Lecture #2, Web Tech #2

Classical Narrative
Tragedy (PLATO)

6 key factors
1. Introduction • Accomplish Feel (essence) • Context
2. Exposition • Set a scene • Introduce characters
3. Development (Process) • Situation • Allude to conflict
4. Complication • Lives of the protagonists
5. Climax • The decisive moment of high suspense
6. Resolution • Sore spot : Hanging in the air (something unresolved) • Cultural: Matters are solved • Counter-cultural: Bad ending -> People cry (Appeal to emotion)

Generic Pleasure
Folklore or Horror or Slasher films • Ghosts have long hair and wear white (SEMIOTICS) •Visual Pleasure • Creative, inventive ways to make people die • Saw • Final Destination

Chronological VS. Chrono-logical
• Chronological o Linear – A to B to C, etc. Time in relation to space, Sequential
• Chrono-Logical • Challenge the logic of time, eg. Flashback

Takahiko Iimura
•Blinking (1970)
•Time Tunnel (1971)
•Man and Woman (1977)

Gary Hill Blind Spot (2003)
• Flickering video art, Affective • irritation
• Conceptual art - Concept more important than content

PRE – Fantasy – AFTER
• When does fantasy and reality begin?
Realm • Subconscious/ Unconscious • The dreams unconscious

Fantasy
•Escapism, escaping reality
•Reminiscence – past events, revisit
•Desire, Lust, the DEVIL, Oedipus Complex

Response • Emotional • Intellectual

Abstraction
• Take the essence from different parts and put them together • A million hints = a single sensation • A single sensation = a million responses

Methods of Montage
1. Metric 2. Rhythmic 3. Tonal 4. Intellectual 5. Overtonal

Other notes:
Negativity reverse = positivity • Content delivering the concept • TEXT = what you can read (from a film, etc.) • "When the ‘want’ (desire) is fulfilled, fantasy dies" Persistence of vision • Persistence of memory • Time displacement

August 12, Thursday
Rashid's lecture = A lot of things learnt!

In web tech class, we watched a short video on TED.com, and did a short exercise where we had to gather information about various topics about Web 2.0 and thats it :/