Zoolander

Hey everyone!  It has been a while since I've posted on here, but I just wanted to share a little something with you...

In school, one of my electives is TV ARTS Production where we learn how to use a camera, shoot videos, and edit them.  At first, I was not a big fan of this class when I realized that it was not going to be what I thought, which is where you actually sit down in front of the camera, not work behind it.  However, I have finally accepted what is going on and actually like the class!

After watching countless videos and learning about the history of TV, we were given our first assignment; recreate a scene from a movie shot by shot.  To take on this great task, my group agreed on doing the walk-off scene from the movie Zoolander, featuring Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell.  (You can watch the scene below)

So if you just watched the video above, you realize how complicated the scene is to pull off, especially for a bunch of amateurs!  What is really difficult about trying to do this scene, is the fact that you need tons a people and time to pull this off.  So after wasting a week of preparing a shot list, script, and figuring out a setting, we decided to change our scene.  I looked through tons of other videos and we decided upon a much shorter scene composed of Zoolander and his agent.  Unfortunately, I cannot show you this video due to the fact that no one has the specific part on youtube.

But, we filmed last week and uploaded our video today!  Next week we will begin compiling our scene and I am immensely excited. 

Anyway, I hope these camera skills come in handy someday.  It's a lot of fun to shoot, but it's a lot of hard work.

Have a great night and a wonderful weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!

:) :P :D

SUM 41!!!

Sum 41 is a band that started back in 1996 and was originally composed of band members Deryck Whibley (Lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Cone McCaslin (bass guitar and backing vocals), Steve Jocz (drums, and backing vocals, and Dave Baksh (lead guitar and backing vocals).  Dave Baksh (Second from left) split from the band back around 2006 and Tom Thacker now takes his place as lead guitarist, backing vocals and keyboardist.

You may recognize Sum 41 from their hits Fat Lip, In Too Deep, The Hell Song and Still Waiting.  Underclass Hero is the most recent CD that Sum 41 released without Dave.  


My cousins first introduced me to Sum 41.  When I heard "In Too Deep" I knew the song but didn't realize it was by them!  Immediately after that I fell in love with their music.  When Dave left the band, many people thought it would be the end of them, and I had my doubts.  Underclass Hero was highly anticipated by fans (like me) but was a bit of a disappointment when it came out.  I think this is because a lot of the songs didn't have the same sound that sum 41 lovers new and loved.  It was same old same old, the type of stuff you hear from comeback bands...


Today I checked out their website just to see what they've been up to...and low and behold they're working on a new CD!!!!  Today was actually there first rehearsal!!!!   All there CD's have different sounds so who knows what sound this one could have!  I'm leaning towards more of a heavier sound since they covered Metallica's "Enter Sandman" during The Offspring's recent tour (another band worth checking out!!!)
   

(Starting from left: Cone, Deryck, Tom, Stevo)


So I guess we'll just have to wait and see what Sum 41 puts out this time!   


Sum 41's Official Website


1st picture: www.live105.com/ pages/399380.php
2nd picture: http://www.islandrecords.com/site/artist_photos.php?artist_id=259

Thank You!

Hey everyone!  Today I would just like to thank one of the people who inspired me to create a blog (the other being my dad :D love you!).  This person is...DA DADA DAAAAAA...Kandee Johnson!!!!!!! Kandee Johnson is a makeup artist who is sharing her amazing talents with the world of youtube.  She also has a blog here on Blogger which you can look at by clicking here.  She is always happy and inspires her viewers and followers to be the best that they can be and to always believe in themselves.  


She, along with the other makeup 'gurus' on youtube, has inspired me  to do makeup.  But, I feel like it's so pointless for me to do makeup tutorials or even talk about it if I don't have a lot of makeup.  Also, I don't really have many eyeshadows let alone professional palettes like MAC or regular palettes like Costal scents.  So maybe it's just a lost cause for me to want to do makeup! but who knows...


I totally just ignored Kandee's mottos in that last paragraph, but I guess I'm just unsure of what to do! :).  Anyway, thank you Kandee, for inspiring me and brightening my day!  I hope you guys check her blog and youtube videos out!

As always,  HAVE A GREAT DAY
:) :P :D 

Welcome to my blog!

Hello everyone! This is my first ever blog post. I played around with the settings a little bit and man, is all this confusing! Hopefully I'll get the gist of it! For now though, I'll just try and figure out how to customize things and all that fun stuff so I can start writing posts for your enjoyment.

Have a wonderful day :) :P :D