Reading Response #3

1) The article I chosen to read was "The Art of Instant Gratification" by Joel Stephen Trachtenberg. What made me pick the article was because it was about, in away the history of taking pictures. It starts off talking about the year photography was well know (1839) and that many people were fascinated by photography. This article got my attention when the author; Trachtenberg said, "They believed that each time a person had a portrait made, a piece of that individual's soul was captured," and I believe in that. Thats why I don't like getting m picture taken.

2) Trachtenberg told the readers, "The camera was a vessel for memory, holding a precious sliver of life's histoyr with in its frame and the printed image because a quasi icon, an item suitable for contemplation and remembrance," that quote tells it all, what the article is about pictures. One of the main points in the article was Trachtenberg talks about how pictures are so easy to use these days, "Take out your phone or digital camera, aim, press, and before you can say, 'cheese,' the image is electronically placed on a server, distributed all over the world to be shared with friends and strangers," (Trachtenberg). In the beginning of the article Trachtenberg talks about how photography was a special thing to do/have, how a days its so easy to do and have done, would you still consider it a special thing?

3) This article just shows me how important taking a picture of something or someone is. Just like, when I record or even listen to new and different sounds. Me being a media artist just makes me appreciate getting new sounds even more. With all the new technology that we use to capture sounds, do people still appreciate the sounds they are getting. When reading this article it mad me think of that, and now I do appreciate all the sounds and pictures I get for m projects or just for fun.

Video Hardware/Software Repsonese

1)Using the Olympus digital camera was great. It worked very well, the camera portion of it worked fine so did the video part. One thing I wished it did is turn on faster, but there is nothing I (we) can do about that. I went to Chicago do do my drift two project and there was great opportunities were I could of got really good videos or pictures, but because it took so long to turn on i didn't get them. One other thing I wished it had was more memory. I ended up using my friends camera which wasn't as good as the Olympus digital camera. Another thing i liked about the Olympus was when recording something it just recorded the image not the sound. So when editing it helped a lot not having the sound on the video that i was editing. In the past I have used other digital cameras and I think they were the same as the Olympus, the functions were the same and they had the same capabilities as the Olympus. Importing my images and videos, to me turned out good. I think the camera got what I wanted it to get perfection. My ideal digital camera would be the same thing as the Olympus, but more memory, if the Olympus was smaller, and if the Olympus was able to turn on faster.


2)The program I used was Final Cut Express. When I first started editing my first rough video I used Imovie, but when I was getting help from my TA, he suggested I should used Final Cut Express. In the past I briefly used Final Cut Pro, I don't know whats different between Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. I have never used Final Cut Express so I was very hesitant to use it. When using it I liked it I thought I was able to do what ever I wanted to do to the clips before rendering the clip into my film. I am very glad that I used this reverse and speed up some of my clips, zoom in and rotating some of my clips. Pretty much I was able to do what every I wanted to the clips. Of course there probably was many more effects that Final Cut Express had to offer, but I was happy on what I used.