Friday, December 11, 2009
Day 5
I met with jeff again, at my house and we started by creating some background pictures, original and unique pictures, it is our style!, i have two computeres in my house a Desktop and a laptop and each of use grabbed one and worked on it for like about 10 hours, researching and making every power point perfec, at the end, which its now 5 pm we are done already, we have tried our presentation and it looks very good and attractive, we combined my slide shows with jeff's slides and we are all set to present, the next and almost final step will be to review and make a demo presentation and we'll be ready.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
paper 6 (2- Sleep Dealer)
Humans have developed different ways to interact with the physical world, they have created machines, which allow us to make our lifestyles easier with the possibility of making or being more successful in certain fields that required the absolute concentration and the unavoidable imagination that guide us to the creation of software, computers and all related networks in which we can connect the physical terrain with the virtual world, an example of this introduction can be seen in the movie Sleep Dealer by Alex Rivera, which interprets some of the actual social and political aspects of some Latin American countries, more concrete, Mexico, which shows the differences between urban and rural life and explains in a futuristic way how they are connected by different elements such as computers, the virtual world and militarized gates that keeps society in rural life away from totally freedom.
Sleep Dealer is obviously influenced by The Matrix and other films, cinematic aspects such as plot development, a love encounter between the protagonist and a girl he meets, who plays an important role, which is the responsible for the implants or “nodes” in Memo (The Protagonist) allowing him to interact with the virtual world, something that is very similar to The Matrix in which “Neo” also the protagonist is asked to help to fight “the agents” whose purpose is to shut down all the humans in the virtual world, also with the very common love story that connects both movies.
Silent racial issues can be identify as some factors that makes us think that color, race or background ethnicity preferences represents an important role in each film, because no matter how many people sees these films, they are designed to give a certain cultural message to interpret an actual problem or situation for which people are experiencing.
In addition to the similarities that connects the two film productions mentioned before, racial issues are present, sleep Dealer represents a crude reality in which Americans have the power to control the urban and even the rural life, with an ironic use of the technology by using militarized robotic and intelligent gates to control an essential mineral needed for the daily use of Santa Ana’s people, also by deeply analyzing the social activity we can realize that no other ethnic group of people were shown, it was only Mexican people around, from farmers to even the US pilot who flew the plane that killed Memo’s father and bombed the dam.
In comparison to Sleep Dealer, The Matrix whose racial issues were a little bit more complex and almost the opposite in a different way, the dominant race was white, we cannot tell if they were Europeans or Americans but the point here is emphasize that no other ethnic group was shown, meaning Hispanic/Latino characters, also with the very low percent of dark color people, in which in other words they were no more than four characters.
In Conclusion Sleep Dealer illustrates in a futuristic style the present reality that Mexico and even some third world countries such as Latin American nations are experiencing, militarized world marked by closed borders, poverty and the very common social class hierarchy in which the rich and powerful controls, uses and takes advantage of the poor, not educated and hard working people with needs. In a comparison with The Matrix, Racial Issues can be identify throughout the film in which ethnic elements such as color of the skin, scenario or even the Language, also plays an important role in identifying aspects that may also contribute to the racial ethnicity, meaning as I mentioned before, it is designed only for a certain group of people.
Sleep Dealer is obviously influenced by The Matrix and other films, cinematic aspects such as plot development, a love encounter between the protagonist and a girl he meets, who plays an important role, which is the responsible for the implants or “nodes” in Memo (The Protagonist) allowing him to interact with the virtual world, something that is very similar to The Matrix in which “Neo” also the protagonist is asked to help to fight “the agents” whose purpose is to shut down all the humans in the virtual world, also with the very common love story that connects both movies.
Silent racial issues can be identify as some factors that makes us think that color, race or background ethnicity preferences represents an important role in each film, because no matter how many people sees these films, they are designed to give a certain cultural message to interpret an actual problem or situation for which people are experiencing.
In addition to the similarities that connects the two film productions mentioned before, racial issues are present, sleep Dealer represents a crude reality in which Americans have the power to control the urban and even the rural life, with an ironic use of the technology by using militarized robotic and intelligent gates to control an essential mineral needed for the daily use of Santa Ana’s people, also by deeply analyzing the social activity we can realize that no other ethnic group of people were shown, it was only Mexican people around, from farmers to even the US pilot who flew the plane that killed Memo’s father and bombed the dam.
In comparison to Sleep Dealer, The Matrix whose racial issues were a little bit more complex and almost the opposite in a different way, the dominant race was white, we cannot tell if they were Europeans or Americans but the point here is emphasize that no other ethnic group was shown, meaning Hispanic/Latino characters, also with the very low percent of dark color people, in which in other words they were no more than four characters.
In Conclusion Sleep Dealer illustrates in a futuristic style the present reality that Mexico and even some third world countries such as Latin American nations are experiencing, militarized world marked by closed borders, poverty and the very common social class hierarchy in which the rich and powerful controls, uses and takes advantage of the poor, not educated and hard working people with needs. In a comparison with The Matrix, Racial Issues can be identify throughout the film in which ethnic elements such as color of the skin, scenario or even the Language, also plays an important role in identifying aspects that may also contribute to the racial ethnicity, meaning as I mentioned before, it is designed only for a certain group of people.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Blog >12<
The movie Sleep Dealer by its director Alex Rivera is an excellent cinematic example of a particularly “Latino” film in which we can identify the different aspects that contributes to the regular way of living of the “Latino”, especially Mexican society.
This movie, which I defined as a great film due to its special effects during explosions and its originally background setting such as the terrain at Santa Ana or the luxurious views of different US cities such as California and New York.
This great film illustrates in a futuristic style the present reality that Mexico and even some third world countries such as Latin American nations are experiencing, militarized world marked by closed borders, poverty and the very common social class hierarchy in which the rich and powerful controls, uses and takes advantage of the poor, not educated and hard working people with needs, that will do anything to help their families emphasizing in a more financially manner.
To support this, lets review the scene in which Memo and his father goes to the dam to look for water and are welcome by a militarized robotic gate in which they have to insert money in order to get a essential element for living such as water, and according to what his father says to him, the dim wasn’t there years ago, so this is a great example of how Sleep Dealer reflects a reality in a futuristic way.
This movie, which I defined as a great film due to its special effects during explosions and its originally background setting such as the terrain at Santa Ana or the luxurious views of different US cities such as California and New York.
This great film illustrates in a futuristic style the present reality that Mexico and even some third world countries such as Latin American nations are experiencing, militarized world marked by closed borders, poverty and the very common social class hierarchy in which the rich and powerful controls, uses and takes advantage of the poor, not educated and hard working people with needs, that will do anything to help their families emphasizing in a more financially manner.
To support this, lets review the scene in which Memo and his father goes to the dam to look for water and are welcome by a militarized robotic gate in which they have to insert money in order to get a essential element for living such as water, and according to what his father says to him, the dim wasn’t there years ago, so this is a great example of how Sleep Dealer reflects a reality in a futuristic way.
Blog >11<
The Museum of Moving Image is an ideal destination for students, regular people from all places, and specially for those who wants to get to know more about the history of film, the interaction with the past and present of cinematographic elements, reflects a truly motivated reality that teaches the art or techniques of movie photography, including both the shooting and development of the film.
It was a great idea to visit this museum, I personally hadn’t get the chance to step inside and pay a detail attention to different levels that we went through, from the first “Nickelodeon” machine followed by the actual sound animations and music that composes a scene, which gives the perfect emotion and sensations to the review of some of the most common visual special effects, which uses a green screen to create a desire background to give realism , authenticity and its original look that will be seen in a theater or even every TV at home which its going to raise the popularity rating of a movie, film or animation.
I think the tour experienced on November 25th was a perfect gateway to free our minds form the monotonous daily school routine, I am not meaning that I was tired of doing the same things at college, but in some way it helped me, and I think it also helped others, as I mentioned before, to escape for a day from the stressful daily routine and get the chance to learn form the past, present and to make us think and also realize that the future it’s going to be a really interesting place with the cinematic advance or progress of the film industry, in which I think in some how that in few years from now we will experience the movies in a more physical way rather than sitting down and only watch an animation, to support futuristic personal image, I am going to remind you’ll folks the artifact that we saw at the beginning of our tour to the museum, which in a simple concrete description it was a cone shaped pine made out of different objects hold in a specific distance which spun around in a synchronized way that when a flashing with light was turned on it created the illusion that the objects were falling down, I think and I have to admit that it made a great impression in myself, it was so cool for my eyes to experience that, I know it was just an illusion but my brain got it in some other way and I liked a lot, so, that’s why I say that according to the past illusion effects the future it’s going to be full of surprises for our senses.
In conclusion the Museun of moving image emblematize the different processes involved in producing, marketing, and exhibiting the moving image, with more than a thousand film and television artifacts, computer based interactive experiences, audio-visual materials, and demonstrations of professional equipment and techniques.
Thanks Dr. Jayson Smith for such enlightened tour that magnified my vision to the cinematographic industry of Film.
It was a great idea to visit this museum, I personally hadn’t get the chance to step inside and pay a detail attention to different levels that we went through, from the first “Nickelodeon” machine followed by the actual sound animations and music that composes a scene, which gives the perfect emotion and sensations to the review of some of the most common visual special effects, which uses a green screen to create a desire background to give realism , authenticity and its original look that will be seen in a theater or even every TV at home which its going to raise the popularity rating of a movie, film or animation.
I think the tour experienced on November 25th was a perfect gateway to free our minds form the monotonous daily school routine, I am not meaning that I was tired of doing the same things at college, but in some way it helped me, and I think it also helped others, as I mentioned before, to escape for a day from the stressful daily routine and get the chance to learn form the past, present and to make us think and also realize that the future it’s going to be a really interesting place with the cinematic advance or progress of the film industry, in which I think in some how that in few years from now we will experience the movies in a more physical way rather than sitting down and only watch an animation, to support futuristic personal image, I am going to remind you’ll folks the artifact that we saw at the beginning of our tour to the museum, which in a simple concrete description it was a cone shaped pine made out of different objects hold in a specific distance which spun around in a synchronized way that when a flashing with light was turned on it created the illusion that the objects were falling down, I think and I have to admit that it made a great impression in myself, it was so cool for my eyes to experience that, I know it was just an illusion but my brain got it in some other way and I liked a lot, so, that’s why I say that according to the past illusion effects the future it’s going to be full of surprises for our senses.
In conclusion the Museun of moving image emblematize the different processes involved in producing, marketing, and exhibiting the moving image, with more than a thousand film and television artifacts, computer based interactive experiences, audio-visual materials, and demonstrations of professional equipment and techniques.
Thanks Dr. Jayson Smith for such enlightened tour that magnified my vision to the cinematographic industry of Film.
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