Archive for April, 2006

Reflection on Module 8

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

The readings and replies were good this time. Some of the students blogs were interesting and informative.  I replied to Denise B, Robb O, and Heidi.  They had very interesting blogs.
For my peer review I chose Heidi’s and Kari’s paper.  They had very good papers>I enjoyed reading them a lot.

Report on a resource about the viewing and the reading (module 8)

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

The resource I found on the reading is an article that USA Today put out. It’s about digital cinema and how it is going to become more popular. It also talks about why digital cinema is better the regular film. For instance digital last longer than film because it doesn’t dirty as fast so you […]

Reflection on the reading and viewing (module 8)

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

I found the reading to be interesting. I never really thought about how much movies use digital techniques. It seemed by the reading that pretty much every movie uses some form of digital enhancing. Whether it is to make the crowd look bigger or to fix a building that has been destroyed for years. I […]

Full Draft

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

The three movies I chose to watch were “National Lampoons
Vacation”, “Caddyshack”, and “Analyze This”all of which are
directed by Harold Ramis. Harold Ramis was born November
21,1944 in Chicago Illinois. Married twice and a father of
four, this accomplished actor, write, and director has to date
directed over ten movies all do fairly well. Besides the three
movies I chose […]

Reflections on module 7

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

This was an ok module.  It wasn’t one of my favorites.  I did like the movie i watched even if others didn’t.  This week seemed to go by fast.  I did enjoy reading this chapter it had a lot of new information for me.  I replied to Kari’s, Nora M, and Diane C’s blogs.  I […]

Report on a resource about a film element (module 7)

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I found a good resource for the film elements.  I found one that allows you to click on a sertain genre and it tells you about it.  Some of the one they had were science fiction, horror, action, comedy and a lot more. I really liked this web site. 
www.filmsite.org/genres.html
The web site that I had found first […]

Report on a resource about the viewing and the reading (module 7)

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The resource I found for the viewing is a good one. It has a trailer and scene that you can watch. You need to click on the US site link to watch the clips. It has a lot of cool images.
www.avp-movie.com
The resource that I found for the readings is a site for the top 10 […]

Reflection on the reading and viewing (module 7)

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The movie I chose to watch was AVP: Alien vs. Predator. I like this movie and the movies that it is taken from. I like that in this movie that the Predator and the human take up forces against the aliens. You can definitely see similarities in AVP from all the other alien movies and […]

Reflections on module 6 readings

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

This wasn’t one of my favorite weeks because I didn’t care for the movies that we watched.  I did find the readings interesting.  I replied to Denise B, Heidi W, and Robb O.

Annotated Bibliography

Sunday, April 16th, 2006