Questions: Matrix

What Does The Following Mean, The Matrix Is a Prison For Your Mind?

This means that the Matrix is a program that has inscribed itself to the human mind, blocking any sense of reality. 

Welcome to the Desert of the Real- This quote explains how the post apocalyptic world setting in the movie, Is just that a wasteland.

Homework

Activity 2

Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abboott was born in 1898 at Springfield, OH. She studied at Ohio State University and then traveled to New York to study sculptures. She then became interested in modern photography in traveling to Europe as an assistant to Man Ray. She then encountered the work of Eugene Atget who heavily influenced the work she would do. In this art piece Abbott takes a photo of the façade of Alwyn Court, a 12-story apartment located in midtown, Manhattan. The building is shot at an angle and the structure itself has many patterns. Its detailed designs create this pattern principle.

Activity 1b

Activity 1b

Picture 1-The photographer uses contrast to create a sense of two things that should be important in the photo, the face and the mask. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/326.html)

Picture 2– The photographer uses emphasis to direct the viewer to one part of the photo by setting the perspective in a fixed direction in order to direct the viewer to a certain part of the picture. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/401.html)

Picture 3- In this photo harmony is used with the factory columns being shot in a certain way to make them look like they vary in size and shade. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/401.html)

Picture 4- Harmony is used in this photo by having the leaves with different shades but similar shapes and sizes. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/462.html)

Picture 5-  The photographer uses contrast by adding different shades around the flat iron building probably to point out its importance. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/484.html)

Picture 6 – Variety can be said to be included in this photo because of the different sizes of persons included in this photograph and the different shades included. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/528.html)

Picture 7- Repetition is shown in this photograph because if the duplicating photos shown here. (http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/537.html)

Picture 8- Variety is show here because of the different drawings tattooed in this man and with the black and white scale, the effect of variety is shown more. (http://artblart.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/tattooed-man-at-a-carnival-md-1970-1970.jpg)