CIM151 - Week 3

Notes

For Milestone 1:

How did the disruption alter the skills required?

Catmull created brand new methods for 3D animation which required computer science skills such a programming and digital rendering. Over time his innovations were built into software packages to make it made it easier for other artists to create 3D generated images. These days many 3D artists don't have advanced computer science skills but are still great at what they do because software has everything they need precoded and scripted for them.

Identify key responses to the disruption.

• What was the response of your past creative's audience?

  • He had massive positive influence and garnered a lot of interest from the film industry. People like Steve Jobs and George Lucas invested in him which led to Pixar being founded.

• What was the response to the change/disruption by the industry?

  • The 3D animation as industry took massive leaps forward thanks to his discoveries in 3D computer software. Both Pixar and ILM are still leaders of the industry to this day.

• What was the response to the change/disruption globally?

  • 3D animated films became very popular with the success of Toy Story. CGI became commonplace in movies. The rendering technologies Catmull developed are also used in TV, motion graphics and video games.

Presentation/report in Week 4. Roughly 10 minutes. Include:

Context

Audience

Skills

Time period

History of Film

The prrecursors to the film industry began in the late 1800s when things such as camera obscura, stroboscopic animation, chronophotography and image projections were developed and used for entertainment.

In the early 1900s the first films were created. Usually anywhere from a few seconds to a minute worth of footage. Eventually editing was used to splice clips together to create longer films which told a narrative.

Buster Keaton was a disruptor in the film industry. He was a precursor to Hollywood and included big stunts in his films.

Charlie Chaplin was a popular filmmaker that focused on visual comedy.

Films began utilising sound however the technology was still very basic and expensive. A vinyl record would need to be synced to the film. Movies with sound were called 'Talkies'.

As technology developed further, better sound recording devices were invented and it became cheaper to use in film however it was still mostly used for big Hollywood films. Smaller productions would still make silent films until the late 1930s when the cost of sound production became cheap enough.

King Kong (1933) was a major step in production quality. It utilised new techniques for creating visual effects using camera trickery to bring a big monster to life on screen.

Film was used during WWII by countries for propaganda. Even after the war ended, the US used film in the 1950s during the cold war with Russia to create films that would scare the American population about communism.

Citizen Kane (1941) was revolutionary in regards to cinematography. It used very smart camera angles, framing and new techniques that told it's narrative in a very visual way that was not done before. This opened up the way for new visual techniques in movies.

TVs started becoming popular. Towards the late 1950s they became a common household item.

Film noir was a stylistic film genre that became popular in Hollywood in the mid 1950s.

Non-English cinema had a golden age in the 1950s, primarily Asian films. Japan made many notable films during this time, such as Godzilla.

Godzilla pioneered suitmation. Which involved people in suits dressed up as monsters interacting with miniature sets.

In 1960 Hollywood saw a decline as it was becoming more common to shoot film on location instead of a studio set and international films started become more prominent.

The first colour films were projected in 1909. The main issue was only red and green could be used so the film industry stuck with black and white until colour film technology could improve in both quality and cost.

The golden age of cinema is considered to have happened in the 1970s. New methods of storytelling innovated how films were written.

Bollywood became popular in 1970s. It would mix multiple genres together such as action, drama, comedy and musical pieces.

In the 1980s VCRs became common in households. Initially film studios tried to ban home ownership of VCRs but later sales of movie VCRs became a big second revenue for the industry. The movie rental industry also became very popular.

Steven Spielberg started making feature films in the 1970s and became a household name by the 1990s.