Jackie Brown

The intro scene from the film Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino begins with the credits rolling in yellow and a medium shot of Pam Grier. Grier who plays Jackie is being carried on a moving walkway in stewardess apparel and looking straight ahead with ought blinking. The credits are on the left side of the screen and Greir is on the right seemingly moving together, until she finally catches up with them.

Then there is a close up of stuff in an x-ray machine with more credits now in the center of the screen. Grier passes by security unbothered with a  “how you doing” to the security guard. She is then shown walking in the airport from a low angle, long shot, from the side then a low angle, medium shot from the front with the credits still rolling. There is then a close up of her face before she starts to run. The camera follows here with a medium direct angle shot. She finally reaches here destination and gets to her plane where she greets guest a little short of breath.

What really makes this scene is the music.  It is by Bobby Womack and called “Across 110^th Street” and it plays throughout the entire opening scene. It plays throughout the movie similarly and becomes associated with Grier’s character Jackie.
 

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Nam June Paik Becoming Robot

My trip to visit the Asian Society took place on a snowy afternoon in early December. I went with my girlfriend and we were both skeptical about seeing art that consisted of Tv’s glued together in the shape of robots. We ended up being pleasantly surprised and disappointed when the exhibit was only two floors.
Nam June Paik was a innovative artist who created sculptures our of modern electronics. Displayed was a light bikini, which was a bikini made of lights, a television under a class chair looking up and many different robots made of televisions. The robots were kind of cute in a way which was appealing. The man and the woman robot were great, he used a round topped television to sculpt a dress.
There was a interactive exhibit that had three cameras that you could participate with. In the only room where pictures were allowed they set up three cameras facing you and an arrangement of different colored lights.

 The last section had Buddha’s as part of the television sculptures. It was funny and interesting to see the contrast between such a serene figure and a tv. A great trip, especially since Hunter students get in free.

Story Board

Museum of Moving the Image

White on white on white, is the feeling when you walk into the Museum of the Moving Image. The floors, the walls and the steps leading to the exhibits are all a ceramic white. The chairs and the tables for the coffee shop are white as well and the feeling is serene but also a little like going to a movie.

The exhibits were interesting with a focus on famous cartoon artists. Chuck Jones had a major exhibit with many videos being shown. Bill Plympton also had a showing of interesting exhibit, just had one projector showing but it was the first thing you saw up the stairs. 

Another interesting  exhibit was where they examined the all the people in the production of a movie. the actors, the screenwriters and the costume people. They had busts made of Chewbaca and Jim Carrey's the mask. 

The Sound Walk

When getting of the train in Astoria Queens, the ambient or worldly sounds are noticeably different and quieter than Manhattan. It feels as if you have gone to a different place, with the sound of wind, a highway nearby and less noise in general.

The smell of barbequing Halal meat is so strong; it feels as if you can smell it. Salesmen are very loud and repetitive on selling their wares, from the person promoting a new Dental office, to a man in an Indian food cart selling Momos. Cars move slowly by, with the occasional fire engine or police car screaming threw.

Languages from around the world are spoken, sometimes when walking by certain bars and restaurants they are even playing the game broadcast in Spanish. People are playing different music from pop and hip-hop to a Mexican love ballad from their cars or even speakers attached to their pockets. The things you can hear as well though is silences especially down some of the residential blocks, silence and wind

Sense of Space

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Assignment one, exploring a space around Hunter College. This is the Eighth floor, which has a balcony that overlooks Manhattan.