This interdisciplinary seminar uses creativity as an organizing principle. Human culture and consciousness are explored through reading, writing, the arts, projects, studios, and discussions. An emphasis will be placed the cultural artifact know as the movies or film or the cinema or motion pictures or flicks or history written in lighting, etc. Students will explore the basic building blocks of this cultural phenomenon, business giant, and central art form of the twentieth century.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
How many of you have seen Coraline? It is a movie that is done entirely in stop-motion. It has won academy awards and golden globes. Stop-motion is one of those things that is just outrageous to think about. Also, the acting is done solely by the tiny characters created- with just voices needed from actual actors. There was even a person specifically hired to knit miniature sweaters (the needles were as tiny as human hair"--said the behind the scenes)! The soundtrack was also superb, sidenote. But, the fact is, if the editors and people making the scenes hadn't been good at their jobs, the movie could have been a flop. There weren't actors to mess it up but a director and a whole bunch of a production crew. It is so interesting to see nowadays with any kind of animated movie whether it be animation or claymation or whatever, there are still aspects of there actually being a camera there. Over the shoulder, over the head, birds eye view, etc. It is another interesting fact about this movie being brilliant. There are several scenes where you'd think there was actually a camera crew filming.
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i love this movie!
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