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General Thoughts

Playing Stories

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I believe that any scene (story) is a reality..
Whether it is played on reality itself,
whether it is in a show or a movie,
whether it is playing in a computer game,
whether it is virtually preformed as text or movie,
whether it is written as text in a book.

Thing is what do the actors think?, do they got an audience? (or in case there is none, do they know they haven’t got an audience?) [If a tree…], what are the feelings they endorse in the scene itself…? How does the scene effects them after they finish playing them? how does a scene effects its viewers/reader/players?

Can a person entail within him in the same time/space, multiple feelings (or multiple personalities, where the same time/space can be interpretate in totally different ways — by one act at a time — and later can be viewed only in these ways (one by one) that were meant to produce that scene).

On one of the podcasts I am listening to, they presented people that have extraordinary memory (in a condition called – Hyperthymesia – highly superior autobiographical memory) and can tell any little detail that have occurred in their lifetime. The focus of the podcast was a person that could tell any detail about a fiction basketball team that he has invented (imagined), where he preformed (imaginary) that team history… (Due to the fact that he got hyperthymesia) He could explain each player full history of childhood, and tales… Yet, all these were played only in his memory. But they were real as any other team… The details he gave were consistence, and he would tell the same exact details even after a couple of years, when being asked..

The latter paragraph example is real as any other performance… Although it is just an invention, and is only in his memory. who can say what is real or not?

If I were to say that a future being could project his future back to the past…? Is that real? What is the difference between these realities and any other….?

I recently thought about an idea that would rate each person and news clip… By a collection of people… Yet, even if a huge collection of people would rate something, does it make the rate valid? It would only create a certain index. The attitude toward this index is in the eye of the beholder… Like any other science or story told.

Another idea comes to mind, do a certain attitude towards something, hold any mass? Except being virtual and a feeling toward an event.

General Thoughts

Blured reality

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Film and movies has progressed, visually, a lot in the past years. Although I kind of stopped watching movies the past decade, I can imaging these changes watching parts of intros from different movies. The making of these movies, has progressed and is progressing a lot as you read these lines.

I am categorizing roughly the types of films as follow:

  1. 2d Animation – At first there was total 2d animation movies (pictures were drawn by hand — frame by frame).
    Examples like the Early Disney classics comes to mind.
  2. Stop motion 3d movies – Made with live characters or animated puppets.
  3. Live actors – Then the there live motion pictures were presented (live human or animal actors created a scene). Won’t exclude there the films made with added layers of drawn or moved puppets.
    Examples of such movies, are wide spread, and not hard to find (yet).
  4. 3d animated movies – Then there was a period of 3d animated picture (3d movies, which were totally created in a virtual world, and animated frame by frame, or using an automatic procedure the software that they were made with enabled).
    Examples such as this can be found from the early Pixar movies.
  5. Now a days – there are commonly pictures that are motion captured facial or full body movement by dressing actors with sensors enabling the 3d objects/characters on the scene to move. This process of course, made much of the work of 3d movies  (mentioned on point 3) redundant. Yet, this combination is hard to define, cause it isn’t exactly live actors nor 3d animated movies — it is the combination between these two that matters. So the question raised on this matter, is whether to consider the actors as actors (if they really had all sensors and dubbed the character).
    Examples of such movies can be taken from Peter Jackson‘s “Lord of the Rings” saga, or from “Avatar“, and many more who uses this technique.

I say no matter what technique you use to create a movie (or how do you define the actors or making), if the result is acceptable… Then so be it.

As I write these lines I raise the following questions:

  1. Thing I thought, is if the back bone of the 3d movie is made good, it is very simple changing one image with another like changing an HTML page image.
  2. What will be the future of these movies technique, is yet to be invented (or in stages toward a new invention).
  3. Would there be an reinvention of the movies, or would it all be interactive computer advance game. In which both motion and plot is flexible for changes.