welcome to my twisted mind

As we walked through our tour of media production, something I quickly noticed is how our perception of movement and fluidity is constantly changing. The relationship between images and movement were almost unheard of before the discovery of many of the tools we talked about throughout the tour. The thaumatrope, for example, revolutionized how we interpret movement by providing us with a basic understanding of what components are needed to make this illusion of movement; images, speed, and a vision break. Images provide us with visual sense of what objects are in motion, and puts that movement into context. In this case, the thaumatrope presented us with a picture of a bird on one side, and a cage on the other, as two separate things. Next, you need motion. By spinning the disk, this creates the illusion that the bird and the cage are one in the same. But this wouldn't be at all possible without a vision break. Persistence of vision allows for our brains to put these images togethe...

For this blog post, I decided to pick out a scene from The Breakfast Club. This video extends to 3 minutes, but I cut the shot-breakdown short by just discussing the first minute or so of the scene. Check out the video below and follow along! :00 - :15     Medium Full Shot sets up scene - lunch is taking place medium full shot displays interaction/reaction between all three characters Bender throws a can of soda off screen :15 - :16     Close Up of Allison's Hand continuity from the can of soda thrown in the last shot depicts action/characters outside of the main focus of the scene :16 - :17     Medium Shot of Allison quick transition shows how she isn't the focus of the scene, or at least not yet however, she is  present while everything else is taking place :17 - :20     Medium Shot of Claire (from front/side) focus is pulled back to the initial table medium shot allows for the a...

Living next to a busy turnpike, you’d come across a lot of familiar sounds browsing the city. The shy hum of car engines merge together as a deafening roar as they speed down the asphalt. And with a hospital and a firehouse both within arm’s reach, sirens would constantly dopple passing through the local streets. Birds would yell over roofs, like how birds from New York often do. They wouldn’t always chirp like how you would imagine them to, but they would gargle, screech, and sometimes it may even seem like they time their calls like a periodic alarm. Occasionally, a tree branch or two would shake in the wind, but what’s more deeply felt would be the leaves gliding across the sidewalk, or crunching under peoples’ feet. However, with all the action taking place, the scene is rather quiet. Paired with the ambient sound of cars passing by on the turnpike, planes flying overhead add their engines to the mix, enclosing the neighborhood in the sounds of people just trying to get from po...

Cardinal Directions - Define A Space from Jessica Garcia on Vimeo .

Growing up as a kid, I was often shy and to myself. Kids would approach me on the playground to play tag or hide and seek, and I would run behind my babysitter and hide. If you found yourself in the same class as me, it would be a miracle to see me willingly raise my hand or volunteer to answer a question. But when a classmate would approach me, look me up and down funny and say something along the lines of “You’re weird.”, that was never something that I shied away from. “Yeah...well, I guess I am weird.” I would reply. “I’m weird!” I’d exclaim to people. Little did I know that it was a start of creating something even bigger than myself. Aside from the potty humor and my farfetched aspirations to become a superhero when I grow up, growing up in New York City has taught me to embrace my weirdness, and honor the value of individuality. The arts gave me easy access to this expression of myself. I never favored one over the other, because I loved them all in their own ways. I often...