"Sarah Palin"

This is an "interview" with Governer Sarah Palin and reporter Katie Couric. I love Tina Fey, she is great in this! VOTE!!!

Movie

I am almost done filming "Mya's Adventure" and I am releived that I have survived this far! Making a movie is much harder than I had anticipated and I am just hoping that I can at least make, or create, or whatever, something that is cohesive and somewhat interesting. I have about three hours of footage of dog wandering around in the woods and I am definitely looking forward to watching every minute of it! Yeah, right. Maybe with some sweet editing skills this movie would have the potential to be a success. ha

language of film

Since I have begun to film "Mya's Adventure Home" the reading on semiotics is coming into play more than I had anticipated. In doing my preproduction plan and writing out my scirpt and story board, I was not thinking of using the actual camera as a tool for comunicating a certain underlying message to the viewers. 

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I have started to follow Mya around in hopes of getting some good footage. Since I have started doing this, new and different ways to communicate a message without having a narrator say, for example, "When we see things from Mya's point of view..." but rather can use camera techniques to show that we (the audience) are looking out as if it was Mya's point of view. I plan on doing a few things to communicate that it is Mya's point of view we are seeing from: 1) get a close up on her eye 2) consistantly use the same music whenever we switch back to "Mya mode" and 3) have the camera at a downward angle, as if it were coming from a dog's point of view. Hopefully it works out....Any suggestions?

Filming and what not...

I began filming my project today and I must say, following around a dog for a while is boring and funny all at the same time. For my film I am trying to get a third "person" view and the dogs view and it is actually really difficult to film the surroundings at a lower angle, like a dog. It amazes me how interesting everything is to them, and how everything must either be checked out or at least sniffed for a little while.
This made me think about my previous blog and how we use different lenses to view the world around us. Well I had not thought about viewing the world from an animal's point of view, let alone a dog, but it makes sense that they see things WAY differently then we do.
I am looking forward to seeing my final project and I hope that I can capture the dog's point of view, especially in a language that is well interpreted.

Your Lense

In learning about the basics of using a video camera I cannot help but think about the different lenses that we can use to create, interpret or understand the world around us. I am not just talking about the lenses of a camera, but the lense that we as individuals use to view things. I think that different factors such as gender, race, age, and even geographical location have a huge impact on how we "see" things in the world... I don't know, what do you think?

School...

I'm already sick of it. 

Emergence and Memes

Memes. It is kind of a strange word and after reading about them a few nights ago I found out that they have a lot of meaning behind them. I have found myself having a difficult time grasping on to the whole idea but I think that I've got it: a meme is an idea or a fashion, song lyric, quote, behavior and so on... Imitation is what allows them to survive and succeed (or not).

Memes, memes, memes... Certain memes that I frequently see imitated or have a high survival rate in the fashion world include: scarves, boots, hoops, large bags, pointy heels etc. etc.

Song Lyrics get me ALL THE TIME! Any song that can be stuck in your head for a period of time is a meme (and can be one of the most annoying too), because it is an idea, or lyrics in this case, that is being passed on to others. A particular song/meme stuck in my head at the moment:

                           

It's a good one!

While memes are one thing, emergence is quite another. Creating organization out of disorganization. According to the radio show, this is how we have created cities and neighborhoods, just like how ants have created successful colonies. I had never thought about this particular topic in this way, but it makes perfect sense: I planned on going to work then home, but on my way back to my car I saw a new skin-care store that I wanted to see; taking me off "track" but finding and creating a new one. Hmm....Interesting. 

Interactive Media--what is it?

Interactive media. What is it? Where is it and how is something considered to be interactive? After much contemplation over the subject it hit me- DING- interactive media is almost everywhere and we are all contributors to the flow and continuation of it. While e-mail and most of the internet can be considered interactive, there is a whole different world that survives both inside and outside of the internet: gaming.

Gaming brings new possibilities for interacting with people around the world, whetehr it is with Wii or Xbox or interactive online chess. In the 20th century both of these games seem like they may have little to do with communication or global interactions, but thankfully the internet has pushed us into the 21st century. This has allowed us to play chess with someone in china, or play Mario Kart with somebody who is sitting in their home in France.

Because of the internet and the popularity of games such as chess and Mario Kart, people are able to not only interact with the medium that is displaying the game (computer or a television with an internet hook up), but with other people as well. It is a package of multiple forms of interaction with multiple entities. 

http://www.chess.com/livechess/index.html