discouraged face...

This editing thing is aggravating me and is a serious challenge.... I cant imagine how long it would take to edit and entire 3 hour long film that is compiled of thousands of shots and hundreds of hours of film... then again they are professionals trained in the art of film making...

oh well... this is my discouraged face... =^{}

smiles....

...just a tid bit...

WICKED EXCITED ABOUT EDITING TOMARROW!!!

I can't wait to see the final project!!!

I HOPE YOU ALL AGREE ... see you Monday morning.

coming next: plauge and the terrorist organization...

so just two things I was thinking about...

thing #1

... do you ever notice how all movies aren't advertised on every station? I

know about the whole demographic thing, but honestly

I would have never even known about that knew 'bleeding heart'

or what ever movie with Angelina Jolie

(that is supposed to be critically acclaimed)

unless I hadn't picked up and "entertainment weekly" magazine

at my doctors a month ago.

Its not like I watch nickelodeon all the time, so I wouldn't see it;

but don't you think if you watch some of the major adult driven networks

you would see all of the ad's not just some...

just a thought?!?!?

thing #2

...concerts....

GOOD TIMES,

but unless you research you never used to know when they were.

You'd have to catch the news on the radio or get mailings...

HOWEVER....

does anyone else see the commercials for them now???

I thought prescription ads were bad but NOW CONCERTS???

I mean, what is this world coming too, seriously?

Whats next, ad's promoting
terrorist organizations with
plauge and famine tools available?

I REITERATE MY POINT FROM A PREVIOUS BLOG....

nothing in this world is sacred from the

advertising world anymore!!!

The "media-fied" movies

Soo... the other night Jesse and I decided to go see a movie, he wants to see Fantastic 4: Silver Surfer, I want to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean. I get the bright Idea to go see both of the two movies. 5 hours, a couple of sore butts, and a super sized soda later, we walk out at nearly 1 am and completely bombarded with media images.

I was thinking about the previews and the commercials that precede those.

There are ad's for the ARMY,

I mean seriously even cingular sponsors the "please turn off your cell phone" ad's. EVERYTHING IS FOR THE TAKING isn't it now?

There seems to be no sacred place free from advertising now,

there is entire departments in corporations devoted to

this ultimate quest for the new place to reach the people.

I remember when I enjoyed the previews as a sneak peak to my future viewing pleasure, but now I just want to get through them so I can sit and watch the movie I just payed 10 freakin' bucks to see.

BTW... WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $6 MOVIE???

(and don't say its still there before 6,

because I remember when it was $6 after 6 pm)...

GOSH!!!

Well on the bright side, the movies were great... in my opinion however valuable that may be.

The after-thoughts...

Sooo just so you know, with my comment today about me being proud of myself...and every one else I didn't mean to sound like a selfish self interested biz-natch (technical terminology right there) I was just amazed that something I partly thought up worked. Like when my initial idea was picked i said "yes" because who doesn't want to be picked right? But then I though, well what if my idea fails completely and it sucks and we all get horrible grades because of it??? I was just happy that something I started out on, with every ones help, actually went off successfully... you know? I just want to make sure every didn't think I was trying to take the credit because obviously its not mine to take. But any who... I had an awesome time today and I cant wait to see the finished product and I hope everyone has a "cool kid" free weekend!!!

just a lil tid bit

Just because I think there may be some need for clarification

The james bond character is the narrator... not different people

The "cool kid" persay is each individual person who acts stupid...
not just a single person.

Red cups are a must since we cant use bottles

I would love for either mark or mike to play the narrator, but they must have a NICE SUIT, full jacket, tie, shirt, etc...

thats all for now I think....

plan of action for cool kid campaign

Rachel Ross
Due: June 18, 2007
Intro to mass comm.
Response paper 8 (cool kid campaign strategy)

Characters (as I envision):
Mike plays the suited narrator. Mike can also play the larger guy in the fight.
Jaimee, Emily and I play the drunken girls.
Emily plays cigarette girl
Jaimee will be puke girl
I can be stair/stumble girl
Mark – both the cop and the small kid that gets beat up.
Jason – Kid on cell phone.

Places/people/shooting/etc…
I agree with Jaimee that a college party scene may be our best and most available way to go since it seems more readily available to us at this point in time. Mike has already told us he can provide us with an authentic dorm room, and dorms have both bathrooms and stairs, so all our scenes should work. I also wonder if a campus police officer might be willing to lend his services to us for the police scene (maybe not?) We may also be able to adjust a scene taking into the “R.A.” factor, maybe adding a bit about it in the script; however I do love the script now and find it very amusing; seriously I laughed out loud. I think that since we have the availability now, with no constraints on time we should be able to get this done quickly. I think between Jason and Mike, they can provide us the few props we need and the look of the scenes, we can do this rather authentically as well. If we stick to indoors, lighting as far as scenes go for accuracy we should be fine, the only constraint may be the car scene, but we might be able to find a way around it, possibly. I like the idea of a college party too because of the fact it is more casual wear of clothing and less costume to worry about. I am hoping with the narrator role though, mike will have a suit, but after all he did just go on a job interview, so I’ll hope.

Cool Kid Campaign - video paper

Rachel Ross
Due: June 18, 2007
Intro to mass comm.
Response paper 7
Next week, we’re going to be making our own short video project (no more than thirty seconds in length). Our mission is to be in pre-production Monday, shoot Wednesday, and edit / upload (?!) Thursday. As part of our pre-production work, then, we will be having a "pitch session" in which everyone brings their idea of what they want to do for the project. Write out your vision of how the project will feel, look, and sound in 1-2 pages, and be prepared to present your work orally. We will collectively vote on projects Monday, and prepare for a Wednesday shoot using my mini-DV handheld video camera. We'll aim to edit Thursday using Avid, and try to load the completed work onto YouTube....maybe!
For my idea for our video project I would like to pitch my idea of a new ‘against drunk driving’ campaign; I would like to call it the “cool kid” campaign. Basically the commercial would be a series of pointers on how not to be the “cool kid” in reference to the classic question of “who brought the cool kid?” The first scène would have a spokesmen in full suit, James Bond style, with an overly deep voice asking if you have ever been the victim of “cool kid syndrome” while you were out drinking. He would then phase into a scene in a bar with a kid bumping into everyone, especially an enormous, 6’6 plus large man, preferable with a shirt that says “smalls” on it. The guy hits him and his friends go running, pretending like they don’t know him.
The next scene would be a girl who is falling on everyone and taking out more than a few toes with her six in hooker heels on the way out, then falling down the stairs with a voice shouting back up them “I’m OK!” Then the James Bond style character asks “or how about this?” Next you phase into another scene with about 5 people surrounding this one kid (6 or so in total) who is making obnoxious drunk dial phone calls. He will also be swearing every other word and slurring almost all of the conversation. Then back to the James Bond character, goes to a girl’s bathroom where her friends are holding a girls hair with one hand and a drink in the other then taking a swig, and all the while her friend is puking.
Finally there is the final scene where the James Bond character is zoomed in on, and he says “All other party fouls aside, the cool kid move of the century is also illegal.” Then you see this drunken fellow, beer in hand keys in the other, trying to get the door to his car open as a cop walks up to him. The kid smiles at the cop pushes his drink at him, and says “can you hold this for me dude?” The cop then gives him a look and the scene fades out back to just the James Bond Narrator. He says “If you don’t want to ever fall victim to “cool kid” syndrome please drink responsibly, don’t ‘pound beers,’ ‘hit up your bitches’ or create a ‘shit show’ and most importantly don’t drink and drive.” That would end the commercial.
To create this you would need a small area, possible a single bar, or mock bar area; aiming to give this a typical educational style format in style, however with a comedic or satiric nature to it. I think we could go about finding this using donation from anti-drunk driving organizations such as MADD. The production should be low cost since it is bodies we need versus special effects. Overall the project will not only have comedic value but also a positive message that will reach people on a more relatable level rather than seeing something like a typical derogatory anti – something campaign commercial.

The art of the drunk dial...

So I just got home from a Baccalaureate Party, and amazing one might I add!!! But the entire evening I kept seeing people on their cell phones, and I remember at one point have a discussion or something about how everyone has cell phones now, even kids, and they have tracking devices, etc...

But then we left the bar we were at, and outside, still with the cell phones, and at this point you know everyone is hammered!!! so here it comes... the art of the drunk dial!!! See here's what I'm thinking, did people even do that sort of stuff before you had the direct ability, in your fabulous inebriated state to just call someone? Because, I know if I didn't have a cell phone I wouldn't be inclined to jump to the nearest payphone so I could call my ex who's number id have to remember off the top of my head, to "meet - up!" HA

I think that cell phones give us the opportunity to be more accessible, even when you should be locked away in a room somewhere until you come to your senses (this used to be known as P.C.'D). I know they are an advantage in case of emergency, but just based on the conversations I over heard last night, do the right thing, leave the cell phones at home, and let the sober one carry hers!!!

White flags and the dark side...

So last night during some quality snuggle time,

I finally decided I owe Jesse (fiancee) a night of television of his choice.

(mostly because of the night before in which involved me, too much booze, and a policeman talking to him on the phone... but that's a story for another day!)

So I hand the ultimate power known as the remote over to him

and he's flipping through the channels

and finally lands on none other than my

{cough} least {hack}

FAVORITE genre but what?!?!?

{...suspense builds...}

REALITY T.V.!!!!

{GASP}

We all know how I appreciate it so...

(sarcasm is a lovely tool isn't it?)

Anyhow...
the show is called MAN Vs WILD...
and shocker I actually enjoyed the gosh darn thing.
It wasn't saturated with cheeky little blond girls, or angry
Puerto Ricans, or mobbed-up Italians (horrible stereo types I know).
It was a rugged dude, his trusty back-pack and the wide open spaces.
He was informative and told me how, if by possibility
I was to be dropped by some villainous fellow on a
mountain peak in Alaska and have to find
my way down before dark I must do
this that and the other thing.

I also now know how to Glace' or slide belly down a Glacier {said in thick English accent} with a broken-in-half ski pole to slow me down. Picture a penguin slidding butt first down a mountain side holding onto a pole trying to dig it in, and holding on by his his dear lil' flippers for life!!!

THE DUDE CLIMBED THROUGH A GLAZIER FOR G-DARN SAKES!!!

He's a dude, in fact he's the man...

well almost; cause we all know Bobby Bob Barker takes the cake.

But yeah so I ACTUALLY liked it, I give, this is my white flag waving...
{insert pathedic white flag with bad trumpet playing into scene...}
I've come to the dark side Luke!

We'll I guess there is hope then right?

If we can actually watch reality T.V.

and learn something besides

how big Shanaynay's mamma's butt is,

the world may actually make it through this

awkward like pre-pubescent T.V. genre phase.

SO... Jesse just informed me there's an episode on

involving the guy being dropped at the

mouth of a volcano!!!

I may need to know this for my future aspirations

of being the first REAL LIFE female 'Bond-like-super-agent!!!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!

The Big Zero...

Sorry about my obvious disgruntled demeanor in class today.

I was, and still am just aggravated,

'little bit' with myself,

more with my obviously

pain-in-the-a$$

Senior Seminar teacher from

Framingham that I now formerly adore!!!

So you know how you take notes verbatim, at least I do, well I used them in a paper to help make a technical point… this = bad decision!!! Anyway this resulted in a zero for my paper… hence my trauma ( it's only like 2% as I'm told but still blows!) … so make sure to Google (tm)everything you use if its not from a book people…

...because without fail lazy professors prevail

and for not fact checking I am now the lamb left for slaughter…

on a brighter note ...

we don’t have class till Monday so I have 3 days to brood and plan

My ex favorite professor's demise…. That and get loaded.

Kind of worried about paper 5 though and this survey thing… I don’t see too many students so maybe can we make a pact to be able to answer each others questions maybe?

To all the concerned viewers out there...

SO, legit...

I'm watching Law & Order while writing response paper 3, regarding genre... Soon later my Fiancee' walks-in and we proceed to get in an argument over the fact that he is sick of watching the same shows all the time...

This happens regularly...

(not the fighting, just the particular lil' tiff ' about the "damn TV")

So here's my inquiry - can we deprogram our taste in T.V.?

'Cause I don't know about you but I CANNOT STAND 99% of reality T.V. (mostly the game show aspect...except good 'ol Bob Barker...BOB IS THE MAN!) anyway... I wonder why we chose what we do...

I like crime shows, so either I'm destined to commit them, or prevent them right?

OR WRONG???

I was just curious about what everyone else thinks about the particular shows they gravitate to and if they seem to follow that theme in their life...

PS - I know I love law/crime shows,

I wanna be a corporate attorney,

and Mark loves sports

and wants to be a sports writer

...but are we just the

exception to the rule or the stereotype

to keep a stigma alive?