Update on my Podcast!

So, I'm going to do a movie that's in production. It's likely going to be in the view of the director on set. I was pondering of doing it in the view of a lowly crew member and seeing the actors and directors fight or something. I have lots of sounds. After "Action" and before "Cut" I'm going to have lots of fun because I can make it sound like a movie. For the genre, I want action packed so I was thinking Sci-Fi Western or something.

My Blog Idea...

I hope to do a podcast about filmmaking and the process of it. As much as I am still inexperienced, I would like to share my experiences and knowledge I have learned. I have read countless magazines and stories from the internet. I have listened to film and writing podcasts as well. Maybe I may go a bit more technical instead, because that's what I really know. Maybe lean away from film and talk about computers and troubleshooting. Or I may talk about how it is working at the ICT Help Desk, because it's unlike any other class.


I'm still narrowing it down, but I'm pretty sure I know what I want to do.

Using Sound to tell a story...

After reading most of the article "Sound Matters" by Heidi McKee, I realized how much sound does exist in our everyday world. Just closing my eyes, I hear conversations and buzzing and computers being turned on. Now, being a filmmaker, and particularly interested in sound design, I know it's important. Very important.


So, what can you do with a story told by sound compared to a traditional text story? Now let's assume sound includes voice as well as sound effects and music. For one, during a story, your mind doesn't have to create the sounds because they're there for you already. For some, especially avid readers, this could be distracting. Also, readers must now listen instead of comprehend the text, so maybe their mind does have to work harder. With sound, you can have voice actors performing the story and a narrator if you must (but it's less likely needed).


Hmm...what else could you do? Well, you can transition with sound without words and you can begin and end with sounds that become synonymous with the production.


How does sound limit stories? I think it takes away from people's imagination. When you read, you have to visualize and make up the sounds. When you listen, you only have to visualize, which is still good. Now with TV and Movies, it takes away a lot but it's a different experience.

Abled or Disabled...

Wow, "Making Voices" by Ingunn Moser and John Law is a heavy read. To be completely honest, I read the first few paragraphs and the last few only. I skimmed the paragraphs that covered people's experience with the RollTalk device. I tried my best to understand what it is they were talking about. How subjectivity plays into that device and, even bigger, what it means to be a person? Wow.

Anyways, I feel technology has abled me by providing a mode of transportation to places I could only dream of. Or to meet with people I would never have meant otherwise. Or to read libraries of knowledge without actually going to a library. Technology is my job too. Currently I maintain technology (or at least personal computers). My film career is now dependent on modern technology (but what isn't?).

Now, technology, I feel, limits my physical activities (and I realize it doesn't have to). The disabled people in the article wanted to be physically abled again by technology(if they were not), it seems, for me, technology has physically disabled me. Saying this, I am aware of this and try my best to keep active.

Another way it has disabled me is my eyesight. I am sensitive to high brightness screens and must wear my digital eyewear glasses to counteract it.

Men are from Video Games...

Women are from Social Networks. This is a title of a reading from my Eng. 326 class. In the article, it is explained that women have been using social media sites much more than men do. For people under 30, its almost equal in the amount of males and amount of females that have joined sites like FaceBook and MySpace, but the young women tend to use it much more. One explanation of this is that young men tend to be playing video games such as WoW or 1st person shooters. I agree. Now looking at people over 30, it seems women outnumber men many times over. Married men are not joining these sites. I remember when my dad finally joined Facebook. It wasn't so he could reconnect at first. My grandfather had asked him to so that he could play my dad's farm in the game Farmville. So my dad was kind enough to oblige. Now my dad uses it and my grandpa has had to go on to use his other son's facebook page and even his wife's to play multiple farms in Farmville. Sad, I know, but that's a different story (hey, he's retired, and plus the game's not that bad).


Moving on. I find that my girlfriend is often on Facebook and I'm often playing video games or watching movies/tv on my computer. So we're living examples of this. I play a lot more video games than she does, though she tends to do Bejeweled a lot of Facebook.


Yea, that article was definitely right.