** Same comment was posted on time in Blog 6
Adrielle’s video has a subtle aesthetic that connects a standard in traditional visual art to her topic: time. Her topic (the subway) connects to time because it deals with transportation. However, her video also relates to time in a different way. Her subtle use of symmetry also relates to time. We see a green pole dividing the plane in half in the first scene, the green pole (farther away) dividing the plane again when she does a slight panning in the second scene, the silver pole dividing the plane in half in the third scene, and the black edges of the subway door dividing the plane in half again in the fifth scene. This method is similar to conveying perspective and depth in the visual arts. For example, when sketching a 1-point room, a lot of people start with a dot in the center of the plane, using straight lines that radiate from the center to establish the diagonal edges and symmetry of the room. By portraying a sense of space using this linear method, they also portray a sense of time by implying that it takes time to get from one point of the 3-D plane to another, basically implying a sense of “linear time” by portraying “linear perspective” (where the center point is at one end of the space, and the location of the viewer is at the other end).