Nora Martinez’s HUM210 Blog

I definitely have learned many important things about the Film Industry in this class. I will also take with me another perspective of filming and the making of movies.  I was close minded before when it was about movie genres that were not my favorite, so I feel that my point of view in that […]

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I replied to:
Diane,
http://dcantalupo.uniblogs.org/2006/05/03/module-9-report-on-resources-for-reading-viewing/
 
Robb
http://rwoler.uniblogs.org/2006/05/05/module-9-resource-on-viewing/
 
Keri
http://kvosika.uniblogs.org/2006/04/30/report-on-resource-from-reading-and-viewing/
 
 
 
I enjoyed watching the movie The Pirates of the Caribbean again. I think that the film is a great story and was done in a way to be interesting to many different age groups and film goers. I also thought the reading about the theme parks was an interesting perspective on the theme […]

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George Lucas was born the 14th day of May 1944 in Modesto California. During his teenage years Lucas was fascinated by drag car racing and had aspirations about becoming a professional racecar driver, however, life had other plans for George Lucas. After his high school graduation he suffered a terrible […]

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I have got to say that when I first learned about the movie Pirated of the Caribbean I immediately remembered the ride and thought it would be a cheesy plot less film. I was very surprised by all of the posters and the marketing which seemed to be targeted at adults. I thought this was […]

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I found an interesting point of view on this site. I think it goes along with what the reading was about, that being the large scale commercialization of entertainment. The author has a some what negative view of the Disney theme parks. It seem that the author seems The parks Desire to be a fantasy […]

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This review of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean it’s very Interesting. In it the author mentions that this movie had very little hope to be a blockbuster, since it was a movie based on a Disneyland ride attraction. However, the idea of having Johnny Deep, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush brought to the movie […]

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 I replied to:
Robb,
http://rwoler.uniblogs.org/2006/04/28/module-8-resource-about-reading/
 
Diane,
http://dcantalupo.uniblogs.org/2006/04/27/module-8-reflection-on-reading-viewing/
 
Kari
http://kvosika.uniblogs.org/2006/04/29/report-on-reading/
 
I find that I enjoy special effects in films. However I also don’t believe that they don’t make the movie great. These effects and techniques will probably always be a part of film and story telling and while audiences tastes will shift the desire to bigger and better in no going to disappear. […]

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Module eight is an introduction to digital editing, I found it interesting to read about how digital editing is just a modern version of the old special effects. I found the quote by Sobchack on page 209 very interesting, and to consider that the special effects could actually be the show piece and that the […]

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This site belongs to a company offering digital editing services. I was trying to find an article about digital editing and I actually found this site. It offers information on their digital editing services which includes digital editing in High Definition. They also explain that once film in on the digital element the editing process […]

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