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I arrived to the MOMI a bit late on Wednesday and got to experience the tail end of a demo in stop motion. What stood out to me was the Farel Fount rotating stop motion sculpture. Gregory Barsarnian used a strobe light to create motion with his sculpture inspired by his dream. The rotating sculpture to the naked eye looks like many sculptures on a rotating cylinder, but with the addition of the strobe light the sculptures turn into motion and you see a water drop turn into a bomb and then a paper airplane before landing in the dish rack (imagery inspired by Barsarnian’s dream). I feel like this piece illustrates how motion/stop motion works very well. How you need many small moving parts to create the illusion of motion. And also a fragment of a second between each “frame” (the strobe light) for the eye to read the change in size and shape as motion. We also played with sound effects and adding different effects to famous movie scenes. We redid the sound to a scene in the Terminator...

MEDIA 160 BLOG 3 Analyzing a Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsiqCAL-9SU For Blog 3 I’ve chosen to analyze Episode 2 of Broad City on youtube titled “Abbi Gets Back into Pot”. The clip begins with a title card saying “previously on”, then cuts to an exterior shot of apartment windows at night time. It then cuts to a medium two shot of the main characters Abbi and Illana sitting on a couch. It then cuts to a title card for the show with music. Then it cuts to another medium shot of the girls on the couch but more of an over the shoulder shot from Illana’s side of the couch, and zooms in on Abbi’s reaction. The next shot is a closer two shot, with around 30 degrees of an angle change from the previous shot, but still on Illana’s side of the couch. It’s filmed handheld so within the shots throughout the show the camera person will zoom in on reactions of Abbi. There’s another CU cut to Abbi before finally they cut to a POV of what their watching on TV. Then back to a CU of Ill...

sound walk out my window I listen to my neighborhood between 8am-9am. The swooshing of many cars passing by, slowly, one after the other. There is a distant hum that hangs over the neighborhood that grows louder by 9 o clock. Planes pass by over head with their whirling jets. Little kids cackle on the street on their way to school. There is a high pitched squeak as some cars break at the stop light. The sounds of the cars passing is wet from the rain last night. A tapping of the hammer across the street makes a light, almost delicate percussive sound. Like a bell. In the foreground is where I hear the cars and people walking by on the streets. The soggy footsteps of people below. In the distance horns honk at a stressful pace. Another plane goes by over head. Different cars sound different. The low rumble of a giant truck and the quick zip of a compact automobile. The automobiles being more elegant while the truck feels like you can hear it from a mile away. Sometimes the planes so...

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