Lord of the Rings

After watching the directors commentary of Lord of the Rings I liked a lot of things they used in the movie. One thing I liked is that they used different actors in different scenes to show the height differences. Another thing I really liked was the long shot they used to show the size of the village. I also liked that they used illusions to trick the viewers eye like when they were in the house and the table was two different sizes but it looked like one table this is called forced perspective. they used a shot called tracking zoom shot that isn't used very often. They also used shots from different places and different times of the day in a single scene and you can't tell they were different scenes.

Rocky Paper Scissors

This video was a parody on the movie rocky. it used similar music to the movie and they tried to make their voices sound like the movie's characters. one of the parts i liked is the guy coming around the corner every time he says something. i thought the video was funny and i really liked it.

The movie Carnival of Souls is one of the first movies that the main character is dead and doesn't know it. It was written in three weeks on a $30,000 budget but only cost $17,000. It was written after one of the writers saw this old abandoned outdoor dance place and thought it was really creepy. He then got the ideas to make a movie with dead people dancing there.

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This post is about a photo published of a man that had been hit with a RPG (rocket propelled grenade). The RPG exploded and blew his legs off. I don't think this would have been such a big deal if the family didn't care. The family did care though and the press went against the family's wishes. They didn't want the picture published because it was their son. If it wasn't a problem with the family it would just be considered news.

I learned that photographers dont just show up and take one photo. They stay and take as many as they can. this makes me feel that there are things that are tragic and there are also many good things. these two photographs are very different. one shows great joy while the other shows great pain. the first photo is import in history because it is when the vietnam pows come home. the second is important because it shows the effects of a fire in boston.