyone: subjective camera, American montage, and parallel cut. As you can guess from my title, the clips are very girly because I … Continue reading
The Subjective Superhero
Subjective Camera According to Bernard Dick, “an objective shot represents what the camera sees; a subjective shot represents what the character sees” (56). In other words, a subjective camera is like a first-person video game. In Call of Duty (Take … Continue reading
Demistifying Film Techniques (Well Some of Them at Least)
Long Take A long take is a an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting several minutes”, according to Wikipedia. This sort of take … Continue reading
“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” -Audrey Hepburn
Long Take: In the text, Bernard Dick describes a long take as a “shot that lasts longer than a minute” (p.95). It is a generally simple concept. I would explain it by saying that this type of shot is continuous, … Continue reading
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