Special Effects

In 1856, Oscar Rejlander created the world's first "trick photograph" by combining different sections of 32 negatives into a single image. In 1895, Alfred Clark created what is commonly accepted as the first-ever motion picture special effect. While filming a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots, Clark instructed an actor to step up to the block in Mary's costume. As the executioner brought the axe above his head, Clarke stopped the camera, had all of the actors freeze, and had the person playing Mary step off the set. He placed a Mary dummy in the actor's place, restarted filming, and allowed the executioner to bring the axe down, severing the dummy's head. Such… techniques would remain at the heart of special effects production for the next century. Color enabled the development of such travelling matte techniques as blue-screen and thesodium vapor process.Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressive special effects by 2001 veteran Douglas Trumbull. In addition to developing his own motion-control system, Trumbull also developed techniques for creating intentional "lens flare" (the shapes created by light reflecting in camera lenses) to provide the film's undefinable shapes of flying saucers. Live special effects are effects that are used in front of a live audience, mostly during sporting events, concerts and corporate shows. Types of effects that are commonly used include:flying effects, laser lighting, Theatrical smoke and fog, CO2 effects, pyrotechnics, confetti and other atmospheric effects such as bubbles and snow.

Deconstructing a Visual

The visual that I am doing is the cover art for Linkin Park's album Papercut.
 This is a bit more difficult to deconstruct because it is so different but it is useing a hybrid photo of a soldier and some wings on it, the soldier is holding a flag which could represent victory or something of the sort.

Sexual Innuendo in advertising

I feel that this one video is using men and a "sexual" object and having the issue of a lot of men are very self conscious and a lot worry about getting women to like them and what they think they should look like.



This one shows something very very close to pornographic meterial and also  is an ad for the television channel SPIKE


I feel that this entire post is kinda inappropriate for a class full of immature people.

My Role

If I ever got offered a part in a production I would either be the guy that was the know it all like Sheldon in Big Bang Theory or if I was in a movie it would be either a war movie or it would be a movie that portrayed what the world would be like after some type of apocalypse and there were people that had survived and I would be the one who wold have command of some few survivors but die because I tried to save them all.
The way that I am would cause the director to be like this is my man he is kind caring and can lead in a tough situation

My Favourite Media

My favourite type of media is movies that have action, action and more action like "The Mechanic" with Jason Statham and also the movie "The Expendables" with a very large cast of famous action actors, a UFC fighter and a famous WWE wrestler.
 The Mechanic


The Expendables

Conflict Resolution

In the news on Monday there was a very surprising headline which said that Osama bin Laden was killed during a raid by the U.S special forces. You can find my source HERE

Characters in Video Games

Mr. John Marston was born in 1873, He is male and is at the age of . His father was an illiterate Scottish immigrant and his mother was a prostitute who died during childbirth. John's father was blinded in both eyes during a bar fight in Chicago.
John Marston is a former outlaw and bandit. He ran with Dutch van der Linde, Bill Williamson and Javier Escuella, committing bank robberies, train raids, murders and other various crimes across the country. According to Marston, the gang stole and fought for a reason. In stealing from the rich and those who were given too much to give to the poor, they wanted to elicit change in the people of the West, although this might just be his own justification for their actions.  http://reddead.wikia.com/wiki/John_Marston

Commercials

This commercial shows two of the most famous and iconic things in the world Pepsi and Michael Jackson

This next commercial has a actor(Mike Rowe) and the iconic Ford F-150

The Beer for Canada's Skeleton Racer

Jon Montgomery of Russell, Manitoba, became involved in the sport of skeleton after watching a race while touring the Canadian Olympic Park in 2002. In 2005-06, he became his nation's first man to win a Europa Cup title and has followed with four straight Top 10 finishes in World Cup competition, including a fifth-place showing in 2009-10. He had his best season in 2007-08 by finishing second place in the World Cup and at the world championships in Altenberg, Germany. He was fourth at last year's event in Lake Placid, N.Y. Among his three career World Cup wins was last season's victory at the Whistler Sliding Centre, venue for the Vancouver Games. Montgomery is a graduate of Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas, and has a degree in automotive marketing and international management. He also works as an automobile auctioneer. Then just last year he made Canada Proud by winning a gold medal in the Vancouver 2010 winter olympics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgZkUcC9hM

The Night Pat Murphy Died

Great Big Sea is a band that comes off the rock all but tow members are from Newfoundland, Murry is from Toronto and Kris is from the coast of Nova Scotia. I find this group to be what Canada is, a group of fun n loving carefree people who know how to laugh at their own country and others.







http://www.greatbigsea.com/  

All for violence in movies...

I know myself I enjoy violence in movies because it adds either realism or more action and attraction to more types of viewers. My favorite movie that I'm in the process of watching is Saving Private Ryan one of the best violent historical movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMfUiwIjDdM
 There is another movie called Machete but it is quite inappropriate for school but it is the most violent movie I have ever seen and it has no point what so ever it isn't even any bit good.
 One of the best violent movies i have ever seen was the Rambo series had the best plot and best actor for the main role ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjptQSfuTy8

R U SRS?

Well there were many things in this study that had very much surprised, me like how teen watch more television then are on the internet. I know myself that I spend way more time console gaming then doing anything else. I do not text of course because I have no cell phone...I would like to find out how students at blackville school use cell phones, internet, handheld and console games, and television.

A blog on blogs

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/riding-the-short-bus-1
Well this first blog that I had found had to do with comedy and it was funny in some ways, the first post that I seen kinda made me think just how odd people can seem to be. What makes this somewhat more humorous is that this person tells a lot about themselves and that they have some problems.

http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/atv-blog-utv-quad-news-discussion-at-atv-magazine
This is a blog I found that many of the people around here can enjoy because its all about 4-wheeling. It is actually the official magazine blog of 3 different quad mags. there is a lot of information about the X-games and different trips that they had went on.

Cario Riots.....

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/1233408557/ID=1783434389
With this one article it does many roles including entertain us, accepting ideas, influence what we think and talk about as well as somewhat entertain us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcctWbC8Q0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8
This video is of a Family Guy episode and is great entertainment.

The image that is shown here is something that us people have now accepted as what men should look like and if they don't then there is something that is wrong with them.

Literacy? Whats that?

Media literacy is learning to read and understand the media and the ways that it is put across to the public. Most of the media is owned by big companies that are exploiting the uses to gain large sums of money. One if the other videos said the media literacy is the ability to access, evaluate, create, and analyze . I was not here for the first day of the class so I don't know what I am to expect or what I am to learn.

The Future Is Nigh

Right now the only thing that I agree with these predictions is that Microsoft will connect with the Kenict because the Xbox is a Microsoft product and the Kenict is made by the Xbox/Microsoft company. I find that this site that is containing this information is very onesided to the apple inc name and thing that include it. The tablet will never overcome the laptop for the simple fact of the laptop having and easier to use everything. also the Television is being trumped out in the people that have cable T.V but for those who have satellite T.V it will never be beaten by the computer's live streaming which is being shut down quite quickly. Apple will most likely not dominate the cellphone market for the simple fact of cost, the IPhone cost more then most other Smart phone that are on the market. Netflix is a streaming site but u need certain things for it to go through, trust me I have Netflix at home on my PS3 (which the Xbox cannot compete with).
For the media section I think that most of these predictions would come true for the simple fact of people have a need to keep up with current events and these predictions are saying that this need will be met and exceeded. As for my own predictions well the only I have are for technology, well Apple can't stay on top for the tablet forever and the blueray discs will start into an incline sooner then we think.

Tranparency? really?

I find that discussion of the Wikileaks is pointless for the governments to try and stop because the people should know what is going on in their country. This "transparency" that they talk about is a good point there should be some transparency but to much and there could be a major problem, there would be things that are unnecessarily leaked to people, thing that we definitely should not know. We have the right to know but not everything should be known by the public what the government does, like the attack by the helicopter pilots on "armed" men was something that we needed to know because that is disgraceful for an armed service man to do something like that without any provoking by the "opposition".
If I had information leaked to me and I was pressured by the government to not leak the information i would give the information out only if it was something that the public should know about and then wait for the repercussions of those actions.