Organizational Structures – Week 4 Live Session Response

Augmented Reality

Meron Gribetz’s demonstration of the Meta 2 headset show some of the possible applications for augmented reality (AR). AR puts a layer of information on the real world, allowing users to interact with virtual objects and data. Designers should “imagine how we can create this new reality in a way that extends the human experience, instead of gamifying our reality or cluttering it with digital information” (Gribetz, 2016).

Gribetz introduces three key concepts for making AR a tool that extends our bodies:

  1. Neural Path of Least Resistance: You are the operating system, using spatial memory instead of traditional file systems.
  2. Touch to See: Proprioception, the sense of our body parts in space, lets us understand our work more directly by touching it.
  3. The Holographic Campfire: You can interact socially if people can see and work on the same virtual objects.

Composing Movement

Akira Kurosawa was a master filmmaker whose work has inspired many directors and cinematographers. The Youtube video from Every Frame a Painting demonstrates how Kurosawa captured movement on-screen to tell stories that are visually stimulating.

  1. The movement of Nature: Often in the background, the movements of water and other natural elements add emotion to a scene.
  2. The movement of Crowds: Reaction shots of numerous people sharing an emotion amplifies that emotion.
  3. The movement of Individuals: Every character has a distinct way of moving.
  4. The movement of Camera: Every move has a beginning, middle, and end that moves the audience through the scene.
  5. The movement of the Cut: Editing can give a rhythm of movement to a scene.

Knowing When to Cut

Film and video editing is largely instinctual, but the Youtube video from Every Frame a Painting provides advice on how to judge a shot and knowing when to cut to the next shot. Actors’ eyes tell you the emotion of the scene. Good actors can do this nonverbally. Think about how much time do I give this emotion? The audience needs time to feel and share the emotion. There is a rhythm to traditional Hollywood editing. It should happen so naturally that you don’t even notice it. Cutting against a rhythm can be disturbing, which can help add drama or emotion.

References:

Every Frame a Painting. (2015, March 19). Akira Kurosawa – Composing Movement [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

Every Frame a Painting. (2016, May 12). How Does an Editor Think and Feel? [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3eITC01Fg

Gribetz, M. (2016). A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset. TED2016. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/meron_gribetz_a_glimpse_of_the_future_through_an_augmented_reality_headset

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