Time Design

This week in class we presented our research about time design within a specific movie. My group used the movie The Life Aquatic to show the six different elements of time design; tempo, intensity, setting, chronology, scope, and duration. As my part of the presentation I provided a clip regarding scope and intensity. I discovered that the scope in this particular movie was similar to the seen in Run Lola Run when she is thinking about who to ask for money, except the difference is that in The Life Aquatic, the images flash slower and show more setting. For intensity I learned that The Life Aquatic was actually very lacking in intensity due to the almost monotone dialog, lack of music, and slow action scenes.

The image used was taken from: http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/life_aquatic/cast.jpg.


For the second half of the class we went to the new ICA museum. There I found one artist that I really enjoyed, his name Jack Goldstein. He was born in 1945, in Montreal, Quebec and died in 2003 in San Bernardino, California. The piece there was called Untitled 1983. It was an acrylic painting on canvas using only three colors that are not adequately represented in the provided photograph. The colors were a bright green, blue, and white. The image struck me because I am fascinated with storms and science. I also know how hard is it to capture a double lightning strike due to the extreme speed. The size of the painting with the intense color and the cropping also made it seem very cinematic. The painting itself captures a small moment in time.

The image used was taken from: http://www.orbit.zkm.de/files/orbit/goldstein4-22-1.jpg. The information provided was taken from the informational plaque at the ICA.