Classic Ending?

Red finds himself in the same mood and situation as Brooks. He feels afraid and nervous because he does not know any other system than the prison. He wants to break his parole just so he can go back to the only thing he knows. Red thinks back on his words to Andy, “I’m institutionalized now, just like Brooks was.” He can’t break his routine of asking the manager to ‘take a piss’ and can’t shake his negative thoughts about this new world. Red is dressed in his suit and cracks open his pocketknife. Climbing onto the chair, then onto the small table. Now carved into the wall, next to Brooks farewell, read the words “So was Red.” Red takes the same fate as Brooks and we look to the backside of his lifeless silhouette. The movie takes a flash-forward of about ten years. We see Andy driving his convertible and a focused sense on his face. He is driving along among endless hay fields. This must have been the place he told Red to go. Andy gets out of the car, crosses a small creek and is headed towards the giant oak he described. As we recall Andy’s unfailing hope, we see that he hopes for Red to have made it to this place or even here at this same moment. The rocks haven’t been moved and we all find the black volcanic glass one that we hope to know what has been its importance. Andy uncovers what has been buried what was obviously intended for Red. The box never opens and the camera zooms out on Andy sitting still with disappointment streaming down his face.

SAGAs Again

The year is 1918, and with winter on the way the sound of a typewriter, passed down over centuries, clicks away in a cliché Bronx apartment. With every word she is creating, time is of the essence for the perfect fictitious character of the Nuyugonan tribe that journeys south. Liam was tall with brown eyes, a classy black suit, and a side grin… pushing south may be their only option. Despite the horror stories a knock on the door makes her get up. “You typed?” said Liam. They learn hard truths about themselves, and what it means to be alive.

MDIA 1020 Music Video Rmx

MDIA 1020 Inspire! Motivate!

Peace It Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBHCJbHEKsA

I was trying to evoke a sense of relaxation and peace with a constant visual of natural landscapes that I would choose to look at if I were stressed and a musical number from Paul Cardall that really puts me at ease when I try to unwind from a long day or week. I think that although the audio was optional, I find audio to be the most important part because once I have looked at these wonderful flowers and landscapes, I tend to close to my eyes and just listen to magic of the song.

Beautiful World

http://photopeach.com/album/7ckk8b

Character Color Timeline

That Movie Rocked!

Persistent Entertainment

FILM COVERAGE

TITLE:  Star Wars	SETTING:  Fictional Galaxy
AUTHOR:  Alan Dean Foster	PERIOD:  0 BBY
PRODUCER:  George Lucas	ELEMENTS ATTACHED:
SUBMITTED BY:	SUBMITTED TO:
READ BY:  Natalie Abraham	GENRE:  Fantasy/Action
COVERAGE DATE:  3-21-14	SUBMISSION DATE:

                                                       

	EXCELLENT	VERY GOOD	GOOD	SO-SO	NOT GOOD
PLOT	X
CHARACTERS		X
DIALOGUE		X
STRUCTURE		X
COMMERCIAL APPEAL	X

RECOMMEND: X

CONSIDER:

PASS:

LOG LINE: A young man learns of the world around him and decides to follow in his fathers footsteps and begins to fulfill his destiny with friends and foes.

SUMMARY: Luke Skywalker is a young man that lives with his aunt and uncle on a planet that is part of a ficitonal universe. He is hopeful to go away with friends to an academy but his uncle is very dependent of Luke and asks him to stay on their farm for another season. As tensions grow between them an evil emporer has taken over the entire galaxy by getting rid of the old Republic. The evil emporer has done this by creating a battle station more powerful than all other space crafts in the galaxy and it is called The Death Star. As the evil emporer’s apprentice takes action, a young princess is captured and forced to tell the apprentice where her rebel friends are hiding. Luckily the princess, Leia Organa, has shipped the Death Star’s technical diagram inside a message of a trustworthy droid and for it to be brought to a good man of power much like the evil emporer. The apprentice named Darth Vader sees to it that Leia give up the coordinates of the rebel alliance. Luke has come across the message carrying droid and also the powerfully good man named Obi-Wan Kenobi. Together they decide to aid the princess and come upon a smuggler and a Wookie that will help them reach their destination. As Luke and Obi-Wan travel they unknowingly come into contact with the princess and Darth Vader. As a team Luke, Leia, the smuggler (Han Solo), the Wookie (Chewbacca), and Obi-Wan they rescue the princess and Luke must continue his destiny without his master. Once the plans within the droid have been safely brought to the rebels the mission of destroying the battle station begins. Luke successfully destroys the Death Star with the help of Jedi Master Kenobi and Han Solo. Luke, Han, and Chewbacca are awarded heroic medals from the rebels and are joined in friendship with Leia.

COMMENTS: The plot of this film becomes more and more complex as we watch but if we do not begin with the first film then it is quite difficult to know the backstory and correctly begin a character development. The special effects are quite advanced for the time it was produced and made this film hard to take my eyes off. With the combination of the plot, the characters, the effects, and the dialogue my view of movies within the fantasy/ action genre became more of a consideration into a recommendation.

The plot was well developed from the very first scene because although we did not know the backstory for “A New Hope” we could tell that there was one. The fact that we were already thinking of this stories past made this film recommendation appropriate. As we near the end of this wonderful and action packed extarvaganza, the audience hopes that soon and very soon they will be able to know more and more about the characters and all that has happened around these dynamic characters.

Is That Your Voice? #1

Words + Image

As I was creating this all I could think about was how was I going to "move" the images. You can't make a still image move, but I tried my best. I thought that transitions were the best option to make my images "move". I know that adding transitions are the easiest and simplest effect but let me explain why I choose them.

Transitions of all kinds were used from slides and dissolves to circle close and ripples. To me each transition told a story. Slides were smooth and portrayed the smoothness in the poem while dissolves portrayed a more confusing part for our grandma with dementia. Ripples told the audience about the transition from past to present. As the video ended I added a circle open and a circle close, the circle opening was a sort of portal for my grandma, her walk into heaven. The circle close added another effect on my chance to express the ending of a life, and my point is to say that her physical Earth journey has ended and she now has a different spiritual shape.

The Third: THINK YOU KNOW MY AVATAR?

Natalie Abraham

MDIA 1020

Think You Know My Avatar?

            This wise and crazy looking old lady fills the role of a mentor. Emily uses this wise one in order to help her understand what is happening within her world. This woman has no special powers like Emily and Mandie but uses her brain and number of years of experience to her advantage. She does not aid in the fighting of the evils in the world and usually is a burden when Emily is in trying to fight. This old woman is normally taken hostage or is normally the one attacked first because of her weakness and the importance she plays in Emily’s life.

            Her motivations do not come from anything in particular. This old woman does not fight, therefore she needs to motivation to push her along. But as time goes by we notice how she does fight depression and loneliness. She finds joy in Emily as she rids the world of evil and fights to protect the innocence of the world. We can see, at times, that this old woman looks up to Emily in a sort of way. We can tell that Emily makes her very proud as a mentor.

            The name of our mentor is Grandy Mims. Grandy Mims looks after Emily as she is constantly at battle with the evils and she loves her like the daughter she never had. Mims never loved again since the death of her young husband. Mims and her husband grew up together and had been inseperable since birth. They married young and could be seen doing everything together. After years of fertility issues her husband grew a sad heart and died a broken man. Grandy Mims will forever struggle with the guilt but finds love and hope within The Chosen One.