Serious Time #69 A New Take On Stop Motion

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Weekly Comments #35

This week was pretty good. I finally got all my final exams done for the first quarter at my school and now my documentary is finally done. It stinks that we still have BOCES this week but it beats full days of school. I'm looking forward to the fictional short I have a few idea's but I'm not sure which one I would like to pursue yet. It was an also nice and relaxing weekend.

Here is the Link of the Week:

This is one of the best trailers I have seen in a while, not just because I am excited for the movie, but for the fact alone that it is edited so well! Not enough trailers have done this yet but I am glad this one has. Even if your not excited for the movie like I am you can't say that it isn't one of the best edited trailers you have seen. Needless to say I am PUMPED!!!

Serious Time #68 How to Make your Film Look More Cinematic

This article is about how to make your films look more cinematic with only natural light. In the article they go over many ways on how to do this. These include location, color, emotion, senses, composition, and camera movement. The best thing to keep in mind when making your shot is the emotion as you want the viewer to be emotionally impacted and get a sense of the feeling from that shot alone. To accomplish this you can use weird and unique locations or use a vibrant array of colors in the shot. So next time you try shooting film with natural light keep in mind the location and if it fits the mood you want to convey, or try to get a sense of whether you want the colors to contrast or be similar.

I thought this article was good. It was very interesting and overall very helpful for the future. I knew lighting was important but this showed me how much more important it is then I thought it was.
I how the guy in the video explained the senses part of it as he did a good job clarifying it. The article was very straight forward, therefore I have no questions about it. This relates more to the video side of Digital Media. Overall very good and helpful article.

Serious Time #67 Chuck Jones and One Amazing Singing Frog

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Weekly Comments #34

This week was good. It was the first week back to school and was pretty easy to say the least. I finally got all the projects I was working on done and now only have to finish the Documentary which is almost done. The one complication I am having with it is the fact that the last thing I wanted to do I can't at the moment because of another party but I think I will find a solution for it soon. I am looking forward to just getting past this competition as a lot of the categories just aren't interesting in my opinion. Other then that nothing else really happened this week.

Link of the Week:

The link this week is a commercial so stupidly ridiculous and funny I don't even know how it came to air on T.V. The writing is just so forced and the guy acting is just so ridiculous about it that it is funny. The first time I saw this I thought it was hilarious it just has so many quotable lines that it's great. So next time before you get your game on, get your clean on with Dust Off!  

Serious Time #66 Getting Out of Writers Block

The article focuses on different types of writers block and ways to overcome it. The first way they mention is procrastination, this one isn't really writers block at all. The only way to overcome this one is to sit down and focus, maybe set a due date for your self as well. The second one they mention is not fully committing to your idea, this makes it so your going from one idea to the next. They say to remember that it's not a great idea that makes the writing good but the execution for it, so commit and then see it through to the end. The third they bring up is when you are out of ideas and cant think of anymore. They say to fix this idea you should write about something else, anything else, to get your mind going, it's like a warm up. The last type of writers block that they mention is critiquing everything you write, thinking that what you are writing isn't good enough. The only way to overcome this one is to turn our inner critic off, you need to actually get stuff on the page before you critique it. When your done writing just simply critique from there. They then end the article on a comical note showing a little "comic strip" of a guy getting over procrastination and such.

This article was pretty good. It managed to show the problems and how to solve them instead of just talking about them. I especially found this helpful as I hit a lot of these when writing and these are all great ways to over come them. There isn't anything I really dislike about the article except the part at the end I guess. The article was also very straight forward as well so I have no questions. This article can be referred to both types of Digital Media. Overall great article.