“Mission to Earth”

1) Using "Mission to Earth" as an example, what is new or different about digital cinema compared to traditional film-making? Consider the story, the structure and the appearance of the film.

“Mission to Earth” filmed by Lev Manovich and It is the most famous example in the digital cinema. The story is about a woman came from other planet and aims at recording the life in earth.This woman needs to write weekly reports to her leader.She keeps doing these weekly reports for a while but finally she found out that no one is going to read her reports about the life in earth.She is still not given up in recording different activates in earth and what she has seen in here.

Mission to earth 

http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Archive/2003/Future_Cinema/Works/missiontoearth.html

Digital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to project or distribute the motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of motion picture film. A movie can be filmed though hard drives or the Internet.Digital cinema is completely different from traditional film-making because there are a lot of special layout in the “Mission to Earth” scenes.The angle is slightly different from the traditional film-making.In “Mission to Earth”,we can saw a lot of small windows in the same scene and different windows carry different content.The contents included images, colors painting,video clips and drawings.All the different windows interact with each other and form a complete vision on the “Mission to Earth” story.Also,there is a scene gives the image on “Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue” y Piet Mondrian.It is really successful for reminding the audience and they can get some inspirations from “Mission to earth”.

 “Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue” 

“Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue” 

Also,the story of “Mission to Earth” do not have any complex structure because it is nothing related to the structure.Traditional film-making attaches great importance on the structure and the film must contains introduction,elucidation of the theme,transition to another viewpoints and make a conclusion.In traditional film-making,it usually carry some big turning point in the last thirty to forty minutes and it changes the whole picture of the film.In the “Mission to Earth”,we can not assume it just like the normal hollywood movie because there is nothing like that kind of film.For sure,It just contains some scenes that telling the audience the changing of time but the picture and the life of the woman is about the same.It is definitely quite funny because the scene keeps showing over and over.It used to maintain the pattern of woman’s twenty years life in the “Mission to earth”.

2. What other art forms (eg. early film, digital art, painting, websites etc) does this film remind you of? Explain each similarity.

In my opinion,“Mission to Earth” just reminds me about first - person documentary.The woman just simply become the main character in the movie (First - person).The “Mission to Earth” records the daily life of the woman about the twenty years life in earth.I can see the director wants to record the different emotions and feelings of the woman when she is alone in this world - Earth.In her eyes, I can tell she is thinking of somethings and wants to express herself.She felt very lonely and sad because she just like not belong to somewhere - her planet or even earth.I do not know why but I felt kind of difficult to speak out somethings while watching how unhappy she was.It felt like the painting below.

I am so lonely

http://alwayslonliness.blogspot.hk/2013/03/lonely-paintings.html

Bibliography:

Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema

Technologised Bodies

     First of all,I think the technologised bodies are more popular than ten years ago.It is because the technology is improving time by time ,the latest advancement give us a brand-new vision on how the technology helps humans.Our bodies can be enhanced by different technologies such as cyberbody,inter-skin suits,stelarc,ping body and Inter-Discommunication Machine.These technologised bodies are the famous example in the history.

     Technologised Bodies provides an opportunity to those disable people become a normal person. Technologised Bodies enhance their ability and help them overcome the original limitations.It is because the bodies were investigated in two ways - Computer & Biotechnology. The technology gives us the power to expose the human bodies potential in artificial methods.There are a lot of examples in this kind of technologised bodies such as cyborg,prosthesis,the inter - skin system.

The description of inter - skin system

       In today class,teacher shows us a cyprus-born performance artist Stelarc. He performances in a lot of ways such a third cell - cultivated ear implantation surgery in his left arm,corporate with a pneumatic six-legged spider-like walking machine and control the machine by the arm gestures.I think Stelarc is very brave to practice his own idea on technologised bodies and he takes risk on putting the ear in his arm.This behavior just tell us Stelarc uses his own body to project the vision of what technologised bodies are and his thought on behavior art. Stelarc knows he needs to prove the technologised bodies are worth to allocate into a kind of art and finally he uses his body parts becoming a “hub” or “media” to transport the information of technologised bodies.This action brings other attentions and the curious about this topic - technologies bodies.It is a great method to promote the art on technologised bodies and the ideas behind different performance artists.  

Photo of the third cell - cultivated ear

Photo of the cyborg 

        Besides,I watched a online video about a teenager wearing the technologised body “Touchy”.“Touchy” is a human camera and wore by a young man.If there is someone touches the young man’s skin,he can see the world outside.“Touchy” is produced by a concept.“Touchy” is all about the experiment between the relationships of giving and taking by transforming a human into a camera.When somebody touches the skin of “Touchy” user,the “Touchy” turn on and become able to see or take photos.The photos show what the young man can saw though the “Touchy” and save the amazing moments.
  
        In my opinion,the “Touchy” video clip shows how important the human interaction is and the disadvantages about humans depending on the social network Facebook,Sina,Twitter for communication.The human connection should not be limited by any of the electronic devices or social networks.It should be using the face - to - face way to talk to others,not just typing on the keyboard.I get the ideas from the “Touchy” video clip because there is a part that a girl touches the boy and playing around the Tokyo.The girl is a completely stranger to the boy but the girl still touches the boy.This action indicates the first - person connection is so important in human social life,it just cannot replaced by the internet or apps.I think the human interaction needs actual face - to - face communication and also the way using the internet.Two human communication and connection types should be balanced.I believe that we should increase the percentage of using the physical communication in our daily life.

Touchy

Bibliography:
Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies:http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KeDg77S28LwC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=technologized+bodies+example&source=bl&ots=5ezuz-1P_6&sig=an4fMWJ41qCtvWQB3kOWweBrL7o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=z9NxVImTFoOG8QWN64HwBQ&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=technologized%20bodies%20example&f=false (Retrieved Nov 18, 2014)