After reading A Brief Archeology of Moving Picture I feel completely at a loss. I cannot even begin to understand all of the technical terms being thrown at me. Perhaps I will spend some time on Wikipedia this evening. I sort of get the gist though, just not the technologies.
Lev states "Hollywood has even created a new-mini genre of "The Making of..." videos and books which reveal how special effects are created." Not quite, but I had this in my head, the mockumentary "behind the scenes".
He goes on to explain what many of us refer to as Green Screen. After some research i found that Green is much more recent, they used to use Blue. interesting. Movies like Sky Captain are said to have been shot 100% in a green screen environment. Some movies take good advantage of it, while others it just adds a cartoonish value to them, i suppose thats part of lev's argument.
"In principle, given enough time and money, one can create what will be the ultimate digital film: 90 minutes, i.e., 129600 frames completely painted by hand from scratch, but indistinguishable in appearance from live photography" This strikes me.. as a terribly painful realization.
I also want to watch "little movies", since manovich seems to be such a fore runner in this "new media" field. This is my third or fourth essay I have read by him. and while they are full of detailed techno-information they are very reassuring at the same time.
