The Roading Twenties

Entertainment had made many develops:
In Film industry -
● movie actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolf Valentino and Mary Pickford became starts during that time
● in 1927,The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, was the first talkie.
● a well-known early two-colour film was The Toll of the Sea (1922) and two-colour films were common by the end of the 1920s; after 1932, films were produced in three-colour technicolour.
● Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney in 1928 (who released Snow White in colour in 1937).
● by 1930, 100 million Americans went to the movies every week.
● companies like United Artists and MGM produced hundreds of films a year.
● films taught people new fashions (e.g. smoking) and new ways to behave - many girls wanted to be like It' girl, Clara Bow.

New companies were created such as MGM, Warner Bros, Columbia pictures, Paramount, RKO etc. United States was the first leader producing films. Silent films were predominant. Early films ofter were often accompanied by musical instruments. Movie theatres were built like the Chinese.

My sister's keeper

Hey guys this week I would like to talk about a sad film directed by Nick Cassavetes and released in 2009. Anna, the eleven years old sister of Kate and Jesse wants to emancipate from her mother, with the help of a lawyer. This little girl wants to emancipate from her mother because she refuses to donate her kidney to her sister Kate. Since Anna was little she has been helping her sister donating many organs and with many medical exams. Her sister Kate has Leukemia, so her mother Sara went to the court to obligate her daughter Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. But Sara doesn't want to accept that her daughter Kate wants to die, because she believes that she wont survive the surgery. Anna won the case and after that, Kate died. Most of the movie we can se flashbacks where it shows us how was Kate's life, her life was not easy, she had to pass from many surgeries, chemotherapies, and vomiting. I think that this movie show us how we should fight for things, things are not easy but not complicated at all. We can see how Kate fight for her life during most of her childhood, I think that with all the support of her family and by being together with her, that helped her to fell secure and comfortable during her disease. But I think that sometime we have to accept things how they are, because things happens for a reason, and God knows about it. In my personal opinion the most important of this situation is to make feel this people secure, comfortable, happy, and be together during all this difficult problem, showing them our support and our love. We should remember the good things of this people, and we shall no cry for them, because they are in better place where God is taking care of them.

visual effects

Visual effects are various processes by imagery is changed and manipulated outside from reality.
There are 4 types of visual effects: -live action effects, digital animation, stills and matte paintings, and models.
Nowadays most of the movies are created with visual effects, the most recognized movies are: King Kong, Narnia, The lord of the rings, Titanic, Avatar, 2012, Matrix, Pirates of the caribbean, spiderman, Star wars etc. Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) was the first movie to have visual effects. From 1910 to 1920, the main innovation in special effects were the improvements on the matte shot by Norman Dawn. With the original matte shot, pieces of cardboard were placed to block the exposure of the film, which would be exposed later. Dawn combined this technique with the "glass shot". During the 1920s and 1930s, special effects techniques were improved and refined by the motion picture industry. Many techniques like Schüfftan process were modifications of illusions from the theater and still photography.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS:
This film has from the first movie 540, the second one 799, and the last one 1488, a total of 2730.
260 visual effects artist worked in this movie. This movie won 3 oscars as the best movie with visual effects, in the 3 movies.

2012

Hi guys, today I am going to talk about a film that has caused some controversy, this film was created by Roland Emmerich and released in 2009. This movie talks about the global warming, and effects but it also talks how the world is going to end. In this movie you can see how California, the scenario of the movie, and other cities are getting destroy by tsunamis, high scale earthquakes, tornadoes, heavy rains, volcanic eruptions etc. You can see in this movie all the effects that happens because of global warming, this movie show us that the world is going to end like this if we continue destroying our planet. The effects that this can cause are: rising sea levels, threatened cultures, increasing yields, decreased snowpack, severe storms, species extinction, changes in precipitation, flooding, reduction in sea ice, changing of forests, changing range of diseases, population in risk, heat waves, reduced waves, reduced tourism, droughts, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. You also see how cities starts flooding and how people start dying. We should consider that the future depend on us, and this is the world that we want for our future generation? Do we really care about our planet, our mother nature? You can see how everyday weather changes a lot, every time you see how the sunlight is becoming stronger that you can hear with frequency how people are getting sick with many diseases like cancer, and breathing problems. We should start thinking in our nature, in our planet, to have a better life and a better home. If we still playing with this, less that you expected the world would come to its end.

Magic Lanterns.

Magic lanterns of the style were made as early as the 18th century and references to such devices can be found even earlier. The little 'nursery' magic lantern is powered by a tiny kerosene lamp and was made in Germany by E.P. (Ernst Plank Co.) probably in the 1920's or 30's. It can project a small image about 2 feet by 2 feet.
The magic lantern or Lanterna Magica was an early prototype of the modern slide projector.The basic setup is simple: There is a concave mirror behind a light source that gathers light and projects it through a slide with an image painted onto it. The light rays cross an aperture (which is an opening at the front of the apparatus), and hits a lens. The lens throws an enlarged picture of the original image from the slide onto a screen.

Just married.

Hi guys, today I am going to talk about a funny movie that I had just found among my things. This film was created by Shawn Levy and was released on 2003.These two young guys who love each other despite being very different. He, a modest traffic reporter for an evening program, plus the guy passionate sports, Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher). She, Sarah (Brittany Murphey) is a writer with elegant manners and wealthy family in Beverly Hills, against the wishes of the family and her boyfriend, these two decide to marry. Their honeymoon was spent in Italy , but quickly tured into a big disaster which ended in a big fight, but after that, both realizes that they really love and care about each other. For me this movie is very romantic because after a lot of disagreements and after many fights both realizes the lovs is what they feel, and there are always another chance, and that is how it works, couples most of the time have fights between them but little by little you are going to deal with it.

Film theory

Films blossomed in the 1920's , Most of the US films production at the start ocurred near Hollywood on the West coast
although some films were still being made in New Jersey and in Astoria on Long Island (Paramount). By the mid-20s, movies were big business (with a capital investment totaling over $2 billion) with some theatres offering double features. By the end of the decade, there were 20 Hollywood studios, and the demand for films was greater than ever. Most people are unaware that the greatest output of feature films in the US occurred in the 1920s and 1930s (averaging about 800 film releases in a year) - nowadays, it is remarkable when production exceeds 500 films in a year.

Throughout most of the decade, silent films were the predominant product of the film industry. But the films were becoming bigger costlier, and more polished. They were being manufactured, assembly-line style, in Hollywood's 'entertainment factories,in which production was broken down and organized into its various components (writing, costuming, makeup, directing, etc.).

Even the earliest films were organized into genres or types, with instantly-recognizable storylines, settings, costumes, and characters. The first feature documentary or non-fictional narrative film.

Taken from: http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_film

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS

Hello friends, I am going to talk about one of my favorite films. This film was created by Tom Vaughan and was released on 2008.
This comedy starts when two strangers, Joy Mc Nally (Cameron Diaz) and Jack Fuller (Ashton Kutcher), woke up in the same bed and realized that they had just gotten married in Las Vegas. Jack Fuller won a prize in a casino and both were making plans in order to get rid of each other and keep the money that every time it got more complicated to do so; at the end they only found out that they were in love; and after being divorced they wanted to remarry. We can see how this film was created based on real life events, because nowadays we can notice that strange stories are happening. You can see that many people are drinking, playing, dancing, buying and doing crazy things very easily. I really like this movie because it has a lot of sense of humor , and it has good scenes where you see how each one starts caring of one another. This movie has many types of scenes from the sad ones to romantic ones. At the end I was shocked because I didn't expect that they could fall in love and get married again, so it makes you experience a lot of emotions and a lot of humor. This film made me realize that before doing crazy things you have to think, and what consequences that might lead to; also to control yourself and not judge other people before getting to know them as Joy did it with Jack.

homework

hello to everyone this is the first homework!