14th of September 2022 - Scanlines

Interspersed throughout this blog are gifs of my artwork. I achieved this effect by using Photomosh.com, which allowed me to put an animated filter of 'scanlines' and 'bad tv' on the photos, then download the moving image in a gif format. 

This is mode of presenting photographs was inspired by the animated photos accompanying the news articles in the newspaper's featured in the Harry Potter world (Harry Potter Films and Warner Bros. Pictures 2012). Whilst the images in Harry Potter's news articles looked much more realistic, I wanted to make my images look more like what this technology may have looked like in its stages of development. The reason being that I wanted to distinguish these photos from the animated meme gifs available on social media (which mostly appear in high quality film), but also just out of appreciation for the old aesthetics and imperfections of old televisions. Moreover, the scanlines and glitches draw attention to the composition of a digital image and photo through pixels and lights. The most exciting thing for me is that with the development of single - atom thick material of graphene that can conduct electricity, it's possible someone could create such an animated newspaper- though its arguable our phone's already fulfil this function. 

There is also the added benefit to glitching the photos this way, in that it obscures the blurriness of some of the photos. Therefore, rather counterintuitively I think this leads to a more polished look to the design of my blog, particularly since it ties in with the theme of photography I have mulled over in it. 

Bibliography:

Harry Potter Films and Warner Bros. Pictures. 2012. Daily Prophet - Animated Newspaper. Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHAkq9HXLhg.

 Hyun, Woo Jin, Ethan B. Secor, Mark C. Hersam, C. Daniel Frisbie, and Lorraine F. Francis. “High-Resolution Patterning of Graphene by Screen Printing with a Silicon Stencil for Highly Flexible Printed Electronics.” Advanced Materials (Weinheim) 27, no. 1 (2015): 109–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201404133.


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