The article’s full reference: Wolff, Ellen. "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." Millimeter 35.3 (2007): 38-39. Business Source Complete. EBSCO. Web. 16 Mar. 2010.
The author is Ellen Wolff. It is important to know the author of an article or book and especially his/her relationship with the subject. Ellen Wolff is a journalist who specializes in visual effects, animation and education. Therefore, we can deduce that he is familiar with the field of special effect which makes his article more reliable and his analysis more convincing.
Millimeter magazine published this article. It is commercial.
I do not think that it could bias the work. Millimeter is specialized in motion, television and videos. Besides, special effects are not a subject that could be controversial as it does not touch religion, ethnicity or race etc …
It was published in the edition of may/june 2007.
It can be used for current information as it analyzes the techniques used for one of the latest successful, well known movies.
It is addressed to the general audience, and especially for fans. Moreover, it is written in a way accessible to a certain minority, it contains some specific technique words. However, a normal reader without any knowledge on the subject would understand the article. He would get what had been done for the battle scene in the sea discussed here in the article, but he would not be able to understand exactly how even though the author gives the technical terms.
The purpose of the text is to give an analysis of the special and visual effects of the 15-minute sea battle. Then it informs and reports:
It informs because it presents a structured 4 steps analysis in which it gives information about the visual effects used to realize the sea battle scene. And it reports because it cites some specialists of Industrial Light and Magic like Joakim Arnesson, ILM computer graphic (CG) supervisor who comments on the animation.
The author got the information from the company ILM and its members like the visual effects supervisor John Knoll and the CG supervisor Joakim Arnesson etc
There is no bibliography but there is a credit roll with the names of the supervisors and the directors etc …
It is a step by step analysis of a complex scene and a focus on the digital work, animation and visual effects used by ILM Company. Moreover, the article contains comments, from people that made the movie and its special effects possible, that explain how the scenes were realized and by what digital techniques. Therefore, it is useful and helpful to understand the magic behind this kind of scenes.
The author is Ellen Wolff. It is important to know the author of an article or book and especially his/her relationship with the subject. Ellen Wolff is a journalist who specializes in visual effects, animation and education. Therefore, we can deduce that he is familiar with the field of special effect which makes his article more reliable and his analysis more convincing.
Millimeter magazine published this article. It is commercial.
I do not think that it could bias the work. Millimeter is specialized in motion, television and videos. Besides, special effects are not a subject that could be controversial as it does not touch religion, ethnicity or race etc …
It was published in the edition of may/june 2007.
It can be used for current information as it analyzes the techniques used for one of the latest successful, well known movies.
It is addressed to the general audience, and especially for fans. Moreover, it is written in a way accessible to a certain minority, it contains some specific technique words. However, a normal reader without any knowledge on the subject would understand the article. He would get what had been done for the battle scene in the sea discussed here in the article, but he would not be able to understand exactly how even though the author gives the technical terms.
The purpose of the text is to give an analysis of the special and visual effects of the 15-minute sea battle. Then it informs and reports:
It informs because it presents a structured 4 steps analysis in which it gives information about the visual effects used to realize the sea battle scene. And it reports because it cites some specialists of Industrial Light and Magic like Joakim Arnesson, ILM computer graphic (CG) supervisor who comments on the animation.
The author got the information from the company ILM and its members like the visual effects supervisor John Knoll and the CG supervisor Joakim Arnesson etc
There is no bibliography but there is a credit roll with the names of the supervisors and the directors etc …
It is a step by step analysis of a complex scene and a focus on the digital work, animation and visual effects used by ILM Company. Moreover, the article contains comments, from people that made the movie and its special effects possible, that explain how the scenes were realized and by what digital techniques. Therefore, it is useful and helpful to understand the magic behind this kind of scenes.
I have seen the trilogy “Pirates of Caribbean”. The scenes seemed so real that I never wondered how they managed to make them so real. I think when the public forgets the limit between reality and illusion as he is so captivated by the movie, this latter crosses a line too: the line that separates good movies and masterpieces. Pirate of Caribbean is definitely a masterpiece. Apart from the acting (Johnny Depp etc …) and the passionate story, the concordance of the directing of the story’s vicissitudes, the directing of the actors and especially the directing of the background is what gives the status of masterpiece to this kind of movies. In some movies like Transformers of Michael Bay, you distinguish a rupture between the story and the background insofar as the background is over-highlighted to somehow show the incredible work accomplished on the visual effects. I believe that this kind of movies that sacrifices the story at the expense of the special effects fail, not as commercial products but as cinematographic projects.
The edition of may/june 2007 of the Millimeter magazine contains an article made by Ellen Wolff, a journalist based in Los Angeles, who specializes in visual effects and animation. Therefore, he becomes more credible in the reader’s mind. Wolff’s work is brilliant; he did an entire analysis on the most crucial and important moment of the movie which is the final sea battle. 15 minutes of an enraged battle opposing the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman in the middle of a whirlpool is made possible and even realistic by the Industrial Light and Magic. In his article, Wolff does a step-by-step analysis of the final sea battle explaining each step: water simulations, the 360° camera movement, “the simulation of millions of particles depicting splashes and spray”, and finally the visual effects of lightning strikes.
The interesting thing in the article is the comments of the ILM’s staff members, like the visual effects supervisor John Knoll and the CG supervisor Joakim Arnesson who bring more credibility and reliability to the article since they are part of the team that created these special effects. I particularly liked the way the article is organized. It reminds me of movies with audio commentaries of actors and directors in the same time as the movie is playing. Wolff’s article is a set of pictures from Pirates of Caribbean. It is accompanied by some explanations of Wolff plus the comments of the movie supervisors.
In brief, it is an interesting approach of the visual effects of the movie that facilitates their understanding.
Evaluating Non Academic Periodicals
Blättermann, Marcus. "The Designs of Star Wars, 10 reasons why they are awesome". March 17, 2010.
“The Designs of Star Wars, 10 reasons why they are awesome” is the title of an article written by Marcus Blättermann. It was first published on essenmitsosse.de, which is probably a personal blog, September, the 24th 2008.
The article can be classified as presenting both current information and historical context. First, I consider it as historical information because the saga Star Wars is over now and the details given by the author concern the special effect used for the first star wars i.e. 4, 5 and 6 in the 70s. This information hasn’t changed in the last 30 years and will not change in the next 10 years so it will stay as historical resources. However, I also consider it as current information since it deals with techniques of visual and special effects that are topical matters. ) the article tends to glorify the technology used in Star Wars and then the success of the saga that is venerated by millions of people. This success was possible thanks to the visual effects produced by the Industrial Light and Magic founded by George Lucas. Since the title is “The Designs of Star Wars 10 reasons why they are awesome”, it seems that the article has a persuasive side. Moreover, the use of why implies that the text has a convincing, persuasive connotation. Nevertheless, the main purpose of it is to present the designs of Star Wars by describing and analyzing them which is informing. Furthermore, the author did not come up with this information and description by himself, but he based his description and his analysis on industrial light and magic data. Since the company is the one that created Star Wars visual effects, the author is reporting their work and the information they published to build his analysis. Also, the article summarizes a great number of techniques of special visual effects that became legends among the fans later, like the Lightsabers, Darth Vader’s armor, the creatures like Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and the droid R2 D2. It also shows the inspiration of some designs from existing things like the helmet of Darth Vader and the blasters. The article spreads over all these design and give an accurate explanation of their uses and their meanings. It is very useful and according to the author it “can teach you about good concept-art.”
Marcus Blättermann wrote: “Star Wars didn’t just become famous for its story or special-effects. The role of its groundbreaking designs shouldn’t be underestimated. Here are 10 reasons why the concept arts are masterpieces and what they can teach you about good concept-art.” Then he went through Star Wars innovations and all that made its success by leaning on Industrial Light and Magic’s (ILM) information. Even though it is not an academic source, it is very organized and especially has strong bases (ILM informations). Consequently, the non academic article is a success that shows the different technologies used in Star Wars.
The interesting thing in the article is the comments of the ILM’s staff members, like the visual effects supervisor John Knoll and the CG supervisor Joakim Arnesson who bring more credibility and reliability to the article since they are part of the team that created these special effects. I particularly liked the way the article is organized. It reminds me of movies with audio commentaries of actors and directors in the same time as the movie is playing. Wolff’s article is a set of pictures from Pirates of Caribbean. It is accompanied by some explanations of Wolff plus the comments of the movie supervisors.
In brief, it is an interesting approach of the visual effects of the movie that facilitates their understanding.
Evaluating Non Academic Periodicals
Blättermann, Marcus. "The Designs of Star Wars, 10 reasons why they are awesome". March 17, 2010
“The Designs of Star Wars, 10 reasons why they are awesome” is the title of an article written by Marcus Blättermann. It was first published on essenmitsosse.de, which is probably a personal blog, September, the 24th 2008.
The article can be classified as presenting both current information and historical context. First, I consider it as historical information because the saga Star Wars is over now and the details given by the author concern the special effect used for the first star wars i.e. 4, 5 and 6 in the 70s. This information hasn’t changed in the last 30 years and will not change in the next 10 years so it will stay as historical resources. However, I also consider it as current information since it deals with techniques of visual and special effects that are topical matters. ) the article tends to glorify the technology used in Star Wars and then the success of the saga that is venerated by millions of people. This success was possible thanks to the visual effects produced by the Industrial Light and Magic founded by George Lucas. Since the title is “The Designs of Star Wars 10 reasons why they are awesome”, it seems that the article has a persuasive side. Moreover, the use of why implies that the text has a convincing, persuasive connotation. Nevertheless, the main purpose of it is to present the designs of Star Wars by describing and analyzing them which is informing. Furthermore, the author did not come up with this information and description by himself, but he based his description and his analysis on industrial light and magic data. Since the company is the one that created Star Wars visual effects, the author is reporting their work and the information they published to build his analysis. Also, the article summarizes a great number of techniques of special visual effects that became legends among the fans later, like the Lightsabers, Darth Vader’s armor, the creatures like Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and the droid R2 D2. It also shows the inspiration of some designs from existing things like the helmet of Darth Vader and the blasters. The article spreads over all these design and give an accurate explanation of their uses and their meanings. It is very useful and according to the author it “can teach you about good concept-art.”
Marcus Blättermann wrote: “Star Wars didn’t just become famous for its story or special-effects. The role of its groundbreaking designs shouldn’t be underestimated. Here are 10 reasons why the concept arts are masterpieces and what they can teach you about good concept-art.” Then he went through Star Wars innovations and all that made its success by leaning on Industrial Light and Magic’s (ILM) information. Even though it is not an academic source, it is very organized and especially has strong bases (ILM informations). Consequently, the non academic article is a success that shows the different technologies used in Star Wars.
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