Cinematograhy Blog

I attended a cinematography class with Arriana and she taught us about different camera shots, including: zoom in shot, close shot, medium shot, large shot and B-roll and many more. For the interviews I think I'm leaning towards a medium shot so that it can keep it can keep a serious kind of flow to it. Im also probably going to have a B-roll of the neighborhood so that people can get a glimpse of what kind of community the Lower East Side is .

Here are proffesional explanations of some of the many shots we will be using in our film:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-roll

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/closeup.html

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To Be Heard Review

 I recently watched the film "To Be Heard" by Edwin Martinez, Roland Legiardi-Laura, Deborah Shaffer, Amy Sultan, Adrian Martinez and Maisha Winn. Its about three teenagers living in the ghettos of New York City dealing with poverty and family issues; along with how they deal with their issues through poetry. Without poetry they wouldn't have been able to survive through it all. I really enjoyed the film because even though I don't have it as bad, whenever i get stressed out I write rhymes to to air it all out.

Jawsh Bio

 Joshua grew up in Brooklyn, he is an only child in his house, but has 2 half brothers and 1 half sister from his fathers side. Even though Joshua grew up in Brooklyn, he currently attends New design high school in Lower East Side Manhattan and is in his senior year. Even though his name is Joshua, everybody calls him Josh, but with the New York accent it sounds more like Jawsh. I enjoy swimming, dancing, boxing, socializing and partying with my friends.

How Do I Feel ?

Mama been teaching me how to be a man
but somethings you learn can never be taught
father been there but never was
people say I'm lucky to have a father
but how is it any different having a father who aint there ?
three person household
but raised by a single mother
there is never peace
when you live with fire and ice
you either get burned
or frozen
so pick your torture
I wander in the night
trying to look for a flight
love it when i have the free
but i never truly seem to be happy
so how do you expect me
so how do you expect me to feel
when your eyes are glossy
from too much liquor
and way too many tears
How do I feel ?

The Ninth Floor

In an apartment above Fifth Avenue, some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. In The Ninth Floor, Jessica Dimmock enters this world, exploring, in human terms, what has been lost and what may be recovered. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/the-ninth-floor

I watched an amazing film named "The Ninth Floor" about a house of drug addicts and how they cope with their addiction.  I found this film very informational because it showed first hand how drug addicts cope with their lives.  We learn about drug addition form the drug users point of view.  This is the kind of films you show kids so that they learn to never take drugs and help make them better decisions in their lives.  I also really enjoyed how they didn't use real interview footage and they used B-roll instead to really show how they lived. I feel that the music worked really good with the footage, it set the depressing mood that they were trying to convey.