Part 1
Three weeks ago we had a change of lecturer from Ivan Phillips to Bill Schaffer. I wont lie i was far from pleased with the change, this was not bill's fault but i did hold it against him, and as a result have kind of neglected this blog. Yesterday Bill's lecture finally hit the spot with me and so Ive decided to go back and talk a little bit about the first two lectures before i move onto the one from yesterday.
Bill's first lecture was mostly about video games and filming styles, he did present one interesting idea for me however. Bill spoke about two types of filming method the first telling a story from 1st person perspective this was done a lot in early cinema and has now started to creep back in to modern cinema in short action scenes such as 'DOOM' first person shooter scene and 'Natural Born Killers' in the diner scene. 1st person filming has also become popular in TV 'Peep Show' for example. The second Filming technique, which is much more common today is that told from multiple perspectives allowing the audience to have an all most god like perspective as if the audience is omnipresent within the narrative.
These ideas also transfer over to video games, most commonly action video games that tend to follow either a 1st person or narrative style of game play. Both styles often follow a linear path of game play but its the users perspective that changes.
Part 2
Bill's second lecture was supposed to be on Sci-Fi, little bit sad that most of it was spent on flicking through his photo album and then talking about genre. But on Genre he was right you cant classify something with any kind of total one word description. If you label something like 'Alien' 1979 as Sci-fi then your only half there as its also could be covered by Horror. Its never clear cut!
sorry this second part has been a while coming, as its really rather short and i should have just sucked it up and got on with it.
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