Lord of the Rings

In The Lord of the Rings there are a lot of effects with the camera. When the ring falls on Frodo’s finger everything goes fuzzy to show how unreal it all is. I think it is interesting how they would make more than one house for each person or how they’d make 2 bars, one to make the elves look small and one to make the people look bigger. There are a lot of different angle in this movie I like how when Frodo is lying down and looking up at Rubindale. Rubbindale looks like she is glowing and fuzzy to show that Frodo is slowly fading away. There are interesting sound effects too I especially liked how when they are running through the woods and all u hear is the music and the sounds made by the horses.

Rocky Paper Scissors

In the Lawrence High School Focus Film Festival video "Rocky Paper Scissors" I like the way they do the freeze shots at the beginning to introduce the people who took part to make the movie. The beginning shot is good to how that he still loves what he used to do and misses it. It is kind of weird though how the coach comes around the corner every time he speaks, and that’s just editing problems, or they could have done it for comedy. The way they switch screen shots with the beat of the music is very creative, and it keeps the audience’s attention. I like how they change from color to black and white on the stairs. It’s funny how the coach waits around forever to go to save Rocky. The music choice in the fight makes the scene more intense and dramatic. All in all a very creative and entertaining video.

Carnival of the Souls

Carnival of souls was made by a crew of only five people because of this everyone had do play more than one role in the making of the movie like the director also being the custodian. The budget was only seventeen thousand dollars and because of this none of the serious companies would even look at it. Carnival of Souls was made because this guy got an idea of dead people dancing in an abandoned outside ballroom and the story formed around it. When this first came out in 1962 most children and young adults liked it, but the older adults weren't fans of it. Since the older adults didn't enjoy this movie it wasn't a good seller. Later on the movie was featured in best movies of the 60's and 70's, and shown on occasions on television. Carnival of Souls started being followed more and more and was finally let out in theaters almost thirty years later. The writer of this movie said, “Everybody gets ideas but what matters is when they get the idea." I think this means that a writer has to wait until the people are ready for the idea.

Moving Audacity Track to Garageband

After recording and editing your audio

1.) Make sure the audio isn't running anymore by clicking the stop button

2.) Open Itunes

3.) Back to the audacity track

4.) File: save as a .wav

5.) Name the project

EX (name).wav

6.) Save to desktop

7.) Find icon and drag it to the music folder in Itunes

8.) Open Garageband

9.) Drag audio from Itunes to the male or female voice line in garageband

I chose two photographs out of the Pulitzer Prize Winning Photograph book. One is The Little Red Wagon and Death (48). The reason this photo grabbed me first of all was the image. A body covered by a sheet in the middle of the road and a crushed wagon. The wagon told me right away it was a child. A police is standing over him taking notes and the rest of the world is going on with their lives. Next I read the story behind the image. The police was there just minutes before about to tell the child to watch out, but the kid stepped back onto the sidewalk. The police went on only moments later to hear about a child being hit by a garbage truck. The image is important because sometimes people just assume things will be alright when really you have to make sure they work out. Things could have happened differently, but they didn't, now we have to live with that.

The second photo I chose was Bangkok's Nasty Politics (119). This photograph caught my eye first because there were children huddled around two other children being hung. Second because they were killing them! There are two parties here the leftist and the rightists, the leftists are being beaten by chairs and poles by the rightists. The reasoning behind this is political beliefs. There are children here that would only come up to my hip, front row, laughing. This is important because if adults can't learn to live amongst other peoples view on the world, then how can we expect things to be better when our future, the children, are just as bad off as the adults.

Ethics

I think that the actual photograph of a man dying in war being shown is not necessary. The family of the soldier does not want the whole world to see the photo. I don't think it should be published. It would only be disrespectful to the family, and to the man, to publish it. After reading the article from The Joplin Post, that didn't have the photograph posted, I understood well enough what happened from the words that I didn't need to see the moment. In my opinion the photo does not need to be posted.