11/05/2010

Digital bodies

There are differences between digital cinema and traditional filmmaking. Traditional filmmaking is aims to let audiences focus on a screen. Also that can't add motion-graphics in films. With the plots, those traditional filmmaaking are to provoke audiences emotions. In the other hand, digital cinema can display more than one image boxes in a screen. Some graphic boxes can be larger or smaller by transforming the messages behind the stories. As a result, the animations can help audiences to understand the meaning easily and deeply. Use Mission to Earth as an example, there are over voice effect through the whole story and there are 2 to 3 boxes in a screen that one is broadcasting the story while others are showing related graphics.  Audiences are not just sit here and watch the stories without any reflections.[1]





This reminded me an art from which called Fabric Art. Fabric art is a kind of art form that combining different patterns or textures of fabric to produce new art performances. Also fabric art is not only focus on fabrics, but also artists can draw on their art works.

[1]Lev Manovich, "What is Digital Cinema", in Peter Lunenfeld(ed.), The Digital Dialectic, p.172-173