Richland Digital Video Fall 2018

Hito Steryl brings up an interesting argument that the internet is not what it used to be when it was first introduced. Back in the 90's the internet was meant to facilitate communication around the world and to have easier access to information. While that part is still true today, the part that's dead is the privacy part. In 2013, we learned that the U.S government could listen to what you are saying over the phone. This raised a lot of speculation as to what extent the government watches us. We have probably been watched by the government since the Internet was introduced in the 90's, however we were not aware of it. The moment we discovered we don't have as much privacy the Internet died.

I really enjoyed this article. I think that it may have been my favorite one this far. I like all of the analogies, puns, ideas, angles and predictions. They had a good point. Although internet seems endless, it also has a certain degree of limitation. Although it seems free, it also has a lot of restriction and supervision. It is disappointing that everything is under surveliance and tracked. Even commerical agencies track you so that they can advertise the type of products that you enjoy. That is disappointing and scary. Youtube even makes you watch ads related to things that they know you are interested in. Some web sites will not even let you view their articles if you do not enable cookies and allow them to dig their fangs into you.  I loved the end about how they think that the internet should be a living creature. I know this is clique but that made me think of the matrix. The article mentioned that although the internet is manmade, humans do not play the entire role. The...

To quote the reading, the internet, as far as I'm concerned, is not dead, but "all over". As time passed since the creation of the internet and with the building of multiple websites, the internet hasn't died, but has become such a part in our life that it's almost second nature. Once you go online for the first time, you're so enamored that you can hardly pull yourself out, and even if you manage to, it's still affecting you one way or the other. Cinema has also evolved and equally become nature to us, generating technology for TV, home media, Apple products, etc. The main problem is that people are watching . On a lot of sites, if you got an account, you can mess up with copyright or other things. Whether it's the government making sure you're following the laws or if it's some salesman website trying to scam someone, the point is that the internet is being watched and with things like copyright on the list, they're making sure you f...

Hito Steyerl Hito Steyerl talks here about a mental or spiritual death that the internet undergoes. In fact, the internet (when introduced in 1983) was this very new and innovative thing, now it is just something mainstream that is part of our daily life. I would say that it lost it's magic. Internet used to be a place to achieve knowledge and was supposed to stay a very practical way of getting informations or communicat. However, it is now a business that is governed by overpowered corporations that abuse it's power in order to make a propaganda use out of it. Is the Internet dead ? No, it did not die, but it lost its life.

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When I read this I had a rather hard time understanding the specifics of what exactly he was trying to get across. His old vernacular was somewhat hard for me to comprehend but from what I could understand he was intricately explaining the different methods of shooting series of events in varying fashions, and using different techniques to drive the storyline and invoke certain feelings based upon the way you chose to shoot the events.

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worse disaster in history, causing over 3,668 deaths in it's wake.  Many people lacked homes and mourning the lost of their love ones. Me and a few of my friends were lucky. My memory of events are blurry at best though. I never experienced a hurricane before and my parents had explained, but it wasn't much to tell how bad it got. All I recalled, was my parents moving my brother and I around. It was raining and thundering when we left. On the first night before the Hurricane worsened, we spent the night with a family friends and others at their house. I didn't get much sleep. The wind was so strong, it made the front door shake on it's hinges. I had been so terrified before someone managed to coax me to get some rest. In the morning, Dad said they gave the go ahead to bring us to a shelter at his job. I can't remember what the streets looked like as we went, but I remember the first night. We were in a hot room with other families ...

1. Insomnia can be stressful because of the waiting, I look at the clock and I realize its been and hour, two hours five hours of waiting. Its morning, a new day and all I want is to sleep. Just one hour or at the very least 30 minutes. 2. As I lay in bed I toss and turn one way or another (I need a pillow or two. Never mind no pillows. Its too hot, no it cold). I need a new bed. 3. I get ready for bed and I start dreading the sleepless hours ahead of me. Suddenly there is lighting. A storm approaches. The sound of rain is like music to my ears. Its the sweetest reassurance that I will get some rest. 4. When I know I wont be getting any sleep and I don't fight it anymore. I focus on being productive or do the things I love like reading or painting. I'll sleep when I am exhausted. 5. I know how to shut up, but  my brain can't do the same. I close my eyes and I see a slideshow of images and thoughts. They are all smushed together making no sense but being succe...

Starting at college,  after a hard deal of work and changing my transcript a few times, I managed to finally started working towards the classes that I needed to focus on the most. Along the way, I realized that I had a knack for art , both digital and hand-drawn. I never thought that I would be good at art in any sense since I never showed that much interest before, but I was pleasantly surprised by how good I was. Things eventually took their course in a bit of an order. I started going through the first sketches just off the top of my head, some that I made before coming to Richland. After a while, I started doing larger sketches on paper or adding texture to a sketch, mainly for class assignments. Then I started working with color and ink, eventually having a talent for using pastels, which earned me awesome grades. Then I moved onto digital work, using programs like Photoshop to make things more interesting. Before coming to college, I made a few drawings, but the best of...

When I read this, I had a very hard time understanding anything. During class we discussed that it was about film editing, particularly Eisenstein methods of editing. It seems like he was trying to look at film in a more mathematical and scientific way. There are five main methods of editing. As a visual learner I think this video can further explain what Eisenstein was talking about. https://youtu.be/NtnTs90knro

Eisenstein talks about different techniques in which a film could be edited to have better flow and transitions between scenes. He talks about how the action in the scene should match the beat of the song playing in the background to give it rhythm and create an atmosphere. Also having a group of shots that are related to each other to make the allusion of a linear movement or action. I believe his methods are interesting and would like to use them in a future video for this class or another class.

In this reading, Eisenstein talks about different techniques of montage. He says that there is a relation between the beat of the music and the way a movie is edited. In fact, the pattern in which the cuts are made create a certain kind of beat which creates a rhythm that the ones who are watching can feel. The tone is also very important in editing because it is about capturing emotions and  through editing so that we can feel it and therefore always feel like the story or passage is always coherent. Even though he talks about techniques that are impossible, he tries to make everything possible and perfect by using some science. I agree with him that there should be some rule slike this but I also think it art should be free and anyone can do what they feel needs to be done in order to transmit what they want and not based on standards.This is what makes art exceptional for me.

I saw this reading as very informative as it demonstrated and explained different sorts of montage. I've been working on montage before, such as a demo reel for Photoshop or my take on the recent Camera Exercise we did, but I never knew that there were so many details involved. Reading and re-reading this piece, I had a hard time figuring out the full scope of this one, but it seemed like it was telling not only the type of work involved in making montage, but also it's compared to the views of other forms of montage and their respective appeals . Overall, this story has the message to me that montage could end up asking for a certain rhythm to the pieces, shots, and stills that are involved to entice the reader, such as making a story, following a pattern, or showing off a gallery of sorts.

I honestly had a very difficult time comprehending this reading. I did decipher it a bit and it seemed like the psychology and science of montage was being discussed and dissected. I think they were trying to say that often film plays off the patterns of the human mind in ways that can benefit the film.  It talks about ways film can have patterns and direction, and the ways it can be chaotic and emotional.