BVA103-Brainstorm Ideas for Areas of Focus for Assessment 1

Identify and analyse the contributions of Muybridge, Marey and Faroki to the development of film, gaming and animation in A Critique of Animation. 

Muybridge

• English photographer
• His work consisted of photographic studies of movement
• First photographic study failed due to not having a fast enough shutter.
• Gave lectures on animal locomotion

Marey

• French physiologist
• Invented a high-speed camera gun
• Created a series of pictures to depict movement
• Invented Chronophotographic fixed plate camera with a timed shutter in 1882
• Strong inspiration for Thomas Edison and Louis Lumiere

Farocki

• German Filmmaker 
• Created many political essay films 
• Explored 'operative images' in his films, technical images created for military and surveillance rather than public consumption.

Identify and analyse Anslem Franke's main arguments in A Critique of Animation regarding motion capture technology and the film Avatar.







Identify and analyse the terms "Uncanny Valley" and 'Complex' and 'Complicated' in Anselm Franke's 2014 article, A Critique of Animation 

Uncanny Valley

• A theory first discussed and discovered by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in the Japanese journal, Energy in 1970
• Mori's graph has several objects placed upon it with human appearances.
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• Anslem Franke links between motion capture and Farocki.
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