History of Bollywood and Indian Film

• early films about mythology, religion, saw stars as gods
• first made in 1913
• early prints had silver - where stripped down for metal
• First superstar from Kismet
• Bombay Talkies - formed by 2 film stars
• Sensorship under British rule
• Raj Kapoor and Nargis
• Nargis was in Mother India
• 1950s saw rise of parallel cinema - more complex women
• Auteurs like Guru Dutt, Satjayvit Ray
• Playback singers
• Rise of 'angry young man' character
• 80s was a bad time
• Rise of Films appealing to diaspora
• Satellite TV, rise of middle class - sense of pride, opening India's borders
• Single screen cinemas and more expensive multiplex cinema
• Regional cinema as well

Augmented Reality

Understanding Augmented Reality: Concepts and Applications

By Alan B. Craig

• Spatial and interactive, connectedness
• using space around mobile devices
• algorithms can calculate the geometry of spaces
• 'vision science'
• medium as well as technology - people 'experience' augmented reality
• it adds digital information that you can interact with like you interact with the physical world

Notes from Cinematography: Theory and Practice

Image Making for Cinematographers and Directors

by Brian Brown

• p2 create a visual world for the characters to inhabit 
• p7 a long lens compresses space and a wide lens expands and distorts space
• p9 adding visual texture: changing colour and contrast, desaturating, filters, fog and smokefx, rain, film stocks
• p10 movies are one of the few art forms that use movement
• ability of the camera to conceal or reveal information
• letting camera reveal rather than narrator or dialogue
• POV is a key tool of visual storytelling - close to how one of the characters would see it
• cinematography consists of showing the audience what we want them to know about the story
• audience inhabits the characters brain and experiences what they experience