Extra Credit

Im hoping this extra credit will be sufficient, but i attened the Silicon Valley Contemporary art Festival which had so much to look at! There were countless mediums being used (even animation!) and i spent half the day just wandering around, enjoying the strange, wacky and really amazing art everywhere!

Extra Credit: Lighting a Scene in Maya

THIS FIRST SHOT IS 3 POINT LIGHTING

THIS SECOND SHOT IS 1 POINT LIGHTING

THIS 3RD SHOT IS 2 POINT LIGHTING :)

Recreating Cameras and Lights in Maya.

origional:

Here are my attempts:

stop motion character animation

Stop motion character animation
 Joon bak and i sat down and shot around some story ideas until we settled on a story we liked. We then story boarded our ideas, found props and scouted locations. We used an I-phone to shoot the move together and edited our footage using Photoshop, quick time and adobe premier.

Science Fact of Cinematic Fiction

Since the dawn of time, humans have been fascinated by the cosmos. It makes sense that space and the unknown would be a popular topic of film. There are so many opportunities for wonderful adventures through space, fantastic rocket ships that take us to uncharted territories, crazy space suites that help us explore the surfaces of strange planets, what is not to like? But today we know much more about space than we did even just a few years ago. This new found knowledge gives cinematographers the ability to make even more fantastic and realistic films. Along with the ability to make the physics within these films more life like and accurate, this knowledge can create room for mistakes as well. For example, in numerous movies set in space there is the existence of sound. Sound travels by vibrating particles. We see (or should I say hear) this on earth very well because the earth has oxygen. Oxygen particle are dense and everywhere and therefore serve as a great medium for sound to travel upon. But space is more ore less a vacuum meaning there are particles but significantly less of them. This means that although technically sound is able to travel through space, the human ear is unable to detect it. This is a known fact but despite this, films and tv shows like Star Wars Episode 6, Wall-E and Star Trek Nemisis use sound incorrectly for cinematic value.

The Star Wars sagas has been immensely popular since they first came out in 1977. There are countless things to love about these films, but an especially entertaining part of these films would be the fantastic space ship chases with loud explosions and darting lasers. As popular and entertaining as these films are, this simply isn’t possible. At least what we hear during these sequences is not. A great example of the missuses of sound in a Star Wars film is Episode 6, Return of the Jedi. There is a scene in which Luke Skywalker is taking on the task of destroying the death star from his space craft. During this process his ship is chased about the surface of the death star by enemy ships, all the time both Skywalker and his opponents are being shot at (loudly). Skywalker even destroys a few enemy ships which result in numerous explosions. Finally, the Death Star is destroyed in a giant booming explosion! Unfortunately for cinematographers, in real life, this explosion would go unheard. One could argue that this film does not take place in our universe so therefor, perhaps sound could exist in the space of Star Wars. But we can agree if these ships existed in the skies above Earth, they would be silent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQFrl5rpXMg

A large part of the beloved film Wall-E takes place in space as well. This film also takes place on the surface of Earth as well as in the skies above Earth so we know the universe follows the rules of physics we know to be true. There are even a few scenes in which the lovable robot and his love interest, Eva are floating free in space. Specifically, there is a scene in which Wall-E uses a fire extinguisher to propel himself thru space towards Eva. This principal of prepulsion is correct, but the sound that occurs when this takes place is not. With every push toward Eva we hear the sound of the chemicals being expelled and viewers clearly hear the sound of the extinguisher. Not only do we hear this sound, but we also hear the “conversation” shared by Wall-E and Eva. One could argue that this film is more from the perspective of the robots and they may be able to “hear” in space, but there is no way to really know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHXx8AmBwXg

Finally, The TV series Star Trek Nemisis is a great example of the missuses of sound in space. This series, like like Wall-E, takes place in the same universe as earth, so we again know the physical laws that exist to a certain extent. This show, like Star Wars, was and is widely popular for its features of loud and exciting ship chases and battles. In fact so much so that they occur in almost every episode. There are explosions, loud lasers, crashes and bangs upon impact, the swooshes of the ships darting by, the list goes on. The viewers hear pretty much every detail of the fights and chases taking place in space. This simply can not be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQK8ZAQ5usE

Its quite obvious that all of these instances in space would be, to the human ear, completely silent. All the crashes, robotic conversations and explosions would be just visuals. Movies are so much more than just visuals, they satisfy the audiences sense of sound just as much as that of sight. With that said, viewers would be far more distracted by lack of sound rather than the fact that sound in the scenes they were watching would be completely impossible if to take place reality. This is wonderful because it just goes to show how films are made to bring us into new reality’s and universes. Although the films discussed earlier take place in our universe or one similar to ours, many films do not, and sometimes they are much more entertaining. Films are not always about being completely accurate when it comes to the laws of physics. Many times, the entertainment quality is much more important that whether or not sound would exist in space.

Science Fact or Cinematic Fiction? Outline

paragraph: Showing that sound is non-exsistant in space. Sound travels by vibrating particles (on earth sound uses air particles). In space there is no air so much emptiness, sound is unable to travel.

Paragraph: Star wars Episode 6

When the death star explodes there’s a huge eruption of sound

Paragraph: Wall-E

When wall-E uses a fire extinguisher to travel thru space, the viewers can hear the noises coming out of the extinguisher, not to mention the “conversation” shared by Wall-E and Eva

Paragraph 4: Star Trek Nemisis

During a chase between 2 ships in star trek, we hear the sounds of the blasters hitting each ship loud and clear

Paragraph: Even tho its useful for entertainment value, sounds in space just don't happen!

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