Outline for Franchise Deception

I. Planning
A. Discussions with Fred
B. Discussions with TMG
II. Taping
A. Getting Ready
1. Fred got equipment ready
2. Show up to state house
3. Set up camera
a. Tripod
b. Microphone
c. White Balance
B. Recording
1. Keeping speaker in focus
2. Keeping audio at proper levels
III. Editing
A. Digitizing Media
1. Plug camera into computer
2. Save all footage on hard drive
B. Rough Edit #1
1. Pull out all relevant information
2. Put in order
3. Discuss with Fred
C. Rough Edit #2
1. Fix problems from discussion with Fred
2. Extract audio
3. Put in titles
4. Discuss with Fred
D. Final Edit
1. Fix problems from discussion with Fred
2. Add title and credits
3. smooth rough edges
4. Add title menu
IV. Upload
A. Upload to various web sights
1. Blip TV
2. YouTube

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a three part documentary. Part one is about religion, its purpose is to disprove most religions. So if you are religious, please do not judge this movie by part one alone. Parts two and three are the two more important parts of this documentary, they focus on president bush and his administration, and 911.
Zeitgeist does a good job of using both sounds and images to tell a story. When the movie starts, all you see is a light, that kinda looks like a blinking star, and it speaks to you. This makes you focus on the words, and doesn't allow you to get lost in the images you see. When they are discussing 911, it shows a short paragraph that is trying to paraphrase 911. After giving you a minute to read the paragraph, they make it dark and hard to read, except for one part. They then go and explain why that part is a lie. It is a good way of breaking down what we are told what happened, and what they think happened, without confusing you. All of these techniques are good ways of getting a serious point across while keeping an audience interested.
This is a very powerful movie, it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. I feel it is important for movies like this to watched, for it is a good form of entertainment, but also talks about important issues in our society. I feel is if this movie really wants people to watch the second and third part, and by puting the part about religion before parts two and three they are doing themselves a disservice. Many people will not watch parts two and three because they are upset about what they have seen in part one.

Mirror State

After looking in the mirror for a while i start noticing more and more imperfections that i don't notice if i quickly look. But after i while i stop paying attention to them, and my mind starts to wander, i have to make myself focus on the mirror. After stareing into the mirror longer and logner I start thinking about myself, and who i am, and all the time i spend trying to make myself look better. I spend an averge of an hour a day at the gym, and try to eat as healty as possible, but its not because of health issues, its because of vanity. Then i start thinking that is why mirrors are needed, and i think of the story of Narcissist and how he cound't take his eyes off himself. This started to freak me out a little, and made me not want to look into the mirror any more. But i continued to look, and realized that i am happy with where i am, and i don't need to change a thing, even though there are a few thing that could be changed, if they don't i won't be that upset.

Media Consumption #9

After doin the media consuption log i find myself in a patter, doing the same things every day, sportcenter, 104.1, tv, bed.

Media Consumption Log #8

Typical day that starts with sportcenter, 104.1 to and from school, t.v. and bed

Media Consumption #7

Sick all day, but still watched a lot of televison, and checked my e-mail every hour i was so bored, but i hurt to much to leave my house.

Media Consumption #6

I slep in late, but once again i woke up and watched sportscenter. After that i went to sharon to see a friend, and was listening to Toucher and Rich on 104.1, they did a bit where they told an intern to push a button or they were going to get fired and the intern named Adolfo panicked, and i was laughing the whole way to sharon. I also noticed a billboard for simply smart milk, it caught my attention because that is the type of milk i drink. On the drive home from sharon i spent almost the entire trip on my cell phone, so i didn't pay much attention to any media around me. When i got home i was so tired that i just went straight to bed.

Media Consumption # 5

Lazy saturday morning. No sportscenter, but a good saturday movie, The Usual Suspects. After that my roomate showed me some funny videos on the internet, i don't know what websight though. After that i went to have dinner with my father, and while flipping through the stations i found myself listenting to Oldies 103.3, they were playing the wanderer, wich is one of my mother's and my favorite songs. After dinner with my father i went to a party, and the home to bed.

Media Consumption Log #4

Woke up early today, and sportcenter wasn't on yet, so i went shopping and listend to 104.1 wbcn in my car on the way. At the supermarket i was shocked when i was standing in line, and they had a television at every register showing advertisements. On the way home i listened to 107.3 waaf, wich is now also 97.7 so you can now hear it in Boston. When i got home i took a nap, before waking up to go out to the bars. They even have media on the tops of cabs, media is everywhere. After the bars i came home and went to bed.

Media Consumption #3

Today i woke up and watched sport center again. But then I fell back asleep. I woke up and checked my e-mail. Then i spent the whole day doing laundry and reading a maxim magazine. It was a very boring day, not filled with a lot of media. I finished my laundry, came home, did some homework, checked my e-mail and went to bed.

Media Consumption Log #2

Once again when i wake up, i find myself first puting on sportcenter to see what happend in all the games from the previous day. After that i then listen to 104.1 wbcn on my way to school, too tiard to pay attention. This time i went to the gym before going to class, and today i forgot my headphones, so i was forced to listen to the music the gym was playing. They had on Jammin 94.5, and it was ok for the first 30 min, but after that they started playing the same songs over and over. I swear i heard the same song 3 times in the two hours i was in the gym. After that i went to class early to check my E-Mail and finish my homework for my later class. After i came home from class i was so tired i fell asleep watching the life aquatic.

Media Consumption Log 1

Today i woke up, and the first media i consumed was sportscenter. After that i listened to 104.1 wbcn on my way to school. I was to tired to really pay attention to what they were saying, but it was good background noise. After class i went to the gym, and would occasionally catch myself looking up at the televisions. The Cosbey's was on one of the televisions, with the subtitles on so that you can read what was going on. After that i came home and played some video games, before watching 24, checking my e-mail, and going to bed.

Class Dismissed

Class Dismissed is a documentary that shows all the different class structures in media, and how they are portrayed. This documentary was put together in a way so that an average person will understand the point, and you don’t have to be well versed in the ways of analyzing media to get it. The simplicity started with the opening scene that was in black and white. I think this was done for two reasons. The first is simply because when television was first invented everything was black and white, and the second was just to keep everything simple from the start. Every time the documentary would display words, they would put them in big letters, and leave them on the screen for a while, so that you had a long time to read it, and wouldn’t miss the word. Along with this, any time they would put a number or a statistic on the screen, they would put it in plain letters, and leave it on the screen for a long time, often with someone talking over it. Many times a person would be talking about a specific example in a television show or a movie, and they would cut to the clip right after, giving the viewer a chance to understand what they are talking about. My only complaint with the movie was some of the editing. I noticed one time after showing a pie graph, Robin D. G. Kelley was talking and he started with “and this explains…” witch makes me ask what he was saying before this. This brings to ask myself if I trust the director or not, because if I do, then what he says is valid, but if I don’t, then maybe the editing was done to make it seem like he was talking about the graph, but in fact he might have been talking about something completely different.

Even though this is not the first time i watched this movie it still shocks me how well they have predicted the future. I am excited to see if anything else they predict comes true. Watching the new ending shows how they are not able to predict everything. They underestimated the popularity of the IPod in the first movie. I still think they are underestimating Apple and their products. The ammount of IPods and IPod merchandise that has sold has given Apple a lot of money, and I think they will be able to a lot of great things with it. As excited as i am about the predictions that were made, i am more excited about what they did not predict. It just shows that there is an endless possiblity with technology and media.