Hello my name is Miesha Chowdhury from bmcc. I pick this course because Im curious about this class. I like action animation like Ben 10, Teen Titan and Avater. My hobbies are texting, listening to music and watching cartoons,movies, football and anime. I am also taking care of the neighbor kids.
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Shadow puppets and stop motion both have similarities to one another. Both use physical objects to create motion using either light or a various amount of pictures in a sequence. They also have the advantage of being tangible, so you have more control over what the viewer sees at any given moment. However they differ in what they can show visually. With stop motion, you really aren’t as limited to what you can create compared to shadow puppets, where you have to create the puppets so they can work best when cast with light.
If I’d been alive to witness one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows, I easily would’ve had my soul scared away. Considering the bloodshed taking place in France at the time due to the French revolution; all of these ghosts suddenly moving and the illusion of a horde of demons and skeletons surrounding the rest of the crowd and I would probably give me a heart attack. Robertson was known for evolving the horror element of the still-objects(like the skeletons and demons) by using the fantoscope to make it seem like they’re moving, and for an unsuspecting onlooker like myself, I’d assume Robertson was some sort of performative necromancer. Nonetheless, after the first stage had been shut down(because authorities were informed that citizens thought the illusions were real) Paris’ citizens loved it, so maybe the thrill would be addictive for me, and I didn’t even mention the anxiety I’d get from smelling the nitric acid[which is used for fertilizers and has a very suffocating smell,] that Robertson would intelligently deploy alongside sulfuric acid which just stinks abysmally. Now regarding what would compare today…probably the 3d horror movie craze from the early to mid 2010’s(you know what I’m referring to). Though the movie theaters didn’t smell as an element to the horror, the 3d movies made the jump-scares and really eerie scenes pop out more. I believe I went to one of them in the late 2000’s or early 2010’s as a kid, and my devout-Christian mother and I almost died from the terror that ensued from the up-close jump-scares as it felt like the monster/killer was up close, and there was no escaping them, and the incredibly loud music or sounds from the movie were inescapable and suffocating.
Yes i can imagine being in one Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797, i think i would of been excited and on the edge of my seat when it was going on because it was something new so i wouldn’t know what to expect. It reminds me of a thriller/horror movie because the way he adds smoke, hanging skeletons and all these little things on the side to make you feel like you’re really there. The show would also give the same vibes as a horror movie.
I can imagine if I attended to one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797 would have been an exciting experience, particularly in the absence of modern electricity. The interplay of shadows and the frightening nature of the figures would likely have been simultaneously entertaining and somewhat unsettling. Today, a similar form of entertainment elicit the same type of emotions might be found in a horror movie, where viewers are called upon to willingly suspend their disbelief. Despite being aware of the fiction, the experience remains unsettling to some extent with the macabre which definitely fits within the supernatural horror.
