Dear Meester B...
I was in Richfield on Tuesday working. I took pictures and made a booklet for a construction business...
Thursday's Videos:
Video Number 1: Computer generated holographic.
This technology was amazing because it all happened in front of our eyes. This technology can change the way we apply special affects into videos. All of the images were clear and created well, which made it all the more entertaining to watch. He likens these images to magic, which is "deception that we enjoy", and the audience must first suspend their disbelief in order to become open to the story.
This guy talked a lot about story, and I realized that without a story, nothing succeeds. You need to have something to first grasp your audience, you must pull them in. Without the audiences total interest and emotional attachment, none of those images would have been entertaining.
He said you must first imagine the role of the magician as a story teller, and that every trick is a story. Magicians deliberately exploit the way their audience thinks, which is how special effects in movies work. Special effects make the audience believe something is happening that is not, they are an illusion.
Magic tricks are like jokes, they lead us to an unexpected destination, and I feel like every successful story does just that. Stories are made to be shared, and they only continue to be shared when they entertain the audience.The audience must feel compelled to tell the story, to share the experience. In this modern world, stories are shared through email, facebook, blogs, twitter. Audience gathers around those mediums to hear the gripping stories. The better the story, the more it will be shared.
This brings me back to this technology. The graphics can help to create that story, as a new way of expressing ourselves. My biggest thought was how you could use a TON of juxtaposition with this. You could make the audience think that something was happening, and then place something not logical next to you.
Copyright:
This TED reminds me of "Everything is a Remake". The thing that intrigued me the most is how he presented his information. He used humor to get his point across, as well as hyperbole. He showed the exaggerated facts in a way that they seemed ridiculous how he presented them. This is a way of presentation that I hadn't before thought about. You can present the facts that the copyright mathematicians have determined to be true in a way that makes nobody believe them by simply adding some graphics and comparing those facts to things that people will conclude are jokes, which makes these facts come across as a joke.
We all think "yeah, copy right is bad, don't do it" but then we go out and do it anyways...
but how bad is copying?
These statistics, as the speaker portrayed, are a little over exaggerated. How can 1 song, a dollar on itunes, equate to be $150,000 of lost money for the industry?
The question is not how we can stop it, the question is how far human ethics will go to reach to protect artist's rights.
It is morally wrong to steal other people's creations, but this has been going on since the beginning of time.
I believe that evolution in all forms occurs when we take something and alter it, we make it evolve. The incline in technological advancements has improved at an increasing rate over these past few years because we now have the technology to improve technology.
As Carly just said "If I made something, I would be pissed if someone stole it...but if you made something cool, I would steal it".
I think everyone at sometime in their life has copied something that someone else has done.
I don't want to take anything that would offend anyone else or cause them to lose money...but most musical artists that have talent are wayyy better off than I am financially, so it is hard to feel too sorry.
Copyright gets me talking in circles, so I am going to stop now to prevent the cycle from continuing on.
Helicopter Robots:
This technology is really cool, but for some reason they creep my out a little bit. I was thinking of what me, the average person, could use robots for. I had an image of the robot delivering my homework to school, with a note attached that says "Please excuse Lauren from school today, she didn't feel like getting out of bed, so she sent me..."
Then the helicopter would go to all my classes, with the camera attached to the front. It would film my teachers talking, and at 2:15 it would maneuver out of this building back to my bed, where I would then watch my teachers in fast forward mode, pausing only for the 2 minutes of actual teaching they do. :)
(if you can't tell, I am a little fed up with coming to school...senioritis.)
These helicopters could be used to get footage for movies up high, when they usually have to use a REAL plane or helicopter to film. I don't know how much these cost...but it might be worth it to rent one of these to carry your camera instead of paying for you to accompany the camera on a real plane/helicopter.
The planes flying in formation really intrigued me, it would be cool to make a movie about these little robots invading the world...it doesn't sound like a million other movies that have already been made...right?
