Surrealism, What is Surrealism ?
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.
Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artifact. Leader Andre Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.
Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities of World War I and the most important center of the movement was Paris. From the 1920s on, the movement spread around the globe, eventually affecting the visual arts, literature, film, and music of many countries and languages, as well as political thought and practice, philosophy and social theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism


This photo shows Surrealism because of the car going through a tunnel, but the tunnel is a mouth .


This Photo shows surrealism by having land, then having hands from the water rising and picking up the ground .

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.




This is a Surrealism image because of the ship in the ocean , getting refilled by the tap with water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB8fZGB_bZA&feature=related

Video Analysis

The main focus of this video was to understand the concept about racism, and what it does to people, and defines what it is. There wasn't any racial slurs because the more you say it, the more people would want to say them to other people, in way to offend them or just joke around, either way saying a racial slur doesn't affect one person it could affect some other person who could of heard the saying and would of been insulted without you knowing.

The video gets it point across by first defining words that mean racism then concluding by erasing the words that meant racism and then rewriting words that should be meant to understand racism and to stop. The video is about understand what racism is.

This video is made up by whole body shots, and shoulder to head shots, as for the background they put words relating to racism along with a plain background as for a chalkboard, the street, and a desk.

The Sound Fx are just some simple chimes sounds easily made by garage band, and there weren't any voice overs. Its the same old sound playing over again, with no effects. For the first part that as the introduction they had stop motion to write then take photos the words to create that slow motion effect saying RACISM...

(Video Taken of YouTube)
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Optical Devices

In CyberArts seminar we are learning about Thaumatrope. A thaumatrope is a small disc, held on opposite sides of its circumference by pieces of string. An image is drawn on each side of the disc, and is selected in such a way that when the disc is spun, the two images appear to become superimposed. To spin the disc, one string is held in a hand, and the disc is rotated to wind the string. Then, both strings are held, and the disc is allowed to rotate. Stretching the strings will ensure that they continue to wind and unwind. This motion causes the disc to rotate, first in one direction and then in the opposite. The faster the disc rotates, the greater the clarity of the illusion.
So by drawing pictures on two discs, and spun in such a way you can see the two pictures become one while still spinning. So it becomes a optical illusion, confusing your brian seeing the two pictures at a time.
The invention of the thaumatrope, means "turning marvel" or "wonder turner," has often been credited to the astronomer Sir John Herschel.

Sequencing : The Foundation of Video StoryTelling


Sequences compress time in a video story. If you didn't have compression, your just let with long clips that people wouldn't like to watch.
Proper sequencing gives the video editor a better way to adjust your story by using wide, medium, and tight shots.
Along with using b-roll to make your video more exciting and catch the viewers attention, instead of filming somebody walk through a door, take a video of them turning the handle, the door opening and him walking out the house, from the inside.

When you videotape or take photos you should get some footage of varies place of different angels to make everything more complex and eye catching instead of videotaping one place through the whole clip. Try ignoring the zoom, when you zoom closer and closer you lose more and more quality.
If your making a commercial video you don't want to videotape from one perspective, and have a big long clip, people would get bored so just shorten the clip by editing and taking out scenes that are unneeded.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

For the video, their were close, far, and medium shots within the video.
People talking while changing the scene and shooting a video of balls juggles instead of having the taping the speaker the whole thing. So by making a quick adjustment and changing the scene it creates motivation and eye catching to keep the viewer interesting.

http://www.b-roll.net/tv/view_video.php?viewkey=bc3dc5eefc89334cacdc&page=1&viewtype=&category=mr

http://masteringmultimedia.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/sequencing-the-foundation-of-video-storytelling/

Our video, for CyberARTs period two : )
This video was created by Cinan, Fasai, and Me.
This video was based on doing three perspective shots of the same object, from different angles.
Then using IMovie, we edited to make the slow motion effects, the sound effects, and the music.
Along with cutting out parts that were unneeded we created the video, as a exercise .

The Original Picutre

Crazy Edit : ]

                                                                  Color Correction.

This Art piece was created by the CyberArts Class, with the help of photoshop, we have retouched the picture, cropped it, and colored edited to make the contrast reasonable.