A paper written by Harrison Solow, which discusses the lack of effort the younger generations are putting into their "dream", as a result from their lack of knowledge. We, as a generation are under the impression that if we have a dream, it will come true, no effort is required as long as we know what were striving towards. Although i believe this article is bias, I completely agree. Society believes that as long as they have a dream, it will come true, this is not the case. I think children at a younger age need to learn that with a dream, comes effort. Your dream just doesn't come true, it needs to be worked toward. It's their parents fault for misguiding us into believing we can become anything our heart desires. Teachers also need to be more straight up on marking, to help the student realize if talent is there or not. Overall society has become lazy and misguided toward their futures, and this may be in result due to the age of which we are required to select our future. Grade 11, high school is the year of which electives toward your future must be decided, in my opinion way to early. Teenagers are quickly forced to choose something their believe at the time will be what they want to do. In most cases, they choose wrong, yet going with the flow because all other options have been shut down. Resulting in a child in a course or career he/she is not good at or don't like, impacting ones effort in life.
This project is a short film, around 1-2 mins displaying the addiction of Facebook. How it becomes a way of life. This will be a documentary film with flash backs and voice overs. The subject, will be a regular teenage boy describing how he became addicted to Facebook, as flashbacks play. In the flashbacks his boy will begin to become Rotoscoped. Slowly the addiction (Rotoscoping) will consume his body showing how his life has been effected. The subject will describe it as a cite, instead of Facebook as i will try and portray it as a pornographic cite, yet in the end revealing it as Facebook. I will use a Video camera, microphone and lights for the recording, interview and filming of the project. Also i will use, after affects, premier and Photoshop to construct this film. This ideas uses allot of aspects making the production time long and a somewhat more difficult. Starting the project soon in necessary.
There are an unreal amount of artists that haven't yet made it off the streets into record deals, although most of the times, are better than the people with them. In today's day in age, the voice you hear in songs is not their original voice and for me that totally destroys the vibe of the song. Major artists now-a-days can carry terrible voices and still make it big. Concerts are a great example of this, the black eyed peas are absolutely terrible at singing. But these artists off the street are real, their voices are amazing and there talent is extraordinary. Its to bad some big name people who absolutely suck are getting the opportunity of a lifetime and poisoning our airways with terrible music while these young great artists are getting suck on the streets.
Commercials have the power to alter the way you feel. They can cheer you up or bring you down, some are empowering and some are just down right stupid. What i don't get about these commercials is why a company would put so much money into making them, knowing they are to inappropriate for T.V. Sure they will get hits on Youtube, but most people watch T.V. and thats where a commercial would work the best for them. These commercials below are more in the category that will cheer you up. Most if not all of these commercials are banned and for obvious reasons, yet they are a great way to put a smile on your face.
I would post what each commercial is about but then that's just taking away half the fun.
Drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline has launched its first consumer-focused campaign in support of its vaccine Cervarix. The vaccine protects against the viruses HPV 16 and 18, which are known to cause most cases of cervical cancer.
The campaign's centerpiece is a 30-second TV spot called "Tattoo Punch" (there is also a French-language version). The spot opens on a blurry silhouette of a woman and slowly advances through a series of screens bearing typewritten facts regarding cervical cancer, such as "up to 4 out of 5 women will be infected with the virus that causes cervical cancer" and "every 6 hours, one Canadian woman is diagnosed with cervical cancer."
The images are accompanied by a melancholy piano line and voiceover reciting the sobering statistics.
After the final revelation that "every day, one of us dies of cervical cancer" appears on the screen, viewers see a close-up of the woman's face, her mouth set in determination...
A very empowering commercial made by Cervarix, a Cervical Cancer Preventing drug quickly grabs your attention due to the "out of the Ordinary" grey one and blurred vision. The voices in the background emphasize the amount of women who go face this type of cancer and the women standing up against it. The music is what really gets me thought, the screaming and the punch threw the glass is what makes the commercial empowering. By saying "One of us dies" they try to unite all women and make them feel part of something to give them the courage to stand up to Cancer. I was watching Much Music and every commercial break this one would come up. They are reaching for young audiences to get vaccinated at a younger age before it is to late. The commercial even grabbed my attention quickly which made me feel like i needed to post it.
Special Effects Treatment
- How to Video/ What not to do video:
This video will take an everyday situation/buckle and freeze time during the incident, nnarration from ones "id" will come into play describing on how much of an idiot he was and what he should have done. This will be a comedy about 2 different people's situations (Haven't decided yet). One situation will be a fellow holding something way to heavy for his own ability. The other will be him picking up a girl and how badly he did it. Later in each situation their conscience will come into play and show what they did wrong. The short film will include multiple angles such as close ups and wide angle shots. Lighting will be neutral and we will use the freeze frame effect to pause the situation while the 'buckle' is taking place. While frozen, the same person (The characters "id" or conscience) will enter and explain what went wrong.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed sympathy for a California law that aims to keep children from buying ultra-violent video games in which players maim, kill or sexually assault images of people.
But justices seemed closely split on whether the restrictions are constitutional.
The high court has been reluctant to carve out exceptions to the First Amendment, striking down a ban on videos showing graphic violence to animals earlier this year.
California officials argue that they should be allowed to limit minors' ability to pick up violent video games on their own at retailers because of the purported damage they cause to the mental development of children. Some justices appeared to agree.
"We do not have a tradition in this country of telling children they should watch people actively hitting schoolgirls over the head with a shovel so they'll beg with mercy, being merciless and decapitating them, shooting people in the leg so they fall down," Chief Justice John Roberts said.
Roberts decried that one game lets a player "pour gasoline over them, set them on fire and urinate on them." ''We protect children from that," he said. "We don't actively expose them to that."
California's 2005 law would prohibit anyone under 18 from buying or renting games that give players the option of "killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being." Parents would be able to buy the games for their children, but retailers who sell directly to minors would face fines of up to $1,000 for each game sold.
I can't believe how seriously some "grown ups" are taking video games. No kid is going to beat a girl over the head with a shovel or go bring home a stripper. High authority is being to rash about video games now-a-days and need to relax a bit. They are not allowed to sell a game with "killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being." to anyone under 18!?!? Are they serious!? So i cant go and buy call of duty because it has killing? Now that just doesn't make sense. Either way the kid is going to get the game so why put such a high restriction on it. Their parents will buy the game for them anyways so whats the difference. People are beginning to become a little to uptight these days. Anything you do will offend someone. People need to sit back and relax and take life a little less serious.
It blows my mind how these ten year old kids can pull off things I will never be able to do. It actually pisses me off to tell the truth. I only wish I could have started something like snowboarding at such a young age so at my age right now I'd be a phenom. I will definitely be showing my kid the slopes at a young age so i can mooch off his great doings. After all isn't that the point of kids? Due to the rising popularity of snowboarding, kids are starting at a younger age influencing the skill of our youth. Snowboarding was considered to be a fad, a cool thing rather than going down a hill on dorky skis. A popular sport among teen-agers. Yet now-a-days with more and more boarders hittin' up the slopes, people of all ages are taking an interest in the sport. Long story short, snowboarding is better.
"The Social Network",this years box office smash hit, luring audiences of all types, and creating an enormous amount of attention. I had the luxury of witnessing this movie a couple days ago, and I would love to give my opinion on this great flick. "The Social Network" is a walk through, through the life of Mark Zucherberg (Jesse Eisenberg) the creator of Facebook and his path to fame and 500 million friends. Mark starts of the film being a victim to a breaking then running straight for one of his only friends, his computer to blog and make a website that would cause Harvard's Network to crash gaining the attention of the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler (both played by Armie Hammer with additional shots using Josh Pence as a stand in). They bring in the idea of The Harvard Connection and the movie takes off.
The movie is composed of flashbacks during 2 court hearings. One with Eduardo Saverin (played by Andrew Garfield) and there with the Winklevoss twins and their partner Divya Narendra (played by Max Minghella). The movie starts to take off when the Winklevoss' are brought to the attention of The facebook and how their idea had been stolen. TheFacebook continues to grow, and within less than a year the site has gained over 150,000 members and is available on several college campuses, including Stanford, where Sean Parker, the founder of Napster (played by Justin Timberlake), discovers the site and arranges a sitdown taking interest in the concept. Eduardo, takes no liking to Sean and this is where Eduardo and Mark slowly start deteriorating as friends due to different interests for the company. The movie plays off these events and leads to a very interesting plot that will keep your attention throughout the whole one hour and twenty one minutes.
Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg
I have absolutely nothing to say about this cast as it was done phenomenally. I really enjoyed how aside from Justin Timberlake, the main characters were not big name actors as it gave a more `real` feel to the movie. Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg was played exceedingly well as he portrayed the character lifelike and a real on the fence sort of character. During the entire movie Mark Zucherberg was a complete ass hole to his friends and to the people who cared about him, making it hard to make him your favorite character yet watching him and how people kept ripping at him almost made you feel sympathy for him.
Justin Timberlake was a big surprise for me as me played his role extravagantly portraying the character as a Villain yet Hero. It was hard to root for him as he was all over the place, gaining your trust then throwing it away. Justin being the only big time actor, gave the movie a `real`sort of feel yet adding a tiny hint of the celebrity side of the story, which made the story a bit more believable. Eduardo is a the honorable loving character who you can`t help to cheer for. His innocence and true love for the website make you fall in-love with him. Most of the plot is based around the friendship of mark and Eduardo and the true meaning of friendship and how important a friend is to you.
I really enjoyed the movie as a whole, but for me the introduction of each character were the some one the best scenes of the movie.
The Scene above is the first time we see Sean in the movie and he is introduced as a funny yet smart man. One of the best scenes in the movie.
What I took out of this movie the most, is the power of friendship and how fame and fortune can deteriorate those friendships that you care about most. Money is evil and will make people do stupid things. It makes you blind, deprives you of what you once know and influences you to a whole new you, in most cases an ass-hole. People don`t get to where they are by being nice. Oprah Winfrey on T.V. is a nice caring lady who helps people who cannot help themselves, yet behind the scene is a complete bitch and this is how they portrayed Mark in this movie which I believe may be a bit misleading and unfair to Mark Zuckerberg.
Honestly i believe if you are over the age of 12, you`ll have a great time watching this movie. Yet not all true, the movie gives you a good idea of the struggles one was forced to go through to make the worlds most visited website in the world. I would recommend anyone to go and watch is for after watching if you will see Facebook in a whole new light and will appreciate it that much more. The movie only gives off a bit of toilet talk and some use of drugs which i feel PG-13 is suitable. At the age of 13 i believe you are mature enough to at least watch this movie for not every kid is going to mimic the actors and do drugs. Overall no major complaints on this movie, the only minuscule thing i can rip about it how much of an ass-hole they made Mark Zuckerberg look like as i feel like that may not be a fair representative of himself. Yet aside from that, a great flick and in my opinion could easily go for movie of the year. A must see movie.
5 Emmanuelle Chriqui's out of 5!
Luke Diamantopoulos is a fine young lad attending Holy Trinity Secondary Catholic School in his grade 12 year. He likes snowboarding, soccer, lacrosse and like any other man out there, loves long walks on the beach under the sunset glow in a speedo. Currently un-employed and broke, Luke is loafting on looking for a job which he desperately needs. This bio is short and sweet, just as he likes his women.
To do this I put both photos in Photoshop, then cropped myself out of my picture and simply made the size of me bigger with Free transform to make me the same size as my buddy over here. I pasted it onto the other picture and positioned it right, then merged the two layers.
