#12 Describe some differences between still photographs and moving images.
Well, to state the obvious, a still photograph has no literal movement within it, and moving images have actual physical movement within them. Still photographs can be printed on a sheet of paper, a moving image must be "played" on a screen of some sort so that it may be able to take motion.
#13 Describe some similarities between still photographs and moving images.
Moving images can be comprised from a series of still photographs, such as a "stop-motion". A still photograph is a moment of a sometimes moving image that is captured and displayed. Both are images within a particular frame, and both have subject matter and aspects of composition.
#14 Describe some links between photography and the concept of “time”. Describe some links between photography and the concept of “stillness”.
Photography is the capturing of a moment in time. Time is always moving forward, but with photography time can be stopped (not literally); photography stops time in a sense that it records a moment that happens once and then is gone forever. Photography is stillness of a particular subject. Whether the subject is moving or is a still area, taking a photograph of it will capture stillness. Photography can capture a particular moment in time and make it appear still.
#15 Describe how you can you “activate” a photograph that you have already taken. In other words, how can you transform a “still” image into a “moving” one?
Maybe if you took a few images of the same thing, only slightly different (someone waving their hand in slightly different motions on different photos) and then put these images together in Final Cut or something like that, then you could make the still image in to a moving one. I cannot really think of another way to do this, as I am unfamiliar with all of this really. I know this is what we are going to be doing in class so this was the only way I could think of doing this. If there is a way to activate a single photograph and make it moving, then I am unsure of it.
#16 Describe how you might take a “moving” image and make it “still”.
Press pause! Haha....just kidding. You could freeze the frame, so yeah I guess by pausing it. There is probably a better explanation for this but I am not grasping it. You could take a picture of it!
