Video Link: http: http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8gOXPc0MgI
This video is very effective. As the singer starts to talk the camera narrows in on the person talking. It is also effective in the way that you can hear the people in the band talking their voices aren't' to low. I really like this interview because it makes me laugh at the appropriate times. The shooting techniques are effective too, I was surprised when it showed that the camera was just on a tri-pod because it still is an audience grabber because every so often it will zoom in and out once really quick.
Video would be really effective in my section of the online school newspaper because with news and features it is hard to show an interview or a video through words.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Finding Forrester Movie Review
Finding Forrester is a movie that is a drama. It is a great movie. The director of the movie is Gus Van Sant, and the producers of the movie are Johnathon King, Dany Wolf, Thomas Sean Connery, Rhonda Tollefson and Laurence Mark. The main actors in this movie Finding Forrester are Sean Connery as William Forrester, Rob Brown as Jamal Wallace, Anna Paquin as Claire Spence, and Busta Rhymes as Terrell Wallace.
Finding Forrester is a movie that catches your attention right off the bat. When the directors made this film they knew what they were doing. Here is a little summery of the movie.
A boy named Jamal Wallace who lives in the Bronx with his mother and his brother Terrell Wallace is getting bad grades in school. Jamal is great at basketball so he spends most of his time playing that with his friends instead of paying attention to his school work. When it comes time for an I.Q. test Jamal scores really high grades on this and then a private prep school catches wind of this and asks him to go to their school and they will not charge him to get the education. Jamal accepts the invitation from the school and gets on a basketball team.
Jamal Wallace makes a new friend and his name is William Forrester a famous author and Jamal does not know this. Latter on in the movie Forrester shows up at Jamal's school to read a piece of writing that Jamal wrote and the teacher Professor Crawford asks Forrester if he would take up a position in the teachers board, then Forrester tells them that the piece of writing he had just read was the writing of Jamal Wallace.
William Forrester leaves to go back to his homeland in Scotland after reading Jamal's writing to the class. About two days after Forrester leaves his lawyer comes to the school to speak with Jamal and tells him that William Forrester has passed away and Forrester wanted his friend Jamal Wallace to have everything he owned. William Forrester died of cancer and he never told Jamal about this because he didn't want to get him upset.
This film is an extraordinary film. When you watch this you get a sense that you are actually in the Bronx watching it as it happens. This film was a very successful film it has 4 wins and 8 nominations. This film was a great success just like these movies directed by Gus Van Sant: Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Psycho, Last Days. These movies were all a great success partially because they were high budget films, but I think it is more to do with who the director.
The quality of the movie Finding Forrester is really good. For the setting I find that it actually sounds and looks just like the Bronx, bad and dirty. I'm not trying to stereotype, but it's the the truth. The quality of the acting in this film is just about perfect the actors are great in this movie nobody else could have done it better. The quality of the conflict is clear what i think that the conflict is man versus himself. The quality of the music in Finding Forrester is good also every bit of music fits every part of the movie perfectly.
I find that the movie does get the point across to the audience effectivley without a problem. The message of the film is to do the best you can in every aspect of life because you never know what lies around the next turn.
Finding Forrester is a movie that catches your attention right off the bat. When the directors made this film they knew what they were doing. Here is a little summery of the movie.
A boy named Jamal Wallace who lives in the Bronx with his mother and his brother Terrell Wallace is getting bad grades in school. Jamal is great at basketball so he spends most of his time playing that with his friends instead of paying attention to his school work. When it comes time for an I.Q. test Jamal scores really high grades on this and then a private prep school catches wind of this and asks him to go to their school and they will not charge him to get the education. Jamal accepts the invitation from the school and gets on a basketball team.
Jamal Wallace makes a new friend and his name is William Forrester a famous author and Jamal does not know this. Latter on in the movie Forrester shows up at Jamal's school to read a piece of writing that Jamal wrote and the teacher Professor Crawford asks Forrester if he would take up a position in the teachers board, then Forrester tells them that the piece of writing he had just read was the writing of Jamal Wallace.
William Forrester leaves to go back to his homeland in Scotland after reading Jamal's writing to the class. About two days after Forrester leaves his lawyer comes to the school to speak with Jamal and tells him that William Forrester has passed away and Forrester wanted his friend Jamal Wallace to have everything he owned. William Forrester died of cancer and he never told Jamal about this because he didn't want to get him upset.
This film is an extraordinary film. When you watch this you get a sense that you are actually in the Bronx watching it as it happens. This film was a very successful film it has 4 wins and 8 nominations. This film was a great success just like these movies directed by Gus Van Sant: Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Psycho, Last Days. These movies were all a great success partially because they were high budget films, but I think it is more to do with who the director.
The quality of the movie Finding Forrester is really good. For the setting I find that it actually sounds and looks just like the Bronx, bad and dirty. I'm not trying to stereotype, but it's the the truth. The quality of the acting in this film is just about perfect the actors are great in this movie nobody else could have done it better. The quality of the conflict is clear what i think that the conflict is man versus himself. The quality of the music in Finding Forrester is good also every bit of music fits every part of the movie perfectly.
I find that the movie does get the point across to the audience effectivley without a problem. The message of the film is to do the best you can in every aspect of life because you never know what lies around the next turn.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Zombieland Movie Review I Chose
The movie review I chose was the review about the well known Zombieland movie directed by Ruben Fleischer. In the movie the two main characters are Columbus and Tallahassee and Columbus heads out to find his family in Columbus, Ohio and Tallahassee starts out on his to Tallahassee, Florida.
The reason I chose this movie review was because it caught my attention and I like this movie because it is funny and it has good actors in it. This movie review gives a lengthy, but good review of the movie and that to me is what makes a good movie review. Another reason why I chose this movie review because it is a long movie, but it doesn't let you get board. This movie review gives basically the whole movie in a summary in about 3 1/2 paragraphs.
This movie review can be found at: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Zombieland-4191.html
The reason I chose this movie review was because it caught my attention and I like this movie because it is funny and it has good actors in it. This movie review gives a lengthy, but good review of the movie and that to me is what makes a good movie review. Another reason why I chose this movie review because it is a long movie, but it doesn't let you get board. This movie review gives basically the whole movie in a summary in about 3 1/2 paragraphs.
This movie review can be found at: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvds/Zombieland-4191.html
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Activities from allpoetry.com(Bonus)
Making a Poem
It is hard for me to make a poem
I don't like making poems
I find it is boring to make poems because I am not good at it
It is hard to make a poem up right on the spot because when I think of a poem I think it has to rhyme
View on Life
My View on life
Live every day like it's your last
Cherish every moment of life
Don't have regrets have good memories
Don't let people rage about you when you go let them think about you and smile
In life you should be able to do what you want
In life don't look back on the past, but look ahead to the future
Because you only live life once
Because I'm High
Because I'm high I will probably do something stupid
Because I'm high I will probably get injured
Because I'm high I realize my real life sucks
As I start to come of the high I start to feel sick
Oh no I took an allergic reaction from the pot
I go to the hospital and realize as I lay there
I don't need pot to make me feel good
All I need is a little bit of confidence
When The Rain Falls
When the rain falls I feel dismal
When the rain falls I feel discouraged
When the rain falls I get angry
When the rain falls I feel alone
As I lay there in bed and listen to the rain beating down on my cardboard box I feel like a hobo
It is hard for me to make a poem
I don't like making poems
I find it is boring to make poems because I am not good at it
It is hard to make a poem up right on the spot because when I think of a poem I think it has to rhyme
View on Life
My View on life
Live every day like it's your last
Cherish every moment of life
Don't have regrets have good memories
Don't let people rage about you when you go let them think about you and smile
In life you should be able to do what you want
In life don't look back on the past, but look ahead to the future
Because you only live life once
Because I'm High
Because I'm high I will probably do something stupid
Because I'm high I will probably get injured
Because I'm high I realize my real life sucks
As I start to come of the high I start to feel sick
Oh no I took an allergic reaction from the pot
I go to the hospital and realize as I lay there
I don't need pot to make me feel good
All I need is a little bit of confidence
When The Rain Falls
When the rain falls I feel dismal
When the rain falls I feel discouraged
When the rain falls I get angry
When the rain falls I feel alone
As I lay there in bed and listen to the rain beating down on my cardboard box I feel like a hobo
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