Making the Future

The making of the Roman Scene

The making of the Medieval Scene

Group Ideas

Thinking about our group project, we are beginning to throw more thoughts around and come to a conclusion about what topic to make our movie about. Evolution is one of the main ideas at the moment, and how people have changed, and how people are going to change due to technology. The video posted as "Technological future: Human Evolution" shows man using technology to create people/robots which have senses. Scary thought!!!!

The Misty Brat Waves and Bows!

I've been playing around today with windows movie maker, and this is what I produced with only using still pictures:




What do you think?? If you know how I can approve it, then please let me know how! I'm a movie maker beginner!!

What constitutes a worthwhile performance?

Performance today has a much greater meaning than just theatre, television and cinema shows. Performance is in our everyday life. Every person begins a performance as soon as they leave the house (if it has not began already).

Ning is a website that is linked to on the blog, which allows people to join social networks that interest them, similar to Facebook. The issue of Facebook has been discussed in recent seminars, and how people perform on there, by only showing what they want people to see, and deciding what and who to allow onto their site. I don’t think it is only websites such as Facebook and Ning where people perform in this way. People perform like this in everyday real life. Appearance is an aspect of performance. You decide what you want to wear, and a lot of people decide what to wear, based on what they think other people would like to see them in. Although you may wear clothes you like, many people, consciously or subconsciously, also wear clothes to impress other people. When meeting new people, you decide what you want them to know about you, and decide what you want to keep secret from them. People perform on Facebook just as they do in real life.

The weird and wonderful blog list displays a shortlist of what is thought to be the most ‘worthwhile’ blogs voted by Metro. ‘the more compelling, unpredictable and unique, the better’, is that what makes a worthwhile perofrmance?

Whether a performance is worthwhile or not, I believe is down to the individuals of the audience and their personal preferences. There is not going to be a performance that is agreed by each and every member of the audience to be worthwhile. Performances can gain a higher status by appealing to more people, and the majority of the audience finding the performance worthwhile. Don R Hall’s website entitled ‘an Angry White Guy in Chicargo’ posts comments about performances that he does not find worthwhile. Although he finds some things unsuited, he explains that in some of the shows, most people in the audience enjoy the performance, which would make the performance appear worthwhile even though he does not agree.

The ‘High court footage’ on YouTube is an example of people performing. As are the ‘Top Ten Shock Blogs’. Even though these acts are not very pleasant and are seen by most people as unacceptable, the people that carried out these actions and placed the footage onto the Internet obviously wanted to share them with other people. These are not seen as worthwhile performances because the majority of people don’t think they are. However the individuals who did this obviously had a reason for doing it and thought other people would find them worthwhile.

Worthwhile performances

What are worthwhile performances?? Performances we like? Have an interest in? What we should be watching? Performances which are popular? Performances which have meaning?? An idea of worthwhile performances, are videos which are posted on facebook. People post videos to their friends funwalls. The performances must be worthwhile if people are wanting to share them with their friends. The video posted above called 'The Annoying Devil' was posted to me with the quote 'Probably the funniest video I've ever seen!! FACT!' Watch it!!

Barbie Girl Animation

This week's group meeting with Tiffany, Tamsyn and myself, we tested out our initial ideas of filming and editiing toys to make a short film. We used two different teddys and tested out our ideas by swiflty filming the characters in different positions and then putting them together to create a small animation. We have decided to use barbies as it would be easier for us to film the characters in different positions and arrangements. The new videos on the left are there to show you the principles of our ideas.

Cool computer program

Look at the video attached on the left called "Cool computer program".

What entitles this computer program to be cool?

Is it because it's new and exciting? Because it can show and work things out instantly? Much faster than the avaerage human mind. Because it can show us what will happen without us having to try and test ourselves?

New Technology.........is that what cool is?

Sneed - another word for 'Cool'

Is this really cool?

This week we have been discussing the term 'Cool'. What is cool and what is uncool? Who decides what is and isn't cool? In my blog I have started to use the word sneed, which is not an actual word and to be honest I don't have a definition for it. However I guess the word 'sneed' relates to the word 'cool' when using the term as I have done in my blog to find 'sneedingly good' performances. But what is a cool performance??

Sneed

You may well be wondering what I mean by 'sneedingly' good performances. Sneed is a word which my housemate conjured up one day and has stuck within our vocabulary since. It hasn't really got a meaning to be honest. In this concept I guess it's an eqivalent to amazing or interesting. In this blog, I intend to post videos and recordings of certain performances that interest me and catch my attention.