The Importance of Visual Literacy

So this is a conversation with Martin Scorsese. He starts talking about when he was a kid his always went to see movies, and watch television and how the visual literacy was happening at the time the director the writter and the cinematographer create a kind of intelligence that was trying to tell a story and they are focusing your eyes in how to see whats happening. An important instrument to made this were the lenses they use to film and the camera movement.

A quote that I think is very interesting is "How ideas and emotions are to express through a visual form". It's like a formula to make audiovisual stuff. Because is more easy to catch the attention of the people, and they will understand what are you talking about.

He also talks about violence in film and the power of subliminal messages but I found it a little bit boring.

The Danish Poet

So today I think it was my favorite class of multimedia :P we saw short films about a lot of stuff, some of them were made by pixar, others by other people. The thing is we see different types of animation, like the traditional one made frame by frame with watercolor, or other made like a videogame. I will write about a short film that I felt in love in class today.

The name of this short film is The Danish Poet, at first I was not to interested in the short film, in the first minute, Marianela my classmate and friend told me "Is something you will do" and I was like yeah right. So when I saw house of the poet, I thought this will be interesting, because the drawing it was very simple, then the story is amazing I know its very cheesy but I just felt in love about all this short film.

I don't see nothing bad about this short film. I love the colors, the drawings, the story, the simplicity etc! I will love to learn how to make the outlines of a drawing move. (yes I'm obsess with this!) So I don't know what else to say, but Thanks Paco for this!

I leave this post with the short film! and a screen shot of the goats ♥!

Enjoy it! n_n

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The wired tablet App

So wired magazine made an app for iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone etc. This app consist in read the magazine in your favorite device. I think is cool because, the suscription will be cheaper, you will have it in "your hands" as soon the magazine comes out, as reader you will have more interactivity with the magazine and your device like the car ad that you can see a 360 view of the car this is more complete way to sell your product, you will have them in digital files and not a pile of old magazines in your room, so that reduces space, also if you like a picture or a article you can print it.

So this is a new era of magazines forget about printing and think about interactivity.

Finalmente…

Fotos: Marcela Gaeta Animación: Diego Ángeles

Juaniro, Diego y yo fuimos al J.Paul Getty Museum :D! y lo amamos y esperamos regresar pronto ♥!

iPad, the giant iPod?

So I start my first blog of my multimedia class which is in english so I have to write in english, first I apologies if I make mistakes writing because is been a while of not writing in this language.

Watching for the first time the famous keynote with the great Steve Jobs about Apple new product The iPad, relased last wednesday (January 27th 2010). One good thing about iPad is that you can take it everywhere, because is not heavy, is slim, and has a size like a magazine. Some people says that is a giant iPod, but I see it more like a keyboard-less computer. This is good because many careers can used, like a graphic designer, can download the pantone catalog, photoshop, etc. Also, iPad have iWork which is awesome, because business people can make a presentation while flying to an other city, or a student can write an essay for a class so is amazing.

I think iPad need a usb port, so you can print stuff, like a document from iWork, or still working on a document in your computer, so you need to transfer your documents and not all the computers have bluetooth. Also it could be a good idea to have a web cam so people can have video conference, without having a computer.

iPad is a great invent for this new decade, first because maybe it will develop reading to new generations that no read, also maybe it will become a new computer, and this can open new development of graphic design as multimedia for ebooks, or magazines.

I have a confession to make I'm not craving for an iPad as I'm for an iPhone, but after seeing the keynote I found this very useful, for everybody, like a mom that tries to entretain her kids, to a buisness man that work while flying, to somebody that only wants to chill and read a e-book.

I found this awesome pic while looking for an iPad pic I can't stop laughing

Amé este video :D

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