Author Archives: cwise2013

This Tiger’s Eye

Posted on May 1, 2013 by cwise2013

As a disclaimer, this is the only class at Trinity that I have taken for “fun”. I didn’t understand the point of taking an elective until I took COMM2302. I have pushed myself more in this class than any other … Continue reading →

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Office Predators of the Alien Kind.

Posted on April 22, 2013 by cwise2013

For my trailer remix project, I converted Office Space (Mike Judge 1999) into a sci-fi alien movie trailer. Chuck Klosterman’s “What’s behind Room 237” inspired me when I was deciding (last minute) what kind of genre I could turn a … Continue reading →

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Save Your Money, Watch the Trailer

Posted on April 10, 2013 by cwise2013

The main objective of a movie trailer is to entice viewers in a short time frame. The average length of the trailers I watched was 2:30 minutes. A trailer attempts to captivate audiences through different permutations of shot length and … Continue reading →

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Are Clones and Robots Human?

Posted on March 21, 2013 by cwise2013

Moon (Duncan Jones 2009) takes place in the near future, when humans have discovered natural gas in the form of Helium3 on the Moon. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is the only person manning the stations on the Moon, but as … Continue reading →

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Breaking Boundaries: Transhumanism in the 21st Century

Posted on March 1, 2013 by cwise2013

According to Nick Bostrom, Philosophy professor at Oxford University and author of “The Transhumanist FAQ” published by the World Transhumanist Association, transhumanism is “the intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition … Continue reading →

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How to Mesmerize Your Audience

Posted on February 6, 2013 by cwise2013

Subjective Camera According to Bernard Dick, subjective shot is “what the character sees” and an objective shot “represents what the camera sees” (46). By combining these two shots, the audience sees what the character is actually seeing, through the camera … Continue reading →

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Growing up Chola

Posted on January 23, 2013 by cwise2013

Hello, my name is Gabriella Wise. I am a senior at Trinity anxiously awaiting the moment that they call my name to cross the graduation stage. One thing few strangers can discern about me is that I am half Salvadoran, … Continue reading →

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