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Computers in Film

Movie Review of The Mask

One of my favorites movies would have to be The Mask (1994) starring Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey plays a man by the name of Stanley Ipkiss who is a bank clerk who is a pushover and is in love with a lounge singer (Cameron Diaz). “Stanley Ipkiss is a bank clerk that is an incredibly nice man. Unfortunately, he is too nice for his own good and is a pushover when it comes to confrontations. After one of the worst days of his life, he finds a mask that depicts Loki, the Norse night god of mischief. Now, when he puts it on, he becomes his inner, self: a cartoony romantic wild man. However, a small time crime boss, Dorian Tyrel, comes across this character dubbed "The Mask" by the media. After Ipkiss's alter ego indirectly kills his friend in crime, Tyrel now wants this green-faced goon destroyed,” http://imdb.com/title/tt0110475/).

While watching this movie the special effects made the movie good and funny. For example after Stanley finds the mask in the ocean and brings it back to his apartment, he debates about whether or not he should put it on. When he finally does there is smoke and he begins to spin in a tornado. Every time he puts on the mask the same thing happens. When the villain Dorian (Peter Greene) gets a hold of the mask and puts in on they show cloud and thunder to show the evil of him.

The special effects were developed mostly by Christopher Gilman Global Effects Inc. who had the prop masks, Cinelease who had additional production equipment provided, Columbia Records soundtrack published and EFX Systems digital sound and re-recording

The effects of this movie were much better than in the movie called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective which Jim Carrey also stars in. This movie really didn’t have any special effects since Ace Ventura: Pet Detective he man role is to find a stolen dolphin mascot of a football team. The effects of The Mask and another movie called The Number 23 were both good. In this movie Jim Carrey character is going nuts because he realizes that everything adds up to be the number 23. The special effects are shown by scene after another screen is flashbacks.

Three Facts that I learned:

The first fact I learned is how blue screens work. “This technique allows actors and scale models to find themselves in totally imaginary situations,” (http://www.howstuffworks.com/blue-screen.htm). This technique is used so often.

The second fact I learned is what morphing is. “Morphing is the process of transforming one image into another. Here you'll find information about morphing, Macintosh and PC software programs for creating morph animations and movies, plus examples and galleries of morph transformations and distortions,” (http://graphicssoft.about.com).

The third fact I learned is what fizt is. To be honest I have never heard of fizt before. “Fizt is an animation program that can speed up the production of special effects in some cases by a factor of more than 150 to 1 -- and can also make the effects appear more life-like than has been possible with less sophisticated programs,” (http://whatis.techtarget.com).

Investigation into Urban Legends

Urban legends are stories that are false but have recent events in them. According to American Heritage Dictionary urban legends An apocryphal story involving incidents of the recent past, often including elements of humor and horror, that spreads quickly and is popularly believed to be true,” (education.yahoo.com).

The first legend that I never heard of and that some people might fall for is about a shark leaping out and attacking a helicopter “National Geographic's Web site was deluged with hundreds of queries a day when an e-mail containing a photo of a shark leaping out of the water to attack a helicopter,” (http://news.nationalgeographic.com). People will believe this because of where they are finding this.

The second urban legend that I never heard of and that some people might fall for is The Pregnant Man. People might believe this is because this person was born a female.

“Mr. Beatie -- formerly Ms. Lagondino -- is a transgender person, born female, who had his outward features medically altered to achieve a more masculine appearance but kept his reproductive organs intact. He claims he became pregnant five months ago via artificial insemination,” (http://urbanlegends.about.com). Some people might not believe it because he had a sex operation to become a man.

The second urban legend that I never heard of and that some people might fall for is Chinese hacker riot. “The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (FBI NIPC) issued an alert about "increased Internet attacks against U.S. web sites and mail servers possible in early May." The agency based its warning on a recent international incident between U.S. and Chinese military aircraft. The U.S. military forwarded the cyber-alert to its units stationed around the globe,” (http://vmyths.com/hmul/6/14/). People might believe this because of computer threats and when people are alerted about computer viruses or threat they get concerned.

To be honest most of the urban legends that are mentioned I haven’t heard of but there is one that I thought of while reading them. Now this might be one that most people know called “Bloody Mary.” The legend is that if you say her name three times in the mirror she will come out and attack you.

The reason that the Web is so prone to these types of “stories” is that everyone reads something on the Internet no matter where it is and what it is.

IANA & the Top Level Domain Report

The first thing that I learned about IANA is what IANA really is. “The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the body responsible for coordinating some of the key elements that keep the Internet running smoothly. Whilst the Internet is renowned for being a worldwide network free from central coordination, there is a technical need for some key parts of the Internet to be globally coordinated – and this coordination role is undertaken by IANA,” (http://www.iana.org/about/). To be completely honest I haven’t heard of IANA. So I was surprise to hear of this.

The second thing that I learned about IANA is that IANA is responsible for DNS root zone which means assigning top level domains. Two examples are .UK and .COM.

The third thing that I learned about IANA is what there policy is. IANA uses a policy which is provided by ICANN which is a development of domain and name operations. “Using the policy setting forums provided by ICANN, policy development for domain name operations and IP addressing is arrived at by many different stakeholders. ICANN has a structure of supporting organizations that contribute to deciding how ICANN runs, and in turn how IANA develops,” (http://www.iana.org/about/)

When I went on godaddy.com and I search for richardunger.com it wasn’t available. So I decided to search richardiunger.com and that was available. I added the I since it is my middle name.

The idea I decided to search for was about the future of print journalism. The domain printjournalismfuture.com is available I first tried printjorunalism.com and that was not available. So I then tried futureofjournalism.com was not available. Then I tried future_of_journalism.com and that was not available.

Computer in Education

Topic Description:

The thing that I want to learn is how to use Photoshop. Many of you know that I am the Editor-in-Chief of The Scribe and I have seen some members of The Scribe using Photoshop. I want to learn is how to use the many different aspects of Photoshop.

Available Tutorials:

The first tutorial that I that I found was how to use Photoshop. This link showed what advantage it is to use Photoshop. The best way to learn about Photoshop is to take a class on it but there is also a help box with-in the program.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ps.htm

The next tutorial I found was how to install Photoshop. It is important to know how to install it before you can even use Photoshop.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pselements/qt/freegoodies.htm

The third tutorial that was helpful was how to use a crop tool. A crop tool is to cut out an area of any image just by selecting the area that you want to keep.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/howto/ss/photoshop_crop.htm

Evaluation:

My experience with using these tutorials gave me an idea of how to use Photoshop. I hope that next time Photoshop needs to be done for The Scribe I can do it. If I need to install it then I also know how to install it.

Before today I have not use a tutorial. Yes that is weird but I usually try to learn how to use something on my own.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2229939/Midterm-Project-AdidasScribd is very interesting to use. To be honest I never heard of Scribd until now.
“Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you! Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.” (http://www.scribd.com/about)
I found that this was a different experience. This was a different way for me to publish something.
Here are the two things that I decided to upload:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2229945/Scribe-Feb-15
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2229939/Midterm-Project-Adidas

Scribd

Scribd is very interesting to use. To be honest I never heard of Scribd until now.
“Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. You can think of Scribd as a big online library where everyone can publish original content, including you! Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read. With Scribd we hope to unlock this information by putting it on the web.” (http://www.scribd.com/about)

I found that this was a different experience. This was a different way for me to publish something.

Here are the two things that I decided to upload:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2229939/Midterm-Project-Adidas?ga_from_send_to_friend=1