Blog 2

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.