PSA Summary

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    In media arts, we learned how to make a public service announcement with help from San Francisco's Film Society. We split into groups and I was paired with Luz and Stephanie. Our subject was something like making the world a better place. On the first day of making the PSA, I was a little confused on how we should make the script and where we were going to find the pictures because we had to take them ourselves for copyright reasons. So, we started making a script, filming, finding the music, and taking the pictures.


     After we finished everything, we started to edit the PSA. The most hard part of the PSA for me would be editing and filming. All of us at least messed up once on our parts and editing took a lot of time, concentration, and work. We had to add and remove stuff, make the music fit in with our voices, fix the pictures we took, etc...  I guess all of the work payed off because it turned out to look pretty good. I'm glad that the San Francisco Film Society helped us when we were stuck. I thought that this was a great experience because we learned some of the camera shots such as close-ups, long-shots, and medium-shots.

PSA Assignment

     For our PSA, the person who will take pictures will be Jessie. Our audience for this PSA will be people of our own age like (12-17). The props that we need will be a Itouch, Converse (shoes), and skinny jeans.  Luz will be editing the PSA after we finished filming and Stephanie will be finding the music and getting some of the props.

M.C Escher Assignment

      Today in media arts, we looked at one of MC Escher's pictures called "Relativity." We all found 3 perspectives in "Relativity" and you are able to locate all 3 of them if you look close enough. When I first saw this piece of art, it was a bit hard to see all the perspectives and confusing. I thought it was overall fun, challenging, and interesting to do because it made me look carefully on what kind of tesselation this is.

    

Homework Assignment 1/27/2011

            In the movie "Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back," the Death star is a nickname for a powerful weapon made by the Empire. In the beginning of the movie, the Death star was actually destroyed because of the victory of the Galactic Empire. Everyone went into hiding and it leads to the rebels making a base on the ice planet Hoth.

           Darth Vador was chasing Princess Leia around the galaxy because Princess Leia had imperial plans that made up the readouts of the Death Star and how it works. The Death Star was known as a terror weapon because it could destroy anything. Darth Vador and his stormtroopers chased her all around to try to get the readouts and plans for it, so they would be able to figure out how it works and use it.

       Luke Skywalker was a jedi and a war hero who participated in defeating the Galactic Empire in the Galactic War. He started to train with jedi master Obi Wan Kanobi and met Han Solo with Princess Leia. Princess Leia is actually Luke Skywalker's twin sister, but he didn't know that until later. Luke also destroyed the Death Star and joined the rebel alliance.

Homework 1/27/2011

           This week in Media arts, I will be taking pictures of the soccer game with Stephanie, Luz, and Aquarius for the yearbook. I will be going to the game and taking them.

Book Selection Homework

              Today in Media Arts, we went to the library to choose a book about George Lucas. Ms.Hart also showed us a video of George Lucas explaining how he got so far into the movie business before. The book that I chose was "Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures." I chose this book because I thought it looked really interesting because of it's cover picture which showed a guy holding like a lightsaber while blowing it and it turned out to be a colorful comic book with a cartoon style Star Wars.

Star Wars V: Plot Summary

             Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back," starts out in a frozen planet called Hoth. Luke Skywalker has finished his circles and when he finished contacting the base saying there's a meteror in the ground, he gets kidnapped by the Wampa (snow monster) and brought back to his cave hanging from the icy ceiling. All of the people, CP30, and R2-D2 are at the base looking and wondering where Luke is because he was supposed to return back there after finishing his circles. When Luke awakens from sleeping while hanging from the icy ceiling, and he uses his force to get his lightsabor, while he does that, the Wampa comes back in and Luke attacks him with his lightsabor escaping, trying to get back to the base. The dark force is part of Darth Vador's army and the rebellion includes Princess Leia and Han Solo. The Rebellion joins the group with Luke Skywalker.

          The characters of Star Wars V "The Empire Strikes Back," are C-3PO played by Anthony Daniels, R2-D2 played by Ben Burtt, Luke Skywalker played by Mark Hamill, Han Solo played by Harrison Ford, Princess Leia played by Carrie Fisher, Darth Vador played by David Prowse, and Chewbacca played by Peter Mayhew. R2-D2 and C-3PO are major character in all of the six movies. They go all around places because they supported Darth Vador, Obi-Wan Kanobi, and Luke Skywalker. Luke Skywalker was told by Obi-Wan Kanobi to travel to the planet Dagobah and complete his training under Jedi Master Yoda. Darth Vador also known as Anakin Skywalker leads the dark force and also known as the father of Luke Skywalker. Han Solo was a smuggler and a mercenary. He and his mate, Chewbacca, became involved in the Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Empire. Princess Leia is the twin sister of Luke Skywalker and the daughter of Darth Vador. Before Leia knew that she was Luke's twin sister, she was madly in love with him, but then she found out and liked Han Solo.

           I thought that Star Wars was a somewhat interesting movie, because I didn't understand much of it, for not watching the first movie, so I don't really know what happened before. The music in the beginning sounded very dramatic and I loved how it started with a introduction explaining what happened in the previous movie that rolled up like credits. Overall, I still liked the movie, it actually showed the goofs, and the graphics weren't that bad. I can't wait to go to the Field trip to the Kabuki Theater.