The Medium 03 Flashcards
For Scott Tobias, what does Gravity’s use of CGI reflect?
The limitations of technology - it is a wild ride with great spectacle, but also superficial.
“Amusement ride”
For Len Manovich, how does the use of CGI reflect where cinema is going? What sense of so-called ‘realism’?
More realistic… CGI images often had to be downgraded to match the quality produced by celluloid.
CGI reflects a post-human perspective of reality… More ‘real’ and more ‘faithful’… [albeit an inhuman reality]
Indexicality is increasingly plastic; CGI offers an un-impassioned and objective consideration of the ‘world’.
Briefly name the author of the article on cyborgs, the name of that article, and a general idea of what is discusses.
Claudia Springer; “The Pleasure of the Interface”
Speaks about how the sexualized cyborg reflects our fears and fascinations concerning the future of technology and its influence of mankind. (The Union of technology and man - consciousness, but also loss of body…) fears displaced onto the sexualized, often female, form.
For John Berger, what does film reflect?
It embodies, or reflects, a way of seeing/represents.
- contains the attitude of the person (often director) behind the camera.
so-called “realism” in computer graphics refers to what?
Where the computer image is indistinguishable from a photograph.
Who is the idea of cinematic realist first and foremost associated with?
Andre Bazin
As opposed to Bazin, __ writes that Brodwell and Staiger attribute the changes in cinematic technology what?
to production factors; efficiency, differentiation, maintenance of a stand of quality… [one goal of which is striving to greater ‘realism’]
Lev Manovich suggests that a common opinion about 3D animation is mistaken. What is this and what does her assert in its stead?
The assumption is that computer graphics are not yet as “realistic” in rendering visual reality as images obtained through a photographic lens… This, he suggests, is mistaken. Rather, synthetic photographs are TOO REAL.
Manovich suggests that what computer graphics have almost achieved is not realism but _____
Photorealistic.. ability to fake our experience of the photographic image of reality (not reality itself)
What does Manovich suggest is the case concerning the vision of a digital grid? Not inferior but ____
That synthetic imagery is not an inferior representation of our reality but a realistic representation of a different reality; a cyborg body yet to come… Synthetic photograph points to a future event (as opposed to a past one)
What are the qualities, for Manovich, of the perfect cyborg vision?
Free of noise, capable of grasping infinite detail (not pixels but vectors?)
What is cinema’s identity? (Manovich). What is this identity being replaced by?
It has an identical identity; temporal and special; trying to make art out of a footprint… A record…
CG is replacing this notion; it is no longer an index oval media but, rather, a sub genre of painting - of manufacturing ‘reality’…
In digital filmmaking, what two important distinctions collapse?
Creation and modification; each pixel is malleable; changeable, it is now all animation…
Michael Allen mentions a technique in the use of CGI alongside live-action footage. What is this?
Using CGI alongside real footage, to extend the real and reconfirmed by the real… A strategy used inorder to convince the viewer of the reality of an object/scene. Repairs and skepticism about believeability
