My group has decided to make a movie about communication technologies and when we use them. Originally we were supposed to make up a ‘fake’ person and see how easy it is to fool people on the internet about who you really are, but we soon found out that it required more time than planned. So we settled with plan B. In our progress we have started filming and editing so hopefully our movie is ready soon.
Wikipedia is useful for basic information that you can further research on. It’s a great place to begin your research.
I have edited Wikipedia before it’s about 6 years ago, back when anyone could write anything on Wikipedia. I and my friends made a wiki page about our friend Kim. It was something along those lines of “Kim is a lonely creature who lives in an apartment above Coop Mega. Kim’s main nutrition is Nutella and spagballs”. Great fun for everyone involved. It was taken down after about a month. Now the average person can’t change anything on Wikipedia unless you they have permission like a certificate.
Facebook works because everyone uses it. It has become like a daily newspaper where you see news and storylines about your friends, family and acquaintances. It’s an easy way to communicate with people, send messages and be up to date on what other people are doing. It works because people are curious about other people in their lives.
In order for me to delete my Facebook, would be if everybody else I knew deleted theirs.
To import files from wherever you just upload them to t your computer and go into Movie Maker and click on “Drag videos and photos here or click to browse for them”, then you choose a file or an image to drag into the Movie maker. To edit the time of pictures to longer or shorter time you click “video tools” and adjust “duration”. To transition images, you go to the Animations tab and choose a transition that you want.
2. Copyright
To avoid copyright violation, make sure you acknowledge the person that has the copyrights. To do so is simple, just put the source on the end of your movie or under the picture whichever is appropriate.
3. Defamation
Defamation of character can do serious harm to a business, product or service, group, organization, and even race. In a general sense, defamation of character refers mainly to a written statement or claim or broadcast made against another that creates a negative image. These statements or claims may be considered factual or true, but are still treated as a crime.
Those who commit defamation of character usually consist of competitors, former disgruntled employees, and dissatisfied customers. These are the most common. However, there are also people out there who do it just to get a kick out of it.
Is downloading killing Hollywood or could it be the path to new beginnings? No, Internet is not Killing Hollywood not when it comes to cinema. Cinema has been standing still slightly for the last decade with no new ground breaking technology since the ability to create photo-realistic digital effects and digital projection besides 3D which has proved to be more of a gimmick that is warming out its welcome among film-goers.
Internet needs Hollywood in order to have great movies to download. Internet is also used to commercialize trailers for Hollywood. People still like going to the movies, not just for the film’s sake but also cause it are a couple and group activity. However when it comes to everyday movies that you rent in your local blockbuster, yes downloading is easier. If you could choose between downloading a movie for free at home, or get dressed, get out, take the bus or drive somewhere, pay for the move and interact with other human beings on a shitty day, what would you do? Of course you choose to stay home, it saves you bus fare / petrol money and you can do it in your underwear.
Without using Google or Wikipedia, try to answer the following questions and post your answers to your blog.
Provide the URL (with the date you accessed it) of where you found the answer. Describe how you found it.
Where was the first University established and in which year?
The first university was established in Takshashila or Taxila or Takshashila (now in Pakistan) in 700BC. This centre of learning was situated about 50 km west of Rawalpindi in Pakistan.
What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
Stephen Stockwell’s band is called The Black Assassins, he does the vocals and plays keyboard.
Black Assassins Greatest Hits Includes: Death Take Me Now, Drugs, Azaria, Fuck Me Fuck My Dog, Multinational Corporate Lifestyle, Planet X, SWAPO, Death Comes To Townsville, Run Ronnie Run, ASIO, Pain Barrier, Barricades, Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight.
What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
The Bagger 288, built by Krupps in Germany is the biggest moving machine on the planet. Weighing 45,000 tons, it took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million.
Who is Justin Bieber's lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?
All I could find were news articles about Justin Bieber’s mother looking to hire a lawyer because believes she’s being cut out of his career.
Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
Hatsune Miku is a singing synthesizer application and its female character, developed by Crypton Future Media. It uses Yamaha Corporation's Vocaloid 2 synthesizing technology. August 31, 2007 is Hatsune Miku’s birthday.
Translate these questions into Spanish and then translate them back into English.
English: Where was the first University established and in which year? Spansish:¿Dónde estaba la primera universidad establecida y en qué año? Back to English: Where was the first University established and in what year?
Englsih: What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
Spanish: ¿Lo que se denomina banda de Stephen Stockwell y lo que él jugar? ¿Puede nombrar un par de sus canciones?
Back to English: What is known as Stephen Stockwell band and that he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
English: What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build? Spansih: ¿Cuál es el peso de la máquina más grande del mundo? ¿Cuánto cuesta para construir?
Back to Englsih: What is the weight of the world's largest machine? How much is it to build?
Englsih: Who is Justin Bieber's lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?
Spanish: ¿Quién es el abogado de Justin Bieber, y lo que es la mejor manera (más rápida, más fiable) ponerse en contacto con el abogado?
Back to English: Who is the lawyer of Justin Bieber, and what is the best way (faster, more reliable) contact with the lawyer?
Englsih: What is the cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
Spanish: ¿Cuál es la forma más barata de viajar desde la costa de oro a Melbourne?
Back to English: What is the cheapest way to travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne?
English: Who is Hatsune Miku? What company does she belong to? What is her birthday?
Spanish: ¿Quién es Hatsune Miku? ¿Qué empresa ella pertenece a? ¿Cuál es su cumpleaños?
Back to English: Who is Hatsune Miku? What company it belongs to? What is your birthday?
English: Find a live webcam in Belarus. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
Spanish: Encontrar una webcam vivo en Belarús. Encontrar un lugar para alojarse en la Antártida.
Back to English: Find a live webcam in Belarus. Find a place to stay in Antarctica.
English: What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1991?
Spanish: ¿Qué canción era tope de las listas de pop australianas esta semana en 1991?
Back to English: What song was top of the Australian pop charts this week in 1991?
English: What type of car is used to make ‘Google Street View’? Spanish: ¿Qué tipo de coche se utiliza para hacer 'Google Street View'?
Back to English: What kind of car is used to make 'Google Street View'?
English: Translate these questions into Spanish and then translate them back into English.
Spaninsh: Traducir estas preguntas en español y, a continuación, se traducen en inglés.
Back to English: Translate these questions into Spanish and then translated into English.
In a Film you have a beginning, middle and end. In between those there are bridges between each section, these points are called plot points. Plot point One which is in Act One, also called the “set up” in this act many important things occur before this ‘hook’.
In making a film, there are 5 essential plot elements and 3 plot points that need to be incorporated into a 3 part act.
The film ‘Rubber’ follows the plot point steps correctly through its set up the plot point is when Tire has discovered his telepathic powers and uses them for death and destruction.
Act 1 - The Setup
The first 30 minutes is the setup, it has to lay the groundwork for the movie,the introduction of the character. In ‘Rubber’ we get introduced to the Tire, and the audience of the film in ‘Rubber’. We learn to sympathise with it, the tire is the lead character. We get to know him we learn that Tire is lonely but has a desire to kill. Tire is trampling bottles and such, his first murder happens when he squashes a scorpion. The lock in plot point is when Tire discovers his thelepatic powers and uses them to blow things up to kill.
Act 2 – Confrontation Conflict is the essence of drama. The character has to overcome a series of obstacles that the filmmaker drops in their way - each progressively harder than the last.
Act 3: The Resolution, holds the final essential element; where everything is resolved which is not always happy. This is the final plot point
There is much debate over the "reality" of the spiritual realm. There is a god, there isn't. There's a heaven, or hell, or not. And so the discussions go on. Cyberspace, Is it real? Does it exist? How can one truly comprehend it? Is it similar to the spiritual? Can it be compared? Is it "alive"? Let’s look at it this way: a rainbow is it real, or just an illusion?
Michael Benedikt defines cyberspace as "a globally networked, computer-sustained, computer-accessed, and computer-generated, multi-dimensional, artificial or 'virtual' reality." (Michael Benedikt 1991)
Apparently there are 3 levels of cyberspace:
In level 1 you have a mental map of the information landscape that we are using on our computers to find information to communicate with others. Everyone that has a PC and internet connection participates in it.
Level 2 is when you are actively communicating with a machine or another human being trough the meditation of a computer. Etc., E-mails and bulletin boards, they are examples of cyberspace islands, whereas the internet is such a global space.
Level 3 will be attained when that latter stage has been reached. Then, we will have a parallel world existing next to the physical world that will actively engage all our senses, though it will consist of data alone. (MichaelBauwens 1994)
Conclusion:
Cyberspace is like a rainbow, you know it’s there but you can’t touch it.
Michael Benedikt. Cyberspace: Some Proposals, in Cyberspace: First Steps, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), pp. 199-224
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Facebook Terms of Use
Sharing Your Content and Information, when you post something you can regulate on privacy settings who you will allow to see it. Once you posted something trough Facebook, they are allowed to use it. When you delete Facebook they delete all the information you have posted, unless someone else have shared it, then it’s still out there and free for anyone to use.
Basically you can hide certain information from other users, but once you have shared it, it’s for everyone to use, unless you copyright all your pictures so people can see that it belongs to you.
“We do our best to keep Facebook safe, but we cannot guarantee it. We need your help to do that”
It’s up to the users to keep Facebook safe by not spamming, using harvesting bots or spiders, upload viruses, use someone else’s identity, harass or bully other users, or post porn or violence, discriminate, anything to disable the proper work of Facebook and so on.
This is not very safe at all, and there will be people who violates these terms of conditions. Then it is important to report this to Facebook, so it can be taken care of.
If a person is under the age of 13 they encourage them to not sign up for Facebook, and if they learn that they have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 they will delete it. Minors are strongly encouraged to ask permission from their parents.
To keep the privacy information secured they use a firewall and encrypt that information such as passwords, using secure socket layer technology (SSL). They also use automated social measures to enhance the security; analyzing account behavior and remove inappropriate contents, possible signs of abuse and disable accounts for violation of their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
