Its time to put in that final push to get our movie into CAP hollywood. The King's Court is about two drug dealers that bet on a streetball game. One of them supports a group built around a super star while the other supports a better all around team.
We have gotten both the rough cut and the music selected. As well as cut down most of the clips we don't need/want.
What we still have to do/what I would like to do:
- do a little bit of color grading
- totally complete all edits to the film timeline
- get some voice overs of danny
- put in the credits
- finish the music
- fine tune the audio
- put in a title slide
I think if we go in after school and work before school on wednesday and thursday our film can be great.
I found this video on youtube and it was absolutely awesome...so i had to share it.
Since the last post last week we have been diligently working to edit down the different clips that we have. We had almost 100 different shots because of the style of film that we were doing and this meant that we needed to spend a lot of time sifting through and finding what was really important.
Our film is based around a basketball game, to film this we played a game over the period of a couple hours and then filmed shots of it. Thus lots of film. (thank you very much to Connor for this because he took time out of his weekend to help us film.)
We couldn't edit the first day because our film wasn't in the studio and then the second day of editing we managed to bring together which clips we could potential use. Then after school and on the final day we edited the film down into a basic rough cut which we can work off of. We have also found a bunch of different soundcloud clips that would sound amazing.
Finally we got the credits written.
From this point onward we need to get into class and do the editing. I hope to come in after school at least a few times this week.
Okay well i lost the half sheet that told us what we were supposed to write about so i will just explain where we are and what more we have to do.
First a summary of the story.
Our story is called the Kings Court and it takes place on a basketball court in Detroit. These two drug dealers are betting on a 2x2 game between Dominique, a great prospect, and 2 other players. The dealers conduct a bet and then act as coaches for the two teams. The story the entails the game.
This weekend we were supposed to film, and some how against great odds we managed to.
So here is what happened. We had gotten all the actors to say they will come for the film, we had gotten all the props, we had gotten the camera, and we seemed ready to begin. Come Saturday morning we show up at the set early to get some initial shots. Then at 10:30 when the actors were supposed to show up they didn't except one, but I'll talk about that later. Lucky some kids there agreed to play all of our missing roles and we managed to get the whole film filmed.
Anyway the only actor that came was Danny. (im not sure if im supposed to put last names but you guys know him...the basketball one...) So thank you so much to him.
Now we have to begin the editing process but really the hardest parts are passed. Also we have found some good music so everything should be fine.
Our film for CAP hollywood is the story of a basketball superstar that gets tied up in a bet between two drug dealers. The dealers each try to use their influence to get a game of pick up basketball to go one way or another. Dominique, the main character, has to pick whether to risk getting hurt by the more violent one, or letting his team down and losing.
We have gotten pretty far in the preproduction, but we are still looking for anyone who would like to play part of the crowd or a drug dealer. So if you would like to or know anyone, come talk to us.
Also on saturday me and connor, well mostly connor, but whatever thats not the point did refractography and its super cool and you should go look at his blog which is at http://connor2015.blogspot.com/
Last weekend I went to the most amazing place I have been to in awhile. It was a tiny art gallery wedged behind a huge dance studio. The gallery itself is perhaps the size of a classroom, but contains a beautiful array of different artists and paintings. Currently they are running an event called "Hello My Name Is", which is based on street art and graffiti painting. What they did was they gave all the artists a poster that was like a name tag and then the artist would represent themselves. The show runs through March 31st and has a panel discussion (which I know nothing about) on the 23rd.
The art work is absolutely incredible and it really shows a kind of art work that gets barely any attention. Plus on a corner down the street there is a bakery called the Spring Mill Bread company which sells fantastic brownies. So ya know...if the graffiti wasn't enough.
Our documentary project was a bit of a roller coaster ride. We began with the idea of homelessness. We wanted to go to Down Town Washington and talk to some of the homeless people there and get their stories, then talk to programs like Shepard's table and find out how people can help. Getting their stories would allow us to convey the idea that they are just like anyone else and they need help, someone has to step up. Unfortunately our idea didn't quite come through, partially because we didn't have a strong enough base to begin with, that is our idea was based off of interviews and not research which meant we had to get interviews, that we didn't. The other reason our project failed was because our teacher didn't agree with it. As a result of this, our group instead did a welcome video for the British kids that came to stay with us. We basically did a montage of the school along with shots of students welcoming the British kids and saying their favorite aspects of the school.
In the creation of this project I was really surprised as to how hard it is to create a montage that seems messy and playful on purpose. When we began the project we found some playful music and attempted to create a montage style welcome that showed how lively the school is. This is a lot harder that I thought it would be, but we pushed through and learned the tricks of the trade. I was particularly surprised as to how much structure the video had to have to make it look unstructured.
The biggest challenge we had was convincing the teacher to let us film it. We failed. Once we switched to the welcome video production went much smoother and we didn't run into any problems. If I did the project again I would lay out exactly what the plan was for the video earlier so that there would be time to change ideas if the teacher didn't like it. Because we didn't do this, we couldn't actually make a documentary which was depressing.
As the teacher it would have been helpful to ask everyone to make a plan at the very beginning entailing the idea and how they plan to film it. Thus any big changes could be made immediately after that point there would be no chances to change ideas. This would make for a smoother project.
From the documentaries I have made in the past I know that these projects are quite fun and I'm glad we are doing one, I have one request. We should do claymations, those are great and really allow students to leave the confinements of the school.
So this is probably going to be an incredibly biased blog post but that is perfectly okay. In the past couple months there have been plenty of examples of gun violence, the shooting in New Town (which has been beaten to death), the shooting in northern New York where a man lit fire to a building and then shot at the fire fighters when they came to help, and finally the shooting in a Mall in Oregon. These events have spurred an pro gun control presidential agenda that the republicans and the NRA are fighting every step of the way (which isn't all that surprising).
President Obama recently released his plan for gun control, which would re-instate the assault weapons ban, limit magazine sizes to ten rounds, have mandatory universal background checks, and provide mental health care. All of these are in an effort to decrease gun violence while still keeping guns legal.
In Massachusetts the amount of gun related violence has increased almost 27% since 1998 according to the Boston Globe. This is a state that has some of the strongest gun laws including a ban on all semi automatic rifles (the national ban only includes automatic weapons). Specialists say that this is because of other states lower gun regulation. If someone wants a gun in MA they drive three hours to another state and bring it back.
I support banning of all guns but as we have learned in NSL the NRA is mildly strong and probably wouldn't allow that. Therefore the only way to decrease gun violence is through a stronger nationally instated gun law. As shown in MA state by state gun laws don't matter because people can get the guns from other states. The national government must instate a fierce gun control law so that people can't buy guns from other states.
Uhm... Welcome to Silver Spring! This is a video of my average sunday every week. I woke up, ate, did homework, basketball, more basketball, got some advice from a wise man, more homework, and then back to bed.
As always i used my Canon Powershot Elph100hs. Super fancy i know... and my phone since the camera ran out of memory.
Yesterday I watched the documentary Pray the Devil back to Hell directed by Gini Reticker. The movie takes place in Liberia, a country in western Africa. The country itself was formed around 1825 by the ACS, American Colonization society, in a hope to return the freed slaves to Africa. Much like what is going on in Israel, the tribes who already lived on the land have been fighting for years to reclaim what was taken from them. The movie describes how the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace came together to bring a peaceful end to the Second Liberian Civil War.
The Second Liberian Civil war initially started in 1999 when LURD, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, was formed by the Guinea government. Then in 2003 a second force formed. Together they attacked Liberia using child soldiers and slowly took over all the of the country until they reached the capitol where Charles Taylor and his government where.
The movie speaks of the horror of war. They have multiple first person accounts of rapes and murders by the conquerors who were "helping the people". The whole movie is narrated by the women who headed Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. They explain that everyone wanted the natural resources in Liberia and didn't care about the people. In an attempt to escape the murderous rebels ran to the government, who were equally horrible to them but as Leymah Gbowee, the head of the group, explained the people would rather have a devil they knew than one they knew nothing about.
In a hope to solve the problem she, and other women from her church started the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. They congregated in the capitol bringing together both Christian and Muslim women. Their idea: a sex strike. They were going to starve their men of sex until they stopped fighting, as well as having a food strike. In the end the government of Liberia began peace talks, which were eventually mediated by the UN and the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace took over reconstruction from the UN and set up a democratic government.
The mood of the film was very interesting. It was very sad because the film makers used a lot of b roll from the actual war. There were many shots of people shot, bleeding out, kids without limbs, and other horrific shots which emphasized the emotion of the film. The director, using first person accounts and b roll, took away from the informational aspect of the movie, because there was so much rampant emotion he never got to explaining other elements of the war. For example, why didn't the government just break up the hunger strike. Or after the rebels blew up part of the US embassy why didn't the US attack like we did in Libya? Questions like these were ignored because of an over use of Pathos. Over all the footage was amazing but at points the emotion got in the way of the facts.
I very much liked how the director used a narrator for the whole movie. She had a very soothing voice and charismatic personality that the viewer had to like her. Plus she had orchestrated the whole strike, so she was incredible.
I would definitely recommend this movie. It is an absolutely amazing story of what people can do without war, without guns, without death. These women, armed only white t shirts, stopped a whole war between three warring factions. It is just incredible what they have done. It shows that everyone can do something to help no matter how bad it seems. Definitely go watch it.
What do you get when you mix the talent of two famous English musicians? These guys. Miles Kane and Alex Turner met up whilst on a tour for the Arctic Monkeys, for whom Turner sings. Kane was the guitarist for the Little Flames, which went on tour with them. They became friends and then when the little Flames came on tour again in 2007 Miles Kane played guitar for the Arctic Monkeys final track, 505. They decided to collaborate their skills and write some music together. The band, the Last Shadow Puppets, was created in 2007 and released its first album, the Age of the Understatement, on February 20th, 2008.
The songs combined the best of their two bands, the amazing voice of Alex Turner, which was some what lacked in the Little Flames' songs and the beautiful melodic guitar play of Miles Kane. In the Arctic Monkeys' previous songs the guitar play had been a lot harder, with an almost metallic touch, while the Little Flames had used more bass to create a softer sound. According to the band they took this softer sound from their influence from the beetles.
After they released their album it rose to number one on the UK album charts and became a contender for the 2008 Mercury Music Award but lost to Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid. They later released My Mistakes were made for you.
So these songs won't play on Blogger... but they're really really really good. So here are the links:
Everyone enjoys music, whether it be a very new song or an old time song. People have long loved the beats and melody of music, but can it also have positive effects on the human body? In our media class we must create a documentary on a subject which interests us. I believe that music is one of the most important part of our society that is over looked by our schooling system. Music is part of every society, every culture, every nation and yet music programs are being cut from high schools around the nation.
Listening to calming music before you go to sleep and after you wake up has been proven to bring down high blood pressure. Music has also be proven to increase immune system health by decreasing the hormone cortisol, which is related to stress. Music can also increase productivity in a whole range of activities. It can help you sleep, wake you up, work hard, and decrease stress. Doctor Weinburger Ph.D said that listening to music can increase cognitive skills, language ability, creativity, reasoning, and social adjustment. Music has such an important effect on the mind and peoples live's yet it is basically ignored by the schooling system. My idea is to make a documentary about the importance of music in life.
Israeli forces have killed 11 or more civilians in the past 5 days of bombing of the Gaza Strip. Of most recent, Israeli forces have bombed the Hamas prime minister's office. They have systematically began destroying Palestinian rocket launch cites and have killed the Hamas Military Chief. Over the past couple days the Palestinian's and Israeli's have repeatedly attacked each other in response to attacks from the other side...kind of ironic.Both sides have stated that the reasons for their attacks have stemmed from attacks of the opposition. So who really started it? According to Emily Hauser, and American Israeli writer, the attacks originally began with the Israeli, although the fight between the two sides has been going on for what seems to be forever Hauser has pin pointed a time during the past month where she believes the current war has started. On November 8th Israeli forces killed a young boy of either 12 or 13. Later that day, Palestinian forces destroyed an Israeli tunnel in response injuring a guard but killing no one. Two days later the conflict continued when Palestinian forces fired rockets at an Israeli patrol injuring two soldiers. That day the Israelis responded by firing into Gaza multiple times hurting and killing many civilians including a ten year old boy. They also used drones to fire missiles into Gaza. From there on it continues how we all know it. Israelis using their superior American Funded defense system to stop Palestinian Rockets while also attacking Gaza and the Hamas returning fire. So who started it? This time it was the Israelis and even if one made the argument that the death of one person in a war torn area like the middle east shouldn't induce an attack on this scale, the Israelis still up-ed the anty by firing multiple times into Gaza which led to Palestinian rocket fire. According to the New York Times Obama released his opinion on the crisis while on his trip in China. He said, "There’s no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. We are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself.” This is not the response that should be given. For once Obama must step in and ask that Israeli and Palestine come to a truce on the matter. Although Israeli is defending themselves they also did start the fight and Obama should not commend such violence. Although, as we have all heard countless times in the past election, Israeli is our greatest ally in the Middle East we must still accept what they are doing is wrong and we can not stand behind it.
I did my fall video as a serious of clips that represent the way I see the fall. To me, the fall is about reminiscing and looking over the last year, but also about friendship and second chances. I know it seems like spring would be a better choice for second chances but the fall shows a time of death, where the trees all fall asleep, so to speak, but even then when they are dying there is still beauty and this shows that all things can be good and go well, a second chance.
Anyway, I filmed all my clips outside trying to find interesting shots that intrigued me but also retain much of the grace in the world. The first clip I had of my fire pit with water in it was actually really beautiful when I was filming it and I really wanted to capture it but unfortunately my camera didn't agree and ruined it by making it really bright.
I edited the video with youtube video editor which has never let me down, until now. As the videos were being uploaded to youtube for me to edit I went to CCmixter and found a song to go with it. I really like the song and put a link to it at the bottom for those who would like to hear it. Anyway, turns out youtube doesn't allow you to upload songs onto their editor so I spent another hour and a half looking through their songs which aren't very good, but it paid off, I found the Alchemist by Michael Zapruders rain of frogs. Its excellent you should all listen to it.
This Friday was my birthday, and as a gift, from my wonderful girlfriend Alia, I received tickets to go see the Celtics v Wizards basketball game at the Verizon center on Saturday, November 3rd. It was incredible, I had a great time, I got to watch my favorite team; the Celtics, and and got to spend time with Alia. Anyway, I also got a look at the new roster of the Boston Celtics after their major overhaul in the off season. After losing three-point king Ray Allen to the Heat. The Celtics acquired shooting Guard Jason Terry from the Mavericks, as well as Courtney Lee from the Rockets. Although neither of them are as good as Ray, they both will be excellent additions to the team.
My personal idol in the NBA is Rajon Rondo, the Celtic's point guard. He, in my opinion, is the best pure point guard in the league. Last season Rondo averaged almost 11 points per game, 10 assists, and 2 steals. What makes Rondo so incredible are his assists. If we look in the NBA, there are budding point guards such as Russel Westbrook and Derrick Rose who have taken the shooting guard position and brought it to the point. Rondo keeps it old school. He has such a strong team, and is such a strong passer that he doesn't need to score, but when it comes to crunch time Rondo can light up the court. In game to of the Semi Finals Rondo dropped 44 points on the Miami Heat while still getting 10 assists.
The Celtics also retained "the TRUTH" Paul Pierce and Center Kevin Garnett, both future hall of famers as well as Brandon Bass. With the core of the team mostly intact the Celtics have a strong platform to build off of.
One surprise I had during the game was the performance of Jared Sullinger, who the Celtics acquired through the draft this year. In the previous season they were lacking size and as a result they drafted two big men, in Sullinger and Fab Melo. Sullinger had a solid performance, contributing 5 rebounds and 4 points. I was also happily surprised to see that the Celtics had received Leandro Barbosa, a 9 year veteran, who I like because of his quickness and ability to get to the basket. He will make an excellent addition to the team in the form of a sub for Paul Pierce.
Even with the lose of Ray Allen, the Celtics have found themselves much stronger coming into the new Season and will be a contesting team.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
This week has been a bit hectic on my part because of the impending end of the quarter, or at least that is the only reason I can think of. Anyways, I haven't really had much time to do anything or learn about anything that interested me, so I am going to write about something that I heard about a week or so ago and has now surfaced in media world.
European nations have cracked down on tax evaders recently in a new hope to earn a little bit of money and gain some wiggle room for the country. The US government as well as many other countries in Europe, including Germany, have demanded that the Swiss banks release a list of all the people who have bank accounts in their system. The banks, who were known for their secrecy, finally complied, and in 2010 Christine Lagarde released a list including 2059 Greeks. Many other countries have used these lists to root out the evaders. Greece has not.
For some reason, probably due to widespread corruption in the government, they have abstained from searching for people, the country itself didn't make to big of deal about it since the media also was kept on the down low. Finally after a couple months Kostas Vaxevanis, an editor for Hot Doc, a big investigative journal in Greece, discovered the list and released it in his magazine. The article has created a big scandal in the Greek atmosphere.
The publication of the list has raised questions as to why the government has moved to act on the list and bring in the evaders. Currently there is a search going on to discover who has seen the document and why nothing has been done. Maybe, by the end of this the government will pull out some of the corrupted government officials.
Anyway sorry that wasn't the best, like I said all I've had time for is school work and sports practice.
Last weekend I had an eye opening experience at the movies. I went to go see the Perks of Being a Wallflower. The movie is about the experience of a brilliant student entering high school and trying to fit. After a very disappointing first day, Charlie, Logan Lerman, made two good friends in Sam and Patrick. (Emma Watson and Ezra Miller, respectively) The three of them push each other, and support each other in their own personal wars. Sam must make her way into Penn State, Charlie past his childhood, lack of friends, and Patrick must work out his secret love affair with Brad. This movie had all the components of a cheesy teenage wishy-washy movie, needless to say I wasn't too excited to see it, but at the end of the hour and forty minute movie I was completely and utterly blown away.
Probably the biggest reason the movie was so heart warming is that it touched on so many different issues, it spoke about Friendship, drugs, sexuality, family, love, and sadness. Everyone watching has at least something to relate to. Charlie's friendships are a beautiful thing, when he is most down, with no one therefore him, Sam and Patrick reach out, and when Sam needs help Charlie returns the favor. As Charlie Wither sung, "Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on", this rang strong in this movie. When Patrick is down, eschewed by Brad, Charlie steps in and the two of them grow close in the process of restoring Patrick to his normal self.
Logan Lerman had a career creating performance. He portrays Charlie as an introvert person. When they, Charlie, Sam and Patrick, are at a party towards the beginning of their friendship charlie sits in a corner, but its not simply the action its how that portrays his performance. He looks so awkward, his limbs scrunched together and yet the look on his face shows complete bliss. This really gives life to Charlies character, who although is incredibly awkward around other people, because of his old lack of friends, is okay with it because at least now he has friends. Lerman draws the viewer almost tying you to him, and when he pains, you pain making the themes all so much more powerful.
Emma Watson and Ezra Miller both had incredible performances. Emma Watson played Charlie's love. She was the bad girl, the one that goes to all the parties, gets really wasted, high, and laid, but she is such a lovable character. Partially because of the pretty face; that always helps, but also because she had such a lively personality. Her character is trying to redeem herself, trying to get away from this bad life and at this she is pitch perfect. Miller brings the most life to the movie. His character is always the happy one, the lively one, and the one that makes you smile. He brings his own energy and flair to the movie. In the scene after he gets shut out by Brad, Patrick and Charlie go out and drive about town, on the spur of the moment. Scenes like this, where no matter how hard it is Patrick still is happy and lively make his performance and character great because it brings hope to the movie.
There are many movies were the only reason the movie is at all worth watching is the cinematography. For example Hanna, which had an unoriginal story line and okayish acting but some of the best camera work of the year making it visually appealing. In Perks of Being a Wallflower, the Cinematography took back seat to the acting and story line, but even then the director, Stephen Chbosky, managed to slipped in interesting scenes. For example in the tunnel scene, the camera follows the truck up and over the bridge, revealing all of town with Sam standing on the back of the truck. It is an amazing shot because it shows all of them together can take on the world.
A point Chbosky brought up a lot through out the movie were the letters that charlie wrote to an anonymous friend, who I took to be Charlie's dead best friend because Charlie says at the beginning that felt he abandoned by Michael, his best friend, because Michael shot himself with out even writing so Charlie writes to him as a way of remembrance. The letters represent Charlies emotional status. Towards the beginning they are common, but as the movie progresses and he makes friends they become infrequent. Finally at the end, in honor of his recovery, the letters come to an end.
I would recommend this movie to just about anyone, admittedly it would be more touching for a high schooler, but because it ranges so many different topics it can be enjoyed by anyone. After watching this movie it left me in awe, I felt completely cleared and open to the world, and for me, that feeling made it incredible. Go see it.
Spain goes to all costs to remain free of Greece's Sinking Ship
Spain's parliament has gone to long measures to keep the government and its investors from being forced to borrow money from the UN and the European Central bank to pay for the countries economic crisis. The European Central Bank, ECB has recently stated that they will buy an unlimited amount of any countries debt as long as they agree to the Eurozone Bailout. The Spanish national government has begun a series of austerity measures and cuts in spend, much like Greece to decrease its debt, and therefore keep it from needing EU help, a measure that they do not want to take because they believe it will drag them down like it has to Greece. Greece, much like Spain, has a plagued economy when they first began borrowing money in an attempt to heal themselves it did nothing. The economy of Greece sucked up the first loan without any sign of health. The loans continued to stack up, paying for the previous one, causing the economy to snowball into catastrophe, pounding a sickly economy into a dying mess. Spain believes that agreeing to the Eurozone Bailout of 500 billion dollars will begin such a process in Spain.
A recent measure in Spain has wrought a much bigger uprising against it than many of its predecessors. The Spanish Parliament recently authorized a 10 billion Euro cut in education funds, it also asked teachers to work longer hours and for schools to increase class sizes by 20%. The strikes have covered almost every university in the nation and have roped in between 20% (according to the government) and 80% (according to the unions) of teachers in Spain. They have also brought many students who believe that a cut to the school system is the wrong way to go. With unemployment among young people at over 50% what better way to spend their time that learning and preparing for a stronger generation. Many against these cuts have stated that although cuts on education may bring money now it will lead to weaker future generations who will not be able to keep the country above water. Spain must find other ways of collecting money that does not tax the welfare of the country.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Heart Beat By Glaneur de Sons
I picked this sound bite for the montage at the end where he looks around to see where the flag is or at the point where the SWAT team shoots Jett's brother. For both of the points, after we slow down the beats, it will create a slowed down, pause in time effect that will increase the suspense of the clip.
I would have preferred to use deep breathing for when Jett is looking for the flag because it shows the viewer he is tired and it causes suspense in the way that the viewer doesn't want him to fail, rather than suspense because they believe he will get hurt. Fight Scene by FallenKnight
This will be (unless its vetoed by the group) the music for the end of our movie, basically the training montage we have put together. It gets a lot better towards the middle, and the cats pretty cool so we should include it. The clip is supposed to go with the music and make the viewer hyped up. If this one doesn't work I believe the 300 Violin Orchestra by Jorge Quintero would do quite well.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Clip 1: Tuxi walks up and rubs his face against the camera
Clip 2: Tuxi jumps to grab a ball
Clip 3: Suzy walks along a rock wall
Clip 4: Suzy sniffs the camera
Clip 5: Suzy jumps off a table
I made a 5x5 about my two cats showing things they enjoy doing. I used a PowerShot Elph 100 Hs Full HD camera and youtube film editor. I tried to use wevideo but it kind of killed itself and wouln't upload any of my videos. To be honest I don't really like my 5x5, well no, I do like it because my cats are fantastic but I dislike the whole concept because there is no story being told and no really space to have really cool shots. For our next one i think a time lapse would be really cool but I don't know how we would do it.
Battle Los Angeles . Jonathan Liebesman . PG-13 . 2011
Marine Staff Sergeant, Michael Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), is brought back into the marine core, from his job of training troops in Camp Pedelton, when a series of large meteorites crash down in the oceans near many major world cities. These meteorites turn out to be alien invasion crafts Sergeant Nantz must join forces with 2nd lieutenant Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez) and his platoon to reclaim Los Angeles.
This movie cuts the definition of a Dystopian movie a little close, but none the less it is a very good trailer. Battle LA most closely represents bureaucratic and post apocalyptic control. It is an example of post apocalyptic because during the alien apocalypse people who are found with the group of soldiers under Nantz believe that it is a better place, that they must stay with him because they will be safe. It is also an example of Bureaucratic control because everyone has turned to the US government for help, the government now has total control and is the last hope for survival.
The trailer itself was incredible, although the movie was okay, it used many different techniques that although they might not all be helpful for our video were very interesting to witness. The trailer begins with pictures of aliens that keep fading in and out, this puts the viewers mind in the right place. Then a very sad song fades in which slows down the pace of the viewers mind and hart so they can fully take in what they are watching. This is matched up with a lot of clips of death and escape. This is incontrast to the 1984 trailer which uses fast, loud music and many clips to overload the viewers sensory ability and beat the meaning into them, unlike this one which melts the meaning on to them. Both of these techniques seem very effective and are both worth thinking about adding into our trailers. Also A lot of the shots fade in and out. This is an effect that we should definitely add.
