Random rants from a random rambling soul

Yes finally a title for my reflections.haha! Thinking of titles is a real chore.I wonder how people can endless come up with movie/book titles ? Im pretty sure they use a Thesaurus whenever they need titles. But then again some of them take the easy way out but just adding numericals at the end. Scary movie 1,2,3 etc…
Sigh!What is the media doing this days? I mean yes it is a continution of the previous movie.Oh wait it does not apply for scary movie since it’s a parody of other movies in a really odd way at times.But yeah what is the media coming up with nowadays?

Another dreary thing in the media. Like mentioned before, the weather channel. Who in the world will watch the weather channel. Unless the person is an insomanic who is trying new ways to get some sleep. I doubt anyone would want to watch it for more than 5 minutes. Moreover it’s a real pain to wait 30 minutes as they list countries and cities just so you can find the weather in the destination you are looking for. 30 long minutes ( and they say it a small world??!!) and by then I am pretty sure the weatherman decided to change gears. Check the window!Check the newspaper its faster. Check the god damn internet its just as reliable as the weather channel anyway.

Ever wondered why despite having a thing called the weather channel people still get caught in the rain?Bring bikini in freezing Snowville?Bingo you got it right? Its our dearest weatherman on the weather forecast channel. I like the fact that some of them are honest though like saying there is “50% percentage chance of rain tomorrow evening at woodlands.” But to ensure that they sound convincing i think they use a higher numerical like 70%. I remember reading somewhere that people tend to believe you more if you add numbers or statstics to your arugments. {Oh i will try and find that article and post the link here one day} Maybe they are following it here?

I seriouly hate the weather channel as everytime i carry my umbrella it would tend to be useless and just an extra weight that i have to lug around.This is especially true when you are chasing birds and trying to escape from mad squirrels at the Botanics. Whenever i do not bring the umbrella and really far away from any civilisation, i will hear the rumble of thunder and get drenched.

Ah i might as well just look out of the window or even at ants.Oh did you know that When ants travel in a straight line, you should expect rain; when they scatter, expect fair weather? This is some old weather proverb. Go try it out and see if it works!If it does then we can start having a weather forecast segment in discovery channel or something instead of wasting network space where more dramas like Prison break can be seen.:D NO Lost please! After watching two seasons,on and off, i have given up on it as i have a feeling they are going to be permanently lost.They might as well change the title now right?

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Back to the confinements of our very fine classroom 07-13 at Fms. Lets see what did we do?We talked about dynamic action.Last week was dialogue and this week action. It made me feel as though as we are shredding a film and then trying to learn about the different elements of it. Like i said before i prefer action to dialogues.Its more visually stimulating.Like In transit that we watched in the previous lesson, we watched Terminal Bar this week.This film Is a short documentary. It takes place in NYC right across the street from central terminal. His father owned the bar and took pics of everyone who came into the bar. The purpose of watching this wad: To notice visual trigger. (Ah i knew there is always a motive for letting us watch films instead of pure entertainment) Anyway it was Done by Flash animation. The effects was awesome i must say. It kind of made me feel that i was in photography class instead of storytelling. Anyway back to the film, some pictures caught my eye more so than others. I also like the pictures of those taken over the years. I cant remember the exact name of one of the guy but there were three pictures taken of him in the movie that showed him ageing tremodoulsy over the years. It was an interesting movie overall i must say.

Check out this Video

It shows the pictures of a guy who took pictures of himself everyday for 6 years straight.Its a bit similar to Terminal Bar accept that it focus on one person. You can notice the changes if you have a keen eye.

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Gosh i am really running out of titles aren’t I? I mean i have been reduced to titling it as Week 7…. How pathetic can it get?
Oh well the title is not as important as the content….

Well we watched Two Short Films today. One titled In Transit and the other “Autograph book.”

I did not really get what the movie is about but the effects in it were awesome. I liked the gloomy,dark and eerie effect and those fast cuts were just keeping me on the edge.After ryan explained to us then only did i get enlightened.:D

Autograph book was not too bad… i mean it wasn’t as exciting as the other one but it made more sense. Maybe because i have watched it too many times in Arts central.

After which we talked about dialogue. I feel that dialogue is not really important in a movie at times. I mean a movie is mainly visual and i think dialogues are mainly used when those screenwriters/directors are just too lazy to figure out a way to show the information to us. Thus they throw in a dumb character who will ask thousand and one questions and let the other main characters explain things to that person. I think sadly in a way, we are the dumb fellow and those guys are explaining to us.

These “talking” movies are quite a new thing right? I mean the transition was not too long ago.Silent movies are not exactly my favourite thing… Watching those black and white Charlie Chaplin movies could be torturous at times. Modern day version would be Mr Bean. Watching them the first few times were alright but after a while it gets so predicatble and even annoying at times. He is bound to do something stupid and/or gross in there and he will end up muttering some inaudible and gibberish rubbish to his Teddy. What’s up with that? I wish channel 5 and some other channels in cable would stop showing them and start showing something useful or at the very least less annoying.

Anyway back to my arugment….

I mean i love dialogues.Don’t get me wrong. Its just like they say “too much of a good thing” …. i just hate it when they just put too much dialogues in some movie instead of showing it to us. I mean if i wanted that, i could read a book instead of wasting $9.50 +++ ( money on snack,fare to get there etc..) on that movie.

Though i would say it depends on the genre of the movies too. Dialogues are good for comedies. One example would be keeping mum. It was what i would say a rather intellectual black comedy as it had a lot of puns in it like the Title itself.

Dialogues in an action movie? Its a No,no… i mean imagine vin disel in XXX talking about what he’s going to do instead of doing the actual thing. It would bore us to death.

Thus i conclude that dialogues can be useless at times.. i would rather have more visuals but then again i really depends on the genre as well. hehe!

P.s For those who want more dialogues go read a book and for those who want depressing endings and gore watch the news and save your moohlah!!

Lastly ill end off with this quote:

On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window.
– Dan Spencer

I thought this was rather funny and yet very true. Weather channels are really a waste of space in the network i mean maybe put a one liner somewhere or soemthing not have a whole channel devoted to it. Gosh .Ok im ending now i shall debate about the uselessness of weather Channels next week. Man the media have a lot of crap in them.

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