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While I enjoyed Kirsten Johnson’s presentation in class last week, I found myself disagreeing with some of her words. I loved the way she moved around the classroom. Her movement represented confidence, which is something I really admired. It’s rare to see people with so much confidence especially in a new environment, but she seemed to have no trouble adjusting. I liked that it was so interactive, too. Staying engaged didn’t feel like a chore the way it sometimes does in class (not this class but school in general). I loved the discussion we had as a class as well as the film she showed. However, something I didn’t like was the questions she asked the class about her film, or rather the responses she gave.  When asking students to pick a word that described her film, she called on someone who didn’t have an answer for her. When they finally came up with the word “identity,” something they seemed excited to share, Kirsten seemed to shoot it down instantly because it wasn’t a w...
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Final Project

UNTITLED
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Relationships Between Shots

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Call Me by Your Name (2017) - Dancing Scene [HD]  1:00-2:30 Shot 1: Elio looking at Oliver dancing Shot 2: Oliver dancing Shot 3: Girls dancing Shot 4: Oliver dancing solo Shot 5: Back to Elio Shot 6: Back to Oliver Shot 7: Back to Elio Shot 8: Oliver's feet Shot 9: Oliver's body followed by Elio joining I'm not well versed when it comes to the topic of editing methods, but it seems to me that the cuts in this scene from Call Me by Your Name are edited in accordance with continuity editing protocols. In shot 1 we see Elio (brown hair) watching Oliver (light hair), which sets the tone for most of this scene. Although the camera is focused on Elio's face, we're given his point of view in every other shot. While he could be watching the entire dancefloor, it's evident that he's watching Oliver dance because of the camera's constant focus on him (despite the third shot in which a pair of girls dancing are focused on). While Elio's expressi...
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Interview

Interview with Julio
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Sound Walk

As someone who has their headphones in most of the time, I miss so much of the sound that surrounds me every day. During my commute from Staten Island I can manage to listen to a full-length album one and a half times, watch three twenty-minute episodes of a TV show, or an hour’s worth of YouTube videos. What I discovered was that without listening to any of those things, there was so much to be heard.  I had originally planned to spend an hour walking in Manhattan. As I waited for the bus, I decided to take my headphones off and listen to my surroundings despite not being in Manhattan yet. The first remarkable sound I remember hearing was the sound of birds chirping in a tree somewhere on the same block as my bus stop. I couldn’t figure out exactly where the noise was coming from, but I couldn’t believe how loud it was. I’m used to bird sounds, especially living near the woods, but in that moment they were so much more than background noise. I still can’t believe how loud ...
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Artist Statement

While my taste is always changing, I continue to find inspiration in the same things I was when I was a child/teenager. I love bright colors, prints, saturation, excitement, and intensity. I think that it's easy to become dull if you're not stimulated, which is why I feel so inspired by the gaudy, the loud, the fun, and the vulnerability of artists like Florence Given, who is an artist I discovered on Instagram. Like me, she is inspired by the 70s, women, female success, independence, power, and honesty. Tracey Emin, another artist I admire, often uses her love life, her trauma, and her vulnerability in order to share her message through her art. I love movies and television shows that force me to question myself and to think about my purpose. The Bold Type, a show on Freeform, is about young women like myself in the workforce. It focuses on their journalism, fashion, and social media positions at a magazine company as well as their romantic and platonic relationships...
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