Monday, December 21, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
Blog Post #4: Museum of Moving Image
One of the demos
I experienced with my group at the Museum of Moving Image was the Gif
maker. A few of the students stood in
front of a camera and made several different movements while pictures were
taken. Then the pictures were put
together to make a gif. It was
interesting to see how taking still images and putting them together can make a
moving image. Leading up to the Gif
maker we saw some of the old technology used to make moving images. There were models of some of the earliest
cameras ever made. They were extremely
bulky and heavy and some said they looked like trains. We also saw a zoetrope. A zoetrope is an animation device that
simulates motion by showing several pictures or drawings at different stages of
motion. Then when you spin the zoetrope
it looks like a moving image. The
particular zoetrope we saw showed us an image of someone running. It was interesting to see the old technology
compared to today’s technology. With
past technology the experience of watching a moving image could easily be
ruined. When using the zoetrope, if you
looked through the opening at the top, the illusion of motion was broken. You could see the images were actually just
photographs. Today it would be much
harder to ruin the illusion of motion with video.
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