Monday 2 November 2009

Chapter 2 - Use of technolgy and techniques

In looking back to the technogly of just 20 years ago and now to the present, it is easy to see just how far technolgy has advanced. From the the internet to gaming consoles to flat screen televisions, technolgy has evolved and devoloped to an extent that it is now a massive part of our every day lives and we have come to rely on it for a large amount of our daily tasks. Even today, technolgy is improving and being updated to new levels at an incredible speed.

For instance, if you were to compare Andy Huang's 'Doll Face' to John Smith's 'The Girl Chewing Gum' they are quite literally a world apart in terms of the technolgy and graphics used. Doll Face is almost completely animated and would have needed advanced graphic-based programs to create the animation. Girl Chewing Gum, however, is a black and white film that was made with a old-fashioned video camera and would have been faily simple to create.

Editing has also come on in leaps and bounds alongside technogly - we now rely heavily on computers and editing software programs when making a piece of film. The Girl Chewing Gum as a piece does not have much editing whatsoever and any that was done would have been very basic - whereas Doll Face has been very heavily edited because of the craft involved. When The Girl Chewing Gum was originally made, the technolgy used was thought of as 'state of the art'. Compare it to nowadays and it seems incredibly basic.

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