Hola,
In today's society with advancing technology there is an increasing interest in the protection of children. There have been a few websites that have dedicated their time and resources to do just that. Many companies have developed computer games for children to help them avoid bad situations for children. One of my favorite games was created by Microsoft and co-created by Bad Guy Patrol and Alberta children's services. The game is a group of wild animals that play characters, that compose a group named the Bad Guy Patrol. They were created to assist children with safely browsing the Internet. The characters are Thinking Owl, Chatting Charlie, Block em' Betty, and Careful Cara. This game leads children through a Base camp and they must answer a series of questions before they can acquire the flag for that level. There are four levels that the children must complete. I believe that if schools impose a rule requiring children to play these games then our children will be more protected.
Brooke
Friday, March 23, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Censoring Filthy Dirty Muck!!
Today in my Mass Communications class we are taking a look at censorship, who is regulating us and why?
In 2010 there was a case before the 11th Circuit Court dealing with the production of pornography on the Internet. A man produced pornographic material in California and an investigator in Florida viewed it. In this case the content clearly violated the states indecency laws and the court found:
"the materials might be legal where they were produced and almost everywhere else. But if they violate the standards of one community, they are illegal in that community and the producers may be convicted of a crime."
How is this possible, if a non-pornographic picture was published in Kansas, which may be seen and obscene in some states, and a resident of the state of Georgia opens the picture. How can the publisher be responsible, it is the World Wide Web. I feel that the courts have only seen a few of these court cases and I also feel that the Supreme Court is going to do there best to avoid a constitutional review in these situations. They will focus on community standards rather than looking at obscenity laws legality under the first amendment.
Tastes change in correlation with times and laws that were adequate two years ago will no long have legal ground today and may be over turned. With the Internet moving at such a rapid pace and indecency, profanity, and obscenity laws barley being able to keep up, I feel that the Supreme Court should try and stay one step ahead of the game and create laws that apply to modern technologies and censorship. This in turn may avoid any conflict or controversy in the future.
On another note, the FCC regulates broadcast and cable and their indecency, obscenity, and profanity laws are extremely vague. In the more recent past consumers have been criticizing whether there laws are in violation of first amendment rights. No one is regulating the Internet therefor with out any federal laws or federal agencies regulating this mass communication then should there be any legal implications. If something is legal in a community and illegal in another it should not be the publishers responsibility to monitor its views, that would not be possible or probable. I feel that the ISP's (Internet service providers) should be at fault in this instance. They provide Internet to specific communities, therefor they should be liable if something is deemed indecent by contemporary community standards.
Thx 4 reading,
Brooke
In 2010 there was a case before the 11th Circuit Court dealing with the production of pornography on the Internet. A man produced pornographic material in California and an investigator in Florida viewed it. In this case the content clearly violated the states indecency laws and the court found:
"the materials might be legal where they were produced and almost everywhere else. But if they violate the standards of one community, they are illegal in that community and the producers may be convicted of a crime."
How is this possible, if a non-pornographic picture was published in Kansas, which may be seen and obscene in some states, and a resident of the state of Georgia opens the picture. How can the publisher be responsible, it is the World Wide Web. I feel that the courts have only seen a few of these court cases and I also feel that the Supreme Court is going to do there best to avoid a constitutional review in these situations. They will focus on community standards rather than looking at obscenity laws legality under the first amendment.
Tastes change in correlation with times and laws that were adequate two years ago will no long have legal ground today and may be over turned. With the Internet moving at such a rapid pace and indecency, profanity, and obscenity laws barley being able to keep up, I feel that the Supreme Court should try and stay one step ahead of the game and create laws that apply to modern technologies and censorship. This in turn may avoid any conflict or controversy in the future.
On another note, the FCC regulates broadcast and cable and their indecency, obscenity, and profanity laws are extremely vague. In the more recent past consumers have been criticizing whether there laws are in violation of first amendment rights. No one is regulating the Internet therefor with out any federal laws or federal agencies regulating this mass communication then should there be any legal implications. If something is legal in a community and illegal in another it should not be the publishers responsibility to monitor its views, that would not be possible or probable. I feel that the ISP's (Internet service providers) should be at fault in this instance. They provide Internet to specific communities, therefor they should be liable if something is deemed indecent by contemporary community standards.
Thx 4 reading,
Brooke
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Green Screen
Hello again,
Today in my Mass Communications class I am looking at the concept of green screens. The use of green screens is a relatively new concept. Green screen, also known as chroma key is a method used by filmmakers which mixes two separate pictures to create and entirely new picture. This works by making the blue or green background transparent in order to show the images on a final product or a third screen. This technique of filming is also known as color keying, blue screen, and color separation overlay. It's initial purpose was weather reports. Green screen originated in the 1930's and has been used ever since to recreate and create realistic screen shots that were previously unachievable. The creation of the green screen opened new doors for special effects crews and was the beginning of a new era for movies and television shows alike.
In an article by Marshall Brian from the website How Stuff Works, Brian summarizes the green screen process, "The two scenes might be shot separately on two pieces of film and then brought...to be combined onto a third piece of film using a technique called optical composting. The two pieces of film are projected onto the third piece of film in a composting machine...in a digital shop, the two pieces of film are digitized, combined frame by frame in the computer's memory and then written out to a third piece of film with a film printer." I am not an expert on modern or even recent technology but it seems that using a green screen is a very in-depth and drawn out process which requires focus on minor details. I have seen the use of green screens on shows such as local weather, sports shows, comedy skits, and I am sure I have seen numerous movies that use the green screen effect. With this kind of technology out in the open it makes me wonder… How many videos are real?
Thanks for stopping by,
Brooke
Today in my Mass Communications class I am looking at the concept of green screens. The use of green screens is a relatively new concept. Green screen, also known as chroma key is a method used by filmmakers which mixes two separate pictures to create and entirely new picture. This works by making the blue or green background transparent in order to show the images on a final product or a third screen. This technique of filming is also known as color keying, blue screen, and color separation overlay. It's initial purpose was weather reports. Green screen originated in the 1930's and has been used ever since to recreate and create realistic screen shots that were previously unachievable. The creation of the green screen opened new doors for special effects crews and was the beginning of a new era for movies and television shows alike.
In an article by Marshall Brian from the website How Stuff Works, Brian summarizes the green screen process, "The two scenes might be shot separately on two pieces of film and then brought...to be combined onto a third piece of film using a technique called optical composting. The two pieces of film are projected onto the third piece of film in a composting machine...in a digital shop, the two pieces of film are digitized, combined frame by frame in the computer's memory and then written out to a third piece of film with a film printer." I am not an expert on modern or even recent technology but it seems that using a green screen is a very in-depth and drawn out process which requires focus on minor details. I have seen the use of green screens on shows such as local weather, sports shows, comedy skits, and I am sure I have seen numerous movies that use the green screen effect. With this kind of technology out in the open it makes me wonder… How many videos are real?
Thanks for stopping by,
Brooke
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Great Train Robbery
Hola,
Today I am watching the movie The Great Train Robbery and will be writing a detailed review about it's contents. I have never thought about being a movie critic but let us see if you enjoy my review. The Great Train Robbery was copy write 1903 and produced my Edwin S. Porter. Now this movie was not the first made but it is one of the more popular from its time. it is a short ten minuet movie about, you guessed it a train robbery!!
Summary
The movie starts out in a train station when two men hold up the clerk with guns, they then knock him out and tie him up, all the while there is a train pulling into station. The men then hide and sneak on board the train just before it takes off. A scene depicts and man realizing the robbers are on board, he then locks the safe and throws out the key, then a gun fight entails. They proceed to explode the safe and steel the money from inside. The men then climb into the conductors cabin where again there is a fist fight. They make the conductor stop the train, hold him at gun point and detach the locomotive from the rest of the train. They then make the passengers get off and the robbers take all of their personal belongings. A man is shot for trying to run. The scared passengers are frisked and forced to give up their belongings, the robbers then jump aboard the locomotive and take off. The robbers then stop the train further down the tracks and run away as speedily as possible, to a place where they have horses waiting for them. Then the movie shoots back to the train station and a little girl has found the clerk and wakes him up. The the scene flashes to what seems to be a celebration of some sort, the railway station clerk runs in and tells the party about the heist and they all run out in a hurry. There is a gun show down and many one of the robbers is shot. Then the great battle entails and eventually all the robbers are shot and killed.
I think that for its time the movie is fantastic. I believe it is an accurate portrayal of events that occurred in during that time. I also like how the entire movie is black and white but any time some one shoots a gun the bullet leaves a yellow trail of dust to emphasis the shots. I loved how it was a short film and I believe that it has great production value for 1903. In today's world I would probably give it 1 star but for the era I would give The Great Train Robbery 5 stars. Let me know what your opinion it?
Hasta Pronto,
Brooke
Today I am watching the movie The Great Train Robbery and will be writing a detailed review about it's contents. I have never thought about being a movie critic but let us see if you enjoy my review. The Great Train Robbery was copy write 1903 and produced my Edwin S. Porter. Now this movie was not the first made but it is one of the more popular from its time. it is a short ten minuet movie about, you guessed it a train robbery!!
Summary
The movie starts out in a train station when two men hold up the clerk with guns, they then knock him out and tie him up, all the while there is a train pulling into station. The men then hide and sneak on board the train just before it takes off. A scene depicts and man realizing the robbers are on board, he then locks the safe and throws out the key, then a gun fight entails. They proceed to explode the safe and steel the money from inside. The men then climb into the conductors cabin where again there is a fist fight. They make the conductor stop the train, hold him at gun point and detach the locomotive from the rest of the train. They then make the passengers get off and the robbers take all of their personal belongings. A man is shot for trying to run. The scared passengers are frisked and forced to give up their belongings, the robbers then jump aboard the locomotive and take off. The robbers then stop the train further down the tracks and run away as speedily as possible, to a place where they have horses waiting for them. Then the movie shoots back to the train station and a little girl has found the clerk and wakes him up. The the scene flashes to what seems to be a celebration of some sort, the railway station clerk runs in and tells the party about the heist and they all run out in a hurry. There is a gun show down and many one of the robbers is shot. Then the great battle entails and eventually all the robbers are shot and killed.
I think that for its time the movie is fantastic. I believe it is an accurate portrayal of events that occurred in during that time. I also like how the entire movie is black and white but any time some one shoots a gun the bullet leaves a yellow trail of dust to emphasis the shots. I loved how it was a short film and I believe that it has great production value for 1903. In today's world I would probably give it 1 star but for the era I would give The Great Train Robbery 5 stars. Let me know what your opinion it?
Hasta Pronto,
Brooke
Bue Store or Red Box?
Howdy,
Today in Mass Communications this question was brought up, do you prefer the Blue store (referring to blockbuster and other DVD rental stores) or do you prefer the Red Box style?
Well I certainly have preferences! I actually do not have cable so my nightly routine consists of watching Netflix and Hulu Plus. I prefer these because Hulu Plus and Netflix are only $8/month. THAT'S CHEEP!!!! Netflix has an assorted variety of reruns that you may find on T.V. today and many awesome movies. It has many shows like River Monsters or Miami Ink, and many movies like Dazed and Confused or the new Disney movie Tangled.
Hulu Plus has many newer television shows like up to date Jersey Shore or the new hit show Revenge (my personal favorite) but most of the movies on Hulu plus are out of date and black and white. I prefer a mix of both because it gives me a wide variety of shows I can watch and I am not limited.
On occasion I do run down to Digital Shelf (a local movie rental in Manhattan, KS) and rent new releases or shows that I may have and urge to watch. So I guess the answer to the question would be that I prefer the digital version of movies and entertainment. What do you prefer?
TTFN (ta-ta for now),
Brooke
Today in Mass Communications this question was brought up, do you prefer the Blue store (referring to blockbuster and other DVD rental stores) or do you prefer the Red Box style?
Well I certainly have preferences! I actually do not have cable so my nightly routine consists of watching Netflix and Hulu Plus. I prefer these because Hulu Plus and Netflix are only $8/month. THAT'S CHEEP!!!! Netflix has an assorted variety of reruns that you may find on T.V. today and many awesome movies. It has many shows like River Monsters or Miami Ink, and many movies like Dazed and Confused or the new Disney movie Tangled.
Hulu Plus has many newer television shows like up to date Jersey Shore or the new hit show Revenge (my personal favorite) but most of the movies on Hulu plus are out of date and black and white. I prefer a mix of both because it gives me a wide variety of shows I can watch and I am not limited.
On occasion I do run down to Digital Shelf (a local movie rental in Manhattan, KS) and rent new releases or shows that I may have and urge to watch. So I guess the answer to the question would be that I prefer the digital version of movies and entertainment. What do you prefer?
TTFN (ta-ta for now),
Brooke
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