Fast Film Making 101

Film making isn't easy. You have this high definition picture in your head of a scene that you want to film, but it turns out to be two people standing under a tree.

I'm not sure about anyone else, but i thought it was pretty difficult to film this particular movie. I was the camera person, so i wasn't actually speaking any lines, but i did have ideas. My group and I had very different ideas. We didn't exactly have all our ideas merge together, but we had no choice but to make it merge because of our 60-minute time frame.

I thought the 60-minute filming was a good idea because it kept us on point and didn't leave any time for goofing off. It was a little difficult to keep six people on task, but we made it through!

Also, because six different people had to come together and pick a theme, setting, scenes, casting, lines, etc., we didn't share any similar ideas. For my group, our video was about finding a car in the parking lot, but some of the member wanted it to be a bike. A tiny decision like that is an example of the conflicts that we had.

Overall, the whole idea was fun, and for me, it was sort of like a goal. I wanted to complete the video and watch it. I know i didn't make the best cameraperson (I swear, the camera turned on and off when it pleased!), but when i watched the video, i pictured my group members and i running from the front to the back of the school constantly and asking three librarians over and over to film a 17-second scene.

I most definitely want to continue this. I would love to try being serious. The non-editing saved a lot of time, but was definetly a struggle. In the future, i would like to edit videos, or i should say to learn to edit videos. I'm not to boss at it. I'm not sure why i used the word boss.

-ashley coppolino

Update 'bout My Life; Magazine Ideas

So, my life!

it's been pretty suckish.

so, i am finding out who my true friends are, and well, they're not who i thought they were.

you could imagine how my week went.

MOVING ON!

the magazine!

idea 1: upcoming technology. like, i hear that apple is coming out with a new itouch, and that's what people in the teen age group are interested in.

idea 2: i want to do something with photography. i know nina + juliana want to probably, so i'd love to join them + their ideas + if i come up with any.

idea 3: like a 'top 5' of some sort. like, top 5 sandwhiches in nassau county. i think that Panera's caesar wrap is pretty wicked :)

that's all i could think of at the moment. i wrote a couple of ideas down, but lost the paper.

have a good night everyone. i really want caesar wrap.

-ashleycoppolino

Lame Joke;Picasso

Here's the lame joke that you all must be dying to hear!

i'm so cheesy. i googled Picasso jokes.

i don't think it's funny on Picasso's part.. but here it is!

When Einstein died and arrived at the gates of heaven, St. Peter wouldn’t let him in until he proved his identity. Einstein scribbled out a couple of his equations, and was admitted into paradise. And when Picasso died, St. Peter asked, “How do I know you’re Picasso?” Picasso sketched out a couple of his masterpieces. St. Peter was convinced and let him in. When George W. Bush died, he went to heaven and met the man at the gates. “How can you prove to me you’re George W. Bush?” Saint Peter said. Bush replied, “Well heck, I dont know.” St. Peter says, “Well, Albert Einstein showed me his equations and Picasso drew his famous pictures. What can you do to prove you’re George W. Bush?” Bush replies, “Who are Albert Einstein and Picasso?” St. Peter says, “It must be you, George, c’mon on in.”

lame, right? well, yeah :)

Pablo

Picasso was an artist. given. His two main styles of painting were cubism and expressionism. In cubism, he tried to show the dimensions of the objects in his paintings. In cubism, his shapes were square and hard. When Picasso painted, he had a blue period and a rose period. For about three years in his early twenties, he used mostly light blue colors in his paintings. The Blue Period dates from 1901 to 1904 and is characterized by a mostly a blue palette. To the side is a photo of Picasso's titled Old Gitarist that was painted buring Picasso's blue period. The rose period came after the blue period. It began after he moved from Spain to France. The Rose Period began around 1904 when Picasso's palette brightened, the paintings dominated by pinks and beiges, light blues, and roses.

However, Picasso's cubist period ended in 1915 and paintings such as Femme en pleurs (1937) certainly aren't cubist, although there are elements of cubism visible (Above right). There's no "Ism" that could describe this style in Femme en Pleurs besides just saying "Picasso's Style". Picasso went from doing an "ism" like cubism, to creating his own type of art.