For our trailer we created a dystopia where the government gives aid (food, supplies, medicine) through a "Nurse Nancy" to the poor, unemployed, sick and disabled. In a year if they haven't shown signs of improvement, their food is poisoned.
We will use propaganda (posters of Nurse Nancy) constant surveillance, (the government can tell if they are improving or not) Uniform expectations, utopian illusion ( it sounds like a good ideas for the government to be providing aid) and restricted information. Our script has 13 scenes, but since this is a trailer, a scene will only be a few seconds.
We will mostly be using voice overs, but still have a little dialogue. We will be starting and ending with the ring of bell. It will also be rung when aid arrives. It will create an eery effect. I really like our idea, and our script is going really well.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
5X5
1. Crossing the street
2. Sparkly shoes
3. Soccer
4. The swing
5. Down the slide
I used an olympus SP-600UZ, I have no idea what that really means, but I'd consider it an advanced amateur camera. Since I already knew how to use iMovie and how to upload to Youtube, this was an easy project.
At first I thought this was a weird project, because it doesn't tell a story or really have a point to it at all, but actually like how it turned out, it has a nice flow to it.
For our next independent project I thought we could do something about lighting and lean how to film without just using auto settings. Sort-of a get to know your camera thing.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Dystopian Trailer Critique
Children of Men . Alfonso Cuarón . R . 2006
In a post apocalyptic setting, all women have become infertile and Theo, (Clive Owen) as well as the rest of the world has lost hope for the future. His ex wife, Julian, (Julianne Moore) finds him and asks for his help. She has found a pregnant women, and needs to transport her safely to the human project.
The trailer does a very good job of showing the different aspects of a dystopian society and developing a dystopian protagonist by using a combination of film clips and voiceovers. The trailer shows a society with post apocalyptic control. The streets are filled with trash, there are explosions, riots, the overall coloring of the film is grey, giving a general harsh feel to the trailer. Using voiceovers from the main character, the trailer establishes his hopelessness in a world with no future. His ex wife is his catalyst that inspires him to help the pregnant girl.
For my trailer I would like to create a mood, like this one did, by using lighting, music, and other film techniques that I may learn. I also want to have a good balance between character development and development of a dystopian society.
In a post apocalyptic setting, all women have become infertile and Theo, (Clive Owen) as well as the rest of the world has lost hope for the future. His ex wife, Julian, (Julianne Moore) finds him and asks for his help. She has found a pregnant women, and needs to transport her safely to the human project.
The trailer does a very good job of showing the different aspects of a dystopian society and developing a dystopian protagonist by using a combination of film clips and voiceovers. The trailer shows a society with post apocalyptic control. The streets are filled with trash, there are explosions, riots, the overall coloring of the film is grey, giving a general harsh feel to the trailer. Using voiceovers from the main character, the trailer establishes his hopelessness in a world with no future. His ex wife is his catalyst that inspires him to help the pregnant girl.
For my trailer I would like to create a mood, like this one did, by using lighting, music, and other film techniques that I may learn. I also want to have a good balance between character development and development of a dystopian society.
Self Learning
I read the article "Preparing Students to Learn without us" by WIll Richardson. It's about how self directed learning can be used by students, with the help of their teachers, in and outside of the classroom. Students can find their own ways to meet the school goals. Students shouldn't be help back by the school curriculum and be able to explore their own interests and learn from that they are passionate about.
I was surprised that at trinity School outside Atlanta, Georgia, the students have a choice of 23 languages to learn online. first because 23 is an impressive number of languages to be offered at a school, but also because language ins't something that you can learn online, sure Latin maybe, but language is more that just about grammar and words. The only way to really learn a language is to speak it.
One quote that I liked was "The ability to learn what we want, when we want it, with whomever we want as long as we have access creates a huge push against a system of education steeped in time and place learning". At school it feels like its easier for teachers to just follow the curriculum, rather than to think of creative ways to teach and inspire.
Self directed learning sounds good in their, but unless students and highly motivated, it would never work. Some students would slack off, and other need more of a structure to be able to learn.
In terms of our class, we all have the resources to learn more about topics that we are interested in, but the point of learn learning is to do it on our own. It sounds like we would have an assignment to go teach ourselves something, which is kind of the opposite of what self learning is. Also, although I like filming and editing, I'm not interested enough in it to go learn about it on my own. I am interested in criminology, which I realize is a very broad topic to learn about, but I would be willing to read more about it on my own.
I was surprised that at trinity School outside Atlanta, Georgia, the students have a choice of 23 languages to learn online. first because 23 is an impressive number of languages to be offered at a school, but also because language ins't something that you can learn online, sure Latin maybe, but language is more that just about grammar and words. The only way to really learn a language is to speak it.
One quote that I liked was "The ability to learn what we want, when we want it, with whomever we want as long as we have access creates a huge push against a system of education steeped in time and place learning". At school it feels like its easier for teachers to just follow the curriculum, rather than to think of creative ways to teach and inspire.
Self directed learning sounds good in their, but unless students and highly motivated, it would never work. Some students would slack off, and other need more of a structure to be able to learn.
In terms of our class, we all have the resources to learn more about topics that we are interested in, but the point of learn learning is to do it on our own. It sounds like we would have an assignment to go teach ourselves something, which is kind of the opposite of what self learning is. Also, although I like filming and editing, I'm not interested enough in it to go learn about it on my own. I am interested in criminology, which I realize is a very broad topic to learn about, but I would be willing to read more about it on my own.
Julie and Julie; review of a movie review
A.O. Scott's review from the New York Times of "Julie and Julia"Two for the Stove"" is a plot summary intertwined with his opinions of the adaptation to the screen, the acting, the choice of actors and how they complemented each other.
He doesn't talk very much about cinematic aspects, but since it isn't a drama or an action movie there really wouldn't have been much to say.
Mostly focussing on the acting, Scott praises Meryl Streep, not only for doing a fantastic job of portraying Julia, but he also talks about how it seems that in many of her movies her co starts are forgotten. "Remember Anne Hathaway in 'The Devil Wears Prada?' Amanda Seyfried in 'Mamma Mia'? neither do I".
He goes on to say that the unevenness isn't only the actors fault, but stems form Julie being a blogger, who is unsure of herself, and Julia being confident, adventurous, and well, Julia Child. "Julie and Julia" does have it's imperfections but all in all Scott recommends it, as do I.
He doesn't talk very much about cinematic aspects, but since it isn't a drama or an action movie there really wouldn't have been much to say.
Mostly focussing on the acting, Scott praises Meryl Streep, not only for doing a fantastic job of portraying Julia, but he also talks about how it seems that in many of her movies her co starts are forgotten. "Remember Anne Hathaway in 'The Devil Wears Prada?' Amanda Seyfried in 'Mamma Mia'? neither do I".
He goes on to say that the unevenness isn't only the actors fault, but stems form Julie being a blogger, who is unsure of herself, and Julia being confident, adventurous, and well, Julia Child. "Julie and Julia" does have it's imperfections but all in all Scott recommends it, as do I.
I think for our quarterly movie review we should give a plot summary and our opinions about the literary, cinematic and dramatic aspects of the film, as well as out general perception of the movie.
First Blog First Blog Post
Hi! I'm Esther a sophomore in the Communication Arts Program (CAP) at Montgomery Blair High School. Creating this blog is part of my CAP Writing News class.
I like peach yogurt and mint chocolate chip ice cream. I've been playing the piano for most of my life. I've recently been getting into a variety of water sports such as kayaking, rowing, paddle boarding and a little skim boarding. I row of the Blair Crew team, which takes up most of my time.
I was in a film class in 6th and 7th grade. Although I'm still not very tech savvy, I'm probably most interested in editing clips and putting movies together. Outside of school a friend and I have put together or at least started many films. My all time favorite being our Murder Mystery. It started out being very well put together, with nice shots and a somewhat understandable plot. It started going downhill after a while, for example we filmed part of it during spring break and another during the winter, so we said that we had traveled from Iceland to Greenland.
I'm not quite sure how we will use these blogs this year. I guess we would use them to talk about and share what we created in class.
I like peach yogurt and mint chocolate chip ice cream. I've been playing the piano for most of my life. I've recently been getting into a variety of water sports such as kayaking, rowing, paddle boarding and a little skim boarding. I row of the Blair Crew team, which takes up most of my time.
I was in a film class in 6th and 7th grade. Although I'm still not very tech savvy, I'm probably most interested in editing clips and putting movies together. Outside of school a friend and I have put together or at least started many films. My all time favorite being our Murder Mystery. It started out being very well put together, with nice shots and a somewhat understandable plot. It started going downhill after a while, for example we filmed part of it during spring break and another during the winter, so we said that we had traveled from Iceland to Greenland.
I'm not quite sure how we will use these blogs this year. I guess we would use them to talk about and share what we created in class.
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