Well, after a tough week thanks to having all four of my wisdom teeth removed at once, I'm back to work, filling out my blog.
Since both lectures were a little more basic than previous ones, I decided to include them both here together.
Lecture 4 gave us a great timeline regarding the history of movies, film and television.
Here's the timeline based on what was given in the lecture.
1895 - Birth of cinema (first moving image).
1906 - First feature length narrative film about Ned Kelly.
1927 - First sound film (live music) 'The Jazzsinger.'
1929 - First all colour movie 'On With The Show.'
1933 - Drive in theatre is introduced.
1937 - Disney releases 'Snow White' the first all animated/colour/sound movie.
1939 - TV is introducted at the New York Trade Fair.
1952 - 3D movies are introduced.
1955 - Hollywood sells movies to TV stations and studios.
1956 - Ampex makes first VCR/VTR.
1959 - 'The Tingle' introduces Perceptovision in that audience members receive a mild electrical shock in order to enhance tension. Also Smellovision emerges (also known as Aromarama).
1963 - Ampex releases consumer VCR for only $30, 000.
1967 - Sony introduces VCR and portapack - used to record images with a camera.
1970 - Screens are getting smaller - so IMAX debuts.
1972 - Pay TV is introduced.
1985 - First Blockbuster video shop opens.
1986 - First Fully CGI short 'Luxo, Jr.' by Pixar is made.
1995 - First full length CGI film blockbuster is made, 'Toy Story' by Pixar.
1997 - DVD video is released.
2001 - BMW hires multiplle directors to create short films for a character known as 'The Driver.'
We also watched a humorous parody of both 'Cops' and 'Star Wars' known as 'Troops.'
I have embedded the video below for your enjoyment.
That was basically Lecture 4, next, obviosuly, is Lecture 5.
Lecture 5 consisted mostly of Jason Nelson screwing around.
Firstly he showed us speedtest.net, an interestign look at the time it takes to communicate with computers all around the world.
He then went on to explain the Dot Com Crash which you can read about here Dot Com Crash.
Essentially everyone was putting their money into .com stocks, only to be screwed over in the end when it turned out the internet was not yet a very profitable tool.
Our buddy Jason went on to show us archive.com which takes screenshots of all kinds of major websites over the years to show their visual evolution. Basically we got to see the sad beginnings of myspace in which it looked little more than a boring bland, student project (which it sort of was).
Amusingly, we were told myspace got sold for $1billion only for facebook to supercede it making the buyers very upset. After examining Social Networking trends some more we took a look at some obscure social networking sites such as 'elftown' and the anti 'Twitter' known as 'Woofer.'
Jason then showed us Google Maps and how we could make our maps and pinpoint hotspots, which is in fact a task we have been assigned (I'll get on to it).
Then we got a gander at sketchcast, a tool that converts you and your online drawing into a video - very interesting. In this instance we saw a video of a Lady and a Hotdog.
Finally, we took a look at a popular video known as United Breaks Guitar. I have embedded the video below for your enjoyment. Essentially, this man travelled United Airlines only to have them break his guitar while packing, when they didn't compensate him, he swore vengeance. He made a filmclip, and due to its over 5 million views, actually had an impact on the people travelling United Airlines, and thus the vengeance was succesfful.
That was more or less Jason Nelson's amazing and enjoyable Lecture 5. He showed us so many unique and interesting websites and tools it would be too much to go on about them all. I look forward to any lecture we may have with Jason in the future.
Craig Out.
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