Simon Taylor

Welcome! ...  The Hero’s Journey.  Is this the student’s journey?  The academic journey you are at the start of?  Is the hero’s journey the student’s journey?  No.  Because we each have our own brand of heroism, right? ...  Weirdly, it is kind of my academic journey.  I finished

The gap in which there’s a thought. And a character who thinks it. And to the character belongs a world. Without the character no world. And no structure.  We learnt in the first lecture that structure follows from the terms that actualise it.  So, in a way, we are

The motoric aspect of film is not so apparent in its digital form, but is there more than ever in its contents. Movement is everywhere, even when it is not motorised. So by motoric we mean the usually electric motors that used to turn the spools of film. In the

Last week we covered how moving images think.  A moving image sequence is either a simple or a complex thought.  A bone turns into a spaceship is either a simple or a complex thought, because this is what the cut does, it is a movement cut that leads us to

Welcome to Theory and Context.  This first lecture we will be discussing theory. And context. ... Like the label says: we will be discussing theory and context, in respect of their relevance, or irrelevance, to the different formal expressions of film, animation and game. The concept here, theory deals with concepts,