Homework 9-24 (White Balance/Exposure/Tripod)

For this exercise I just used what I had, and that's my Sony Handycam HDR-CX220

Here I used the "Indoor" white balance setting on an outside scene.

On this one, I used the custom white balance setting. I took a still of the white patio table in order to set it.

It came out more saturated looking than in normal/auto setting.

All I did here was lessen the exposure and it made it darker than it was in auto.

This was an increased exposure in an indoor setting. It is much brighter.

Tripod Pan from Tiffany Milnes on Vimeo.

Tripod Tilt from Tiffany Milnes on Vimeo.

Handheld Clip from Tiffany Milnes on Vimeo.

Emotional Photos: Rage

I had such difficulty coming up with an emotion to depict in my photos without making it too easy and generic, like "happy" or "sad." While Skyping with my best friend, she told me, "You have to do rage!" I thought it would be interesting, so I went along with it. It turned out to be a lot more difficult than I thought. I got my close friends and parents to help me out,however, they are not necessarily people who are filled with rage. It was hard to capture them without a smile. Even in the best ones you can kind of detect a hint of a grin. But having such a challenge is what made this assignment more entertaining to do.

Brainstorm 6

This is my favorite/best idea I think. The inspiration started, yet again, with a dream I had a while ago...

A man in his late 20's lives alone and starts to develop terrible nightmares. Each nightmare is different, but he always ends up killing someone for one reason or another. He wakes up terrified each morning only to find that he actually has not escaped them. These are not nightmares he is having, but sleepwalking episodes. He has been murdering people in his sleep. The nightmares do not correlate exactly with the murders. In other words, what happens in his nightmares is not what is playing out in real life, but he is sleepwalking and encountering real, unfortunate people that he ultimately kills.

His fear of being locked up either in prison or a mental institution prevent him from confessing to anyone. Instead he creates an unmarked graveyard in the backyard. He seeks professional help and looks up tips on how to stop sleepwalking and prevent nightmares. Nothing works. Locking himself up at night doesn't work and he has nobody to lock him up.

As a last resort, he tries to prevent himself from sleeping at all. The effects of the lack of sleep eventually get so bad that he has horrible hallucinations. These hallucinations eventually lead to his last murder, which happens to be a lot less discrete than his others and he gets caught. He then becomes what he tried so hard to avoid--a mental patient.

Brainstorm 5

Imagine being stopped and waiting for a funeral procession to pass by when all of the sudden you realize that it is your body in the hearse. My dad and I actually brainstormed the idea together while stuck waiting for one to pass. We actually thought it sounded like an episode of The Twilight Zone, but I would settle for just making it into a short, fiction film. Maybe if I can think of more similar short stories, they can be made into a short web series or something. 

Brainstorm 4

There are plenty of ghost hunting shows on TV, but don't these souls deserve more than to just be investigated? Enough time has been spent trying to prove their existence, so now they need our help.

My idea would be my own paranormal investigation show. At first it doesn't sound all that original, but I've seen enough to come up with a new objective for one. Most of these type of shows just want to "catch" a ghost, but I want to help them. And of course it would be about getting rid of demons as well since many times people realize the activity isn't just paranormal, it's evil. I would do a typical investigation, but it doesn't matter how much activity I caught, I would still help the souls cross-over. I would have people of the church come in for most shows, especially when dealing with demons. Now whether you believe in ghosts, spirits, demons, or angels or not, it would still be a reality/nonfiction show. 

Brainstorm 3

I don't read a lot of books, but when I saw Bill Wiese's book 23 Minutes In Hell on the shelf of Walmart of all places, I just had to pick it up. 

It's so fascinating, that I think it should be made into a feature length film. It would blur the lines between fiction and nonfiction. It would be based on Wiese's real-life story, but from an objective standpoint, nobody can scientifically prove that Hell is a real place or that Wiese did not make the whole thing up. Everything would be recreated. There is no real footage. It would still be a narrative and follow the same story line as the book.

Brainstorm 2

This is an idea based on I dream I had a little while ago. It was so interesting and vivid that I still remember a good portion of it. However, I am a little upset that I didn't write it down and let a lot of it get lost. 

Imagine a feature length film about a young boy and a very important decision that he has to make. He's about 8 or 9 years old and he lives a normal life with a normal family that consists of a mom, a dad, and and teen sister. One day they are out at a giant supermarket when a hole in the universe opens up. The family is swallowed up. On the other side is an alternate reality. Everything appears very similar. Everyone in the family is aware of what just happened and are frightened, except the boy. He is overwhelmed with new memories that he never had before. Memories so clear that the alternate universe feels like where he was suppose to be all along. They meet another similar family, except there is no son. The new family then tries to convince him that they are his real family. They succeed because he is so convinced by the "memories" and he chooses to stay, at which point his family is all of the sudden sent back to their world. They then have to find ways to get him back.

There is still a lot that needs to be worked out. It is kind of Inception-esque, but it's not about dreams. It's about alternate realities. I guess more similar to Fringe. 

Brainstorm 1

I am not sure how much I actually like this idea, but it's the one that jumps out at me right now. It popped into my head when I let my mom drive my car tonight...

Have you ever noticed that you can tell a lot about a person by the car they drive? From the make and model to what is kept inside and the radio station programmed on the stereo, a person's vehicle says a lot about their character. What if there was a nonfiction game show where people have to make decisions about others just from looking at their rides? A contestant spends some time with 3 to 5 people and then examines all of those people's vehicles at a separate time. Then they have to correctly match the people to their cars for points.

Or it could be made into another dating show. Similar to Room Raiders where people look at 3 different vehicles and decide which one they are most impressed by, which ends in a date with the owner of the vehicle.

I don't know. I'm not necessarily thrilled by either idea myself, and I came up with them.