Black Holes are Interstellar (Blog # 17)

SCIENCE

. Looking at the movie Interstellar, many would think it to be a normal Apocalypse type of film and it's just a another thing to come and go, although, looking into the film more, many critics wished they had brushed up on their knowledge of physics before the films as the films does bring up real and truthful points as to real events that are happening to the Earth and the Universe. In the film, the world is dying from famine as crops are failing the Earth is slowly dying and fading away, human beings are to leave the planet and live in Interstellar, in space. The idea of Earth bound famine is not far off as blight fungus or "dust" have started to ruin our wheat and Okra crops and it was the leading problem that started the potato famine.
In the film (and possibly real life) the human race would colonize neighboring planets and moons and live there and grow crops.
The video of the creation of black holes and the creation of the visual black hole in the film showed that more in-depth thought had to be put into it and that Interstellar was the first film to depict a more realistic black hole than other films. Kip Thorne used Einstein's theory of general relativity to create the science behind black holes and discovered more about black holes because of it, as stars are warped and funneled into the black hole and even spouted back out. This, was used in the film.

RULES

. I really appreciate the fact that Nolan and Thorne went into the scientific side and actually delved into the actual science behind black holes and made an accurate black hole in their film. That's amazing how they did this and used the theory of general relativity to do it.
I thought it was really cool how everything that this movie did seems to be believable in a way as this "dust" is a real thing that is destroying our crops.

I say, well done.

Horror Movies are Just Plain Awesome (Blog # 16)

THE HORROR

. As we all know, fear comes from the brain and it appears that at a younger age, we are more prone to spot fear and danger then regular everyday things, like a flower. As most fears are, they are things that are a danger to us human beings and for our horror movie monsters from Universal Studios or even our Creepy Pastas, they all derive from something animal-like. Examples being Hannibal Lector and his love for human flesh, Dracula for his own thirst for blood and even The Wolf Man, for his appearance of a rabid wolf.

Although, studies have shown that horror films don't actually activate fear receptors in our brain. They actually activate our Visual Cortex, for our visual input. The Insular Cortex, for our self awareness, The Thalamus and The Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex, the planning section of the brain. 

So, our brain isn't really scared but in a way, planning.

What horror really does, is pull our self interest using tension, relevance(either universal, cultural, subgroup or personal) and unrealism. 

Horror = "The Uncanny"

And horror is said to come from our deepest subconscious of our fears. Like the words, "shadows" or "mother"

All in all, we could all like horror movies because the people that do die on screen, deserve it.

THE HORROR

.This video/article was really interesting as it combined the sciences and theories of different intellects together and made a great analysis of what horror truly is. I like the explanation of what the brain does when actually watching a horror movie, I found that partially interesting to find out about and now, I view horror movies more highly as it is more then just scares as it makes our brains go in a haze.

I Might Just Disappear... (Video #7)

This AMV is some of the best stuff I have seen other than The Gorillaz and you need to watch this. The characters Mystery, ViVi, Arthur and Lewis are so well designed so well animated and just down right AWESOME, it just all fits together and I want more.
Plus the song is really catchy, this has been my jam for the past week.

Documentaries on Their Way (Blog # 15)

So this week, we had a video scav hunt to do,which was pretty fun to finally get behind the camera and actually filming. Getting and even learning about different shots was interesting as well.
Also, I started shooting for my Documentary Project and to be honest, I'm scared and worried and I know I won't do good. I come up with one idea and then I change it, then I change that and so forth. Everything I come up with just, turns out it won't work or I know it's gonna suck.
This is gonna be hard for me.

I wanna learn how to stop this, for being so paranoid about everything and anything I do.

Halloween was great overall, went cosplaying as a PDS sufferer from In the Flesh and I scared the ever-living crap out of a ton of people so, I felt accomplished.

Nothing really bad happened this week though, only the fact that my English teacher is still being horrible to me. I still hate it how she takes to me like I'm stupid, says my writing is not good enough and etc.

Summing it Up:

Do You Hear The People Sing in The Mall? (Video # 6)

THIS IS SO COOL.

As a fan of Les Mis, this was really entertaining to watch and to think how well this was done to do something like this.
Give it a watch and you'll see what I mean.

Nothing Much (Blog # 14)

So, as the blog says, nothing much happened for me this week. It was pretty normal and just, things were alright.

This week in BOCES we did more Premiere tutorials and learned different styles of editing and shot takes after we handed in our own shot lists for our documentary. It was interesting to learn how many different ways someone could take a shot so in displays a more vivid idea of the emotion of mood of that scene. I really liked that.

Although, I can't wait to get into taking the shots and to start making my own documentary and film so, I can't wait to use the cameras.

For happiness, well, I went to go see my friend Karissa in her last 24 hour play (a thing my school does, you make 8 plays in only 24) and she was great in it!

Though, I was really upset this week over my English teacher who just has a bone to pick with me all the time. It doesn't make sense and she says my writing isn't good enough. She makes me stress all the time and come home pissed off because she talks down to us like were lower than her. It's sick

Summing it Up:

A Little How To (Blog# 13)

Here's How

. When hiding a Lav Mic the best option is, if you don't have to hide it, don't do it. By having an exposed mic, you get the best sound quality then having it hidden in clothing and etc. By having it exposed and hidden in clothing, clothing could rub against it and give you bad sound. Another thing that could happen and give you bad sound, is cable noise in which the cable gives out sound when it is moved. Hair could also give bad audio is someone is hairy, even on the chest.
A cool way to possibly hide a lav mic in a tie, is to simply clip it backwards so that the clip could be mistaken as a tie clip or to even tie the mic into a lose knot and put it behind the tie. Tape it down and then make two triangle pieces and sandwich the mic into place and this aids in blocking out some noise from rubbing on clothing. Also, to hide a mic in a tie, hide it in the actual knot of the tie by bringing it down and have it poke out from the bottom and even if it is pointing down, the audio is picked up from the mouth.
If there is no tie, but a collar, do the same technique that was used on the back of the tie and do it under the collar and audio is able to be pick up this way as well. With a buttoned up shirt, you can hide a lav mic between the buttons of shirt with the triangle technique like before.Applying it to the skin is also an option by laying a piece of tape before applying the mic down, First aid tape is recommended and if the person is wearing a t-shirt, just use the same method and run it through the collared area of the t-shirt.

The Opinion

. This video was extremely helpful and eye opening on exactly how a lav mic could be hidden from a shot an this could be really helpful for my own films for the year. I could use these techniques and let's hope and pray for no chest hair.