La Jatee

I thought this was a very interesting work. It was different from normal films in that the story was told through a collection of still images, which changes how we perceive and interpret the film. At the end I got the sense that the movie was similar to the film 12 Monkeys, and found out that it was indeed a remake. The individual shots themselves reflect the directors attention to lighting, symbolism, framing and what he is trying to specifically convey. While it was apparent that it was a lower budget film (indeed maybe it was more of an art piece than a film), it still was fairly well orchastrated and organized.

It was interesting to see the parallels between student work and the real movie. The classis general tendency to pick the most interesting frames seemed to coincide with the most important frames in the movie. Many of the relationships student's saw also matched up with the relationships in the movie. To me this says that the students are improving in their ability to think about time and movement, which will immesurably help them for their image projects.

McCLoud Reading Questions
1. The spaces in between panels, the size of a panel and the number of panels a moment in time occupies affects how long we as viewers perceive that space to appear to be.
2. McCloud describes closure as the mental process by which motion is produced BETWEEN panels.
3. Single images can have a duration if some indication is made for movement, as explored by Futurist artists such as Giacamo Balla and Japanese manga artists.
4. The duration and dimension of a panel or sequence of panels can be defined by various types of motion lines and the effects used to link or separate frames from one another.
5. Time can be suspended by either presenting a frame with no clues as to its duration or by 'bleeding' a panel off the page, making it escape into timeless space.