Hunter and I have ideas, intentions and goals. Such goals. Picture this, skis. Snow? Well first off we go to propose this stuff… Our dream is to create a film about SNOW!!! We would start out with some opening establishing shots. The skate park covered in snow. Some kids ready to ride. Shred that gnarr gnarr rail. It going to be sick as fudge. We are hoping to use following cams and aerial shots. Maybe some shots from a cart? It would highlight some skills learned over the course of a month or so.

This week I saw Particle Fever, a film documenting the search for the illusive Higgs Boston particle. The film starts with a very brief summary of physics and particles, what they are, how they were discovered and how our understanding of them has changed. By the time we were caught up with the history of particles they let us know there was one they knew should be there but couldn’t find. The Higgs, or god particle. A particle that holds everything together. To find it they built a 17 mile circular tube made with super magnets and they sent pre-discovered particles around it almost at the speed of light. Then they would make them collide. At those collisions they would then inspect what flew off and hoped to find the missing particle there.

A major theme of this film was disappointment and overcoming failure. An example of this was after they finally got this multi-million dollar machine running right, it broke. Multiple underground magnets were destroyed plus expensive microelectronics. This was a devastating blow to the operation breaking the hearts of the physicists. But this didn’t stop them. They repaired the broken equipment and tried again with more success this time.

All in all it was a well-made film. The editing was exquisite and the production on point. The quality of the film was very professional as well which made it nicer to watch. The character development was lacking but it was more about the physics than the physicists, so it worked well to follow the direction the film was going. Not many literary elements were used because the film was about particles not people. All it all it reached a good level of production.

I think the strengths of this film were the cinematography and the topic of the film. The weaknesses were a lack of character development and the physicist’s shyness around the camera. But in the end I think it was a strong film and I highly suggest watching it. It brings you along on the search for the mysterious Higg’s particle.

In our production arts class we played with selective focus. This is when you put emphesis on the subject of the photo through focus. It was a fun project!

I was adjusting a photo to look better by messing with the curves. The blue was overwhelming and the light was too exposed so I changed that. Here’s my before and after.

As a class project we were sent out into the great unknown of the turf field and told to get some photos of action. To do this, we cranked out shutter speed up, our apiture down, and our ISO to roughly 300. This gave us crisp photos of action without any blur.  

The second project we did after the camera obscura was playing with exposure time on a camera. The exposure is how long the photo is taken so all movement is saved on one photo. This let us take photos of us shining a simple laser light on something and keeping all that movement in the one photo like you can see on Shafer’s face and nice bod. 

The first camera invented was the camera obscura. Invented by Alhazan, all thats required to make one is a dark box (in this case a blacked out room) and a small hole in the box. The image of outside is then cast upside down as seen in the photo. The picture is that of a camera obscura projection our fifth period production arts class made.

 Photography….. Am I Right??

The birds glided in the soft breeze

The grass waved back and forth

The water brushed on the hill side

And the sun shone on