Moving Images

Moving images: past, present, future

History of moving images

Courtesy Kacey Morrow

Frame Rates

Main takeaways:

• Moving images are made up of a bunch of still images played back fast

• The frame rate, measured as a unit of time (frames per second / fps) tells you how many still images are being filmed and/or played back per second

• We will use 24 fps to shoot. Common exceptions include slow motion, timelapses, the "Chungking Express" effect, etc.

  • Slow motion: film at higher fps (48, 60, 120, etc), played back at regular fps (24)

  • Timelapses: film at higher fps (1, 6, 12, etc), played back at regular fps (24)

Everything You Need to Know About Frame RatesStudioBinder

More context for the Studio Binder video

The birth of video

Sony Portapak: How a New Artistic Medium was createdArtland Magazine

Nam June Paik (left), Shigeko Kubota (right)

The DSLR "revolution"

The Canon 5D MKII

The Short History of the DSLR Video RevolutionOrig Media

Tangerine and 10 other iPhone films

Tangerine (2015)

11 Movies Shot on iPhones, From ‘Tangerine’ to a Charming Short By Michel GondryIndieWire

Media literacy today

Computational images

• iPhone portrait mode,

• Dall-e/Midjourney/ChatGPT,

• asset marketplaces that automate compositing and VFX like Adobe Stock, Motion Array, Storyblocks

AI image generators from text prompts

DALL·E 2OpenAI

MidjourneyMidjourney

Google Colaboratory

Craiyon, formerly DALL-E miniCraiyon, formerly DALL-E mini

Data reasoning in a digital world

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/

Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital Worldcallin_bull

Above examples from UoW course and book Calling Bullshit

Compositing, layers, VFX