Reading R1

Synesthesia

  The perspectives that matter are the artist’s imagination, their spirit of unifying visual images to ideas to communicate and express meaning in distinctive ways.  The artist's perspective is shaped by what can be accomplished with the film-medium’s plasticity; the important difference here is the difference between what can be accomplished between a concrete medium, such as a canvas versus a distinct medium like film with its plasticity properties, i.e. the shape and form of the meaning of the work of art is directly affected by properties that plasticity provides, a complexity that the canvas does not.  Because of this complexity, it will also affect the relationship between the artist and the viewer’s perspective of grasping the difference between what is implicit and what is implied.

Cymatics

   My take on this, is the use of sound to bring visual-imagery alive, but also as a way to stimulate the senses of the viewer. It is a film experience that cannot just be shut off by closing your eyes, because the sound still can create images in your mind. Sound and image have unique experience with one another, because even though they can be objects of complexity on their very own merits, the film-medium brings these two systems together producing complex and multiple meanings

Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing 

   For me the video addresses two things, first, how we come up with the meaning of knowing something , for example ,by tapping into our own learned experiences, a natural involuntary dogmatic approach or response to decipher the meaning of something. Once we are consciously aware that we can reevaluate our mindset to look at it from a different perspective we come to the second point; a transition from the observer’s perception, i.e. our own, towards looking at, understanding the meaning of something from some other perspective, that is not our own but nonetheless we understand it and appreciate it from a different point of view.

Assessment and perception of the screening of an example of film manipulation

   It was a very artistic and creative manipulation of the film medium, a rhythmic interpretation of image and sound.  The visual imagery was directly affected by manipulating the film-medium using various techniques. The technique perfectly matched the intensity, beat and rhythm of the music that it incorporated.  

   The sound of musical string instruments were represented by lines of equal intensity and rhythm, while the color of these also matched the feelings they were conveying. The same process was utilized with wind instruments like the trumpet, for example, thinker and more dense lines intensively shooting out with the same energy that a trumpet would be pushing the air out of its horn creating sound.

   Geometrical shapes, like circles and squares, I perceived as representative of people dancing in unification to the rhythm of the image, sound and color. 

   The colors of the manipulated film-medium also played a critical role; their cool and warm colors characterized and embodied the musical piece’s mood and feeling. 

   Overall the film was well thought out and creatively put together. It exemplified the coherence of all its elements and thus it exhibited the unity of the energy between them. 

   In conclusion, the film definitely expands the parameters of creativity to which one could use the film-medium to express ideas in many other modes and certainly use other techniques that are not costly but nonetheless creative that can be used to still get your concept across. It deviates away from the classical mode in which the film-medium is mainly approached conservatively.