New Moon wasn't my expectations.

I guess you could call me a Twihard, but not a massive one.

Twihard: An serious/obsessive reader of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer.

I mean, I could tell you anything you want about Robert Thomas Pattinson/Edward Anthony Cullen. It's gross that I could, but totally true :)

Why didn't it fit all my expectations?

Well, it did. I read the book, so I knew what i was expecting.

But after seeing Kontroll and the incredible angles, etc. it had, New Moon was a bit disappointing.

The camera kept spinning around the characters for absolutely no reason. It's a dramatic movie. I think it's a bit more dramatic to keep the camera in one spot and showing the actors expression in the single shot, but instead... it had to show you a 360 of the actor. And in the fighting scene, it was slow motion to very fast, it was just annoying.

Kontroll kept the camera rolling without stoping quite a few times, but in New Moon, it was about every three seconds that the camera cut and moved. It would take a shot, cut and move it, go back to the origional position and switch back and fourth a couple of times. And if I thought about New Moon as if it was made for me, i would think they did the camera positioning to piss me off-that's all it did.

I would've never known all this stuff if it wasn't for STAC. It's weird how one class can make you see a glass not just half empty or full, but you can see the shape, color, depth and empty spaces. And if that glass was being recorded by the cameraman from New Moon, you'd see the lack of talent that Kontroll should lend over. It's annoying that I notice these things now, but it'll take getting used to. I don't think me noticing these little things that no one usually cares about will ever go away now.

i'm not telling you that you shouldn't see it, i definitely think you should, we can talk about it!

Oh, and I was very sick for 8 days, but I'm better now and will see all your wonderful faces on Monday, 7th period sharp!

-ashleycoppolino

I see it! It's all different now!

You're probably wondering what I see, well, I feel like I see everything.
I didn't notice that the tree in front of my house has a tint on green on the side and it has a strip of dark purple too. As my friend and I walked home, I ran a couple of steps ahead and jumped in front of the tree and asked, "What color is the tree?!" He relied with, "it's brown. Like the next twenty on the block. Can we walk, its cold." I said "No! It's not brown!" I pointed to the bottom of the bark and asked if he sees the green/blue on the trunk. He didn't. All he could say was "So, how was STAC today?" and we kept walking.
I think that STAC will teach you things that will be useful in the future. I think that theatre skils are very imortatnt, even though I'm not to good at mine. Even when we practiced shaking hands, you would think it didn't do much, but I'm at my parents office right now and I see how some people must've never learned how to shake a hand.
I can't express how happy I for choosing STAC. I was unsure in the beginning, but now I'm wondering how i could continue school without STAC! I didn't know if it was what I wanted to do, espicially because I was the only one in my group of friends to apply, but I'm glad I did. I was scared to step out and do something different, but I am different, and I can't fight that.
I love how Nina wrote her college applicaton on STAC. I want to be able to do that too in a couple of years.

Quote of the day: When the power of love is greater than the love of power, the world will know peace. -Jimi Hendrix

Sincerely Yours,
ashleycoppolino

Taking Kontroll.

The first time I watched Kontroll, i was hung up on the subtitles and had my hands in front of my face because i knew it was going to get gory. Bt watching Kontroll for the second time was a lot better. I knew the story, and i was familiar with the subtitles, so i was able to focus on the actual movie. For example, i noticed that the camera was like a follower to the actors. It wasn't very choppy. The camera followed the actor and picked up on the hands, feet, surroundings, etc. The first time I watched it, i was terrified about the gory images that were going to appear. But this movie didn't actually show any. Yeah, you heard the control guy cut the passengers throat, and you see people being pushed in front of the train but not watching them be killed, but you didn't actually see any gory scenes.

When I see movies, i just SEE them. But this was all new. I was interperting Kontroll. I had thousands of unanswered questions, which i kind of liked, but it's a bit annoying.

I think the movie was even better because it was in Hungarian. Hungarian sounds so cool. If it was in English, i don't think it'd be as good.

These were questions running through my head, but i later learned that that have a mythical answer or another answer you wold have to interperate to figure out.

why was she a bear?

why did Bulcsú's nose bleed?

why did the lights go out before the pusher pushed someone?

who was the pusher?

why did Bulcsú sleep on the platforms?

was it meant to feel like there was no sense of daylight?

why is there a party in the train station? (like, i can't imagine that in new york city..)

why did Bulcsú call Béla "uncle Béla"?

i could go on forever.

over all, it was an awesome movie.

Oh, Luke! I tried googling nasty pumpkins, and I had to try really hard to find one that looked worse than yours. IT was from some site that said "we buy ugly pumpkins".

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.

Trust/My Idea

JUSTIN BIEBER WENT TO ROOSEVELT FIELD MALL ON THRSDAY AT 4:30 IN THE AFTERNOON. MY MOM TOLD ME TO GO TO THE MALL, BUT I SAID THAT I DIDN'T WANT TO GET MY FRIENDS GIFT AT THE MOMENT. I KNEW IT WAS A SIGN THAT MY MOM WAS ACTUALLY TELLING ME TO GO TO THE MALL, BUT I DIDN'T LISTEN. I MISSED JUSTIN BIEBER. FML.

haha, the title is kind of like, 'TRUST MY IDEA', rightt?!

well, it's not supposed to be.

On Friday we did this activity that one person had to wear a blindfold and another person had to give the blind person a tour of the school. Let me start off by saying that it was a lot of fun.

My partner my Lizy. It was really good with Lizy because we didn't speak, which made the tour seem real. I actually got to experience things as if i was blind. When we approached the stairs, Lizy took my hand and put it on the railing, then i knew i was at the stairs. Like, she didn't have to tell me. I trusted Lizy, as she trusted me. She wasn't just my eyes, she was my power of seeing.

I'll admit that when i do things like this, it makes you appericate everything you have and that you complain about things that other people may not even had the chance to try.

Has anyone ever heard os Supermac18?

well, he's pretty funny.

he's a well known youtube video kid who lives on long island.

i just spent about five hours with him and had a great idea.

for the STAC magazine, we could possibly interview him!

he's got over 30,000 followers on twitter, 191,972 subscribers on youtube and has even made it on the cover of Newsday.

I didn't ask yet, and i'm not that close with him, but i want to give it a shot.

Most the freshman at school love him, so i'm sure that will definitely gain us some money if these crazy teens buy the issue :)

check 'em out!

www.youtube.com/supermac18

I've been having a good weekend besides the whole Justin Bieber thing..

-ashleycoppolino