In
Kidd’s article, some regular patterns such like Left to Right and Top to Bottom
are universal and practical. And it is right that these patterns are not always
enforced. What’s more, the Big and Small rule is very interesting for me: there
is no biggest object, anything big can be bigger and the same with small. Under
a optical microscope, a cell can be an animal, and from the earth, the Venus
just looks like a flash. If the earth is large, the Jupiter is larger, and the
sun is larger than Jupiter. The sun is like sand in desert when we think about
the universe. The Big and Small just can drive people mad.
The difficult thing I feel in this
article is The Enemy. The use of this term did not help me understand the
article. In fact I was confused whining reading the first paragraph about what
the article is going to talk about.
In Hickey’s article, it’s very useful
that the author quote the invention of basketball. The game was invented in aim
to provide some social and physical expression during the winter. However as
the game developed, rules appeared to govern people. I really agree with that “It
was less well-designed to serve its original purpose”. Once rules are
established, people have to take care to not offend the rules instead of just simply
enjoy the game.
What was hard for me to understand in
this article was that I don’t understand basketball perfectly. Because I’m not
a basketball fan, I don’t know what all of the rules mean, especially in
English. If only the author had used an example which was not that
professional, the article will be perfect for me to understand.
From Wechler’s article, the author helps
me to make one point clear: an actor need to think about the emotion he is
trying to convey, and the face will take care of itself. In digital film
making, the animator should take care of every detail on the face, building
from the outside then get the emotion conveyed. But in my opinion a digital
face can never compete with a real face. Every actor and actress is unique in
the way of acting, while digital film is standardized in face expressions.
One question confused me was: are
synthetic characters necessary? I think it is perhaps necessary the development
of technology in film making is rapid today, and the taste of the audience is
also changing with technology. But it is unpleasant to replace all the human
actors with synthetic characters.
