Moving image

Thursday 20th October

Today we explored moving image and where it all began. Moving image developed from photography and is an illusion of movement, it began as a novelty and has gradually developed over the past 100 years to one of the most important elements of communication and entertainment. One of the first films to be captured was by the Lumiere brothers capturing a short film of a train pulling into the station in France at La Ciot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlb3XKjnZkE) When people first saw this video they were frightned that the train was coming towards them and ran away because they were so unfamiliar of moving image. For the first 30 years of film it was not possible to capture sound aswell as the moving image so instead non diagetic sound was seperatley recorded to assist the film. different sounds were used to illustrate what was happening in the different scenes.
Humerous phases of funny faces is is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in 1906 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dRe85cNXwg). Blackton used early stop-motion techniques to make a series of blackboard drawings appear to move and reshape themselves. The film is 20 frames per second and is regarded as the first animated film. 

Final cut pro is one of the various software facilities that allows you to edit and create your own video clips. After experimenting with some video clips to create my own, it is fascinating how much the program allows you to edit and create.
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technology has developed so much over the last 100 years that things that were seen as impossible then has been developed for everyone to use.

Today moving image is not discussed it is just accepted where it has become such a big part of everyday life yet it is continuously developing for example video mapping is a new form of moving image. It is a projection technique that that can turn almost any surface into a dynamic video display. Specialized software is used to warp and mask the projected image to make it fit perfectly on irregularly shaped screens. It has recentley become a very popular advertising technique an example of this is a Ralph Lauren's projection in Bond street and in New York last year (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ryMzZQICA&feature=related) at one point in the advert the building is turned into a 4D catwalk.