Homework #10 Outline of the Second Term Paper

Science Fact or Cinematic Fiction?

 I.          Introduction

A. Law of Inertia

            1. Objects in motion or at rest will stay that way until external forces act upon it and

change its motion or velocity accordingly.

B. 3 Different clips, different mediums, different themes of animation.

1. Nightmare before Christmas

2. Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny

3. Extras from Incredibles

C. Laws are broken purposely in order to advance main themes of the animation.

II.        Body

A. Nightmare before Christmas

1. Scene where Jack is singing, the hill he stands on is curved in a spiral. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouAt_5UO83s)

2. The hill happens to unravel without any explainable forces and recoils upon itself.

3. If the hill were alive, it would explain the movement, however it is never presented to be alive or another character in the animation, therefore is just an object that happens to move without visible outside help.

           B.  Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny – “Piker’s Peak”

1. Yosemite Sam is running down a mountain side with a boulder rolling/skipping down after him. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psfboAl5kLg)

2. Boulder seems to stop abruptly near the edge of the cliff. The loss in energy is too much especially after rolling down a hill.

3. Boulder also seems to “jump” with too much energy from Sam landing at the bottom of the cliff. The reverberation from Sam’s impact does not seem enough to move the boulder that much.

C.  Extras from Incredibles

1. Extra clip to supplement the movie, shows what happened with the baby sitter and jac jac while the Incredibles were out. Jac jac goes through several changes and displays several powers. One power displayed is some sort of phasing where he floats in space while teleporting through portals only accessible to himself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0VE7gTehAw)

2. While floating through the hallway through his portals it is suggested that gravity does not act upon him. His speed is constant which may support that theory however his constant speed doesn’t seem to have been predetermined correctly.

3. His first phase was after a fall and the speed of the fall was much faster than the speed of his float, therefore he lost energy somewhere in between phasing. If it happens each phase than he should’ve gotten slower each time.

III.       Conclusion

A. Revisit Body A, B, and C.

B. Each animation purposely broke the law of inertia to further advance magical qualities, comedic purposes, as well as otherworldly effects respectively.