History of the camera

Spike Lee created a revolutionary piece of cinematic history called Do The Right Thing. Lee not only directs this incredible film he also stars as the lead role named “mookie”. Unlike most films in the 80’s Lee exposes the audience to thing they aren’t used to seeing. He uses classical Hollywood cinema techniques to capture his film in a different way. For instance, an individual may notice the use of synchronized sounds, close up shots, and the camera being at eye level or angled. These are all…

Innovators History Essay The late 1800s to early 1900s was a time of many innovations that changed our lives. Did you know that a lot of these inventions created over a hundred years ago we still use today in our modern world? These innovations made our world smaller and brought us all a little bit closer together. The typewriter was an innovation that changed the world of writing. The typewriter was first patented on June 23, 1868, by Christopher Latham Sholes. This new and fancy, yet large…

them look as if they are performing misconduct. The cameras will act like an “all-seeing eye” that will watch over all the law enforcers and determine if what they are doing is misconduct or justified. With these cameras, the footage will also reveal who the police officer is interacting with. If something happens where the police officer is shot and killed, the cameras have a huge chance of capturing who the criminal was. With these live feed cameras, there must be someone monitoring all of…

honored for his ability for directing. [2] D.W. Griffith’s experience helped him develop narrative film techniques. His films commonly illustrate the brutality of human nature. [3] I will investigate two (editing and his talent for what appears on camera) of his many methods and go into detail about their success in telling a story and the effect achieved on his audience. Editing can be the most powerful tool in post-production. D.W. Griffith was the pioneer to modern editing. Three signature…

With a body camera on the public servant, just like the one in their car called a dash cam, the police department and government will be able to view the interaction from officer to civilian and visa-versa. As mentioned before about one third of eighteen thousand police officers across the United States are utilizing a body camera, provided by a company called Taser Solutions. Taser has donated body cameras to the Chicago police department as a pilot program…

myself several questions. Why the picture was taken, where the picture was taken, who took this picture, and what is the picture about? Raising the flag on Iwo Jima picture is in black and white. I think that the picture was taken when color on a camera was only in black and white. Maybe the time the Picture was taken color pictures were not available yet. But in today’s world, we see color everywhere on a picture being taken. As I’m analyzing the picture, it looks like six groups of soldier…

Argo (2012) is a movie directed and starring with Ben Affleck based on the history of the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979. The crisis started when the Shah wanted to westernize Iran and it makes the Iranian people infuriate, when the majority people of Iran are Shia then the populace of Iran topples the Shah, deported cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini take over Iran and his supporters start to act violent against people who refuse to comply their cleric and people who suspected to be American…

fourth dimension took hold in many photographer’s art. A Brief History In 1826, the first photograph was taken by Nicephore Niepce, a French scientist who used the photo sensitivity of bitumen of Judea (Syrian Asphalt) to permanently affix a landscape and land himself the title of “Inventor of Photography”. But the story reaches back much farther than this, to the Renaissance, when the camera obscura was used by many artists. The camera obsucra was a dark box which projected an upside down…

The Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th century was a major turning point in history and influenced every aspect of daily life, including traveling (Griffin, 2010). With the invention of the steam engine and further developments in transportation technologies, the mobility of tourists improved considerably. Particularly trains and the steam ships did not only lead to an upsurge in transport carrying capacity, but reduced substantially the cost of travelling (More, 2000) as well. Although…

The article, “The Problem with Police Cameras” written by Janet Vertasi was published in Time Magazine in May of 2014. Vertasi, an employee at Princeton University where is an assistant professor of Sociology. Vertasi’s article provides information regarding police body cameras and bringing awareness to the negative possibilities of our local police wearing body cameras while on duty. She provides examples of misrepresentation of photos with fifteen years of experience in examining how experts…