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Monday, November 16, 2009


We just finished watching the movie, Carnival of Souls. The movie was a very early horror movie that was made on a small budget with a considerably small crew to work with. The writer set the story around the setting of an old, abandoned pavilion. The plot is based upon the main character, who is a lady who died in the beginning of the movie and is dead throughout the whole movie but does not know it. On many occasions throughout the movie the lady sees a dead man, and when she moves due to her work as a organist. This is where she spots the old pavilion, and is drawn to it. When she goes there she sees the dead man again. There wasn't very much action or violence, because the movie was supposed to be a normal horror movie. There is very little dialogue throughout the movie to make it more creepy and dramatic. The film was actually filmed in Lawerence, Kansas and somewhere in Ohio.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Rocky Paper Scissors


This short film was one of the most cliche short films i have ever seen. The plot was a parody of the movie series 'Rocky'. It begins with a 'has been' RPS(Rock Paper Scissors) player, and is offered to be trained to be the best RPS player in the world. There were parodies of the training the real rocky went through, and the camera angles were actually pretty decent. The plot ends with the main character facing the best RPS player in the world, and beats him and he himself becomes the best. Through out the short film they use many filming techniques to show different things. They occasionally used close up to show emotion, and long shot to show scenery, and tracking shots to show the main character and his trainer exercising. Even though this was a short film the filming techniques were pretty good, and they did a good job of which ones to use and when.