Here is the link to the ending for paranormal activity.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXmk4QAcUc I use to not watch horror movies until my friend showed me this one, and i remember after I watched it how scared I was and how I could not get to sleep. I just kept remembering this very last scene. However as I got over it (after a few weeks) I decided to give another movie a try, and soon I began to understand why people watch horror movies. It is not because we enjoy being scared, but because we enjoy the thrill and rush of adrenaline that comes from watching it. I realized after a few months that I had become addicted to the thrill and rush of my adrenaline after getting scared by horror movies such as this one. It is something that makes you remember certain parts of movies such as this one because they scare you so much that they get stuck in your head and will not go away. So I choose this scene since it is where it all began many years ago and is still stuck in my head.  hope you enjoy watching it.

Blog 5

    I choose this one,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvAAYjmqkE&list=PLlwbO6p7sGMj1gFnFLKjUOcxm-Lahpb8b, which is the clip of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi's ending.
    I choose this one, is because among all the films that I saw, that all the clips of films I can remember, this one is the one that means so much to me now. I think it may be seen as a very normal ending, but after I reviewed it, I can bring lots of things from the normal surface, to the deep potential meanings.
    I think many endings would have some sort of so called meaningful endings, but few of them can be remembered by the audiences years later after watching the film. However, this one is different, because even forty years after the original version was released, people can still remember the film story, and this ending.

Andrew Bergman Blog 5

Andrew Bergman

ENGL 1105

Professor White

11 November, 2013

People Help People

            Art is a fundamental piece of humanity.  It’s a tool we use to send messages, express ourselves, and to show beauty as well as destruction.  It is something that, if taken away, would leave a gaping hole in all of us.  Everything we have, and make is art, and it all sends different messages.  A great artist named Greg Stanforth once said, “If art did not exist, man would be sitting butt naked in an open field.”  This is true, but what truly is the greatest part about art is not the beauty of a painting, but instead the message it leaves with the viewer, whether that was the message the artist intended or not.  Street art, normally known as “graffiti,” is seen in every major city around the world.  It is meant to be seen by many so it can send messages to the common man.  One great example lies in Artotale, Germany, where a bold message of few words is presented.

            Graffiti is designed to be graphic and strange so that its image and message stays in the viewer’s memory for a long time.  The work of an artist named Herakut is no different.  Herakut’s most famous piece lies in Germany, and is famous for the message it sends to people.  The imagery itself is highly complex, and the meaning of the piece is hard to pull out.

            Physically, the art work is a spray painting on the side of a building, similar to most common graffiti.  However, this piece is much larger, in fact, it takes up the entire wall of the building, which is two stories high.  Portrayed is a girl, with a strange combination of clothes.  On her head, she sports a red beret that is in the shape of a sea creature.  The sea creature could be described as a squid or a fish.  Along with this headgear, the girl is wearing yellow and pink striped socks and a grey jumpsuit.  Kneeling, the girl holds an old style ink pen, which she uses to pen in a simple message on the wall.  “Art doesn’t help people.  People help people.”  It is also important to note the girl is not looking at what she is writing.  Instead she is looking out from the wall, as if she were looking at a person standing in the distance.  Her face, which is disproportionate, produces a scowl.  

Brian Doyle Blog 5

            Many visuals either photographs or paintings cause the viewer to stop in awe and reflect on that image for quite a long time. Other visuals are not very impressive and people tend to look and just walk by them. The image I chose to write about is a painting by Albert Bierstadt called Among the Sierra Nevada, California. I first saw this painting my junior year in an Art History class, and I will never forget it. It is a beautiful piece of art that I can look at for hours on end and not get bored of it. There is so much going on in it and it all flows very well together. I love being outdoors in nature especially in the mountains or woods and this is an ideal location for me. The waterfall in the background along with the mountains that seem to be going up to heaven are breathtaking. I would love to have a printed version of this art in my house when I am older and have it be one of the first things I see every day. When I look at this art I am instantly at peace and feel very relaxed. Bierstadt was a very talented man and I am eager to look at some of his other work.

Jake Apostoles Blog #5

The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” is put to use in the genre of visual analysis. A picture can provide deep meaning to some individuals and mean something completely different to someone from a different viewpoint. The painting of an eggshell split in half with the sun in between was created by surrealist painter Vladimir Kush. The painting takes the classic style of egg cooking, called sunny side up, into the world of surrealism. The egg is incredibly large, the height of many humans at its most wide, and is split straight down the middle. The egg sits on a beach with an ocean behind it. The suns placement and appearance infer that the painting is made to capture the time period of sunrise, so the painting is facing east if the rules of the earth still apply in this surrealist world. The sun sits right above the water, making the rays of light stretch and reflect in the style that is described as god’s fingers in Homer’s The Odyssey. The egg itself is so large that it must hold an animal that is the size of a building even at birth. This animal could grow to be even bigger, so it may terrorize the people depicted in the painting like Godzilla. The people shown in the painting are on scaffolding working on the eggshell, possibly inspecting or repairing the egg. A single person can be seen walking away from the water that comes in between the eggshells like the runny yolk that comes when you cook an egg sunny side up. The man is walking away from some sort of old fashioned canoe, which appears to be filled with water. The man is not clothed, so the civilization that he is a member of may not be very advanced, or have a belief that clothing is necessary.

Vickie York Blog 5

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl5fM24mfRk

Directors use many different ways to manipulate their audience. Camera angles, lighting, and music can trick an audience into thinking one thing is going to happen when, in reality, something unexpected happens. These concepts keeps people waiting on the edge of their seats in anticipation.

In the ending scene of Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme, Clarice Starling is wondering around Buffalo Bill’s house. The killer, Bill, has cut off all the power. The house is pitch black and Clarice can’t see her hand right in front of her face. The scene switches from Bill to a third person’s point of view looking at him head on. Bill is looking through night vision goggles and can see Clarice’s every move. She has one hand stretched out in front of her and the other hand is holding a gun. As Bill is coming close and closer to Clarice, he reaches out his arm. He is clearly close enough to grab her or cover her mouth but he doesn’t. If he had the perfect opportunity to catch her while she was the most vulnerable, why didn’t he? Why wouldn’t he grab her while he was ahead?

Caitlin Rudy Blog 5

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I chose this visual because first off I love Disney World and all things Disney. Disney World is such a happy place and I knew that a visual involving Disney would be something I could write about and easily interpret its meaning. This painting has both Mickey Mouse and Cinderella's Castle which are the center points of Disney making the meaning to be easily understood by all.

Carol Royston blog 5

            Hikari Shimoda is a famous Japanese artist who published a collection of paintings called After the Quake in 2002. The purpose of the series After the Quake was for viewers of the paintings to understand the way Japan’s people were affected by the of the 1995 Kobe earthquake. “Secret” is one of the paintings in this series. It’s a picture of an innocent baby that has mushrooms coming out of its skull and looks injured and scared. 

            The baby of this picture seems like it was very badly harmed in the earthquake. I think the baby had a brain injury because she has mushrooms on the top of her head, almost where her brain would be located. I think the mushrooms symbolize the fact that she is brain dead. Mushrooms decompose dead material, so I Hikari was using mushrooms to symbolize that her brain is not working anymore and the baby is brain dead.

            I find the eyes of this baby very creepy. Her eyes aren’t all the way open and seem tired. This also supports the idea that the baby is scared and defeated. Around her eyes has brown bags that form when someone is tired or sick. I think this baby has been through the ringer after the quake and almost doesn’t have and hope left.

Maria Elisa Vollmer - Blog 5

     I chose a short film named “Black Button” by Dark Heart Productions. In the film, a Mr. Roberts finds himself in an all-white room with only a well-dressed man sitting on a desk and a black button.  He now has to face a difficult decision: press the button, which will result in someone’s death, and get 10 million dollars or don’t press the button and leave the room without the money.

    The reason why I picked this short film is because its religious connotation caught my attention. The film leaves a very powerful message about temptation and how determining it is; as it was for Adam and Eve. I found this particular film very interesting to analyze because of the message it is trying to send across. 

http://vimeo.com/41758971

Renae Slough-Blog 5

When I viewed the image in detail, my perception of it changed. I noticed that the instruments were shaped just like the head of an elephant. The bulk of the instrument represented the elephants face. In addition, the horn of the instrument represented the elephants’ trunk. There was even a part of the instrument that looked like one of the elephants’ tusks. This visual is trying to accomplish the idea that different objects can look like other things when angled and set up a certain way. This image is successful in accomplishing its goal because I was able to see that the instrument looked like the head of an elephant. It is also clever because the sound the instrument makes sounds a great deal like the sound an elephant makes. The elephant makes it sound by its trunk and the instrument makes it sound through the horn, which is representing the elephants’ tusk. I did not like this image at first because I did not understand it. However, once I took a closer look at it I really enjoyed it. I appreciated the creativity that went behind the image and how well the instrument represented the elephant. I even liked how the plants and the deer’s horns were also musical instruments. Along with the clouds appearing as notes, I did not notice these aspects of the image until much longer after observing the elephant. 

Emily Niehoff - Blog 5

The way videos and film are created presently, a drive to create an emotional attachment seem to be imperative. The camera angle, sound, music (or lack thereof), lighting and so forth create the kind of mood and tone that the producers and directors desire in order to get a particular feeling across to their audience. In this clip from the film Prisoners, directed by Dennis Villeneuve, the sound of rain in addition to the eerie lighting are some of the ways a scary and psychologically intimidating feeling is created. The way the director decided to position the camera so that much of the faces are blackout out or barely unrecognizable leads to even more intense and frightening emotions. Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance is amazing because his facial expressions, which are hidden mostly due to the rain and darkness, portray immense frustration and disappointment. This further intensifies the feeling of nervousness and tension from all sides of the situation. Finally the look from Paul Dano who plays Alex is the strangest and most disturbing point in the clip and the audience is immediately taken in by his innocent yet awkward looking stare he give the cops. Overall, this clip displays uses of intense sound, lighting, camera angles, and actor performances that lead to a scene that is simultaneously eerie as well as captivating. This clip is successful because of its attention to detail and its inviting yet disturbing nature.         

Kenneth Johnston Blog 5

Kenneth Johnston

Mrs. White

English 1105

Visual Analysis

Hoist the Colours       

            The visual I choose was the opening scene of the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End.” The song that is played during the scene is titled “Hoist the Colours.” The scene opens up with a zoomed in view of a hangman’s noose. This simple shot of the rope sets the mood for the scene. Soon after, many pairs of feet are seen joined together with iron chain links and large shackles around their ankles. The demoralized people drudge along in a single file line to the gallows where they are to be hung. Each prisoner is wearing dirty, old, torn clothing. The contrast between the prisoner’s clothes and the pristine, well-kept uniforms of the British army is very noticeable in the scene. The scene continues to process through different images while the messenger reads the decree by the King of Britain. The people being hung are stripped of their rights due to their involvement with piracy. The next set of prisoners processes up the stairs of the gallows to be hung. The seven prisoners walked to their places in the gallows and were awaited to be hanged. In the center of the row there stands a young boy. He looks up at the noose that is significantly above his head.  He starts to break out in song. His fellow pirates standing upon the gallows start to sing with him and soon all the prisoners started to sing the song “Hoist the Colours.” The executioner then pulls up a barrel and lifts the boy onto of it so his head will reach the noose. The pirates still are singing the song. The scene finally ends when they sing that last lines “Never shall we die.” and then they are hung. 

Pirates of the Caribbean: “Hoist the Colours”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yEHLJg9np0