Monday, April 15, 2013

Documentary Proposal


Areen Hijazi


Video Production


Documentary proposal



Senior Lounge


                 The audience for my documentary will be the senior class. They would want to watch my documentary in order to know the reason behind not allowing ’13 seniors to have a senior lounge. The subject of the documentary is the senior lounge. I will be talking about the reason behind seniors this year not having a senior lounge. The conflict of the story is finding the logical and comprehendible reason behind banning seniors this year from the senior lounge. I will be showing the idea behind not punishing people from somebody else’s mistakes because it is unfair to students and their integrity and it shows lack of respect towards seniors this year by perceiving them as incapable of handling themselves even though they will be going to college in four months maximum. ACS is built around respect, integrity, and intellectual growth, so shouldn’t everybody working or studying in this community abide by those pillars? My hook will be a recap of the past senior lounges found in school for at least the past five years with the words “Respect, Integrity, and Intellectual growth” appearing at the end.
The effects of the footage will keep the watcher hooked. The expositional information would be how the senior lounge has been a tradition in ACS for the past x amount of years and how it is bad to break a tradition with people who did no harm to it. The story will start out with talking about the history of the senior lounge and the reason behind taking it, and then the climax would be revolved around how people assume that seniors this year are incapable of keeping their senior lounge and Why do seniors this year have to be punished for somebody else’s consequences. In the end the seniors will know the main reason behind not having a senior lounge and have their screams be heard. The main reason behind not having the senior lounge even though we deserve one, also we will know whether Dr. Mancuso’s reason behind banning it is convincible. The beginning would be about 2 minutes, the middle will be around 5minutes and the end will be about 3minutes.
 The locations where the filming will take place will be all the previous senior lounges, Dr. Mancuso’s office, and Hallways. At the previous senior lounges we will film the places where seniors had their lounges, later on in Dr. Mancuso’s office we will be filming him talking about the main reason behind the banning of the senior lounge for the class of 2013 and will that continue on in the future, and finally the hallways will be a place for interviewing the students about the senior lounge. The people that I will interview will be Dr. Mancuso and a group of seniors. The questions that would be asked in the interview would be: Isn’t it a tradition to have a senior lounge? What was the reason behind banning the senior lounge for this year, even though the people last year were the ones to ruin it for them? Why do seniors this year have to be punished for somebody else’s consequences? How do you assume that seniors this year are incapable of keeping their senior lounge? What was the main reason behind banning class of ’12 and ’13 of the senior lounge? Has been there warnings about the behavior of seniors last year before banning them from the senior lounge?

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Youtube Scavenger Hunt

The Shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W5Xv3HUDu8 (0:33)
Long Shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9zmbPFkhL8 (0:12)
Close-up or Close Shot:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVAQIN7cn40 (0:20)
Soft Focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOJWtW3GKg (0:01)
Rack Focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS_SBklnzFE (1:08)
Deep Focus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abjZazJENGk (0:33)
Low Angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE5Xr8XffQ0 (0:14)
High Angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckCD9qMcXPo (0:25)
Dutch Angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF70SS-b7Ag (0:20)
Pan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJcjzcO8Zts (2:19)
Tilt:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap2R5cjOhdo (0:12)
Zoom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joRXYFqL9ac (0:31)
Tracking or Dolly Shots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gp2uGacNF8 (0:16)
Low-key Lighting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRHwtLmzus4 (1:52)
High-key Lighting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRHwtLmzus4 (1:06)
Neutral Lighting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtjfhroHGGo  (1:33)
Sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk9CmEEc1GA (2:44)
The Fade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWo_N1UnzFw (0:16)
The Dissolve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW1KJWqafkU (0:10)
The Crosscut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZxL5uAd8k (0:20)
The Flashback and Flash-forward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZxL5uAd8k (12:39)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Freddie Young -Cinematographer


1.  Write a title for your biography and include a photo you find of the cinematographer.
  • 2.  Write an introductory paragraph. This paragraph should capture the reader's interest and tell the reader who the biography is about. You might want to start the paragraph with a question  a quote to make it more interesting.
    3.  Write a paragraph about the person's childhood or early adulthood. Mention one or two important or interesting things that happened that helped your person get into the field of film.  
    4.  Write a paragraph about the person's 3-4 most important accomplishments or pieces of film.  You should explain interesting parts of each film and/or why they are important or interesting.  This paragraph should help the reader understand why this person is important to learn about.
    Please embed the trailers to the movies you are highlighting.  
    5.  Write a conclusion. Your conclusion should summarize the biography you have written and explain why you think it is important to write about this person.  Please post the examples of art from your 3rd paragraph in your blog so your reader can see what you are talking about.
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                        Freddie Young






     The Cinematographer Freddie Young was born on October 9th, 1902 and passed away on December 1st 1998. Freddie Young was one of Britain's best influential cinematographer of all time. 


    Freddie Young was in the film industry from the age of 15, picking up rent and food money with a variety of menial jobs. A lighting cameraman from the 1920s onward, Young hit his stride in the 1930s with such elaborately lensed pictures as Victoria the Great (1937) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). 

    Freddie Young was the director of photography on more than 130 films, including many other notable productions. He was also the first British cinematographer to film a film in CinemaScope. Some of his great movies were Lawrence of Arabia, You Only Live Twice, and Ryan's Daughter. 

    Freddie Young is the greatest British Cinematographer, due to the fact that he is professional since he started working at a young age. 

    Tuesday, February 12, 2013

    2013 nominees


    2013 nominees: 

    best picture: Life of Pi
    best actor: (leading) Denzel Washington (supporting) Robert De Niro
    best actress: Emmanuelle Riva (supporting) Amy Adams
    best animated movie: Brave
    best cinematography: Life of Pi
    best costume design: Les Misérables
    best directing: Silver Linings Playbook
    best documentary feature: The Gatekeepers
    best documentary short: Inocente
    best film editing: Life of Pi
    best foreign language films: Amour
    best make up and hair style: Les Misérables
    best music: (score) Skyfall (song) "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi
    best production design: Life of Pi
    best short film (animated) Head over Heels (action live)Curfew
    best sound mixing: Les Misérables
    best visual effects: Life of Pi
    best writing: (adopted screenplay) Silver Linings Playbook (original screenplay) Amour

    best film categories of all time

    BEST FILM IN CATEGORIES 

    1. Cinematography: Skyfall
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kw1UVovByw
    -I chose this movie because it portrays the art or technique of movie photography, including both the shooting and development of the film greatly, the way they filmed it shows great reflection of all the bond movies

    2.Film Editing: Breaking Dawn 2 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYH2t8fCqo
    -I chose this movie because the editing of the movie is really good and it hooks the watcher

    3. Film Director: 127 hours
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJklZ1XIcvc
    -I chose this movie because the way that the director directs the movie in a very unique way that is not the typical way of directing 

    4. Visual effect: Avatar
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ2qKx9VmBQ
    -I chose this movie because the way they filmed the movie to portray it is very complicated which led to  the final cut being created, whilst aiming for the visual effects prior to officially showcasing it.

    5. Production Designer: The king's speech 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdQOwNVjT8
    -I chose this movie because the production looks extremely polished which shows that the movie is being greatly produced and very unique which differs from other movies and that puts it as one of the tope movies in that category.

    6. Sound editing: les miserable 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuEFm84s4oI
    -The songs in that movie are very entertaining and the sound editing is greatly shown to be one of the best musical so far