“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