Journals

Being There

• Director: Hal Ashby
• 1979
• Cast
• Peter Sellers - Chance
• Shirley MacLaine - Eve Rand
• Melvyn Douglas - Benjamin Rand
• Jack Warden - President 'Bobby'
• Good lighting and camera angles

Hugo

• Director: Martin Scorsese
• 2011
• Cast
• Asa Butterfield - Hugo Cabret
• Chloe Grace Moretz - Isabelle
• Ben Kingsley - Georges Melies
• Sacha Baron Cohen - Station Inspector
• Good lighting and camera angles

What the Bleep do we know?

• Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse
• 2004
• Cast
•  Marlee Matlin - Lead
• Elaine Hendrix - Jennifer
• John Ross Bowie - Elliot
• Good camera angles and lighting



Journals

The Producers

• Director: Susan Stroman
• 2005
• Characters:
• Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock
• Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom
• Uma Thurman - Ulla
• Will Ferrell - Franz Liebkind
• Lighting - It was well done and everything was well lit.
• Camera Angles - They were different and exciting.

 Schindler's List

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• 1993
• Characters:
• Liam Neeson - Oskar Schindler
• Ben Kingsley - Itzhak Stern
• Ralph Fiennes - Amon Goeth
• Caroline Goodall - Emilie Schindler
• Lighting - It was very dark and it was hard to see sometimes.
• Camera Angles - It was interesting and they were different.

 Stomp Out Loud

•   Directors: Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas
• 1997
• Cast:
• Michael Bove
• Steven Dean Davis
• Dashiell Eaves
• Raquell Horsford
• Kieth Middleton
• Anthony Sparks
• Lighting - It was dark sometimes but it was good otherwise.
• Camera Angles - They were done very well.

Blue Man Tube

•  2006
• Lighting - Very good and bright.
• Camera Angles - Also very good.

Fantasia 2000

•  Directors: James Algar, Gaetan Brizzi, and more.
• Cast:
• Leopold Stokowski
• Ralph Grierson
• Kathleen Battle
• Steve Martin
• Itzhak Perlman
• Quincy Jones
• Bette Midler
• James Earl Jones
• Penn Jillette
• Teller
• James Levine
• Angela Lansbury
•  Lighting: Animation was very bright.
• Camera Angles - Computer generated

Journals

Shawshank Redemption

• Characters:
• Andy Dufresne - Tim Robbins
• Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding - Morgan Freeman
• Warden Norton - Bob Gunton
• Andy Dufresne and 'Red' meet in the Shawshank prison and form a strong friendship. Andy escapes and Red eventually is let out. During his time there, Andy makes life for the prisoners much more bearable by building a better library and many other things.
• Date: 1994
• Color film
• Camera angles and lighting were very good.

Grimm

• 2011-2012
• TV series
• Characters:
• Nick Burkhardt - David Giuntoli
• Hank Griffin - Russell Hornsby
• Juliette Silverton - Bitsie Tulloch
• Nick is a police detective in Portland, Oregon who is a Grimm, which means that he is able to see supernatural creatures. All of his cases include such creatures and allows him to see what is behind them.
• The lighting is very dark and makes it hard to see sometimes.

Back to the Future

• 1985
• Characters:
• Marty McFly - Michael J. Fox
• Dr. Emmett Brown - Christopher Lloyd
• Biff Tannen - Thomas F. Wilson
• Jennifer Parker - Claudia Wells
• Lorraine Baines - Lea Thompson
• George McFly - Crispin Glover
• Marty accidentally travels back in time in a time machine that Doc. Brown created. He meets his parents when they were young and, by mistake, stops them from meeting. He finds the Doc in that time period, explains what happened and has to fix his past to the way it was originally. 
• The lighting and everything else were really well done
• Color movie

The Magnificent Seven

• 1960
• Characters:
• Chris Larabee Adams - Yul Brynner
• Calvera - Eli Wallach
• Vin Tanner - Steve McQueen
• Bernardo O'Reilly - Charles Bronson
• Lee - Robert Vaughn
• Harry Luck - Brad Dexter
• Britt - James Coburn
• Seven men are gathered to help a little village in Mexico fight their oppressors and 4 are killed in the process. 
• originally black/white, now in color
• lighting was a little bit flat

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

• 1986
• Characters:
• Ferris Bueller - Matthew Broderick
• Cameron Frye - Alan Ruck
• Sloane Peterson - Mia Sara
• Ed Rooney - Jeffery Jones
• Jeanie Bueller - Jennifer Grey
• Ferris fakes being sick so that he can get out of going to school for the day. The principal suspects him of skipping so he tries to find him. Ferris takes two friends with him and they have a great time. They narrowly escape being caught several times.
• Color film
• lighting was very good

Vertigo

• 1958
• Characters:
• John Ferguson - James Stewart
• Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton - Kim Novak
• Gavin Elster - Tom Helmore
• John, a detective who is afraid of heights, is asked by a friend to follow his wife. He is met with some strange things and eventually is dragged into whatever was wrong with the lady. His fear of heights prevents him from saving her.
• color film

Grimm

I think that it is cool that there are TV shows that are set in Portland. It makes it exciting to know that the places in the show are real and close by. It is easier to relate to it, and why wouldn't you want a popular TV show to be set in your home city?

Questions-

1. What do you like about working in Portland?
2. What is the best part of being involved with this show?
3. What inspired the show Grimm?
4. Is the show based on the Grimm fairytales?
5. What exactly is a Grimm? What are their special qualities?

Most Favorite Movie

AVATAR

• The CG was amazing because it was so realistic and looked very, very natural.
• The plot was thrilling and unique and the music made it exciting.
• The acting was very well done and it was easy for me to connect with them.
• The imagination behind the setting and the characters is what makes the movie different.
• The colors are so vivid and bright and makes the movie fun to watch.

      I saw this movie for the first time in IMAX 3D. It was so amazing to see Pandora on such a big screen and great sound quality! I knew that this movie was made differently, and I was eager to see how it was. I wasn't disappointed. I felt like I was standing there with them on the planet and it was very exciting.