Everyone had very positive comments and I really enjoyed this module. Everyone did a great job on their rough drafts and their uniblogs. I replied to Heidi and Nora’s drafts. I also replied to Kari Sarah and Jeanne’s uniblogs.
I furled the website for the Star Wars movies it pretty much has everything from merchandise to information about the movies it is an informative site you will be able to spend a lot of time looking at everything. The website is http://www.starwars.com/welcome/
For this chapter the website that I furled has a lot of history on special effects. It talks about so of the earliest movies that special effects were used in. It is a very cool site and everyone should check it out you won’t be disappointed, I promise.
http://www.filmsite.org/visualeffects1
OK, so this chapter is my new favorite chapter so far. I think that special/visual effects really make a movie. It is funny to me, to see a movie made years ago with what at the time were ground breaking special effects and to compare it to the effects that we have today. So, I guess that means that they can only get better, though I don’t see how.
Star Wars: Episode II-Attach of the Clones (2002) is a great movie. I have seen every Star Wars movie except for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and the Attach of the Clones is one of my favorites. I can really see how the chapter relates to the movie. For example when the clones/storm troopers were marching together and there were thousands of them, obviously there wasn’t that many but it sure did look like it. I definitely think that the newer Star Wars movies are better than the old because of the special effects, although I think that the old ones are still great movies.
The two Genres I picked were Horror, and Science Fiction. The site that I furled for both Genres was an awesome website. It has so many movies and talks about all of them for example, it talk about the first Science fiction movie ever made,Le Voyage Dans La Lune ( A Trip to the Moon)(1902). The Horror site has everything from Le Manoir Du Diable (The Devil’s Castle)(1896) to The Hills Have Eyes (2006). It is pretty cool, I spent a long time on this site it was so interesting.
http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html
http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html
I found this chapter to be pretty informative for example how movies look at other movies and how well that they do, then make a similar movie. When the movie Ants came out I heard that the creature of ants worked for the creatures of A Bug’s Life, quit and made his movie Ants before A Bug’s Life even hit theatres. I don’t know if it is true or not.
The movie that I chose was Freddy vs. Jason (2003). I remember watching the Nightmare on Elm Street movies when I was younger, and being terrified. When I watched this movie I wasn’t scared at all, obviously because I’m not a child anymore. Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th were pretty big movies in their time, so I thought that it was pretty cool that they brought these two characters together to battle it out. The whole movie had the typical low budget film feel, especially because of the “no name” horrible actors who were in it. I didn’t really like the ending because there wasn’t a clear winner between the two, I guess it might have been Jason since he was carrying Freddy’s head, which was still alive and talking. I think that maybe this one should have been left alone.
I furled the official site for this movie it kind of fun there is a quiz that you can take and if you really want you can purchase some Freddy vs. Jason merchandise.
I furled the same site for the two film elements, post production and voice over. It is the same site that I have used many times before. I think that it is the best site for explaining what different types of film elements are. The sites are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_production and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over
I furled a site about Independent Films. The site gives the definition and much more for example some history on independent film making. Another cool part on the site is the list of Independent films, there has been a lot of great movies that were independent films. The site is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_films
The part that I liked best about this chapter was learning more about independent film making I find it very interesting how much work goes into them, and most of the time on a small budget.
The first movie that I watched was Jungle Fever (Spike Lee, 1991). I didn’t find this movie very entertaining; in fact I spent almost the time waiting for it to get better. I did like the cast; there were some great actors in this movie. However I didn’t feel that this movie did any of them justice, I feel that it was a stupid plot and the way that it was written was terrible. I was sickened be the way the young daughter would sit up in the morning and listen to her parents having sex, and after her father moved out she told him that she missed the funny sounds that they made. I didn’t think that it had really anything to do with the rest of the movie, and I was totally repulsed by it.
The next movie I watched was Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989) I didn’t like this movie that much either. I did however like it better than Jungle Fever. I feel that this movie was mostly about sex, and I found it creepy that he got off on watching women talk about sex. These movies had some similarities, for example the cheating husbands. At least Soderberg left out the raunchy sex scenes.
I thought that this chapter was the most interesting so far, and it seems like everyone else feels the same way. I like being able to choose the movie, because obviously it is fun to blog about a movie you enjoyed. Every ones replies were very positive and their blogs were interesting to read. The three classmates that I replied to were Sarah, Nora and Robb.
