Response for Monday Nov. 11th

I really enjoyed some of the videos we watched in class. I wasn't sure how I felt about Man, Road, River. After watching it though, I was really intrigued. I couldn't figure out at what point it came into focus. It was so gradual that it ended up pulling me in at the end. One of the pieces that I really enjoyed was Worst Case Scenario. I liked how Smith used still frames and had some tailored in a comedic fashion. I have tried to replicate some of the things that he has done in his piece and realized that they are not just cut from frame to frame like they Jekyll video we watched. In Worst Case Scenario when the bike is moving back and forth it appears to be two frames alternating but there was something about it that made me know that it was more than that. It was too smooth of a transition so I realized that smith was using a morph in between his frames. So one picture would morph into the other, but it was done so closely that it appears as only two frames. So its not a frame from video and its not "just" a still picture alternating. I really enjoyed it. He really did some neat things with breaking up the frame with the cross walk and the horizontal and vertical lines of buildings. The viewpoints were also great, they were really voyeuristic. There were many shot from above so it made the viewer feel like they were in smiths shoes, watching these people. Then at the end when they look and they finally see him its almost as if he has been caught. Or I should say "we" have been caught.

-Chris Elkendier