Mystery Men

To be perfectly honest i did not really enjoy Mystery Men. I thought it was entertaining and funny some times but kind of annoying a lot of the time. THese guys spend all this time and money for what? to make some college kids mad and make a point to themselves. I got it, the general public is kinda dumb. I've know common sense is not that common for awhile. anyway, how it relates to the 48 hour video race i am not sure. i'm guessing it is a race against the clock and having to come up with different ideas to make something come across that makes sense. thats about all i could think because i know sometimes they came into problems and had to think on the fly and were up late doin their project. they had to improvise and come up with weird ideas which we will in turn have to do when given our mystery prop and little time to make a movie without a film camera. they also made points without a camera. maybe that had something to do with it but probably not the more i type this. i'll stick with the fact that they had to improvise and were on tight time schedules as we will be.

Molotov man and Ecstacy

molotov man was an extremely interesting article. I agree with both sides, if there are even two sides to what people ar saying about Molotov Man. I can see Joys side of here being able to reproduce an image in such a way, especially from a documentary picture, and turn it into her own art. It is tough to draw a line in the sane with this issue because Susan does bring up good points with saying that while artists do and can have that power it may not always be right because if someone is fighting for a cause and an artist somehow takes away froma depiction of that cause,I do not believe Joy did that, then why do it. for arts sake? what about the greater good and who is the judge of it? it is a tough debate and a very interesting article. i also loved joy's paintings.

The Ecstasy of Influence was a great(long) article. I always think about if people are influenced by others are they plagiarising because we as students need to cite everything. I understand why but when did people stop being original because for me it seems that ideas are always recycled in every form of art. there does not seem to be real originality. people tend to get influenced by things in the past, what they see or hear or taste, etc. and make it their own. artists have been doing this since the beginning of artists. Michaelangelo's David is not an original piece of art. it is a man. Men is nothing new but the way he did it was the art. Great article because I think about that all the time especially when people say "oh Avatar was not original" so what. it's how it was done and shown that mad it fun and special and unique.

Experience on the Saturday shoot

Saturday shoot was actually a lot of fun and i enjoyed it very much. I was so glad we got great weather because, while i would have rather been at the beach, i was also doing something i love outdoors in the sun. i had missed the meeting on monday with the group due to my flight not getting in because of bad weather so really i found out about the project that day. it was fun have to really prep for one take because i'm sure down the road we may not be able to waste film and really need to over prepare shots so that we get the take on the first or second take. it may be due to financial reasons or it may be due to time but giving us only one take was a an interesting way of shooting especially in todays age of digital filmmaking when you can just erase and do it again or just have more drive or disk space to film on. it kind of puts you back when they could only shoot on expensive film and every shot counted and you had to keep rolling no matter what. all in all i loved the saturday shoot. i know some people were not happy about coming in on a saturday but i am ready to be working on films in the near future out of school and they will require many hours no matter what day of the week it is. all the matters is that it gets done. hopefully under or on budget and within the time frame

Ideas for 48 hour video race

This is the project i am most worried about. Well maybe 'worried is not the right word. I am nervous about this project because I do not know how to use a lot of the equipment yet. I have not done the prerequisite for a lot of the film classes, film tools and techniques, or intro to editing so while i am a film major and have made some films, i am still a newbie. It will be interesting to see what i can come up with on the fly but i was thinking about using my point and shoot camera and take still photos, upload them into the computer and have a kind of stop motion type film. other than that i have not really been thinking about too much. i really am kind of set on doing something like that. it will give me a pretty close representation to a film without using a film camera. i still have some thinking to do and hope many ideas will come to me on the day.