So this was a fun little project for Media Literacy Class. I really enjoyed using photoshop. I wish that I had the money to buy the program! I chose my subject out of convenience. I don't really dislike myspace and I personally enjoy myspace music. My subject was just conducive for the manipulation. It was also a response to the film that we watched in Media Literacy class about the dangers of the internet with teens. I believe that myspace has been subject to ridicule as well as facebook. Myspace provides the same ability of a hidden identity as facebook and that leaves the doors open to creeps.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Phun Photoshop
So this was a fun little project for Media Literacy Class. I really enjoyed using photoshop. I wish that I had the money to buy the program! I chose my subject out of convenience. I don't really dislike myspace and I personally enjoy myspace music. My subject was just conducive for the manipulation. It was also a response to the film that we watched in Media Literacy class about the dangers of the internet with teens. I believe that myspace has been subject to ridicule as well as facebook. Myspace provides the same ability of a hidden identity as facebook and that leaves the doors open to creeps.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
1000 Journals
One thousand Journals seemed to continue past the realm of being entertaining. Although I really enjoyed the concept, I became bored with the film after a while. The still photography taken from the actual pages of journals were beautiful but the interviews with the characters became too much.
The concept of this documentary was extremely cool. Let some guy or rather Someguy design one thousand beautiful journals and then send them out into the world. I liked the parallels made with parenthood and the whole concept of letting go. Very Zen. What I didn’t like was that the documentary seemed to stray from this concept. The purity was completely lost. Someguy built a website and had people sign up for the journals. This is not random but controlled. It also creates a problem with characters. The people did not seem to represent anonymity but crazed journal seekers. They really freaked me out. The people that got the journals did not seem to believe in the true concept of the journals. If that is true however, then neither did the creator.
The documentary seemed contrived. All documentaries will show the filmmaker’s perspective and this requires critical thinking, but this documentary seemed to destroy the concept that it promoted. I could be wrong but I thought that the concept was designed around the idea that the journals would gain random perspectives from around the globe. As I mentioned before, the random selection did not seem so random. The documentary itself also seemed to get in the way of the original concept. The filmmaker was tracking the path of the journals and that is fine but the actual paths that the journals took were distorted. The people who received the journals played a large role in this, but the filmmaker did as well. This is unacceptable to me. I remember that the documentary showed a scene in which a journal was handed back from one person to the other to see what the other had written. That is not right. The concept is destroyed because of that. The anonymity from one person to the next is lost. From that point whole artistic statement behind the project seems false.
The characters depicted in the film also irritated me. I am not sure why those particular people were chosen but I can guess. It seemed a little less random and a little more obvious with the introduction of each new journal writer that it was not so random. They were the people that the project wanted to show. That ruined it for me. It seemed so false. I couldn’t believe it.
I think the documentary was bad but the idea was good. Maybe the idea was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I believe that the journals would have been better off in a less digitalized world. People don’t communicate the same way anymore and I think that was a point that the documentary was trying to make. I think the documentary took a wrong turn when it tried to depict the lives of the journal writers. The journals should have been more important. Like I mentioned before, the still photographs taken from the journals were beautiful.
The concept of this documentary was extremely cool. Let some guy or rather Someguy design one thousand beautiful journals and then send them out into the world. I liked the parallels made with parenthood and the whole concept of letting go. Very Zen. What I didn’t like was that the documentary seemed to stray from this concept. The purity was completely lost. Someguy built a website and had people sign up for the journals. This is not random but controlled. It also creates a problem with characters. The people did not seem to represent anonymity but crazed journal seekers. They really freaked me out. The people that got the journals did not seem to believe in the true concept of the journals. If that is true however, then neither did the creator.
The documentary seemed contrived. All documentaries will show the filmmaker’s perspective and this requires critical thinking, but this documentary seemed to destroy the concept that it promoted. I could be wrong but I thought that the concept was designed around the idea that the journals would gain random perspectives from around the globe. As I mentioned before, the random selection did not seem so random. The documentary itself also seemed to get in the way of the original concept. The filmmaker was tracking the path of the journals and that is fine but the actual paths that the journals took were distorted. The people who received the journals played a large role in this, but the filmmaker did as well. This is unacceptable to me. I remember that the documentary showed a scene in which a journal was handed back from one person to the other to see what the other had written. That is not right. The concept is destroyed because of that. The anonymity from one person to the next is lost. From that point whole artistic statement behind the project seems false.
The characters depicted in the film also irritated me. I am not sure why those particular people were chosen but I can guess. It seemed a little less random and a little more obvious with the introduction of each new journal writer that it was not so random. They were the people that the project wanted to show. That ruined it for me. It seemed so false. I couldn’t believe it.
I think the documentary was bad but the idea was good. Maybe the idea was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I believe that the journals would have been better off in a less digitalized world. People don’t communicate the same way anymore and I think that was a point that the documentary was trying to make. I think the documentary took a wrong turn when it tried to depict the lives of the journal writers. The journals should have been more important. Like I mentioned before, the still photographs taken from the journals were beautiful.
The Closet
Well that was unexpected. I thought that the documentary was very well done. The point was made and exemplified with films time and again. I can't believe the way that hollywood was able to slip by so many restrictions. The restrictions were a little much and I think that they reflected a time when mainstream was more conservative. I can't believe that Ben Hur had homosexual undertones! That's hilarious! I think that the audience described in the documentary would have been really happy with 1000 Journals. I specifically remember that documentary showing a clip of a "boy goddess." The doors of the closet were definitely open with 1000 Journals.
Monday, March 9, 2009
DIFF
What a cool idea. A company that gives away ice cream! I really enjoyed the documentary made about this guy. He has a seven year plan to give away a certain amount of ice cream. What is so unique is his unwillingness to conform to modern society and use money as currency. He instead gives his ice cream away and will not except money whatsoever. He does however have a ton of sponsors that support his business. The documentary was only eleven minutes long but I thought it should have been longer and replaced the too long for its own good 1000 Journals. 1000 Journals was the feature documentary at the abbey theater on thursday. I felt that the idea was cool but the lens was distorted. I don't know if that makes sense but I feel that the director made a concious choice on how to present this documentary to the world and I just didn't like his viewpoint that he chose to use. Thats all.
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