CIN270Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Photorealism, Digital Imaging, Lucasfilm

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Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017
CIN270Y1
CLASS 2.17
Entertainment and Dystopia
Why was there a turn to animation?
Data Processing
The Ethnographic Photographer processing data in the form of fiction
This real world has been translated into a fiction; the “ethnographic imagination”
“cognitive mapping”
popular films are made in part from “deposits of reality”
they begin with deposits of “data”
The Obsolescence of Movies?
The advent of the digital: a source of anxiety (why? No longer a photo reality)
The possibility or manipulation or modification
Once converted into information, any image can be altered
Reordering images, changing pixels (easy to modify and alter mediums now)
The Obsolete
“animated” films: “deposits of reality”?
lens-based photography gathers deposits of data
but “Drawing” has no need for cameras
similarly, CG images need hardware and software for their creation…not cameras
“cinema” appears obsolete in this case
Death of Cinema: Or, Relocation of Movies?
Cinema: part of a larger history of moving images
“photographic” cinema is ONE episode in this history
18th Century moving pictures were manually made (drawings)
their animation meant physically moving (“animating”) them halting, jerking, irregular
movements
Back to the Future: The Relocation of Movies
Digital imaging recommits to “the artificial”
this is less a “death of cinema” than a resumption of earlier practices
nevertheless, “cinema” remains a fixture in such works…why?
Why do Pixar movies strive for photo-realism?
Can animation retain some link to reality?
Remediation
Data processing…with a difference
Animated texts (Pixar texts) draw from popular American myths and symbols
Previous films, stories and pop culture
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