Tuesday, March 12, 2013

How is science used in the movies

    Science is all around us. It's shaped how we know the world surrounding, and is especially used in this technology-based society, particularly in films. Movies need science in their environments for special effects, stunts, and the science of marketing.
     Special effects are easily the most heavily-influenced field of science in the movies. From stop motion to stunts, science is necessary for the success of the production of films.  Films need science to create special effects to make a movie action packed and to feel real. Some of these special effects are simple, and some ares much more complicated. Last year I saw a movie called AVATAR, they used a fantastic special effect called facial motion capture. Facial Motion Capture is the process of electronically converting the movements of a person's face into a digital database using cameras or laser scanners.Special effects are greatly used in movies and are also involved in a lot of science.
     Stunts and special effects are a lot a like. Sometimes stunts usspecial effects. When someone jumps of a building for a movie stunt. Once when I was little I saw an episode on how they used special effects to make it look like a stuntman jumped of a building. Later in the episode they showed how the stunt man just landed on the fire escape! Stunts and special effects are a lot a like but different but they both involve science!
     The science of marketing involves very much psychology to find were to put advertisement what theaters to put movies in they also use trailers that play before other movies. Psychology is the knowledge of knowing how people work like were they will see advertisement the most an what channels are most watched to put a TV show on. the science of marketing is were most advertisements will be seen and how people will notice your movie most. Science is everywhere not just stunts and special effects but even marketing

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

      I read the book Treasure Island in my literature group a couple weeks ago. When my group was done reading the book my teacher Mrs Matherne made us watch the movie. I hated both the movie and the book because the book was not entertaining and it also did not draw the readers attention.The movie was old and boring its was exactly the same thing as the book.     The book was boring because that it did not draw the attention of the reader it just started there was no intro or anything.It was not very good compared to the books of today like Hunger Games. Last year I read the book Hunger Games and It was very good and got the readers attention.That is what I think of the book Treasure Island.     The movie Treasure island was even worse than the book. The reason the movie was even worse than the book was because they had awful actors. Another reason was because the camera was not good. The last reason was because they did not change the movie at all to make it better they just left it bad. Last year when I saw the movie hunger games and it was better than the book because they changed it to make it better.Those are the reason I don't like the book and movie treasure island.