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When we reflect on Veteran’s day, it is a holiday to remind ourselves and be proud of the fellow citizens who took charge and represented The United States. On the surface, Americans see no need to look at this national holiday as a day of regret or remorse. Once exposed into the real world, however, people’s eyes are opened to the fact that there are veterans who either did not choose to fight in the war, or experienced hands on tragedies that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. These two documentaries, Another Brother and Three Tours were both designed to incorporate the fallouts that soldiers have experienced during their time at war. In the first film, Another Brother , The story encompasses the struggle that Clarence Fitch, a Black Vietnam veteran and the impact that the war had on him. Clarence had struggled with a drug problem that followed him all throughout and post-Vietnam. He began to serve as an anti-war activist, which, prior to me viewing this film, neve...
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Project #3- Victoria Castellano

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Blog #4 Museum of Moving Image

The tour that my group and I had participated in focused on the early stages of moving images. We observed Zoetropes and Thaumatropes and how this was the basis of early film. Something specific that was of interest to me was the use of spinning motion and strobe lights to create an optical illusion. Gregory Barsamian’s 3D zoetrope was a large example of how mathematics and precision made up a work of moving art. Initially it was unclear as to what to make out of it, for it was simply spinning was several details too quick to make out with the naked eye. Once the lights changed into a dark flickering strobe however, the physical animation was clear. This modern piece was transformed directly from what started it all; the simple zoetrope model. In Barsamian’s piece, it was had begun with a faucet releasing a liquid that had formed into a bomb. The bomb was then graced through a human hand which squished it into a paper airplane. It was creative and unusual. Our tour guide ha...
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Blog #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuntz3KDIAk Amélie (2001) In the film Amélie, there are several different camera movements and perspectives that take place in order for the viewer to understand the plot. In this particular scene, the viewer becomes transformed as if he or she is walking with the main character. The scene begins with a low angle shot of the character as she walks alone. The camera angle and the character’s facial expression gives the viewer a sense that she feels superior and committed. The camera then, still with a motivated camera movement, begins to turn around the main character’s head, as if she now leads the way. It gives the viewer a sense of we don’t know what’s going to happen next. Similarly, z-angle shots are given to show depth of the city street. When Amélie notices a blind man, the camera zooms into her face, creating an extreme closeup. This implies that she is focused and ready to make a move. As she walks off and grabs his arm, the camer...
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Medp160 Project #2

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Blog Post #2

It’s a crisp autumn day. As I walk along the streets of Whitestone, Queens’ best-kept secret, the atmosphere creates a potpourri of sounds that are otherwise dismissed by its residents. The leaves, one by one, fall off the trees and rustles onto the concrete. They crumble and deteriorate as my shoe presses against them. The sound is loud and brittle for such a delicate flattened structure. This wind whistles as the leaves crackle through it, flowing harmoniously through the vicinity. Birds chirp from high in the trees, scolding the squirrels from invading their nests: life is all around me. Crickets in the nearby bushes make noise to one another as I pass. In the quiet, residential area, I begin to hear laughter and clinking of glasses at the local bier garden. Children play in a nearby school yard; rubber balls slam against the courts, springing back spontaneously to the players. As I approach closer to my house, there is a large overpass I walk over. Cars speed underneath my feet vi...
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Project #1- Train Ride

Project 1: Train Ride from enxhi caushaj on Vimeo .
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