Gradz....

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Just a quick reminder to all those graduates out there that our big day is 93 days away....as if you weren't thinking about it already..


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1) http://blog.parents-choice.org/2012/05/graduation-gifts/

Roll Up The Rim To Lose?

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Speaking about Tim Hortons, the Roll up the Rim is back! Everyone's favourite time of year!!!! I actually had many chances to roll up this year since I'm not a coffee drinker (not yet, college isn't until fall...plus it doesn't seem like a need caffeine to keep me awake) but from what I've heard so far, most people are not have much luck with their cups! Any else have any win/lose stories or ratios?

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1) http://blogs.ubc.ca/sydneyarcher/2011/02/21/tim-hortons-roll-up-the-rim-is-back/

Home

Here's a song that's been stuck in my head for the last couple of days. Not sure if it's from all the radio play or from the Tim Hortons commercial, but it's always in my head! Take a listen if you haven't already. The music video is well put together too. Enjoy!

Reflection on Observing Media

    

     This week we had the treat of watching "I Love Lucy and examining the techniques for media at that time period. It was my first time seeing this show and I actually found it quite amusing. I would actually like to watch more of it sometime. We where given questions to answer after we watched the show and the answers to the questions we were given are similar to some shows today. Modern day tv shows use the same lighting techniques and camera angles and know when to put on a laugh track and crazy storylines to keep the audience hooked. It’s crazy to think how similar but yet how different the techniques of “I Love Lucy” and something modern such as “Two and A Half Men” are. It made me think of all modern day television shows that are popular on the market and how similar they really are. It’s almost like there’s a standardized checklist when making a series for decades that directors just check off when making an episode for any comedy type show. 

   We also had other questions to answer for a news article of our choice. I chose a news story about an American helicopter crash in Afghanistan since I’m already doing research on it for World Issues class. Answering simple questions from the sheet given out let me open my mind up more to the story and find out more about it quicker. I think it was an effective way to dissect the story and could be used on any type of media if you wanted to understand it better.

Vacation- Day 1

Day 1

So I decided to start blogging about my trip to Cuba day by day. Since we had to leave the airport at 2:30am, I decided that I'd just stay up until then and sleep at the airport/plane rather than get like 2 hours of sleep then have to get up again. It wasnt until after everyone was up and in the lobby of the hotel waiting for the shuttle bus to the airport that we found out that our flight was delayed 2 and a half hours. Would've not had to leave so early and I could've slept. But I got plenty of sleep at the airport and on the plane. I bought one of those pillow things that a designed for travelling that go around your neck and ohhhhh my goodness does it ever work wonders. We landed in Cuba and after a hour and a half bus ride we were at our resort. First thing after arriving was a stop at the bar for a refreshing piña colada and a hamburger at the grill. There wasn't much else to do since it wasn't long until the sun went down and we we're all so exhausted, so after a quick exploration of the resort, we we're all of to bed. Didn't even make the night show. To be continued..... (with much more interesting things)...

The Medium is the Message

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    The medium is the message, the phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan, is still relevant today. The way a message is told directly impacts how important the recipient deems it to be. For instance, if Mrs. Smith tells me that Stephen King is coming to SRHS, I’d believe it but I might have some doubts, but if our principal told me the same thing, it would be more believable. True story. Most people believe in authority. We also seem to heavily believe in what we trust. For instance, we have learned to not believe everything we see on the Internet because anyone can publish anything they please regardless of how true it is and a lot of trolling happens. If you try to look up why your ankle hurts, you’re going to end up being told that you have 3^rd degree burns, throat cancer, and pregnant (regardless of gender) by a bunch of random people who think they know what they’re talking about on the internet. Or just trolling. For all we know, it could be some high school dropout who’s username on the forum you’re looking at is “Dr.Jones”. Yet if we hear something on TV, such as the news, we automatically take it as fact. If the news broadcaster told us that there was a new study that discovered that there’s a huge meteor coming straight towards Sussex with impact in approximately 5 minutes would cause much more of an uproar if it was on the internet. The medium is the message.

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Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, and WR Hurst

 

I found the stories of Orson Welles and WR Hurst quite interesting. Both had giant reputations in the world and had so much to their name but ended up a disappointment at one point in their live. It is said that you either like Welles or you hate him. I found that I liked him. His voice is so powerful that I felt like I had to listen. I liked how he did what he wanted despite the public opinion and one of his main philosophies was “do you really care what the people think?”. This made him unique as most people, especially those in the spotlight, really tried to stay in line and conservative with their actions. He was a really creative man with crazy talent and wasn’t afraid to show it. He didn’t wait for someone else to make things happen, he invented new ways himself. This is shown in “Citizen Kane” with his never-seen-before camera angles and movie techniques. He was the first to use flashbacks and use music the way he did in “Citizen Kane” and is a big risk to try on his first movie on a big time movie contract.

            I didn’t feel the same way about WR Hurst. I found him to be a rather bitter man with too much money for his own good. I know this is mostly because of the way he is portrayed in “Citizen Kane”, but I can only imagine it is similar to how he really was.  Even the way he looked in the autobiography that we watched before hand while they talked of how he tried to buy the movie and destroy before the release furthered my disfavor of him.

            I enjoyed the movie “Citizen Kane”. It was interesting to see the different filming styles from when it was filmed and how it has evolved over the years to the standard it is today. I also enjoyed how it was solely based on WR Hurst, but also Orson Welles and Charles Foster Kane. I liked how the director put parts of his life into the storyline and shows parts of his personality in the character he played in the movie. It made it seem more real.