808 The Time Machine

• Primary Blog Question
  • When compared, the two film clips help illuminate a key question for this course: How has our relationship to technology changed over time? 

Our relationship with technology has changed greatly since both of The Time Machine films were released. The first was from 1960 and the second from 2002. There is a huge difference, especially when it comes to CGI with these two films. You can tell with the original film that technology was limited. An example of this is from the original version when all the time machine does is make the room shake. When the time machine moves in the newer version, it shows wheels spinning and is much more reliant on technology to make it look "cool" to the audience. Our relationship with technology continues to grow closer and closer as the reliance on cell phones and Wifi increases in this now digital world.

• Secondary Blog Questions
  • How has film technology changed?
  • How have we changed as film viewers?
  • How has our understanding of time evolved?
  • How does fiction/science fiction impact our relationship to technology?

Film technology has changed greatly. I'm sure there weren't movies based completely on CGI years ago. Now films like 300 are shot only using a green screen. This would never have been possible years ago. I think we have changed as film viewers to expect more. We expect all that computer animation now because anything is possible. There are no limitations on what filmmakers can show. Our understanding of time has evolved as technology has evolved because we know more of what is possible. Fiction/science fiction impact our relationship to technology because it helps us dream of the possibilities of the future.