Frustrated

Ughhh such a terrible semester awful group. JUST FRUSTRATED STILL EDITING


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Video

Video is almost done need to finish 3d photos. Got the ending done. And need to make sure all the audio is leveled. Ughhh also ending credits. Got some work to do but I like doing it so it's not that bad


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Thinking

Worried about the ending and photoshop work needed to finish the film. This is one of the only times I don't have my hand in the work. Still need 3 psd files for 3d photos and we still need an endin quote wrapped up. I think I'm going to ask Emily to do them cuz she has done a great job on her 2 that she had to do. Just thinking and stressing


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

After effects

Got alot of good after effects work done today. Re did the title sequence and some
3d photos done. Still have not gotten photos from megan I have been asking for 3 weeks. That's all I'm really waiting in


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

More after effects tomorrow

Need to bust out some more after effects for the video tomorrow. Looking forward to putting my headphones on and concentrate on this video and the animation aspects of it. We have come a long way from our beginning concept.Happy with the progress now we just need to wrap it up.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Tuesday after class report

Well it was a pretty interesting day. As a group it just seems we don't work well together as a whole but we are trucking through this one. Megan had a very strong idea for an ending concept that involved church burnings after Obama was elected. I think this will work very well. We have to work it in a subtle manor that is impactful at the end. I got to work on my after effects for the project today. Still not thrilled about opening title sequence but moving in right direction. Overall decent day just hope we have everything for Thursday to nail this ending.


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Need a good work day tomorrow

Well we don't work good as a group for some reason and I don't know why. Either way we need to bust our a$$ and wrap this movie up. We need to come up with a more negative ending to help bring the movie full circle. So tomorrow I hope we can accomplish the ending and I can work on after effects for the movie.

Editing

Editing this project has been a long a difficult task after 3 hours of editing it is finally starting to come along. Our second critique went ok mr lyons said it was more of an achievement video. Have to rethink ending


- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Watch Y2GAY Video

It is a fantastic example of a short film dealing with the same concepts as our class. It deals with sexism rather then racism, but there are quite a few wonderful quotes/points made in the short film that are true for the diversity issues our class is facing.  


There is both a narrative and interview styled portions, which allows for a clearly understood story arch. Take note of the opening scene, transitions, story arch, placement of scenes in relationship to others & how this effects the story, and closing titles. I hope you notice the humor and lighthearted nature of the film as well. Remember that everything within the film must flow and fit together perfectly from beginning to end, while making a significant point.  Notice how this is done here. 


It is a perfect example of what would fulfill the class video assignment, if the subject was dealing with race.  I really enjoyed it and its only 5 minutes long...  So, please let me know your thoughts on it alone and how it relates to our class.  Thank you.


Link- Y2GAY - Tropfest 2011

Rescheduled T.J. Leyden Event

TJ Leyden – Turning Away From Hate -RESCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2ND AT 7:00PM IN THE SU BALLROOM A.

POSTED BY KELLY GREEN

Sherrod vs. Breitbart continues

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406070.html

or

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/13/sherrod_sues_andrew_breitbart

Racial bias at OSU and Miami? One study says there is

Racial bias at OSU and Miami? One study says there is

T.J. Leyden Video

Tony Harris CNN and TJ Leyden author of Skinhead  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RseYtlu3I

POSTED BY KELLY M. GREEN

Riots of 2009 in Akron, Ohio

Riots of 2009

 On March 14, 2009 Akron experienced its most recent rioting. On that Saturday, a female minor was spotted by an APD officer while screaming profanities along Newton Street. The officer gave multiple warnings to her to discontinue, but the teen refused. The officer then exited his cruiser and attempted to arrest her for disorderly conduct. The sixteen-year-old girl began striking the police officer, bloodying his nose. While the struggle was still occurring, a crowd watching the event rushed towards the scene, forcing the officer to draw his Taser and order them to stay back, but he was ignored. The riot was quelled after several back-up officers arrived and the paramedics treated the officer and two citizens. Seven suspects, both adults and minors were charged with crimes ranging from aggravated riot, failure to disperse, disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. In July 2009, a group attack occurred in the Firestone neighborhood of Akron. The attack was committed by a group of African-American teens, who attacked a white family due to their race.  The teens were said to be heard saying "this is a black world now" as they beat the white family, which included a paraplegic man. His wheelchair was pushed over, and he was thrown to the ground. The Akron Police apprehended suspects shortly after the incident, but did not give the victims a chance to identify them. 

"Akron Police Department" - Conversations thus far-

•Spoke to Lt. Brown on The Gang Unit on Feb. 2, 2011 at 2:50 pm, regarding the issue of race and violence. (330)812-7734) 

•He referred me to Sgt. Lietke who was on duty at a particular incident in 2009 related to race and violence in Akron, Ohio. (330)375-2490)

Riots of 2009 : "On duty was Sgt. Leitke "  waiting on response from Sgt. Lietke. 

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Akron,_Ohio)

POSTED BY KELLY GREEN

The Akron Color Line Project Performance

This performance was a definite must see!  The Akron Color Line Project Performance took place on Feb. 10th, 2011 at 7:30 pm in the E.J. Performing Arts Hall.  It was a cross between a musical and Broadway show.  The show was approximately 1 and a half hours long with 10 scenes all together.  Scene 1 -"The Walk around", was a collage of impressions, facts, and feelings about the City of Akron.  Scene 2 -"That" Akron Riot, was a report on the famous riot of 1900. Louis Peck was new in Akron. The Afro-American was originally from Patterson, New Jersey. He and his wife had been working in a restaurant since coming to Akron. Mr. Peck picked up six-year-old Christina Maas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Maas, who was playing outside near her home on Perkins Hill, drove her into the countryside and left her crying and injured by the roadside with night coming on. He drove back into town and abandoned the rented horse and buggy. He was quickly traced through a Main Street liveryman. Every policeman on duty was notified of the crime and began looking for Peck. Officer Duffy, while patrolling Union Station shortly after midnight, arrested Peck who was caught jumping from a freight train car. He was taken to the city prison. Mr. Washer, the prison keeper, spent the rest of the night securing a full confession from Louis Peck. At 9:00 that morning he was arraigned before mayor’s court. He pleaded guilty to the charge of rape and his bond was set at $5,000. Because of his inability to furnish bail, he was bound over to prison. Exaggerated stories of Peck’s confession of the criminal act, the evening papers (one was printed in red ink) and cries of the newsboys selling them stirred up intense feelings of resentment. As early as noon, threats of a lynching were being made to the authorities. The executive government heard rumors of trouble brewing all afternoon. Paying attention to these threats, they ordered Sheriff Frank G. Kelly to take the prisoner to Cleveland for safe keeping. Another colored man, William Howard (who was awaiting commitment to county jail), was also moved for safety. The Akron authorities then congratulated themselves on such a wise plan. The crowds began to gather at Main and Howard Streets shortly after 6:00. There was much banter of taking matters into their own hands. As it began to grow dark, the crowd closed in on the City Building. They began calling for Peck and taunted the police officers within. The Chief of Police summoned every available man for duty. The group tried to push into the building but the officers barred them. The first attack on the building was a shower of brick and stones. Then a ladder was used as a battering-ram on the north doors. The doors were rapidly giving way. A police officer opened one of the front windows and emptied his revolver over heads of the mob and into the spectators that were observing from across the street. His bullets struck and killed four-year-old Rhoda Davidson and ten-year-old Glen Wade. Hundreds of shots were fired and charges of dynamite exploded repeatedly. Two large buildings, Columbia Hall and the City Building, were burned to the ground. They started the car, ran it about the streets until bored, and then ran it into the canal.Eventually a committee of six, headed by a very vocal member of City Council, was appointed from the mob to inspect the jail for Peck. When the doors opened, the mob poured in. They searched every corner and found no Negro within. Even Mr. Washer’s private apartments were raided. The mob, greatly disappointed, headed for the county jail. It was searched to no avail. They promptly moved to the Old Court House, battered in the doors, and searched every room except the office of the treasurer. The heavy iron doors held fast. The crowd hurried back to the City Building. When the mayor appeared in an open window at the health center and motioned for silence, the people became attentive. When the mayor explained that Peck had been taken to Cleveland, the crowd refused to believe and the attack was renewed with passion. By 4:00 o’clock that morning, the scene was nearly deserted. By 7:00 the first of the militia arrived. Eventually forty-one men and boys faced charges related to the riot; thirty were convicted.  Scene 3-" Howard Street:  The Jewel of Akron", was based around the idea of Howard Street being the place to party, pimps and prostitutes and an area where a lot of the blacks hung out. Scene 4 - "Free at Last! Free at Last! - Not Quite, was based on a scene in Yeager's Department Store with a black couple trying to buy a dress and the white folk laughed them off because they didn't have enough money to pay for it.  Scene 5 - " Stories from the South", involving a scene on a bus where the black folk had to sit in a separate area than the white folk.  Another scene involved the White water vs. Black water and the segregation along those lines.  They both were very powerful scenes and really took you back to the way it was.  Scene 8 - " Remembering the Riots of 1968", In July 1968, several riots occurred over the span of several days centered in the city's mostly Black populated Wooster Ave./EdgewoodAPD well into the morning. The police department responded with higher and higher numbers of patrol units in the area to contain and arrest the gang members within the area, with an arbitrary curfew being enacted. By late the next morning of July 17, new police officers arrived to ensure the police actions from the night before were continued and peace restored. However at this point many residents of the area had begun to gather on Wooster Ave. near Edgewood Ave., having heard rumors of excessive violence on the part of the APD. Tensions between citizens and the APD had by this point had become high due to long-standing vendettas between the two sides based on an array of issues from discrimination, to police brutality. This is widely believed to have been the flash-point of the riots, as the black citizens began berating and challenging the APD officers. With the first arrests of some of the citizens, the level of confrontation and hostilities rose until a full scale riot was in progress. The majority of the local citizens in the area retreated to their homes in order to protect their property, while others left the area all together to avoid being swept up in the coming turmoil.  Overall, the performance taught me a lot about the civil rights movement here in Akron, Ohio and racial segregation and integration processes that the Akron People faced back then.  I am very happy that I had went to the performance. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Akron,_Ohio

POSTED BY KELLY GREEN

Hari Jones

I went to hear Hari Jones' lecture.

Wow, what an amazing speaker and knowledgable man.

Here is a clip I found on YouTube, check him out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQONerUnryw

Arrogance, Envy, Inequity

Preacher Moss last night - Very interesting. Excellent presentation (you would expect this from a stand-up comic) but the depth of message and the honesty, was not expected. There were the surface level take it or leave it standard jokes; there were the stories told in a lighthearted manner; there were the politically incorrect jokes; there were the reflections back to past events from his life; but the most interesting aspect of his show was his true understanding and presentation of the impact of race on his life as well as, all of our lives - regardless of color. He has thoughtfully crafted his words to have meaning and heart, you hear his honest reflection of racism and oppression. Wonderfully presented was his positive outlook on the future and his commitment to making all of us more understanding of one another and better individuals. You leave with a sense of peace and hopefulness for the future.

He has a bit on the elements of Racism and described their importance in understanding Racism. Arrogance, Envy, Inequity. He nailed these three things that in fact lead to Racism. I tend to disagree with him that all Racism is due to these three things. I think Racism can be caused by other reasons like Greed, Pride, etc, etc...but he had many valid points.

Just something to think about and please check out his links on youtube and elsewhere.

Here's a google search:

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=preacher+moss&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

and some other links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5DvgZiJHdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDKZ5CvwA-w

Racial Integration Presentation

Racial Integration is creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture.  Integration is largely a social matter.  Here is a clip from the movie "Remember the Titans", that represents the football team racially integrating and breaking down the barriers.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_HFCYz4x6o
posted by Kelly Green

video from class presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHCqz-J51IU

2010 campaign f2f

this was a very intresting topic on the way they showed illegal aliens and portrayed them in the 2010 campaign. They almost did not portray them as human beings. It was cool being able to here other peoples stories.

Here's another video I wanted to share with you all, as an example of a short film with no speaking or narrative.

It's interesting that a bit into the video, you start to follow along in your head with the film, and the words start to take on endless meanings as they run through your head. I find watching this video only once is really hard to do :)

hope you like it as much as i do!

Cultural Identity

My presentation was about cultural identity, which is the culture(s) anyone decides to identify with. People can have many cultural identities, and they can be chosen, given to them, and adopted or changed at any point in life.

Here's the video I showed during my presentation:

Multiculturalism

For my research paper I researched Multiculturalism. Which Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnic cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g. schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities or nations.
I used two videos for my presentation that represent this well...
                                         Multiculturalism in Education: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhGsy3QUSow
                                        Multiculturalism in Immigration and Politics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdCNmr3XEvg

Civil Rights

Hi all, I wanted to share some of my presentation on this blog, sometimes I get choked up when speaking in front of a big group, so here is a re-cap. . .

The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law, occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. Civil rights means that people have the right to be treated the same regardless of their race, gender, or religion,

practical issues of discrimination remained.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRsX30Jv5nE&feature=related

W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Dubois was one of the most influential black leaders of the first half of the 20th Century. He shared in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, in 1909.

Malcolm X impacted the Civil Rights Movement by helping to implement laws, he also made America look at how existing laws were routinely ignored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8P3Qn9ZRs&feature=related

Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to give her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1st as required by the city ordinance. The bus boycott was launched. The bus segregation ordinance was declared unconstitutional. Segregation on interstate buses and trains was banned by Federal Interstate Commerce Commission.

Dr. King’s 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail inspired a growing national civil rights movement. In Birmingham, the goal was to completely end the system of segregation in every aspect of public life (stores, no separate bathrooms and drinking fountains, etc.) and in job discrimination. Also in 1963, King led a massive march on Washington DC where he delivered his now famous, I Have A Dream speech. King’s tactics of active nonviolence (sit-ins, protest marches) had put civil-rights squarely on the national agenda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUP_ISA030c

Social intolerance

I have been researching social intolerance for the last week and a half. This is a very hard isssue to deal with in society because of people having deep deep feelings and believes about other religions and races. I think there will always be intolerance in the united states but we have to wok together to understand other religions and cultures

ZERO BUDGET FILM MAKING

This specific channel has a budget of NADA when making their short films. Here is an example of one of them.

Scarlet's Witch

This particular short film lets your mind wander and then blows it away. Another low/ no budget film.
Lovefield

our fantastic teams are set!

In no particular order, below are the teams for Spring 2011.

Team 1:

Team Name: The Three Amigos

Team Co-leaders: Joey Augustyn, Rachel Orovets

Team Members: Joey Augustyn, Rachel Orovets

Team 2:

Team Name: The Jerks

Team Leader: Jamie Azar

Team Members: Jamie Azar, Emily Bobb, Megan Campbell

Team 3:

Team Name: The Generics

Team Leader: Megan Clark

Team Members: Megan Clark, Kelly Green, Justin Mack

Team4:

Team Name: Exquisite Corpse

Team Co-leaders: Kimberly Carson, Emily Kuhn, Eric Schwendler

Team Members: Kimberly Carson, Emily Kuhn, Eric Schwendler

3 film genres

1.       Documentary films

2.       Narrative shorts

3.       Art experimental

Documentary – documenting reality (non-fiction)

-          Most familiar

-          Increasingly more difficult to define

o   More portable video & sound equipment

o   Prices decreasing = easier access to equipment

-          Creates more intimate relationships between the filmmaker and sbuject

-          Features (movie theatres)

o   Typically large budgets

o   Typically commercialized with director’s interpretation of fact

§   

o   i.e. March of the Penguins http://www.nationalgeographic.com/marchofthepenguins/

o   i.e. Cove http://www.thecovemovie.com/

-          Short length  (tv or web usage)

o   i.e. Current TV’s Vanguard Commentary http://current.com/

o   i.e. Travel Channel’s  Anthony Bourdain No Reservation http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Anthony_Bourdain

-          In Class EXAMPLE

o   Current TV’s Vanguard Commentary “Immigrants Still Searching for a Better Life”

o   Preview clip of 1 hr long episode in series (one of many subject matters)

Narrative Short – telling or recounting a story (fiction)

-          Shorter then feature, but can be just as powerful

-          Feature is to a novel as a narrative short is to a short story

-          Every second counts!

-          There are many ways to tell a story

-          In Class EXAMPLE

o   Pixar’s Alma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58iXypYPNrw

Experimental Cinama –

-          Called “Avant-Garde” in the 1920s or “Underground” in the 1960’s

-          Opposed to/opposite mainstream commercial & documentary filmmaking

-          Difficult to define characteristics

o   The absence of linear narrative

o   Use of various abstracting techniques

§  Out of focus

§  Painted or scratched film

§  Rapid editing

o   Soundtrack that does not narrate or tell events

o   Not soundtrack at all

o   Etc…

-          Usually low budget or self funded (grants)

-          Small crew or even just 1 person

-          Includes styles like non-narrative, impressionists, or poetic

-          Influences commercial work

o   Cinematography, visual effects & editing

o   i.e. advertisements or music videos

-          Many experimental filmmakers cross over to do features

-          In Class EXAMPLES

o   The Darkness of Days

§  International Documentary Film Award

§  About Suicide

§  Collage of black and white  footage complimented by the male voice-over reading a depressed man;s diary

§  http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=69fcbfa7-64af-4766-a84a-c02031d67afa&tab=dfs

o   Sally Potter - RAGE

§  Cross over film maker doing features

§  Make note of Potter’s point of view on filmmaking

§  Notice her work is considered experimental, but does not offer any of the above examples of experimental cinema themes

§  http://www.sallypotter.com/trailers

Real Life, Real Experiences - Welcome to Rethinking Race 2011

Students should gain an understanding of the process of producing and directing a documentary, art / experimental video or narrative short. Storytelling is key, and will be the emphasis of this semester. Students will learn production of video projects and the functions of production personnel in above-the-line and below-the-line positions.

experience is overrated. passion is expected.