Showing posts with label capfilm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capfilm. Show all posts
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Capture the Fall
This is my capture the fall project. I shot it with a point and shoot camera. Special thanks to my sister Rosie and my cat Milo.
I would have liked to shoot this with a better camera because the quality is on the low side and some of the trees could have looked really cool with a better camera. Also, it's very shaky so that is something I'll need to work on for the next individual assignment.
Monday, September 24, 2012
5x5 Project
This is my 5x5, it is me making scrambled eggs.
Shots:
1. Washing hands
2. Cracking eggs
3. Butter meltimg in the pan
4. Eggs in the pan
5. Eggs on the table
For this project I used a Canon point and shoot and the Youtube editior. It worked pretty well because it's simple, but it was a little slow.I think with the constraints of this project I am pleased with what I made because I managed to shoot it how I envisioned it, but with more freedom as to editing there would be more things I might have wanted to do to the film. For our next independent project I think we should have to make a music video about 2 to 3 minutes long.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Online Learning
I read the second article linked on Mr. Mayo's blog entitled "A World Without Walls: Learning Well With Others." It opened with an example of a middle school girl who has a blog about her community service projects with readers from around the world. It goes on to discuss how tool s like blogs, and wikis could change the ways kids learn for the better. The author discusses how teachers in schools could become the middlemen and women between kids and experts online, instead of teachers serving as the primary experts for their students. Of course, the author also shares anxiety about online predators among other drawbacks to online learning.
According to the author, Will Richardson, "Experts are at our fingertips, through our keyboards or cell phones, if we know how to find and connect to them." This summarizes Richardson's main point, that that legions of knowledgeable people can be found through the internet. Maybe so, but for every one true expert there must be uncounted numbers of people who put things out on blogs or wikis without knowing what they are talking about, or even worse, whop will fake credentials to seem credible. I think this is very pertinent to our filmmaking class, because this kind of learning is exactly what Mr. Mayo is encouraging us to do, however, his version of this is relatively enclosed. It's pretty clear that the only people reading these blogs are other CAP students, so we benefit from interdependence by using these blogs, but we are not going out into the unknown of the worldwide web as the article suggests would be the new path for learning. I am interested in learning more about how government works and how it pertains today.
On an unrelated topic, there's a relatively new band out of Montgomery, Alabama called The Alabama Shakes. You might've heard the single "Hold On" on the radio, that's them, and they're quite good and play roots rock type music. You should listen to them if you like Creedence Clearwater Revival or some of the Blakc Keys early music.
Isaiah's Song Lyric: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." -Neil Young "My My, Hey Hey"
From his album Rust Never Sleeps which is essential Neil Young. The above line might be an advisable course for punk rockers, but not for regular people (if you know who the song is about you probably got that).
According to the author, Will Richardson, "Experts are at our fingertips, through our keyboards or cell phones, if we know how to find and connect to them." This summarizes Richardson's main point, that that legions of knowledgeable people can be found through the internet. Maybe so, but for every one true expert there must be uncounted numbers of people who put things out on blogs or wikis without knowing what they are talking about, or even worse, whop will fake credentials to seem credible. I think this is very pertinent to our filmmaking class, because this kind of learning is exactly what Mr. Mayo is encouraging us to do, however, his version of this is relatively enclosed. It's pretty clear that the only people reading these blogs are other CAP students, so we benefit from interdependence by using these blogs, but we are not going out into the unknown of the worldwide web as the article suggests would be the new path for learning. I am interested in learning more about how government works and how it pertains today.
On an unrelated topic, there's a relatively new band out of Montgomery, Alabama called The Alabama Shakes. You might've heard the single "Hold On" on the radio, that's them, and they're quite good and play roots rock type music. You should listen to them if you like Creedence Clearwater Revival or some of the Blakc Keys early music.
Isaiah's Song Lyric: "It's better to burn out than to fade away." -Neil Young "My My, Hey Hey"
From his album Rust Never Sleeps which is essential Neil Young. The above line might be an advisable course for punk rockers, but not for regular people (if you know who the song is about you probably got that).
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Summer Theatrics
I have not seen Beasts of the Southern Wild, but by all accounts it is a marvelous movie. It also happens to be the subject of the movie review I have chose to annotate for Mr. Mayo, to view it click here http://diigo.com/0su9j.
This review, written by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and entitled simply "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is not very long, it weighs in at just under 400 words, but it is direct and to the point. It focuses less on the plot of the film, but on the general idea and setting as well as the poetics of the script and the cinematography. It also devotes a paragraph to the director, Benh Zeitlin, and one to the lead actress, six year old Quvenzhane Wallis. Lastly, it points out a very important fact: this film was done on a miniscule budget, and shot on location (the Louisiana Bayou) with locals in most of the roles. The reviewer, unsurprisingly, has nothing bad to say and reccomends this movie with a passion.
As to the quarterly movie reviews, I think there should be general perameters as to the movies chosen, such as a particular genre or decade. On the other hand, doing one review where each person watches the same movie could be interesting because the reviews would be comparable.
Recently I watched Moonrise Kingdom. Besides being a truly excellent movie about coming of age and about love, from my viewpoint, having seen trailers and read reviews of Beasts of the Southern Wild, the two movies seem similar in some ways. They both star inexperienced, young actors who are captivating in their roles, and they both seem to be magical in nature, almost two fairy tales. This is an interesting trend as these two movies seem to be the only outstanding specimens of the summer.
Isaiah's movie quote: "As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man."
-Ferrari played by Sidney Greenstreet in Casablanca.
Too many love Casablanca for the romance, although that is a very important part of it. Just as important are the witty quips made by Ferrari, Renault, and Rick. Those lines are why I love the movie.
This review, written by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone and entitled simply "Beasts of the Southern Wild" is not very long, it weighs in at just under 400 words, but it is direct and to the point. It focuses less on the plot of the film, but on the general idea and setting as well as the poetics of the script and the cinematography. It also devotes a paragraph to the director, Benh Zeitlin, and one to the lead actress, six year old Quvenzhane Wallis. Lastly, it points out a very important fact: this film was done on a miniscule budget, and shot on location (the Louisiana Bayou) with locals in most of the roles. The reviewer, unsurprisingly, has nothing bad to say and reccomends this movie with a passion.
As to the quarterly movie reviews, I think there should be general perameters as to the movies chosen, such as a particular genre or decade. On the other hand, doing one review where each person watches the same movie could be interesting because the reviews would be comparable.
Recently I watched Moonrise Kingdom. Besides being a truly excellent movie about coming of age and about love, from my viewpoint, having seen trailers and read reviews of Beasts of the Southern Wild, the two movies seem similar in some ways. They both star inexperienced, young actors who are captivating in their roles, and they both seem to be magical in nature, almost two fairy tales. This is an interesting trend as these two movies seem to be the only outstanding specimens of the summer.
Isaiah's movie quote: "As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man."
-Ferrari played by Sidney Greenstreet in Casablanca.
Too many love Casablanca for the romance, although that is a very important part of it. Just as important are the witty quips made by Ferrari, Renault, and Rick. Those lines are why I love the movie.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Pilot- About Me and Filmmaking
Hi, my name is Isaiah, thus this blog is called Isaiah's Blog. I come from Maryland. My interest in film revolves mostly around the watching aspect, but because I enjoy being an audience, I assume producing film could be just as interesting. I am most intrigued by storytelling and scriptwriting because it seems to be one of the more creative and least technical aspects of filmmaking. I am also interested in cinematography. I think these CAP filmmaking blogs could be used to brainstorm and get feedback on script ideas, as well as sharing interesting and appropriate work from outside of school. They could also be used to chronicle progress in each group's change project, the upshot of this would be that struggling groups could get advice from peers.
Photo Credit: Qisur
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