There are two choices in this matter. One of the choices is in order to have a so-called safe and secure world, you privacy must be taken away. The other choice is the exact opposite. To have an un-safe world where you can have whatever privacy you want. We live in an un-safe world today, but our privacy isn’t all ours. To have a completely safe world seems so futuristically untrue. Both options are not realistic. If I had to choose between either I would definitely have to choose to have an un-safe world where I have the amount of privacy I have.
In this world we live in now we do not have complete privacy but we still have a certain amount. A good enough amount to where we don’t have to worry about stopping in the midst of something so mechanical spiders can scan us. It is what everyone is used to. We have the freedom to say almost anything we want as long as it is not against the government. I don’t know about people outside of America but as far as American’s we do have a certain level of both. We have a neutral level of security and privacy.
We may be recorded on certain phone calls but there are not enough people to constantly listen to what we are saying over the phone. If someone were to call their phone company there is even a message that lets you know the phone call is recorded for certain purposes such as training. We are tracked. What we do on the computer, our phones, or even walking in person can all be detected. The computer keeps track of what you search of so that if you want to find it again you’ll be able to. Even with Facebook it keeps track of people you may know based on your computer code or calculates what you have based on your own Facebook. The phones that we have nowadays are easily traceable. With the GPS systems in them you can even find out what stores are closest to you. When you walk around you may not be tracked as easy but there is a application called Google Maps where it takes satellite pictures of different areas and you might get caught in the picture.
As you can see we don’t have the best amount of privacy but at least when we use the bathroom we don’t have a camera on us. There are certain rules that we have now that don’t invade our privacy. However our security isn’t a safe matter. There are people being murdered everyday. If you look deeply into that, we do have freewill. The people, who murder, choose to murder, whether it’s a crime of passion or not. The people who get murdered decide what direction they were walking in which they get murdered. Everyone has a choice. Addiction, you have a choice, just not once you are addicted… but you had a choice up until the point of addiction.
There is a flaw in everything as Danny Whitmore states in the movie Minority Report. If we had the system of a safe world, there could be something that may go wrong. We would definitely have to be safer than how Minority Report portrays how their security works. We would have to have more than having our retina scanned. There would have to also be a stronger system on finding the murderers. The ‘precogs’ are human and humans are imperfect. You cannot rely on something 100% to keep you safe if the system that is keeping you safe is imperfect.
A safe world is a perfect world, and that is impossible. If you’re okay with being strip-searched than I would assume you wouldn’t mind not having any privacy. However I would mind. I like the amount of privacy I am allowed. I don’t mind the un-safe world because it is what I am used to. We don’t have enough crime going on that makes me watch my back every second. I am just fine with how things are now because it’s realistically thinking.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Complete Archive Reseach Paper
There were many problems in the 1970s. The main problem was planned shrinkage. Many people lost their jobs because of this decision. These job losses were a disaster to the community of Brooklyn. A man named Roger Starr (New York City’s Administrator of Housing and Development) had something to say and do about the events that were happening in Bronx. He used a system called ‘planned shrinkage’. The proposal he conducted was to cut down the employment of public service employees. Such as: police officers, fire fighters, teachers, the people that help the city (sanitation, construction, plus other such occupations), and even the education field (teachers, and librarians). He may have helped the city become restored, but it was at a cost.
Roger Starr was someone who had an idea to fix this problems going on in the Bronx. He also had the guts to stand up about it and try to make his plan become a reality. He wanted to put in effect planned shrinkage. Planned shrinkage has to do with cut-backs on jobs. It also has to do with bringing people from where they live to a new town so they can fix up the deteriorating town they once lived in. The jobs that were cut were of: police officers, the fire departments, teachers, and the people that help fix the city.
On an interview with Roger Starr, conducted by Robert Fitch, Starr talks about his concern for the city. Starr began to speak about the problem with public housing. He thought rent control was a problem. Not just that but the problems of the people who were living in those apartments. His first problem is rent control. He stated that it was “destroying private housing stock” (Starr). Starr also believes that the problem was making sure the tenants that were in the rent controlled apartments, were good tenants, that would always pay their rent and take good care of the apartments by not destroying them.
Starr talks about the different programs (FAJ 236 program, Section 8, etc…) and mentions a man named Edward Brook, who was a Massachusetts Senator. Brook a man who had created the Brook amendments. This amendment consisted of taking people who couldn’t pay rent and move them into the rental controlled apartments. This affected the state of the houses and the neighborhood. This is because the people who were now moving into these places were destructive.
That made the ‘good’ tenants move out if they could. Because of that it made the problems escalate in the 70s. Starr also mentions that people are not alike and that Brook was treating them as if they were. In the fact that some people were good tenants (paid their rent and didn’t destroy property) and some of them weren’t and did the opposite. Some of the problems which was incurring was peeing in the elevators and doing drugs on the roof. Those problems weren’t the only ones. There were financial problems as well. With this project it took a lot of the cities money.
To fix the financial problems that they had lost from relying on all people to be good tenants, Starr suggested for a planned shrinkage to come in effect. When planned shrinkage finally came in effect there were many jobs that were lost. The statistics in a newspaper article called 3,432 City Jobs Cut in a Month state: “Police 4,879…, Fire 1,926…, Sanitation 2,612…, Board of Education 11,116…, and Health and Hospital Corp[orations] 8,130. (Lombardi) With all of those cut-backs in two years and two months, the town of Brooklyn was becoming even more destructive.
The city had the idea that they were spending too much money on areas of the city where people were constantly dying. The population of the city was devastatingly decreasing. People were losing so many jobs that there was a depression going around. When a person loses their job there can be many things that a person will do. A person can be depressed and mope about in the house. Most will commit crimes to get what they want or need. Some people may steal food because they can’t afford any, with families back home. Other people can just get vengeful and destroy property.
A devastating thing was going on in the Bronx. It was part of the reason Roger Starr wanted to make a change and start the planned shrinkage process. It was the Bronx fires. With so many people dying as it is, these fires were of no help. Whoever didn’t stay in the area, tried to help themselves in their money situation to be able to move out. The city was a disaster because all of the money they took to fix the city was borrowed. That is why Roger Starr had come up with the plan for planned shrinkage.
This situation became a domino effect. First they thought that they could change the city by moving people around and away from the area, than fixing up that area. They also felt they had to get rid of jobs to save money in order to do this fixing up. By taking peoples jobs away from them it created more deaths and crime. Along with that came the fires. All because the city wanted to save as much money as they thought they could.
By taking away the cops and fire departments, the city started to crumble even more. If there were crimes already why would they take these jobs away from people, who are supposed to help the situations if there were no law enforcements. I would think that they should have brought more into the picture, not less. The crimes just escalated from taking away these peoples important jobs. If there were multiple fires, like there was, going around with less firemen how would they be able to stop them all from happening. People were getting hurt or even killed and with these job services disappearing in front of their eyes, how could they have faith that it would eventually stop.
Roger Starr believes that this planned shrinkage will keep happening. People will keep losing their jobs as well as people gaining jobs. He says in his interview with Robert Fitch that “stocks don’t just go up.” (Starr) There will be a drought in the employment rates but then it will pick up and it will go back and forth. They were losing the people who were under the classifications of “middle-class”. People were either rich or they were poor. It was not a happy time for the people of the poor category. For they were having to find new places to live with the jobs declining and having to save for a new place.
In a statement by Mayor Abraham D. Beame he mentions that the president puts stockholders above the eight million people in the city. People were dependent on their pensions, life savings, and securities. Instead of President Ford and the government giving those who needed help, actual help they got a lecture. There is no good from just a lecture these people wanted real help. And they needed it fast! The people were turning to destruction. The fires that were spreading all over the Bronx were more than likely all arson. They were destroying the city themselves, over how Mayor Beame was treating them.
Many people believed it was a racial thing. I don’t think anyone will ever know if it was or wasn’t. It was said to believe that Roger Starr only cared about the people who were rich and wealthier. The city thought they were just picking on people from the poor neighborhoods or just the non-white American people. To take their homes away from them and just move them to another place to live like they were moving boxes. They wanted help but with emotion as well. They treated the people of the city as if they were inanimate objects. The wealthier people were able to get up and leave, while Roger Starr and Mayor Beame decided to fix the city. The poorer people didn’t have anywhere to go, especially with the shrinkage of jobs. They couldn’t save up the money to get a new apartment. It was difficult for them as it was and this just made things worse.
In the movie Taxi Driver they portray how the city was like in the 70s. Back then, the city was filled with drugs, violence, sex, prostitution. The world was highly corrupt. The people wanted a change, just because there are people who do wrong doesn’t mean everyone does wrong. The good people shouldn’t have to suffer for what the wronged people do. The city needed some cleaning up and the moment of being laid off from jobs weren’t of any help. I don’t know how the man, Roger Starr, did it and cleaned the city up… but he did it.
Roger Starr along with Mayor Beame did eventually help save the city from complete destruction. Things were done, such as the fires and things were also thought, like the people thinking it was about race. Now I am not saying these things aren’t true. Although it was recorded the thoughts and opinions people had, along with what went on. All we really know is Roger Starr wanted to fix the city by planned shrinkage and to move the people out of the damaged areas and for them to move to another neighborhood. Starr just wanted to create a whole new town by re-construction so that everyone could live more peaceably.
Roger Starr was someone who had an idea to fix this problems going on in the Bronx. He also had the guts to stand up about it and try to make his plan become a reality. He wanted to put in effect planned shrinkage. Planned shrinkage has to do with cut-backs on jobs. It also has to do with bringing people from where they live to a new town so they can fix up the deteriorating town they once lived in. The jobs that were cut were of: police officers, the fire departments, teachers, and the people that help fix the city.
On an interview with Roger Starr, conducted by Robert Fitch, Starr talks about his concern for the city. Starr began to speak about the problem with public housing. He thought rent control was a problem. Not just that but the problems of the people who were living in those apartments. His first problem is rent control. He stated that it was “destroying private housing stock” (Starr). Starr also believes that the problem was making sure the tenants that were in the rent controlled apartments, were good tenants, that would always pay their rent and take good care of the apartments by not destroying them.
Starr talks about the different programs (FAJ 236 program, Section 8, etc…) and mentions a man named Edward Brook, who was a Massachusetts Senator. Brook a man who had created the Brook amendments. This amendment consisted of taking people who couldn’t pay rent and move them into the rental controlled apartments. This affected the state of the houses and the neighborhood. This is because the people who were now moving into these places were destructive.
That made the ‘good’ tenants move out if they could. Because of that it made the problems escalate in the 70s. Starr also mentions that people are not alike and that Brook was treating them as if they were. In the fact that some people were good tenants (paid their rent and didn’t destroy property) and some of them weren’t and did the opposite. Some of the problems which was incurring was peeing in the elevators and doing drugs on the roof. Those problems weren’t the only ones. There were financial problems as well. With this project it took a lot of the cities money.
To fix the financial problems that they had lost from relying on all people to be good tenants, Starr suggested for a planned shrinkage to come in effect. When planned shrinkage finally came in effect there were many jobs that were lost. The statistics in a newspaper article called 3,432 City Jobs Cut in a Month state: “Police 4,879…, Fire 1,926…, Sanitation 2,612…, Board of Education 11,116…, and Health and Hospital Corp[orations] 8,130. (Lombardi) With all of those cut-backs in two years and two months, the town of Brooklyn was becoming even more destructive.
The city had the idea that they were spending too much money on areas of the city where people were constantly dying. The population of the city was devastatingly decreasing. People were losing so many jobs that there was a depression going around. When a person loses their job there can be many things that a person will do. A person can be depressed and mope about in the house. Most will commit crimes to get what they want or need. Some people may steal food because they can’t afford any, with families back home. Other people can just get vengeful and destroy property.
A devastating thing was going on in the Bronx. It was part of the reason Roger Starr wanted to make a change and start the planned shrinkage process. It was the Bronx fires. With so many people dying as it is, these fires were of no help. Whoever didn’t stay in the area, tried to help themselves in their money situation to be able to move out. The city was a disaster because all of the money they took to fix the city was borrowed. That is why Roger Starr had come up with the plan for planned shrinkage.
This situation became a domino effect. First they thought that they could change the city by moving people around and away from the area, than fixing up that area. They also felt they had to get rid of jobs to save money in order to do this fixing up. By taking peoples jobs away from them it created more deaths and crime. Along with that came the fires. All because the city wanted to save as much money as they thought they could.
By taking away the cops and fire departments, the city started to crumble even more. If there were crimes already why would they take these jobs away from people, who are supposed to help the situations if there were no law enforcements. I would think that they should have brought more into the picture, not less. The crimes just escalated from taking away these peoples important jobs. If there were multiple fires, like there was, going around with less firemen how would they be able to stop them all from happening. People were getting hurt or even killed and with these job services disappearing in front of their eyes, how could they have faith that it would eventually stop.
Roger Starr believes that this planned shrinkage will keep happening. People will keep losing their jobs as well as people gaining jobs. He says in his interview with Robert Fitch that “stocks don’t just go up.” (Starr) There will be a drought in the employment rates but then it will pick up and it will go back and forth. They were losing the people who were under the classifications of “middle-class”. People were either rich or they were poor. It was not a happy time for the people of the poor category. For they were having to find new places to live with the jobs declining and having to save for a new place.
In a statement by Mayor Abraham D. Beame he mentions that the president puts stockholders above the eight million people in the city. People were dependent on their pensions, life savings, and securities. Instead of President Ford and the government giving those who needed help, actual help they got a lecture. There is no good from just a lecture these people wanted real help. And they needed it fast! The people were turning to destruction. The fires that were spreading all over the Bronx were more than likely all arson. They were destroying the city themselves, over how Mayor Beame was treating them.
Many people believed it was a racial thing. I don’t think anyone will ever know if it was or wasn’t. It was said to believe that Roger Starr only cared about the people who were rich and wealthier. The city thought they were just picking on people from the poor neighborhoods or just the non-white American people. To take their homes away from them and just move them to another place to live like they were moving boxes. They wanted help but with emotion as well. They treated the people of the city as if they were inanimate objects. The wealthier people were able to get up and leave, while Roger Starr and Mayor Beame decided to fix the city. The poorer people didn’t have anywhere to go, especially with the shrinkage of jobs. They couldn’t save up the money to get a new apartment. It was difficult for them as it was and this just made things worse.
In the movie Taxi Driver they portray how the city was like in the 70s. Back then, the city was filled with drugs, violence, sex, prostitution. The world was highly corrupt. The people wanted a change, just because there are people who do wrong doesn’t mean everyone does wrong. The good people shouldn’t have to suffer for what the wronged people do. The city needed some cleaning up and the moment of being laid off from jobs weren’t of any help. I don’t know how the man, Roger Starr, did it and cleaned the city up… but he did it.
Roger Starr along with Mayor Beame did eventually help save the city from complete destruction. Things were done, such as the fires and things were also thought, like the people thinking it was about race. Now I am not saying these things aren’t true. Although it was recorded the thoughts and opinions people had, along with what went on. All we really know is Roger Starr wanted to fix the city by planned shrinkage and to move the people out of the damaged areas and for them to move to another neighborhood. Starr just wanted to create a whole new town by re-construction so that everyone could live more peaceably.
Draft Archive Reseach Paper
There were many problems in the 1970s. The main problem was planned shrinkage. Many people lost their jobs because of this decision. These job losses were a disaster to the community of Brooklyn. A man named Roger Starr (New York City’s Administrator of Housing and Development) had something to say and do about the events that were happening in Bronx. He used a system called ‘planned shrinkage’. The proposal he conducted was to cut down the employment of public service employees. Such as: police officers, fire fighters, teachers, the people that help the city (sanitation, construction, plus other such occupations), and even the education field (teachers, and librarians). He may have helped the city become restored, but it was at a cost.
Roger Starr was someone who had an idea to fix this problems going on in the Bronx. He also had the guts to stand up about it and try to make his plan become a reality. He wanted to put in effect planned shrinkage. Planned shrinkage has to do with cut-backs on jobs. It also has to do with bringing people from where they live to a new town so they can fix up the deteriorating town they once lived in. The jobs that were cut were of: police officers, the fire departments, teachers, and the people that help fix the city.
On an interview with Roger Starr, conducted by Robert Fitch, Starr talks about his concern for the city. Starr began to speak about the problem with public housing. He thought rent control was a problem. Not just that but the problems of the people who were living in those apartments. His first problem is rent control. He stated that it was “destroying private housing stock” (Starr). Starr also believes that the problem was making sure the tenants that were in the rent controlled apartments, were good tenants, that would always pay their rent and take good care of the apartments by not destroying them.
Starr talks about the different programs (FAJ 236 program, Section 8, etc…) and mentions a man named Edward Brook, who was a Massachusetts Senator. Brook a man who had created the Brook amendments. This amendment consisted of taking people who couldn’t pay rent and move them into the rental controlled apartments. This affected the state of the houses and the neighborhood. This is because the people who were now moving into these places were destructive.
That made the ‘good’ tenants move out if they could. Because of that it made the problems escalate in the 70s. Starr also mentions that people are not alike and that Brook was treating them as if they were. In the fact that some people were good tenants (paid their rent and didn’t destroy property) and some of them weren’t and did the opposite. Some of the problems which was incurring was peeing in the elevators and doing drugs on the roof. Those problems weren’t the only ones. There were financial problems as well. With this project it took a lot of the cities money.
To fix the financial problems that they had lost from relying on all people to be good tenants, Starr suggested for a planned shrinkage to come in effect. When planned shrinkage finally came in effect there were many jobs that were lost. The statistics in a newspaper article called 3,432 City Jobs Cut in a Month state: “Police 4,879…, Fire 1,926…, Sanitation 2,612…, Board of Education 11,116…, and Health and Hospital Corp[orations] 8,130. (Lombardi) With all of those cut-backs in two years and two months, the town of Brooklyn was becoming even more destructive.
The city had the idea that they were spending too much money on areas of the city where people were constantly dying. The population of the city was devastatingly decreasing. People were losing so many jobs that there was a depression going around. When a person loses their job there can be many things that a person will do. A person can be depressed and mope about in the house. Most will commit crimes to get what they want or need. Some people may steal food because they can’t afford any, with families back home. Other people can just get vengeful and destroy property.
A devastating thing was going on in the Bronx. It was part of the reason Roger Starr wanted to make a change and start the planned shrinkage process. It was the Bronx fires. With so many people dying as it is, these fires were of no help. Whoever didn’t stay in the area, tried to help themselves in their money situation to be able to move out. The city was a disaster because all of the money they took to fix the city was borrowed. That is why Roger Starr had come up with the plan for planned shrinkage.
This situation became a domino effect. First they thought that they could change the city by moving people around and away from the area, than fixing up that area. They also felt they had to get rid of jobs to save money in order to do this fixing up. By taking peoples jobs away from them it created more deaths and crime. Along with that came the fires. All because the city wanted to save as much money as they thought they could.
By taking away the cops and fire departments, the city started to crumble even more. If there were crimes already why would they take these jobs away from people, who are supposed to help the situations if there were no law enforcements. I would think that they should have brought more into the picture, not less.
Roger Starr believes that this planned shrinkage will keep happening. People will keep losing their jobs as well as people gaining jobs. He says in his interview with Robert Fitch that “stocks don’t just go up.” (Starr) There will be a drought in the employment rates but then it will pick up and it will go back and forth.
In a statement by Mayor Abraham D. Beame he mentions that the president puts stockholders above the eight million people in the city. People were dependent on their pensions, life savings, and securities. Instead of President Ford and the government giving those who needed help, actual help they got a lecture.
Roger Starr was someone who had an idea to fix this problems going on in the Bronx. He also had the guts to stand up about it and try to make his plan become a reality. He wanted to put in effect planned shrinkage. Planned shrinkage has to do with cut-backs on jobs. It also has to do with bringing people from where they live to a new town so they can fix up the deteriorating town they once lived in. The jobs that were cut were of: police officers, the fire departments, teachers, and the people that help fix the city.
On an interview with Roger Starr, conducted by Robert Fitch, Starr talks about his concern for the city. Starr began to speak about the problem with public housing. He thought rent control was a problem. Not just that but the problems of the people who were living in those apartments. His first problem is rent control. He stated that it was “destroying private housing stock” (Starr). Starr also believes that the problem was making sure the tenants that were in the rent controlled apartments, were good tenants, that would always pay their rent and take good care of the apartments by not destroying them.
Starr talks about the different programs (FAJ 236 program, Section 8, etc…) and mentions a man named Edward Brook, who was a Massachusetts Senator. Brook a man who had created the Brook amendments. This amendment consisted of taking people who couldn’t pay rent and move them into the rental controlled apartments. This affected the state of the houses and the neighborhood. This is because the people who were now moving into these places were destructive.
That made the ‘good’ tenants move out if they could. Because of that it made the problems escalate in the 70s. Starr also mentions that people are not alike and that Brook was treating them as if they were. In the fact that some people were good tenants (paid their rent and didn’t destroy property) and some of them weren’t and did the opposite. Some of the problems which was incurring was peeing in the elevators and doing drugs on the roof. Those problems weren’t the only ones. There were financial problems as well. With this project it took a lot of the cities money.
To fix the financial problems that they had lost from relying on all people to be good tenants, Starr suggested for a planned shrinkage to come in effect. When planned shrinkage finally came in effect there were many jobs that were lost. The statistics in a newspaper article called 3,432 City Jobs Cut in a Month state: “Police 4,879…, Fire 1,926…, Sanitation 2,612…, Board of Education 11,116…, and Health and Hospital Corp[orations] 8,130. (Lombardi) With all of those cut-backs in two years and two months, the town of Brooklyn was becoming even more destructive.
The city had the idea that they were spending too much money on areas of the city where people were constantly dying. The population of the city was devastatingly decreasing. People were losing so many jobs that there was a depression going around. When a person loses their job there can be many things that a person will do. A person can be depressed and mope about in the house. Most will commit crimes to get what they want or need. Some people may steal food because they can’t afford any, with families back home. Other people can just get vengeful and destroy property.
A devastating thing was going on in the Bronx. It was part of the reason Roger Starr wanted to make a change and start the planned shrinkage process. It was the Bronx fires. With so many people dying as it is, these fires were of no help. Whoever didn’t stay in the area, tried to help themselves in their money situation to be able to move out. The city was a disaster because all of the money they took to fix the city was borrowed. That is why Roger Starr had come up with the plan for planned shrinkage.
This situation became a domino effect. First they thought that they could change the city by moving people around and away from the area, than fixing up that area. They also felt they had to get rid of jobs to save money in order to do this fixing up. By taking peoples jobs away from them it created more deaths and crime. Along with that came the fires. All because the city wanted to save as much money as they thought they could.
By taking away the cops and fire departments, the city started to crumble even more. If there were crimes already why would they take these jobs away from people, who are supposed to help the situations if there were no law enforcements. I would think that they should have brought more into the picture, not less.
Roger Starr believes that this planned shrinkage will keep happening. People will keep losing their jobs as well as people gaining jobs. He says in his interview with Robert Fitch that “stocks don’t just go up.” (Starr) There will be a drought in the employment rates but then it will pick up and it will go back and forth.
In a statement by Mayor Abraham D. Beame he mentions that the president puts stockholders above the eight million people in the city. People were dependent on their pensions, life savings, and securities. Instead of President Ford and the government giving those who needed help, actual help they got a lecture.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Special Activity: MOMI
On my visit to the Museum of Moving Images, everything our tour guide explained to me was completely new. I really enjoyed learning what I did. I don’t remember the names of the programs/exhibits we went to but I do remember what they do and what I learned from them.
I learned about the recording studio. There I learned that when actor’s lines aren’t caught on the microphone, dubbing for other languages, voice-overs for censorship, and for animation, they go into a similar place like we did to do so. They read their scripts while looking at their mouths to line up what they are saying so that it will look proper. We had a rehearsal try and then it recorded us so that we hear back and see if our lines matched up with the mouths. My line was from Coming to America where Eddie Murphy character says, “When you think of garbage, think of Akeem!” It was a bit confusing to hear his voice in the headphones but I got it right on the recorded try. I also learned that if they miss a simple word in their lines, they will have to re-do that line over again. I would say doing this can be very strenuous.
Another thing I learned was how live television works. We didn’t get to spend much time on this subject because it was a pretty simple concept. We saw two big television screens one with nine small squares inside of it and another with the cable viewing screen taking up about a third of the screen with the people in the office, doing absolutely nothing but looking at their screens. The TV with the nine small screens was to show us the different camera views of what the audiences will be watching. It also showed us of the people that were in charge of announcing what the people were watching, each person was in charge of their own square. In the booth we say the director giving direction to what was going on.
One of the things I found most interesting was the voice and sound effect area. We went over shots of the movie Titanic. We saw parts of the movie with no sound at all just moving images, with just the voice, than just the sound effects, after we viewed all of them separately the tour guide than played it all together. We learned that when there are distant scenes or shots of a movie, such as when they are in a swimming pool to do the scene of the boat sinking. The people will go into the recording studio to say their lines because at the distance that they are in and record the lines they may have. When it comes to the sound effects, the tour guide explained to us the people who find and put together these effects are called Foley artists. The reason for them is they want to amplify the sound so that the audience watching these movies can feel like they are really there and that it is more realistic.
She had us try to guess how they created the sounds before actually telling us. Some of the sounds they make themselves or simply download it from the internet. There was a shot where Rose jumped off a part of the ship and onto the wooden floor. That sound was created by an actually wooden board. There was another shot where the cords of the ship snapped off and hit the water, which was created by a whip. The last shot we saw was where the ship was breaking in half and slammed into the water. This sound effect I found most interesting. It was made with crushing a soda can and an elephant. When she played it back for us with all the sounds, it was a little disappointing because you can now tell what everything was and it sounded pretty fake. However I still enjoyed learning about this.
We than went on to see different props from different movies. Things like the sweater from Nightmare on Elm Street I believe the third movie from the series. This prop was used for when they had to get live people to stretch through the sweater in a gooey skin. Another prop was a doll from The Exorcist for when the character Regan (a little girl who was possessed by a demon) head turned in a full circle. Of course the actress Linda Blair couldn’t really do that so they got a doll with a rotating head for the movie. We also saw miniatures of houses so they can get close ups of really big buildings.
We also saw what people used to watch ten minute films in (forgot the name). It was a podium looking stand where it had a small piece to put your eyes through and inside of it had the reel of film. It was pretty interesting to see this because of how it was constructed. We then went into a room where we say the different make-up and wax they used to make young actors/actresses look older, like the mask Robin Williams used in Mrs. Doubtfire. Also the cut and stitched legs of Winona Ryder’s from Black Swan
In that room we also saw different pictures of actors/actresses – primary the white ones. This is where the tour guide explained to us that the reason why they had mostly white people on the wall was because the film (along with the rest of the world at the time) was segregated. That the three ‘colored’ people on the walls played parts like housekeeper. We also learned about an Asian actress named Anna May Wong. We were informed that she was a pretty famous colored actress who tried to get a part of an Asian woman but was turned down because she was ‘too Asian’. Instead they got a white woman to play the part and put makeup on her to make her look Asian.
The last thing we saw and learned about was video games. We learned about the first video game ever made. It was a simple black background screen with two squares (the players) and a line between them and a smaller square which was the ball. The controllers were bulky and it had two big knobs, a smaller knob below and a knob on the side. The games played on this console were rather simple kinds of games. This game was similar to tennis. It was pretty fun to play but I would definitely get bored of it quick.
Overall I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this trip. I will definitely be going again. As a media student I feel this will be really helpful for having some background knowledge if I want to get into the movie industry. Thank you for coming up with this trip.
I learned about the recording studio. There I learned that when actor’s lines aren’t caught on the microphone, dubbing for other languages, voice-overs for censorship, and for animation, they go into a similar place like we did to do so. They read their scripts while looking at their mouths to line up what they are saying so that it will look proper. We had a rehearsal try and then it recorded us so that we hear back and see if our lines matched up with the mouths. My line was from Coming to America where Eddie Murphy character says, “When you think of garbage, think of Akeem!” It was a bit confusing to hear his voice in the headphones but I got it right on the recorded try. I also learned that if they miss a simple word in their lines, they will have to re-do that line over again. I would say doing this can be very strenuous.
Another thing I learned was how live television works. We didn’t get to spend much time on this subject because it was a pretty simple concept. We saw two big television screens one with nine small squares inside of it and another with the cable viewing screen taking up about a third of the screen with the people in the office, doing absolutely nothing but looking at their screens. The TV with the nine small screens was to show us the different camera views of what the audiences will be watching. It also showed us of the people that were in charge of announcing what the people were watching, each person was in charge of their own square. In the booth we say the director giving direction to what was going on.
One of the things I found most interesting was the voice and sound effect area. We went over shots of the movie Titanic. We saw parts of the movie with no sound at all just moving images, with just the voice, than just the sound effects, after we viewed all of them separately the tour guide than played it all together. We learned that when there are distant scenes or shots of a movie, such as when they are in a swimming pool to do the scene of the boat sinking. The people will go into the recording studio to say their lines because at the distance that they are in and record the lines they may have. When it comes to the sound effects, the tour guide explained to us the people who find and put together these effects are called Foley artists. The reason for them is they want to amplify the sound so that the audience watching these movies can feel like they are really there and that it is more realistic.
She had us try to guess how they created the sounds before actually telling us. Some of the sounds they make themselves or simply download it from the internet. There was a shot where Rose jumped off a part of the ship and onto the wooden floor. That sound was created by an actually wooden board. There was another shot where the cords of the ship snapped off and hit the water, which was created by a whip. The last shot we saw was where the ship was breaking in half and slammed into the water. This sound effect I found most interesting. It was made with crushing a soda can and an elephant. When she played it back for us with all the sounds, it was a little disappointing because you can now tell what everything was and it sounded pretty fake. However I still enjoyed learning about this.
We than went on to see different props from different movies. Things like the sweater from Nightmare on Elm Street I believe the third movie from the series. This prop was used for when they had to get live people to stretch through the sweater in a gooey skin. Another prop was a doll from The Exorcist for when the character Regan (a little girl who was possessed by a demon) head turned in a full circle. Of course the actress Linda Blair couldn’t really do that so they got a doll with a rotating head for the movie. We also saw miniatures of houses so they can get close ups of really big buildings.
We also saw what people used to watch ten minute films in (forgot the name). It was a podium looking stand where it had a small piece to put your eyes through and inside of it had the reel of film. It was pretty interesting to see this because of how it was constructed. We then went into a room where we say the different make-up and wax they used to make young actors/actresses look older, like the mask Robin Williams used in Mrs. Doubtfire. Also the cut and stitched legs of Winona Ryder’s from Black Swan
In that room we also saw different pictures of actors/actresses – primary the white ones. This is where the tour guide explained to us that the reason why they had mostly white people on the wall was because the film (along with the rest of the world at the time) was segregated. That the three ‘colored’ people on the walls played parts like housekeeper. We also learned about an Asian actress named Anna May Wong. We were informed that she was a pretty famous colored actress who tried to get a part of an Asian woman but was turned down because she was ‘too Asian’. Instead they got a white woman to play the part and put makeup on her to make her look Asian.
The last thing we saw and learned about was video games. We learned about the first video game ever made. It was a simple black background screen with two squares (the players) and a line between them and a smaller square which was the ball. The controllers were bulky and it had two big knobs, a smaller knob below and a knob on the side. The games played on this console were rather simple kinds of games. This game was similar to tennis. It was pretty fun to play but I would definitely get bored of it quick.
Overall I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this trip. I will definitely be going again. As a media student I feel this will be really helpful for having some background knowledge if I want to get into the movie industry. Thank you for coming up with this trip.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Blog 12
In the passage “The Man on the Moon” by George J. Annas he discusses how people think they are the superior beings and that the people who are not like them are inferior. The ones who feel they're superior feel that they have all the rights. Annas writes about how the Nazis believe they are the superior beings and all the other people are inferior people. They set out to kill and torture the humans that are not German because they feel they do not fit with them. The Nazis believed in eugenics, the study to improve qualities of the human species. They felt that everyone had to look a certain way to their own standards and whoever did not look like them, they would try to do surgeries on them to make them look more like Germans. If they could not do such things they would torture and/or kill them.
In the movie “Gattaca” they portray how only genetically engineered people who are considered “Valid” beings are able to have a higher quality job and that they are more superior to the people who are not genetically engineered who are called the “In-valid” humans. An example shown in this movie is how in-valid Vincent was a janitor and how valid Anton was able to get a higher job status than Vincent just because of their genetics.
In both cases there are groups of people who feel they are considered “perfect” and have ultimate superiority of all humans. The people who think they are superior do not believe in equality. The higher beings think they have an advantage, and that the 'lower' humans don’t have a chance of having. I believe that the superior humans are the ones who are not genetically engineered. In the passage referring back to the Nazis they felt they were better only because of looks. Other than the example of Jesus in the bible, there isn’t anything written anywhere that describes a perfect human, not only that but Jesus’ looks can be interpreted differently. So no one can be sure of what one is supposed to look or be like. When it comes to the movie you can see that the valid humans don’t always go by what’s in their genetics. In the movie there is a part where the old director speaks of how he doesn’t have a violent gene in his body, yet he was the one who killed the new director, or how Irene has a heart defect, or even the fact that Anton wasn’t able to beat Vincent in the last swimming match. If they were genetically engineered to be perfect those instances wouldn’t have happened.
The humans who are not genetically engineered are better only for the fact that they achieved certain strengths on their own, which may or may not be in their genes but they made it possible. They can make things more possible like how Vincent out swam Anton by the carelessness of his life. He made a lot possible by just simply having the motivation. Other than that I believe they are equal because even though the genetically engineered babies are so-called programmed how the parents want them, they are still humans and have emotions and abilities of change just like anyone else.
In the movie “Gattaca” they portray how only genetically engineered people who are considered “Valid” beings are able to have a higher quality job and that they are more superior to the people who are not genetically engineered who are called the “In-valid” humans. An example shown in this movie is how in-valid Vincent was a janitor and how valid Anton was able to get a higher job status than Vincent just because of their genetics.
In both cases there are groups of people who feel they are considered “perfect” and have ultimate superiority of all humans. The people who think they are superior do not believe in equality. The higher beings think they have an advantage, and that the 'lower' humans don’t have a chance of having. I believe that the superior humans are the ones who are not genetically engineered. In the passage referring back to the Nazis they felt they were better only because of looks. Other than the example of Jesus in the bible, there isn’t anything written anywhere that describes a perfect human, not only that but Jesus’ looks can be interpreted differently. So no one can be sure of what one is supposed to look or be like. When it comes to the movie you can see that the valid humans don’t always go by what’s in their genetics. In the movie there is a part where the old director speaks of how he doesn’t have a violent gene in his body, yet he was the one who killed the new director, or how Irene has a heart defect, or even the fact that Anton wasn’t able to beat Vincent in the last swimming match. If they were genetically engineered to be perfect those instances wouldn’t have happened.
The humans who are not genetically engineered are better only for the fact that they achieved certain strengths on their own, which may or may not be in their genes but they made it possible. They can make things more possible like how Vincent out swam Anton by the carelessness of his life. He made a lot possible by just simply having the motivation. Other than that I believe they are equal because even though the genetically engineered babies are so-called programmed how the parents want them, they are still humans and have emotions and abilities of change just like anyone else.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Blog 11
An “other” to me is someone who lives in a fantasy world. These kinds of people believe the world revolves around them and that whatever they do or don’t do affects the whole world. In reality the world rotates along with everyone in it. These people cannot deal with things that don’t go their way, so they try to always make it their way. When that’s how life really is, not always going your way. They can’t handle not being the center of attention. There are thousands upon thousands of people in the world. You cannot always be the center of attention to a person.
I feel a large distance between those kinds of people compared to myself. I know the realities of the world. When you live in a fantasy world, you will eventually lose your grip of it, and you will be face-planted into the ground. You will get a shock so bad that you won’t know what to do. For myself and others like me, we will know what is coming and we will know how to deal with it. Not like our others who will be stuck in such a conundrum of circumstances that the world will throw at us.
Let’s say we have to do group-work with a person like this. It will be very hard because these kinds of people will not do what they are supposed to and will pile all the work on their “others”, like myself. They will goof off and try to play around instead of doing the work. If you try and tell them what to do, when they don’t want to do it that will also create a problem. The problem will be that the work will not be done and you are left with a headache.
I feel a large distance between those kinds of people compared to myself. I know the realities of the world. When you live in a fantasy world, you will eventually lose your grip of it, and you will be face-planted into the ground. You will get a shock so bad that you won’t know what to do. For myself and others like me, we will know what is coming and we will know how to deal with it. Not like our others who will be stuck in such a conundrum of circumstances that the world will throw at us.
Let’s say we have to do group-work with a person like this. It will be very hard because these kinds of people will not do what they are supposed to and will pile all the work on their “others”, like myself. They will goof off and try to play around instead of doing the work. If you try and tell them what to do, when they don’t want to do it that will also create a problem. The problem will be that the work will not be done and you are left with a headache.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Blog 10
The things I’ve learned in class that I have found most interesting is, how we got to watch a movie and write a blog about it. I believe you can learn new things by different forms of media. You just have to know how to go about it. The thematic concepts I have enjoyed are; illusion and reality, historical examples of illusions, and mythology in the Matrix. The allegory of the cave was not too bad. I like how it all incorporates with each other. I just wasn’t too fond of how the reading was written because I had read a passage about it and it was more modernized.
The concepts I did not enjoy learning was everything about Oedipus the King. I believe that the reading and how it was written was too hard. I am in an English class and I feel if I am to pass this class. This play we have read, and may also do on the pass/fail final, will mess everything up for me. The speech in this play is way too un-modernized. I don’t think many students can fully understand this. We should have something more modern so we can try to show our potential and not have to worry about also understanding a text that is too complex.
I would definitely like to do more assignments through movies. I can get more of an understanding of what is wanted when there is a movie right in front of me opposed to an idea, not that ideas are bad. I would think the only problem with writing about a movie is you can’t always remember certain scenes you want to talk about or certain lines the characters say you feel is important to have in the paper. It is harder to go back and watch the whole movie opposed to going to a website where you researched information. I have also enjoyed the examples of good versus bad parts of the essay. My professor had mentioned that you learn more from reading bad essays than good ones, and I have to agree.
I would like to learn a little bit more of how to get a good thesis sentence, even though I have seen examples I am not sure on how to come about getting a better thesis of what I am writing the paper about. I would also like to understand how to break down the jargon of “Oedipus the King”, so that if I do have to do my final based on it, I don’t have to worry that I am going to fail. I do know about the story and have understood what my professor has explained about it… but if I am to quote something from the play I couldn’t do such a thing for I do not understand where it would be.
I feel that I have grasped what it is to summarize, that even in my essay blog I summarized for the most part instead of writing a better essay. I have not practiced the MLA style yet but I feel it is an easy enough concept of how my professor has explained it, that I would be able to achieve a MLA formatted paper. My weaknesses are definitely my introductory paragraphs along with the thesis. I have always had a problem with them and can’t seem to get better with them. Whenever I have to write a paper the only problem I usually have with them, it’s starting them because I have such a problem with the introductory and thesis part of papers. I feel my conclusions are fine but they can definitely improve.
When it comes to blogging versus writing an actual paper, I don’t really mind the difference because as long as I don’t have to hand in a hand written paper. The thing I do like about the blog is it is easier; it helps me be able to get feed back from anyone, instead of trying to send a word document to my professor and just an email going back and forth. The one thing I definitely appreciate about this class, is that most of the work and writing we have to do, is in-class work. I know that if I would have had a lot of bring home, homework I might not have gotten in on time. I think the only good thing about not doing it in class is that you are not as timed and you have more ability to work on each aspect of the assignment. However that point is not so bad because the better thing about it being a blog is that you can revise what you have written previously.
The concepts I did not enjoy learning was everything about Oedipus the King. I believe that the reading and how it was written was too hard. I am in an English class and I feel if I am to pass this class. This play we have read, and may also do on the pass/fail final, will mess everything up for me. The speech in this play is way too un-modernized. I don’t think many students can fully understand this. We should have something more modern so we can try to show our potential and not have to worry about also understanding a text that is too complex.
I would definitely like to do more assignments through movies. I can get more of an understanding of what is wanted when there is a movie right in front of me opposed to an idea, not that ideas are bad. I would think the only problem with writing about a movie is you can’t always remember certain scenes you want to talk about or certain lines the characters say you feel is important to have in the paper. It is harder to go back and watch the whole movie opposed to going to a website where you researched information. I have also enjoyed the examples of good versus bad parts of the essay. My professor had mentioned that you learn more from reading bad essays than good ones, and I have to agree.
I would like to learn a little bit more of how to get a good thesis sentence, even though I have seen examples I am not sure on how to come about getting a better thesis of what I am writing the paper about. I would also like to understand how to break down the jargon of “Oedipus the King”, so that if I do have to do my final based on it, I don’t have to worry that I am going to fail. I do know about the story and have understood what my professor has explained about it… but if I am to quote something from the play I couldn’t do such a thing for I do not understand where it would be.
I feel that I have grasped what it is to summarize, that even in my essay blog I summarized for the most part instead of writing a better essay. I have not practiced the MLA style yet but I feel it is an easy enough concept of how my professor has explained it, that I would be able to achieve a MLA formatted paper. My weaknesses are definitely my introductory paragraphs along with the thesis. I have always had a problem with them and can’t seem to get better with them. Whenever I have to write a paper the only problem I usually have with them, it’s starting them because I have such a problem with the introductory and thesis part of papers. I feel my conclusions are fine but they can definitely improve.
When it comes to blogging versus writing an actual paper, I don’t really mind the difference because as long as I don’t have to hand in a hand written paper. The thing I do like about the blog is it is easier; it helps me be able to get feed back from anyone, instead of trying to send a word document to my professor and just an email going back and forth. The one thing I definitely appreciate about this class, is that most of the work and writing we have to do, is in-class work. I know that if I would have had a lot of bring home, homework I might not have gotten in on time. I think the only good thing about not doing it in class is that you are not as timed and you have more ability to work on each aspect of the assignment. However that point is not so bad because the better thing about it being a blog is that you can revise what you have written previously.
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