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I can imagine being an audience member at one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797 because I’m a person who loves experiencing new things so I think it would be a nice experience to see what these Magic Lanterns are about. The emotion that would come out of me would be surprised and fear. Surprised because again I would be in awe at what I’m seeing but then the fear would come because I would be fearful at the demonistic beings I’m seeing being projected. I don’t mess with that stuff. I don’t want to allow that into my life, my space, or my mind. I don’t do it so I would definitely be fearful as well. An entertainment form that would bring up this same kind of emotions within me would be the cinema. Seeing a scary movie in theaters brings out the same emotion of shock and fear because it’s the adrenaline of fear a person gets when they get scared by a jump scare or some kind of “demonic being present” kind of scene. They’re different though because with the Magic Lanterns, you didn’t get a preview with what the movie would be about so the fear I would feel around the time of Magic Lanterns would be different than it is now, but the fear now a days is much more intense because animation and graphics are much more technically advanced then it was back then!

Hello Everyone! My name is Kari Munoz. This course was chosen because it was required for my Business Administration degree. Since it appears more visually appealing, I’d like to learn more about “Stop motion” animation. My major is Business Administration, and after BMCC, I plan to transfer to Baruch College to pursue a Marketing degree. My current interests include going to the gym to keep myself healthy and doing eyelash extensions as a side hustle. :)))

Question: Can you imagine being an audience remember at one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797? What do you think your reaction would have been? Can you think of any form of entertainment that would elicit the same emotions today? (Re-)read/watch these resources for inspiration:

Answer:

It would have been terrifying to be in the audience at one of Gaspard Robertson’s “Fantasmagorie” shows in 1797. During this time, people were going through a brutal revolution in which many people died. I would likely believe that these ghosts are from the British Revolution and are haunting the people. He’ll definitely have me wondering whether or not these illusions are real. Since TV’s were nonexisting yet this show was definitely something to look forward too. Horror and thriller movies contain jump scares, which are another form of entertainment that would elicit the same emotions. Due to the superstition of ghosts, these shows we’re most likely all sold out at the time.

If I was an audience member watching Phantasmagorie for the first time, I would have enjoyed it. I really like horror and the fear that is associated with it. A long while back when VR was first coming out, I purchased some of those foam VR goggles that you insert your phone into. I downloaded a bunch of horror VR apps that were pretty scary. But one of them really stuck out to me. It was a promo for a horror movie that had come out where you were placed in a scene from the movie. I remember I was so scared I wanted to rip the VR goggles off, but I continued to watch until the end. It wasn’t that long and I imagine that’s how those audience members must of felt.

My name is Amina Toole and my major is animation and motion graphics, I chose this course because im very interested in learning the history of animation and learning about animation from around the world that is unknown to me presently. My ultimate career goal and dream is to go to a school in france called les Gobelins, I want to go there for a masters in animation direction. I recognize that it will be very hard for me to get to this school at my current skill level, but I plan to work extremley hard to be at the quality level, of the work that emerges from Gobelins. Some of my hobbies include cooking, skateboarding, and listening to vinyl records. I also have a rescued black cat with one eye named Patoot, whom I love very much.  Some of my favorite animated films are from the 1960s to 90s, I really appriciate older experimental animation for its innovation and creative approaches.  One of my favorite animated movies is the yellow submarine released in 1968, it is a movie dedicated to the beetles albumn “The yellow submarine”. Another movie that I find very interesting is a French animated film called fantastic planet released in 1973. Its a relativley strange film, but I really appriciate it for its otherworldly asthetics and experimental funk music soundtrack.

Hello everyone! My name is Yusuf Aldacher. I am a sophomore in BMCC and this is my last semester in which I’m soon going to be graduating in this Spring of 2022. I am majoring in Studio Arts. My career plan is to be a character designer or background designer for the gaming industry. My hobbies of mine are just drawing anything that includes modern military and medieval characters. The reason I chose this course is that I always admired how animation reached different levels throughout the years and always had a curiosity about how it all started. The animations of anime are what first inspired me to go for drawing. The Japanese animations of their “anime” cartoons were way ahead of their time or even more advanced than the Disney or western animations. I’m very interested in learning how did the Japanese make their animations so immersive.

One of my favorite animes that I’ve watched is Re-Zero. The studio for this is White Fox, the artist is Tappei Nagatsuki and the first season was released on April 4th, 2016. Re-Zero was originally a light novel that I haven’t read yet and look forward to reading in the future. I’m not a big fan of extremely gory anime, but this anime was too good to stop watching. It got darker as it approached season 2, but what I really liked about this anime was how it involves every character in the main plot. In many movies or series, we see how the side character always appears for a bit and then never makes an appearance again. In Re-Zero, every character has their own important contribution to the plot and one of the characters I appreciated seeing often was Otto and it took me by surprise to see how important he had become in the future episodes.