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“The Sexy Orange”

The scene is avable on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmn6FRgYwBQ&NR=1
Background
The Shining was a horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The story is about a family spending the winter in an entirely isolated hotel in the snow mountain. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), the father likes the hotel because nobody comes in the hotel and it is very quite t write his book. After few days, Jack Torrance goes mad and starts to try to kill his family who are staying in the same hotel.

The one of the interesting characteristic of editing skill in this movie is the cutting skill. The beginning of the scene stats from the boy ridding on a bike. The oddly quiet and smooth sound comes out along with the tire scrapes the carpet floor. The camera angle is a long shot that give a scene of third perspective. Above these elements, the eerie music makes the scene entirely giving a scene of anxiety to the viewers. This shooting style and editing style makes the next scene unpredictable. Even thought the viewers could predict the story line, the effective cutting style that stir their mind makes the viewer unable to predict the amount of fear they are about to feel.

The repetition of the hall way and the oddly well positioned twin girls gives anxiety to the viewers because even though everything is well positioned, the viewer will automatically predict the disorder of the oddly well-proportioned situation. The fact that the situation is so well proportioned, there is an enormous capacity of dynamic change in the next cut. This consciousness causes a huge amount of sense of anxiety. And the word here ‘anxiety’ is an extremely similar lexicon with the word fear. In other words, this film cause huge anxiety by letting the viewer to acknowledge the capacity of dynamic change in the next scene.

The music does a good job to support this idea. In a lot of films, the music’s rhythm indicates the viewer to fallow and predict the next event. However the music is very unstable and random. This causes more anxiety to the viewer because the music does not allow the viewer to predict the next event.

After six, students start to gather in the libraly…

When I get in, sometimes, the conventional structure of Libraly makes me feel obligate to study…

Computer Use Prohibited

When I see the signs, it shows me the loyalty to all the great books in this building and it mkaes me want to read all of the books…

It makes me even frustrated, because I know that I will never can read all the books here even though it is right in front of me…

The Side of the Chair

When I sit down on the chair, I saw this beautiful texture of wood right in side of me.

Then I wonder, where did this tree came from and who made this chair…

Isn’t love like Oxygen?

It is in everywhere and we always need it.

When you pay attention,you will notice Love is everywhere around you…

When you pay attention, you see love in every margin around you…

When you want to see something beautiful, when you want to feel loved by life,

think about it, think about it in your heart…

Then you will encounter the most beautiful thing in that moment in your life,

that one moment becomes eternal

that one beauty becomes infinite

Nobody can desribe it

It is amazingly, absolutly, beautiful…

Hah…There are too much feelings in here…

Im going to sleep in this Quiet World…

The End

My friend, Sam

Cretique #5

Roy Schatt, the photographer, and James Dean, an Actor, were a great combination. During the course of their yearlong friendship, Schatt and Dean formed a perfect photographer/subject relationship that resulted in many of the most popular images of Dean. “Roy Schatt is famous for photographing actors and other celebrities, his work is the antithesis of glamour photography” (Photographers Gallery). As Dean was a subject for a photography for Schatt’s, their relation ship discipline their both career in their life. The James Dean pictures are undoubtedly the crowning achievement of Schatt’s career.

The first characteristic of Schatt’s photography of Dean is that all pictures are monochromatic. A interesting story that the official site say is that, “Schatt was mesmerized from almost the first moment they met: “He was a squinty schlump of a person all bent over. “ Like Schatt also claims, Dean has a really squinty and serious but well-propositioned face. That strong feature of his face let the lightning reflect in a rich way. His distinctly face silhouette of Dean express the brighter light than the color white, and the darker tone than the color black. His widely exposed forehead shows the infinite whiteness and the gradation towards to the deep dark shadow made by his distinctly shaped face draw in the viewer’s attention to the picture. In other words, the monochromatic effect is the best method to emphasize the richness of the model’s façade.

The deep contrast of black and white is very smooth, calm and detailed. This signifier might give the viewers an impression of the deep and poised personality of Dean, which let the viewers think. We can also see the great reflection and the deep understanding between the photographer Schatt, and the model actor Dean. The expression of this picture by the photographer Schatt, is telling the deep respect and love toward the artist according to the background of their friendship. Even though the viewers do not know the context of their deep friendship, it is possible to see the deep respect and the strong connection between artist (who capture beauty) and the actor (who creates beauty).

According to the example of Photo Index Idea (Jim P.112), it is effective to use a monochromatic effect when the texture is distinct because that the color can draw away viewer’s attention from the image’s textural strength. Also, the effective monochromatic techniques in photography can emphasize the subject’s deepness and calmness. Finally, when the textural strength wanted to be expressed, the monochromatic effect could indicate viewer’s attention to the texture.