Digital games

According to the film, what are some pros and cons of playing video-games for individuals and societies?

Pros:

According to the film, playing video-games is good for children to learn more and to inspire their thinking. As they need to deliberate strategies during the gaming and it will enhance the use of brain. Otherwise, playing video games could provide a way for adults to release their stresses. Because of video game is the way to entertain.  You and Your friends could sit at the room play for whole day and didn’t go out. It will easier to concentrate a group of people to play and discuss such activities. So it will boost up large profits towards the economy of countries.

Cons:

It is easily addicted for some people, like the teenagers who have less ability on judgments about wrong and right. Since teenagers are difficult to control themselves, the addiction of video games will cause such problems to the society, like some of the teenagers will hide themselves at home without working and studying.

According the film, is there any evidence that digital games can encourage aggressive values and anti-social actions in the real world? Do you agree?

The film actually mentioned some of the criminal which also happened in the reality. For example, the players are holding a gun to shoot some of the “bad man” and they will repeat it thousands of times. Honestly, the film will promote some of the aggressive values in the real world; maybe they will imitate the way to shoot people or to murder people. In my own view, it must have some reasons to arouse violence behaviors such as family background, unhappy childhood experiences and so on. Therefore, we cannot simply judge the digital games will enhance aggressive values in the real world.

Should governments have the right to ban certain games? Why or why not?

I think that the governments should have the tight to ban it. If the government does not control the contents of games, it will cause a great disaster towards the society and morality. The players of video games are mainly target on teenagers and the majority of them are not mature enough to judge the right and wrong.

Animation and CGI in cinema

What are the Pros and Cons of Computer Generated Imagery?

Pros:

Use of the computer generated imagery could easy to cope with different aspects to produce film. Especially for the science fictions, we can use of it to make the film more fantastic and turn the reality to a dreamland. It also creates more opportunists for producers to bring their newly concepts into full play and to display a totally different world on the eyes of audiences.

As we all known that those films are difficult to produce it without the use of computer technologies. Because of the spectacle almost not found in the reality, so the skill could make it more realistic, for example to

Cons:

The films made by CGI more liked an invented world which something will not happen at the real world. In the films, the function of actors are less influenced than the traditional one since it mostly depended on CGI to make screen more stately to arouse audiences’ surprised. So the crucial ingredients of film to stir up audiences’ emotions, included the technique of CGI rather than those excellent acting of actors. To stir up emotions are the main reason for a film to become popular and better. CGI will definitely reduce the importance of actors, such as their excellent acting only being a supporting or minor role to the film.

Will Computer Generated Imagery make actors obsolete? Yes or No? Why?

No, I think the actors still having existence value in film market. Although CGI advocated presenting the great contrasts between the real and visual world, actors still are the most crucial elements to arouse audiences’ emotions. Since their own dictions and gestures will give energetic life to the character and audiences will sink into to follow actors’ emotion. For example, they will drop into film’s plot and being with actors to experience different emotions and things. When I watched “One Day”, I always been sunk into it and experienced the fluctuated emotion of actress. It reflected that the actors still having their own functions to boost the quality of films.

Should digital characters be nominated for acting awards competing with humans?

It is not the same. As digital cinema are the team of professionals who good at the use of CGI and with a narration to use his voice to tell the story. It also consumes a great amount of sources and manpower to produce film. It is not the same situation of traditional film have a well and clarify division of labors among each parts of production.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of motion capture?

Advantages:

It will reduce time-consuming in order to control the quantity of capture as it could count the times more exactly. So the practice of capture will be less. And the techniques of CGI will have more perfectly quality than the traditional one.

Disadvantages:

Firstly, the costs of motion capture will be huge. Since it must contains advanced computer technologies, liked the expensive software system and professional to control it. Obviously, it is not suitable for small scale productions as the costs are great in amount, only large enterprises have efforts to bear it. Secondly, the harmony of human actors and motion capture are difficult to match up.

Should animation strive for photorealism?

Animation just really different the reality because of the animation always pursuit artificial beauty and provide a fantastic landscape to the audiences. It is really different to the cinema film. Since those films want to mode a real situation for audiences to sink into the plot and have experiences with it more easier.  

Mission to Earth

What is new or different about this example of digital cinema when compared with

Traditional ways of telling a story

Mission to earth was the example of soft cinema which was totally different from traditional cinema. It was made in an unusual way than the traditional one since the audiences though two or three or even more images showing at the screen in the same time. The traditional cinema only presented the main ideas of film rather than to show different images to viewers, it almost focused on the plot or the action of characteristics. But the Mission to Earth always presented the images without dialogues and only has a narration to tell the story which will result in a larger space for audiences to imagine more conceptions. For the traditional one, they seldom used this way to show the details of film.    

Constructing a film

The elements of constructing a traditional film included plot, characteristics, melody, diction, thought and so on. For the digital cinema, we don’t need some characteristics to present the plot and just having a narration to tell the story in order to inspire the audiences to have more imagination on the film.

  

What other art (film, digital art, painting etc) does this film remind you of?                        

It could promote the new skills of digital cinema to the general public and let more audiences to have a deep cognition on digital cinema. It also reminded me when I watching this film liked reading comics, a series of images combined together to organize a brand new story.

Wrap up- central question for Manovich –what can this new medium do?

New medium could simplify the production of film-making so that could promote it to the general public. As all we known that, the production of film-making consumes lots of resources, liked huge human resources and capital and so on. It was definitely reflected the truth that film production couldn’t make it individually and must corporate with different kinds of aspects. New medium obviously beneficial to the film production such as having a great invocate on making film more easily.

Modern Times: Pros & Cons of cinema

In the video clips, Chaplin was a worker in the factory. Chaplin and other workers really like a robot under the control of machine which ensured the quantity of production. They need to repeat thousand times of actions to cooperate with the machines and practice it non-stop to ensure the quantity of production. The CCTV

In a couple of paragraphs, summarize the way that Chaplin is affected by new technology in the beginning of the film Modern Times.

In the video clips, Chaplin was a worker in the factory. Chaplin and other workers really like a robot under the control of machine which ensured the quantity of production. They need to repeat thousand times of actions to cooperate with the machines and practice it non-stop to ensure the quantity of production. The CCTV  System always made the eyes on the workers; it made them under the great stress. Since they practice the same action thousands time of a day and the testing of “Lunch machine”, the machine driven Chaplin got crazy and he can’t control himself which recognized everything liked the products he made. It was not only sincerely reflected that the machine not just harm the physically of the body, but also damaged the mentally part of human. Because of the new technology, it definitely enhanced the quantity of products which beneficial to the boss, but it ignored the physically and mentally requirements of workers.

       

Then discuss any similarities or differences in the way you experience common digital technologies such as computers and the Internet.

Similarities:

We made a great rely on the digital technologies in the 21^st century. Liked the video clips, we tried to make use the technologies to beneficial our daily life, such as every day when I wake up, the first I do must to check the new feed of Facebook in order to follow friend’s status, or to check the e-mail to update the news of campus and so on. You can see that everything around us nearly all related to digital technologies, the most common phenomenon is that the majority of us always hold an intelligent mobile on hand, rather on working or standing in MTR. It absolutely reflected that we can’t live without digital technologies and when we leave it will cause a great inconvenience in our daily life.

Differences:

The differences between Chaplin and us are the digital technologies bring us a great convenience among our daily life but it made Chaplin got crazy. The main reason of the differences because of we enjoy to use the digital technologies to beneficial our life, liked we could easy to search and make use of the information in the internet and always made us being relax while using the internet. But the digital technologies made Chaplin into disaster; he was under the control of machine which got him in a great stress and even though made him being crazy. It can clearly be seen the improvement of digital technologies

System always made the eyes on the workers; it made them under the great stress.

Since they practice the same action thousands time of a day and the testing of “Lunch machine”, the machine driven Chaplin got crazy and he can’t control himself which recognized everything liked the products he made. It was not only sincerely reflected that the machine not just harm the physically of the body, but also damaged the mentally part of human. Because of the new technology, it definitely enhanced the quantity of products which beneficial to the boss, but it ignored the physically and mentally requirements of workers.

       

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