lecture - 26-10-05

we went through roughly the history of the internet and dgital computing.

The web design history (found on http://www.innervisions.com.au/webhistory/)

The world wide web developed from a scientists interest to explore communication methods via the computer network. The web dates back to the early 1980's at CERN, an European high energy physics research facility. Tim Berners-Lee who did the initial development stage was interested in the ability to link academic papers electronically and to utilitise the internet to correspond to people in other laboratories around the world. Tim worked on the standard hypertext (html) language protocol and browser program which interrupts the html and converts it into screen based text. The first browser program was capable of viewing text documents only, but from a range of different computer platforms.

The internet had been in place since the late 1960's and utilised for data transfer between computers via the telephone network system. The data transfer was carried out by using TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/ internet protocol) which was developed by Advanced Research and Projects Agency. The TCP/IP was developed for US military reasons but was later utilised by academia in Universities.

Since the early 1980's, the web has developed at a very rapid rate and is now used by education, business, government and any other body interested in transferring electronic media around the world.

technology trends:
phones as jewelry
electronie paper - tablets
walkmans
hard drive - zip drives

lecture - 12-10-05

we went through what we through was Noir films and this is what we came up with:

• "noir" film means dark movie in French
• murder
• depression
• symbolic
• little narrative
• use of lighting (most of the set would eb in darkness)
• black and white film
• suspense

lighting:
key lighting -45 degrees in front of the subject
- also the main light

fill lighting - be hide the camera or to the side of the subject (45 degrees)

backlight - more lighting at the back ground.

genre of films:

• horror
  
• romantic
• acion
• comdey
• thriller
• sci - fi
• cult
• silent films
• others too

types of films that we know that could be "NOIR":

• psycho (hitchcock's)
• rebecca (hitchcock's)
• interview of a vampire
• sin city
• wizard of oz
• tooth fairy
• woman in black
  

lecture - 03-10-05

Today we watched a film by Matthew Barney called The Cremaster Cycle 3 The Order. We had a bit of a problem with the sound to the film at the beginning so we had to watch the beginning again after Neil fixed the sound for us.

The beginning of the film had a few women dancing or something in a fountain felled with bubbles. Then they were introducing all the characters to one of the 5 part film. The whole film from beginning to the end was just playing confusing I didn’t get it at all full stop. After the film when we where talking about it, it was when I kind off got the story of the film but its really a film that I will never ever watch because its not a genre of film that I would watch because there wasn’t real story that hits you at once whiles this film you would need to research the film to really understand the meaning and story to.