Jay's Level 3 Media Blog

Task 1 – Pioneers These pioneers are extremely important for their advances into the film industry by creating different theories for the illusions of movement. Joseph Plateau - Phenakistoscope The phenakistiscope was invented in 1832 by Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau. It has 2 disks that spin in opposite direction so that when they overlap they will create an illusion of an image. It will only show a short continuous loop. It is now known as the first form of moving media that paved the way for the future of modern film and television. It is also the first widespread animation device that created an illusion of motion which then led to the creation of many other illusions of motion. The phenakistoscope is an example of Persistence of vision as it creates movement when there is no movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzwdRqsuVM Lumiere Brothers The Lumiere brothers were crucial in the advancement of film and television as they started to invent and manufac...

Task 1 - Techniques There has been many different animation techniques before computer animation which is the main source of animation that is used now. For example you have had animations that have been hand drawn or animations made out of clay figures but it all originally started with animations that were basically made from optical illusions which give the impression of movement for example the Kinetoscope or the Praxinoscope. Persistence of Vision   Persistence of vision is the theory where the brain stores images for around 1/25 of a second, this can therefore be used to create a moving image. This is done by the chemical image being left in your brain as it takes some time to decay which means it gives your brain some time to interpret what we are actually seeing. If the series of images comes in quick enough there is a slight overlap of the images which creates the visual image of motion. If the images don’t come in quick enough and don’t slightly overlap, we will...

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