Photo Journalism

     Photo Journalism is a certain type of journalism that uses one or multiple photos to tell a news event, story, or events. In my Mediastorm class, my film team will create a photo essay for a film we are producing. GG in the Love Game, our film, will be a movie about how technology and social networking affects teenage relationships. I plan to interview some couples, one pair in their teens, another who are parents that hadn't used social networking to be together, and hopefully a much older couple, maybe in their 65+ age range.

       My idea heading into the film is that the overall effect of social networking on teenagers has plagued us. Leading us more into arguments, bickering, break ups, or even physical fights. This Photo essay will elaborate more on the topic of how, and why teens or couples choose to go into social networking. The reason why I chose this topic is because this issue of drama on Facebook or social network is so prevalent that it persists to be an annoying issue, and also for the reason that everybody, if not most people, has a story pertaining to the drama they have experience because of Facebook.

     The shots that I want to take is a static of a computer logged onto Facebook, where the person switches between the computer and her phone with anxiety, not so much that they look paranoid, but enough to make it so that they look troubled because of both of those things.

To Be Heard

"To Be Heard" Is a Documentary that records the life's of a group of three young adults, a tripod, around the South Bronx as they use poetry to escape, or convey their message outward into the world. Anthony Pittman, Karina Sanchez, and Pearl Quick are the protagonists of the movie. The tripod forms a bond through poetry, where they learn to express themselves to the best of their ability with this form of writing. The movie itself does show and reflect how simple pieces of paper, a flow of words could mean holding on to your dignity, your composure or not falling into the cracks of the South Bronx. The inspiration in this film shows that someone could surpass the harsh realities of the world, and escape through a means of writing very profound words

My Personal Bane.

I hate Poems. I loathe the flow of rhymes, despise the deeper meaning, and detest the structure of it all. Nothing can sadate my everlasting, seething rage for this blasphime people call "peoms." But the one thing I can not bear to stand are sappy love peoms. Nothing else fills my heart with such discontempt, such a cataclysmic wrath then love peoms. They all have the same meaning, differen't words, maybe, but the overall message of it is the same age old crap. Writing, or even HEARING one of those wretched pieces of paper someone could call "love peoms" makes me want to donkey punch my girlfriend...

The Party

A lonely middle-aged man and a teenaged girl find themselves alone together at a party, where the chance to speak honestly to each other is too tempting to resist. Eric Maierson's short film explores what happens next. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/the-party

In the movie, "The Party" by the folks at Mediastorm a few acquaintances have a small little party of mature people. One could say the age range was 36-50ish. In this party, a man wanders through the house, and ends up going into the basement. Upon stepping down the stairs, he finds a young woman, a teenager who's 15 years old, smoking weed. Upon catching her, he joins the her and start to have a conversation. In their unwrapping, and unraveling, they seem to expose, a sort of loneliness in themselves. The teenager discusses how no one pays attention to her, and the older male tells the story of his divorce. From this alone, it feels that they are trying to get sympathy from each other. Telling a sob story, so that they would listen, or maybe just for the attention. The man feeling vulnerable after a divorce, and the teen just wanting to feel noticed. The sympathy from both the teen and the man leads to something else, a misinterpretation. In this event, the fifteen year old climbs onto the man and start to kiss. The man rejects the advancements coming from a teen. The man asks her why did she do that. She says that it's what she thought he wanted, because he told that sob story. The kiss could mean one of too things, or both. The teen felt a sort of attachment, or a bond to the man, and had a momentary attraction, based on their similar circumstances. Or it could mean that the man was actually trying to see how far he could go, and if it went too far, he would relent. He may have intended to come across in that tone, a "Come pet me, and feel sorry for me" because he wanted attention from someone since his wife left him. Overall, the message of the video seemed to convey that the misconception can lead to a very bad situation. The video also lacks a soundtracks to maybe emphasize more on the protagonists of the film.