Psycho

    Accustomed to today’s fast-paced thrillers that frequently depend on visually disturbing makeup and prosthetics and shocking the audience with figures popping out of the darkness, viewing Psycho was a unique experience that used a variety of techniques to create a suspenseful masterpiece.  Alfred Hitchcock did not sacrifice a complex storyline or characterization for terror and suspense.  He killed off the main character, and created tension between scenes with varying tempos, and dialogue between fear of the unknown and what pops out in front of us.  The viewer comes to understand the characters and their motives, even Norman Bates, when killers traditionally aren’t profiled or interpreted as anything except evil.  Montage contributes to the audience’s understanding of the characters because it narrows the viewer’s attention to a detail, and throughout the movie, scenes are mixed with shots of each character reacting to the storyline's events, creating more comprehensive scenes. Montage was used in one of the final scenes, when the action cut between Sam questioning Bates in the motel’s office, and Lila sneaking into Bates’ house in search of his mother. This montage creatively showed the progression of time as Sam and Lila struggled to solve this mystery, sped the tempo of the film making the rising action feel hectic, and culminated at the climax when Lila encountered Mrs. Bates’ skull and Norman Bates revealed himself as the murderer.

Psycho Response Essay

                Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has been widely regarded as one of the most well-known horror films of time, as made obvious by the fact that, despite it having been originally released in 1960, it is still talked about and studied by everyone from film critics to frequent film-watchers. Not only has it stood the test of time, but it has also spawned everything from sequels and prequels to spinoffs and remakes. After having watched the film, it’s easy to see why. Many scenes from the movie were, not surprisingly, considered too racy, violent, or otherwise inappropriate for the time period—the opening scene, for example, portrayed an unmarried couple sharing a bed together, and the infamous “shower scene” revealed much of the actress’ body along with an excessive portrayal of violence and gore. I was shocked by how modern the movie felt—while the setting and characters made the movie’s setting obvious, I couldn’t help but feel that the film was ahead of its time and very ground breaking. The plot was filled with surprises, and I found the shocking reveal of Norman Bates being the killer to be one of the most satisfying, dynamic, and fitting climaxes of any film I’ve seen.

                One of the most notable uses of montage in the film is during the iconic shower scene, during which Norman Bates (as his deranged and jealous mother) repeatedly stabs Marion to death while violins screech in the background. The scene rhythmically interchanges clips of Norman sneaking up on Marion and Marion showering, with the montage (aptly named “Rhythmic Montage”) reaching its climax at the moment when the two different actions meet—when Norman pulls back the shower curtain and plunges the knife into a screaming Marion.

Psycho response MadeleineL

Hitchcock does a great job at making a scary movie and creating suspense with just facial expression, music and film editing. I thought his film, Psycho was an interesting example of montage because instead of visually seeing it I heard it through the dialogue and the narratives. For example when the main character, Marion, was at one point driving away after deciding to steal the money she was given to bank, you could hear other voices talking, more specifically her boss and the man she stole the money from. Although we can only see her driving we can hear the tense conversation her boss is having with his client as they talk about the fact that Marion did steal the money. This makes the audience tense and scared for Marion and adds tension to this otherwise mundane scene. 

Extra Credit: Ways of Seeing

"How does the situation of seeing affect the content or meaning of a work of art?"

     The reading discussed how the way we see and interpret art work depends on our relation to it. When an image is presented to us as a work of art we begin to judge it by the inherent assumptions associated with art (beauty, truth, genius, etc.). When we view art, we are seeing the subject as the artist saw the subject and not the subject itself. For example, the painter Hals painted his wealthy clients as seen through the eyes of a pauper, regardless of how objective he attempted to be. In the same way, our persepective makes us and our understanding of artwork the center of the world because we can only see it in relation to ourselves. Cameras destroyed that idea through the reproduction of the same image, turning it into multiple fragments with a variety of interpretations depending on the setting. It made the content and meaning depend on where you were standing and when. The uniqueness of the content was removed. Reproduction can also isolate elements of a painting and change their significance. For example,  if Venus and Mars by Boticelli were to be cropped and reproduced only as the image of Venus, it would change the content of the work from an allegory of beauty and valor to a portrait of a girl. The article goes on to discuss that this is why the art of the past no longer has the same meaning it did when it was originally produced, especially in the case of religious images which no longer have the authority they once did.

Tatyana Mann

Hello to All!

My name is Tatyana Mann. I am a Sophomore hoping to enter the Digital Media/ Art+Technology field. I have lived in Gainesville, Florida my whole 18 years. My reality is to end up working as an Animator, primarily for Pixar, or Dreamworks. The drawings below are symbolic of my tastes in art: I recreated them from other artists due to their context based on a surrealist world, almost dreamlike and their compositions that allude to movement
. It's like a link to my childlike habits, and my infatuation with Pixar's fantasy worlds.

I also love playing with photoshop, again with a more dreamlike vibe; these are from my "Youthanasia" Series

Time Based Media: well "media" is a term for mass communication, so I guess media that is created in respect to time... aka no idea

Homework 1: Introduction

Hi everyone my name is Tyra Janelle King I am 18 years old and a 2nd year Art and Technology major (crosses fingers). I'm from Miami, Florida. My interests include tattoo art and photography. My goal is to be a digital artist but if that doesn't work out well, a photojournalist for the military is my back up plan. I chose these pictures because they explain me in great detail. My family and friends are everything to me and I'm constantly reminded of how clumsy I am. I'm completely clueless about what time based media but I am willing and hoping to learn a lot.

Dreezy - Homework 1: Introduction

Hello everyone. My name is Adreenah Wynn but everyone calls me Dreezy. 

I'm a second year Graphic Design Major and eventually I want to go into Art Therapy. 

I’m from a small town on the Florida Panhandle called Apalachicola or Apalach for short. It’s right along the water and we live off the seafood. It’s about two hours west of Tallahassee or two hours east of Panama City.

I don't know much about time-based media but I'm ready to learn something new and hopefully I'll leave this class with some awesome projects. 

I made a poster type of banner in photoshop. I threw together lots of colorful shapes and manipulated them through the filters. I added some text, brushes, and a picture of myself to bring it all together. Every single detail represents me in some way and I'll let you think for yourself on what it could mean.

Esteban Arturo

mynameisESTEBANARTURO from Esteban Arturo on Vimeo.

Tara Hempstead

Happy Saturday, all!  I'm Tara, a sophomore Photography major!  I have an insatiable desire to travel, play violin in the UF Symphony, and usually have about five books going at any given time (currently, one being the biography of the lovely Coco Chanel, who I borrowed the quote from).  This photograph came from a roll of really terrible candid photographs my family had the misfortune of dealing with when I got a hold of a disposable camera.  Letting the portrait and quote do the talking on a personal level, on a more analytical level, even if this roll of film was ridiculous (portraits of my mom applying makeup in the morning, my dad mid-conversation, or my brother eating not included), it represents the beginning of a lifelong interest in photography, and two themes that still feature heavily in my work: portraits and candid moments.

Hi! I'm Madeleine. I'm a junior Graphic Design major. I picked this image because it was part of a Mandala project I did and it represents the many different things that influence me in my art.

I love cats and cartoons and traveling. I work mostly with illustrator and love whimsical design. I like to doodle and have an addiction to buying plants. 

 

Hi all! I'm Scarlett. My image is also kind of small because it was an Illustrator file and since I don't have Illustrator, I couldn't export it out as a different file type on my laptop.

Anyway, I just transfered here this January from Palm Beach State College and I'm a 3rd year painting major. I've had some experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, iMovie (very very very briefly), and Audacity, so I should be able to keep up in the class but I hope you won't mind if I ask one of you for help if I'm having trouble! I also like whales and fruit bats and horses and I get lost more frequently than not. I do a lot of reading, drawing, studio time, and photoshopping hats onto pictures of my pet snake, Remy.

(^ This is Remy)

 

 

My favorite TV shows are Game of Thrones, Supernatural, Hannibal, Orphan Black, and True Blood. I love too many movies to have a favorite but I'm looking forward to the premier of The Book Thief which will hopefully play in the Reitz because then it's free.

 

I also just got a job at the Reitz Union Info Desk for fall, so feel free to drop by and say hello!

Madeline Morales

Homework 1: Hello! Sorry the image is so small! (I tried resizing it, and the image is much larger on my computer, so I don't know why it's so tiny!)

Welcome to TBM !!

Hi All,

Hope you all had a great summer and are ready to dive into Time Based Media this fall! I'm very excited to start working with you and hope we can learn from this time together.

Here is the class website we will use for this class. You can find class syllabus, weekly schedule and reading materials on the right column. This process blog is a place where you will be sharing your project concepts, your thoughts on readings/screenings as well as artworks that you find interesting, informative, inspirational.
When posting your entry, please make sure that you are using a Label. Everyone should have a label as his/her name when posting a blog, especially your writing assignments. It will make it clear for me to find your work, and it's easy for you to have your credits. Other kinds of labels can be according to assignments, or anything related to this class.

Also, we have a Vimeo group page for us to exhibit our awesome projects! 2013 Time Based Media UF https://vimeo.com/groups/203080 Please register for your own Vimeo account if you don't have one and be ready to make some great great art!

Love, Su