The Witness

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Fiddler on the Roof scene.


This scene uses editing to construct a dream sequence that explains the main character's feelings of confusion about his daughter.
Tevye, a Jewish milkman in the 1800's, recently experienced the upheaval of tradition. The Jewish community has relied on these traditions for years, and suddenly, his three eldest daughters have all married outside of tradition, in the most extreme, Tevye's daughter Chava has eloped and married outside the faith, which is seen as family abandonment. Tevye excused his first two daughters, because their husbands were Jewish. But now Tevye is conflicted as to whether he should shun Chava or not. The following scene depicts Tevye's confliction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juuhx884ylM


The editing fades from the field to the dream Tevye is having. Tevye can still be seen in the background to show that this is his dream. The editing shows Tevye's emotion about his daughter without him having to use words. (besides the song). The editing is for the most part seemless. At the end of the scene Chava is shown further away then she really is during the time Tevya is isolated while he decides whether to shun Chava or not. Once Tevye makes his decision, the camera cuts the shot back to normal, and Chava is a normal distance from Tevye again. The end of the scene is a long take of Tevye leaving with his cart, shunning Chava because he sees her as a traitor to her faith and family.

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The museum of the moving image was an interesting museum. I had already been there before in high school, but I noticed they re-did parts of the museum. The bottom part of the museum was very futuristic looking. However I don't think the first floor of the museum added music video addition was recquiered because it did not show much. The older sections of the museum was much more interesting such as the old cameras and the old televisions on display. It was easy to walk through and not boring one you get past the first floor music video section. They also had examples of some of the early optical illusions, which is interesting to see and it's probably easier to memorize the technology by looking at it then just reading about it in the textbook. Some of the old televisions were on display which showed the evolution of that technology. It also demonstrated how that technology worked, such as the magnetic ray beam example. The sound effects display that showed how the foley teams worked was also interesting, as was the booth where a person could dub their voice in a famous movie. Then there booth that showed how live T.V. works. There were many monitors that showed what all the cameras filmed at many angles. Then they showed the people that sit in a booth and have to pick what angle or shot will be shown almost continuously throughout the live television program. It really demonstrated what a tough job it is to edit those kinds of programs.

Audio interview project 2

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There are many "keynote" sounds around. First there is the wind that howls because of the weather.  the wind tends to be the background noise. Then, to clash with the winter wind, there are spring birds that chirp. This chirping would be another "keynote" sound.  Some "soundmarks" would be the trains arriving and leaving the train station.  The train whistles loudly.The train gate "dings" before the train arrives.The trains make a sound when then slow down, a "ding" before the doors open, and then a humming while the doors open. Then that repeats when the doors close. Then another "soundmark" is the sound of traffic. After the train leaves the gates go up and the cars cross over the train tracks.  Then there are sounds of bigger vehicles such as trucks.  The trucks rattle as they cross over the train tracks. There are other sounds such a kids yelling. Then there are construction sounds. These sounds consist of hammers, drills, men slamming cars doors and throwing debris on piles outside. Then there are sounds such as crunching on the ground because there is debris everywhere. There are also some gravel that is on the ground that makes noise. Other than that, there really are not a lot of sounds. If the weather was warmer there could be more sounds, but during the day, since it is could, not many people venture outside hence the noise level is minimal. The wind is the sound that drowns out many of the smaller sounds, such as grass.

Media 160 - Define a space project

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Media 160 artist statement

I am interested in the unknown.   The unknown can apply many subjects I am interested in, the biggest is mystery. I often like to apply this mysterious quality to people.

My main interest is why people do the things they do. I am also interested in if how they were raised affects them at all and if so how much it affects them. Often people who are mysterious or situations in history that are also mysterious invoke my interest and therefore much of my writing is about people in different situations. My drawings also reflect this. Often the drawings will go along with my writings.

I also like the use of metaphor and double meanings in my work. Anything with an explicit meaning and then an underlying implicit meaning I find fascinating. The double meanings could be anywhere, in a song or in a movie. I like to visualize that double meaning and then draw it. I also like to apply that if I am writing a script or a story.

Every word a character says can be written to say something about that character. If you pay attention enough, that character’s true intent could be clear to the reader but not so obvious to the other characters in the story. I also enjoy putting all these elements together by using photography and eventually converting it to film. I would then want to edit the film and choose the music for the score.

So basically I'm interested in designing, writing, screenwriting and editing.