I read about the Thaumatrope, I remeber working on them in seminar, They are known as a turning marvel ,or a wonder turner. The reason is because you make one circle with two different pictures like the top picture as so, then attach string (or elastic band) then twirl it, it will give the effect of the two pictures together. Like the example above, the illusion will be the dog chasing the birds. The negative about this, is that there are only two frames, that can give motion or not, like a bird in a cage, or a dog chasing birds. Then merges the two images, giving the illusion of one, so you can't actually create motion with this form of animating.

Then in 1832, they invented the Phenakistoscope, which revolutionized the animating world.

We watched 2 versions of the Shakespearean play known as “Romeo and Juliet". We watched two different movies, one is the original version, done in 1968 by Franco Zeffirelli this version is done back then like if it were the original, then the second version which was made in 1996 by Baz Luhrmann this theme, still took place in Verona, but the concept was modern day, (meaning this Romeo and Juliet takes place in everyday theme), Both have their own differences and similarities, good and bad, but if there was a choosing, the Old Shakespearean film, by Zeffirelli will be the top choice for viewing.

This reason is because the modern Romeo and Juliet, is very unrealistic, this reason is because even though it is modern day it still uses Elizabethan Language (Shakespearean language) Also the modern day by Luhrmann has quite bad acting, the actress that played Juliet could have done much better, this movie also used different ideas altering the original, like Lady Capulet was kissing tybalt, which is definitely not in the original, this is why most of the modern day is confusing since it never really happened, also they had no change in the original script, like in the modern day they used guns instead of swords, but still they said " Draw your swords" I completely understand why this movie got bad reviews, because they never even tried changeling the scripts to modern day English(English US).

The old "Romeo and Juliet" By Zeffirelli is the better choice because it takes place back then in the actual time Romeo and Juliet is supposed to take place. Also the acting was much better in the older video other than Baz's, It was more original and since the modern day failed to translate in modern day US English, the older one felt more in place because of the acting and their slang was more in style back then.

Both videos had to do with Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” My opinion was that Franco Zeffirelli (The old Romeo and Juliet) was the best out of the 2. I found that Baz Luhrmann’s Modern version of Romeo and Juliet unrealistic, because in modern days (Present days) People do not speak in Elizabethan English, and the editing of the script, changing the characters and understanding of the movie, was confusing and didn’t make sense. This is my opinion.

Blaire Sarkar

We had a assignment where we had to come up with an idea with the theme of "Dream", where we must take pictures that we took, or we used from the internet, then use them on photoshop to create a abnormal picture with the power of technology and ideas. For my idea i used the idea of people jumping off the building, with a background of text of random words that have to do with the concept of my idea, with blood splatters. yes, its true mine is somewhat graphic, and strange than the others, but I am sticking to this idea. My idea however, is not completely abnormal, considering that people jumping of a building wouldn't be impossible, but its still surreal because of the colors and density I used for the image and also, I am using many people than just one or two. The reason for the colors is because I wanted to make it somewhat scary, bone chilling.

The way how i did this is by first thinking of an idea, and then drawing the thumbnail. Next I needed pictures, a lot of them. So what I did was get images from the internet, and pictures I took myself. I needed many pictures because of my idea, the background I needed to do myself, (of text) but then I got the " Blood Splatters" off the internet and used the place tool to add them on the background. For the middle-ground, 9 the building) I used a image from the internet and simply placed it over the background, and finally for the foreground ( the people) I used images I taken, and images from the internet, and placed them over the middle-ground, but first I shrunk them down to the correct size and de-saturated  it to make it colorless ( I removed the color) and then placed it. For creating the shadows of the people on the building, I duplicated the people moved them down and played with colors with the paint tool, by taking the color of the building then slightly making it darker to look like a shadow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheal#Spheal

Left- Before

Bottom- After

The before image is the one I took with my pinhole camera, and the after picture is the one that was inverted/ edited on photoshop. Was exposed for about 45 seconds, and the chemicals of developer was placed for approximately 13 seconds ( meant to stay in for about 60 seconds) the stop for a bout 30 seconds, the correct time, and for the fix about 14 seconds. And finally was placed in the water for 10 minutes and dried.