Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Chapter 13: Aspects of Time

The chapter touched on many different things when a designer is crafting some design or art exhibit that is dependent upon time. Mostly this is thought about in the sense of movies and cartoon shorts, well that's what I think of right away. Essentially it described various ways in how different elements shape a piece and help form it to making some sense or not sense. That there are many things to think about one is the time or duration something is, that a short clip acts much differently than one that is drawn out in a lengthy process. Also the way things are portrayed the angle the camera sees, and what is not seen. Basically there are a lot of different things a person needs to think about before they even reach music which can be helpful but if the rest of the film does not follow with the mood in the rest then it will be off in a sense with things feeling out of place.

The one thing that stood out a lot was basically using the example of Schindler's List and explaining how it worked. That in the movie it followed a repetition of the black and white picture. However, that repetition stopped at times to show and highlight a very significant thing and draw the viewer into looking in that area. Also in the chapter it talked about the chronological order of things going in according to the designer that it is normally viewed in a linear fashion by an audience and if you chose to go out you need to make sure to give clues to the audience that the time has moved around. This stood out to me because I have to tell my moo many times what just happened every time in a movie when the movie moves forward or back in time.

I do ascribe to the notion that it is important to realize in any piece the time in which it is being displayed. Whether this is in the morning or night, or dependent upon very recent events around the world. That someone would view something differently after looking at it for an extended period of time or after a couple of days and go back a piece can speak differently to someone.

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