The Screening Room

After touring a movie studio it only seems right that I create another movie review.
Editor, director and photographer, Shawn Christensen produced a short film titled brink, which was a production of Fuzzy Logic Pictures. The film was one of the top movies on display at the Tribeca Film Festival. The short films portreys a man in his early to mid 20's who has fallen in love with his best friend. He writes her a note professing his love and drops it in her mail box. As he awaits her replay we realize that the earth is losing gravity and every one soon will perish. There are short clips of film one entails african american men playing basketball and the ball is simply hovering over the ground. I feel that this symbolizes their life hanging in the balance and the final loss of gravity will be their end. I also feel that there is another message intertwined in this short story, which symbolizes how love can defy gravity. At the very end, the man and his best friend meet on a roof and she professes her love back to him, they kiss for the first time. Then after they decide that they never want to leave each others side (all in non-verbal communication) they tie their legs together in hopes that it will eternally bond them, gravity or no gravity.

The Warner Brothers Studio Tour

Today I am taking another virtual field trip, the Warner Brothers Studio. I'm super excited! One of the first of many departments housed on the studio lot is the Property Department where over 10 million props are stored. another department includes their Warner brothers museum, which displays the Harry Potter sorting hat, any batmen mask every used, a few wax figurines and many many more items. A bright and shinny glass case houses all of Warner Brothers Oscars. The gigantic studio is located on 110 acres and houses over 29 different sound stages. The lot also includes Stage 16 on of the tallest sound stages in the world. This stages has been used to film movies like Jurassic Park and Ghostbusters, among many others. Warner brothers also has an entire museum dedicated to their picture cars. These cars include the Ghostbuster car, the bat mobile (the tumbler), which holds a Chevy 350 engine. Also the General Lee, made famous by the Dukes of Hazard, along with the Scooby Doo Mystery Mobile. Needless to say this studio is of epic proportions, considering the numerous amount of movies, television shows, and talk shows that have been produced and recorded there.

The Weather Channel

Today I am going to be taking a virtual tour of The Weather Channels new HD studio and work space. The new station is state of the art and environmentally friendly. This New Building includes at least four different rooms, the anchor room, the interview corner, a side room and the work desks. This new HD Weather Channel building is very functional with an open floor plan. A circular anchor desk located smack in the middle,  swivels 360 degrees, which allows numerous options for camera angles. The studio also includes a green screen that is lit internally and swivels 180 degrees and functions for both the interview corner and the side room. There several massive HD television displays and they are very impressive. The Weather Channels ability to purchase all of the building materials needed with in a 500 mile radius helped to support the local communities. It also includes a very nice set of work desks made out of all natural environmentally friendly products. All together I feel the The Weather Channel has made several good advancements and they can only go up from here. I feel that The Weather Channel building compared to the New York Times building is minuscule. I adore the New York Times building because of its architectural and artistic layout.