Rhythm and Poetry Vivi

VIVI FILM REVIEW

As a whole, I thought that this movie was one of the most touching and eye opening things that I have seen and it makes it even more real that this documentary was filmed by real students at my very own school that I see in the hallways on an everyday basis. I didn't realize the heavy impact poetry had on students and their emotions, and it made me realize the importance of not judging a book by its cover and how strongly that can actually affect someone. It made me realize that kids are too often put in difficult situations with no way to express their own emotions, and this in itself is dangerous and detrimental. But poetry and rap provides an outlet for those emotions, and in a way provide a way of story telling without relly feeling like you're just telling someone about your life. It paints a vivid, and more emotional picture. But more importantly, the documentary helped me realize that the culture and social aspect of our society is too heavy set on money, politics, and government that is stirring a revolution, seen through poets, artists and other words and expressions of feelings. This documentary was phenomenal and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.

Nick Erhart Movie Review

Nick Erhart

As a music critic I really enjoyed this film. The way the film showed the students at ETHS expressed their poetry. Poetry is a type of art, like music. The way the documentary portrays the different students ways of presenting their style is a great thing to see. It is very important to be unique in the art industry and seeing students being able to present somewhat private events in a poem or rap form is outstanding to me. The idea of the documentary was a success and was highly enjoyable to watch. Being able to know how other people work, almost as if behind the scenes of the young minds that produce such thought provoking, well created poems. This documentary, Rhythm & Poetry showed me 'behind the curtains' of what it's really like for these young, artistic, creative minds and how they express through poetry.

Ryan TerMolen Rhythm and Rhyme Review

Overall I really believe the documentary captured the essence of what poetry was and is now and how it compares to hip hop, I believe the students really poured their heart out into their poetry and expressed themselves in their own words which is what poetry is about. I thought the documentary was great and as an ETHS student thought it was great to see my peers, classmates and friends doing something they feel deeply about, some of these kids I would've never guessed had these things to say. Hip-hop culture is something relatively new to this generation and I feel as if hip hop and poetry are one in the same but one without a beat. The documentary was great and I felt that it was done very well, I know it is just a rough cut however some of the footage was a bit shaky and not that clear, I hope in the real cut the shaky footage can be settled and steadied, however other than a minor issue of shaky footage I thought it was done very well                                                                                                   and it is ice to see fellow ETHS students doing what                                                                                                     they feel passionate about.

Ferenc Zoltan Rhythm and Poetry Review

After watching the very interesting documentary Rhythm and Poetry created by the ETHS Filmmaker. The film really gets to the heart of Poetry and Hip Hop/Rap music and how they are so similar yet so different in so many different ways. I feel it depends on who it is who is reciting their amazing works of art, some people give it a music beat to their poems yet others go in the other direction which gives it a more personal feel and you can almost relate to you it and feel they are only talking to you   People today do not recognize what most people go through and through this method of express people's feelings and these poets in the film made it so much more intense and overall a better film. These people made the film great with all their hard work that they express over these competitions. If you know those kids like I do everything they say is coming straight from the heart and for them it's a great way to express all their emotions held up from their pasts.  I would highly recommend this film even though they did not succeed in making it into Louder than a Bomb they succeeded in getting their feeling expressed which was amazing. Overall a great film

Ferenc Zoltan 10 movie formats that shook the world

Techniscope
1960 Italy was a cheaper way to create films and gave the image a different look not only on the screen but way stuff looked like in the film.

It gave the film a dirty gritty look to it to make it look somewhat old and in westerns more intense. For certain genres this movie format was extremely good while for others it was a bad idea. It could throw off the way the movie looked and could almost give it a false pretense to what the movie is going to be about.

IMAX
was created in 1970 and it had a clear picture that could show more depth of color bringing the picture to life and changing the format of movies. It changed the way people can view the movies. It started from a small group in Canada but quickly spread and as of today the newest way to watch movies.

Movie Formats - Nick Erhart

Nick Erhart

Movie Formats

Kinetoscope:

The Kinetoscope is one of the original pieces of technology. It was introduced in 1894 and was based off the chronophotographic gun.  The kinetoscope was a single-viewer device that gave access to watch films through a peep-hole. This was revolutionary and was the start on how we watch films today. This device created the earliest type of actors performing roles for the camera.

Example Of Kinetoscope Film:

Edison Kinetoscope Films

IMAX:

IMAX was introduced in 1970, IMAX creates a single massive image to create a bigger impact. IMAX was came from a small team in canada and soon went on to surpass and replace all its's predecessors. IMAX theaters can be found almost anywhere and give the audience a new way to experience a movie. As IMAX says themselves, the ultimate movie experience. 

Ten Movie Formats -Ryan TerMolen

Todd-AO film type

Introduced in 1955 and was a great way to film musicals. The style came about because Paul Thomas Anderson wanted to one-up the person before him and improve the widescreen and sound performance abilities, Todd-AO was run on 70mm film, was the first type of film to run at 30fps and have great sound quality. This type of film was well known for the Sound of Music, Oklahoma and many others.
FAMOUS STILL:

Sound of Music

Techniscope:

Introduced in 1963 came as an adaptation to Cinemascope and even though the film grade was actually lower than Cinemascope (meaning it was worse quality) it was used until 1980 and was used because it only took half of the film to film than Cinemascope, which was a huge advancement because it originally took a huge amount of film just for one scene, where as Cinemascope took that amount and cut it in half. Cinemascope is mostly famous for filming Once Upon a Time in the West and many Lucio Fulci horror films. 

Famous Still Lucio Fulci Zombi 2

Movie Formats: Griffin Wood

Cinematograph
Introduced in 1895
It was still operated by a hand crank, but it was portable, so it could travel and be set up wherever the demand took it. It was popular in five-cent nickelodeons, which made it an attraction to poorer audiences.

IMAX
Introduced in 1970
Initially used for geographic and natural history features. It requires 3x as much film as normal.

Movie Formats-John Charron

Cinerama:

-Introduced in 1952

-Was the new widescreen spectacle

-Huge theaters with special curved screens

-Evolved from the Vitarama

 

Techniscope

-Introduced 1960

-Cheap, Italian widescreen from Technicolor

-Derived from Cinescope

Used in Westerns for gritty style, as well as horror movies for vintage look

Vivi Casey Blog Post #2 Ten Movie Formats That Shook the World

Techniscope- Vivi Casey

• Techniscope was developed by an Italian film group in 1960
• It was developed by the company Technicolor, and became ubiquitous 
• It was unique because it combined spherical and anamorphic lenses, and had each frame take up only two perforations on a film strip instead of four. 
• famous video showing the use of technicope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-_hRHRtN8Q
• photograph giving homage to techniscope: 
  

Vivi Casey Blog Post #1 Ten Movie Formats That Shook The World

Cinemascope

• Cinemascope was produced in 1953
• It was introduced by fox 20th century to make images appear less compressed
• It was unique in the sense that it was the first kind of filmography that displayed the correct way as opposed to the constricted way that people had been accustomed to watching for so many years
• It was adopted and utilized by almost every film company after its debut with fox 20th century
• A video clip showing cinemascope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTx0RJr2Agc
• photograph giving homage to cinemascope

Briana Foster

My Name is Briana Foster

I'm a senior


My favorite movie is Beyond The Lights
I like this movie because it tells a very interesting story. The movie is shown in a perspective of a little girl who grows up to be a famous singer. This movie has a lot of romance and drama. This is one of my favorite movies because when I first watched Beyond The Lights it kept me guessing and wondering what was going to happen next in the movie. I also enjoyed it because I was able to see what growing up as a famous person may be like.

Shaelyn Lord

My name is Shaelyn Lord, I am currently a senior. I really enjoy watching movies but my favorite movie would have to be the Titanic. I am a huge sucker for love and romance movies, by far this is the best one in my eyes. Although it is a long movie I can sit there and watch it multiple times. It really makes me think about the things that we take for grated.

                     

Vivi Casey

My name is Vittoria Casey but I go by Vivi. I am currently a junior, and my favorite movie is the Wolf on Wall Street. The reason this is my favorite movie is because first of all I LOVE Leonardo Di Caprio, but I also think this movie is engaging with a really dynamic plot. It was really well made and never fails to catch my attention, regardless of how many times I've seen it.

Ferenc Zoltan

My name is Ferenc Zoltan

My favorite movie is "Remember the Titans" it was directed by Boaz Yakin and the movie is about a football team that not only deals with issues on the football field. They have to have to face racial segregation and teammates that are torn with the conflict of whether they should do as their parents and keep with segregation or do the right thing and bond with their team and break the barriers of segregation and racism in Virginia. On the field it's all about the journey to the state championship without their key player and team captain. I love this movie because it is

I am a Junior

Nick Erhart

RYAN TERMOLEN

My name is Ryan TerMolen im a sophomore, and my favorite movie series is the Lord of Rings series, I cant pick a favorite one of them, but the series was so well filmed and the costuming and CGI work was very well done. Which is why the series is my favorite

John Charron

My name is John Charron, senior, and I can't really say I have one favorite movie.  I love so many movies that I can't pinpoint one that stands out.  So instead I will talk about the last movie I saw, Naked City.  The movie was made in 1948 by Jules Dassin.  It focuses on the noir storyline of detectives searching for a murderer in "The Naked City", New York.  The film is half Third Person documentary, half noir.  The shots are beautiful and amazingly capture New York.  This movie is much more artsier than the typical noirs.  Acting is less prevalent and the dramatic shots and bleak cinematics capture the mood of a gray city.

Everett Coleman

1. The name is Everett Coleman

2. I am a Senior

3. My favorite movie is TRON: LEGACY because it was a huge visual eye candy hit for me and it was Joseph Kosinski's directorial debut. The first time I saw this film I was amazed at the visual effects. I still think this movie was way ahead of it's time since it was released in 2010and but top notch visual effects. Other than that I fell in love with the concept, the tone, the music of the film and the franchise itself. I've been following this movie since day one and I wish that we see the next installment soon. This is one of the few live action disney films that I celebrate and can watch 10 times over without getting tired of it. The movie then sprouted a mini series called TRON UPRISING that captured the feel of the movie and brought back everything I loved about the re imagined franchise. Joseph Kosinski created/ re imagined one of the most awesome worlds that could ever be thought up. With his take on it I fell in love with his other works, for example OBLIVION. Joseph Kosinski became one of my most favorite visual directors in the film industry.

Everett Coleman

Griffin Wood

My name is Griffin Wood, and I'm a senior. My favorite movies are Sharknado and Sharknado 2 because they are so bad, which makes them so good. They make me laugh more than most comedies. If you watch these movies knowing they are going to be terrible, you will have a terrific time. The absurdity and foolishness of the films make them a great movie night movie if you're in the mood for a thoughtless thriller.

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