<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>In still photography that look is achieved by closing the lens down to a very small aperture and then leaving the lens open for a long period, from 30 seconds to several minutes. This lets </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><br>On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Bruce Baird <<a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Colleagues,<div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I am showing my class Otomo's Akira and trying to spend time talking both about content issues/historical background and also about formal issues/artistry. Otomo often makes streak of the taillights of the motorbikes linger on screen after the bikes have driven away. I assume that this is a technique he borrowed from cinema and replicated in the anime format (as with the many another borrowings from cinema in both manga and anime), but I just don't know enough about the technical way you do this is cinema. Can anyone imagine what I am talking about and provide an explanation? I assume it has to do with some cinematic analogue to shutter speed or something like that.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Best,</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Bruce<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Bruce Baird</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Assistant Professor</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Asian Languages and Literatures</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">But</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">รด</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><br style="; font-family: Helvetica; "></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">7</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">17 Herter Hall</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">161 Presidents Drive</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Amherst, MA 01003-9312</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Phone: 413-577-4992</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Fax: 413-545-4975<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu"><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a></a></span></font></p><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div></div></body></html>