Cinetogrophy

Working with Ariana, I learned that in order to make a good movie, you need to know how to use the different views and angles of a camera. If you want to get personal with the protagonists, you should use the close up view because it helps the people watching it relate to them. If you want the background to have a meaning when a person is talking to the camera, you tell the person to move a little to the side, and it helps create an image of importance to the viewer. For my video, I hope to use the correct angles to get my point across to those who watch it.

iMovie

I learned a couple things from doing this iMovie workshop with Quann. I know how to add text, music, photos, voice changers, and even changes in appearance. It was very interesting, and I hope I can use these skills in our class video.

Poem

I look in the mirror I see a split personality
A girl who's strong with a weak mentality
A girl who's gullible who doesn't look at the reality
A girl who sees but doesn't judge abnormality
Then there's a girl who's sees people using brutality
A girl who wants to reduce the act of insanity
Be an FBI agent can get you killed is the generality
of the people's opinion which i could care less for
as I help open these closed doors
to help within society.

Teen Violence

Ronnie Brown 23 Ways To Stop Teen Violence

This video shows the famous Miami Dolphins running back Ronnie Brown visit a school talking about 23 ways to stop teen violence. Teen violence is a big issue now a days because, teens feel they have to solve everything using violence. He talks to the students about a variety of ways that they can prevent teen abuse. For example, teens feel like they have nowhere to turn when they're being bullied, so he tells people to talk to somebody, and to not take matters into their own hands. I feel it's good to present to teens their options because some aren't aware of it, so they do what they think will stop the violence, which usually all it does, is create more violence.

Bio

Lisselotte Ventura is a 17 year old teenage female who's a senior in New Design High School. She has her mind set on working as an FBI agent, more like an FBI pro-filer, or detective. She knows it's a dangerous job, but she is willing to move forward and overcome the challenges that may occur. She's hardworking, outgoing, friendly, and can acquire skills quickly, which will help her to succeed later on in life.

"To Be Heard"

To Be Heard is a film by Roland Legiardi, and he portrays the struggles of 3 close friends who are also classmates, and how they use their struggles to better their poetry; it's more than just poetry to them. They use it as an escape from the real world, and they put everything that's on their mind into clever writing. I believe that this film is very inspiring to youth everywhere, because they prove to us that if we set our minds to it, we can accomplish things higher than our expectations. They showed us that if we focus really well on our studies, we can be who society wouldn't think we'd become. Society has a statistic about how teens who come from a bad home, or a bad neighborhood won't succeed in the long run, and that gives us a chance to actually better ourselves into being someone we know we can be.

The Ninth Floor by Jessica Dimmock

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

Home Page Found Here - Mediastorm


This video is about drug abuse and how it really affected the lives of the couple that lived on that ninth floor.  On that floor, drugs were dealt and done like crazy.  Nobody had self control, and the couple, Dionn and Rachel, were big fans of it.  They were addicts and the drugs affected their relationship in a very negative way.  They would get into physical fights and then out of nowhere they would make up.  They would have sex and do drugs at the same time, which in life is not healthy.  Rachel ended up in and out of the hospital, and also pregnant.  The baby could have some serious damage because of the drug abuse so they kept her for observation.  The lesson of this story is that drugs can have a very negative impact in your life.  In the long run, it can ruin your health, and ruin who you are emotionally. The music to this film is very slow and full of emotion even though it has no words. It allows people to connect to their emotion through music. The pictures in this film, are the bad habits that they're doing for example doing drugs while having sex. It shows us that their addiction is something to take seriously. The interviews was mostly Rachel and her boyfriend talking about their experiences and how bad the drugs affected them.