IN-CLASS VIDEO FOOTAGE

T-273 Blog Assignment

The first still photograph was custom white balanced and had a shutter speed of 1/13 and an f-stop of 4.5 and ISO 400 .

The second still photograph was custom white balanced and shot with 1/18 shutter speed, f-stop 4.5, and

 ISO 800.

    The third still photograph was shot with 1/3 shutter speed, f-stop 4.5, and ISO 400.

The fourth still photograph was shot with 1/8 shutter speed, f-stop 4.5, and ISO 800.

One Emotion Ten Photograph Shoot

I decided that my emotion of choice for this particular blog photographic shoot should be disgust considering the facts that my subjects started out cooperative, but after they put up with me trying to get the proper images the disgust came very naturally.

Brainstorming Media Project # 6

A fictional linear narrative following the main character, whose job is working as an agent for the NSA. He is trying to infiltrate a terrorist sleeper cell who unknowingly tipped off their activity while recruiting new initiates. He will go undercover into their initiate program. He will gain their trust. During this period he discovers they have a plan to release a chemical weapon at a major college campus during a whole student body convocation. Please, anybody who might be reading this I am putting a disclaimer in this text because of the sensitive nature of what I am writing, do not take this the wrong way. This is a hypothetical scenario as part of a school project for a media program class. While the student is working on this brainstorming project, he is mistakenly arrested for even writing about the sleeper cell scenario because he posted it online. The school dismisses him from attendance, expelled, and he is being held without bail or trial at a secret location. It is all a case of mistaken intention, of course his freedom of speech is being quelled and he is being punished without due process. Is this even something possible in today's fearful environment? It has happened already and it will happen again. We tend not to think of what may happen as long as it isn't something that could happen to us.

Brainstorming Media Project # 5

A non-linear, non-fiction documentary concerning the use of strong chemicals and heavy metals used in the manufacture of the clothes we wear and the preparation of foods we buy in the grocery. The growing of foods using pesticides would be investigated through interviews with experts discussing  their effects on farmers.

Why the foreign countries that supply these products to us are not held to the same standards as we are domestically. Also, why this has given rise to a grassroots movement for unprepared raw and organic homegrown foods.A Wall Street Journal article on China and the price they are paying for polluting through the manufacturing process. Also, a blog entry by an expert discussing the negative affects of dyes.

Brainstorming Media Project #4

A fictional linear narrative detailing the events in the day of a homeless man who lives under a bridge and visits people at the local homeless shelter. He likes his life the way it is and every person who comes around trying to "help" him, he resents and makes himself annoying and rough, and turns them away by doing confusing, rude things to them. One day things take a turn because he comes across a young runaway boy who he takes under his wings. He decides to teach this lost boy how to survive in the "good life" which he lives and has loved. When the boy becomes sick he is faced with the dilemma of getting him to a doctor and meeting his parents.

Media Project #3

A non-fictional, linear mini-documentary on the life and times of the man who was the founding force of today's healing televangelists. William Brahnam, a humble preacher from Jeffersonville, Indiana, inspired an entire movement amongst all denominations during the 1940-60s. He went from his small church setting to packed auditoriums all around the world overnight. The narrative would tell of his unusual birth across the Ohio River in Kentucky, giving eye witness accounts concerning a sign from heaven, a bright light that hung over his bed after he was born. This same light appearing when he was baptizing believers in the Ohio River as a young minister that was seen by hundreds of people at the time. Interviews with surviving relatives in which they relate their memories of what really happened. Researched archives of what happened in those evangelistic crusades across the globe would be brought to light and the story of the encounter with an angel sent from God to gift the preacher with healing and the word of knowledge to be a sign, so people would believe God. Backdrop of places where he preached. Interviews with present day evangelists telling of Branham's influence on their ministry today. Possibly finding individuals or their children remebering how the miracles impacted their lives. The target audience are those christians who know a little about evangelism today and are interested in why some things are done the way they are in pentecostal or charismatic groups. Also, anyone who likes the bizarre and supernatural from a secular standpoint.