Week 2: All About Me

 Hi, my name is Christopher Schrum I am a student from Sarasota High School. I was born in Eston, Pennsylvania and lived there until I was 10. When I was 10, I moved to Sarasota Florida where I still live. I played soccer for 14 years of my life and during my final years I also joined competitive Olympic weightlifting. I quit soccer to focus on Olympic weightlifting and will be going to college on a scholarship for it! 

    At first, I took media studies for an easy credit, but as I started learning about the emotion and beauty behind every shot. I started to love media studies and the process behind it. It has allowed me to see my favorite movies from a different viewpoint. Understanding why the directors chose to have the actors act that way or to have the camera move a certain way, how lightening can create tension, emotion, or mood. For example, "The Florida Project" was a movie that utilized natural lightening, but had moments are cinematic lightening. These shots helped to create emotion, in the photo example we see the owner of the motel smoking a cigarette thinking about something. we later find out he was going to evict them. This scene helped us to understand he was dealing with a difficult situation. The shallow focus on him pinned him as the main object in the shot and with the dark shadow over him, it helps us to know he is dealing with a difficult situation.