12 years a slave

I watched 12 years a slave in English class, little over a week ago. The movie is based on a true story. A free black man gets kidnapped and spend his next 12 years as a slave.

 Solomon Northup, who the movie is about, lived a nice life in upstate New York, before he was tricked by two circus freaks to come with them to play violin on one of their shows. Northup agrees to come with them. He gets drunk and kidnapped by the circus freaks. When he wakes up he finds his been imprisoned. He tries to tell the warden, that there has been made a mistake. For that he gets lashed.

 The movie is very violent. There is a lot of beating, sexual harassment, foul language, racism and gender discrimination.

 I personally thought the movie seemed long. There were many, long scenes, where people were beaten, hung, assaulted etc. There were also many dark scenes, so at times it was hard to see the actors. Not just because most of them were black, but because of the lack of lighting in the scenes. The story started of good, but I feel as if the director dragged the story out, just to have a movie passed two hours, so for me this movie was not a hit.

 This is my opinion. Long and maybe a bit boring, but strong and memorable.

Project-film-week

Denne uken hadde vi teori om prosjekt arbeid. Den kompetansen lå vi inn i en liten film med jump cuts. 

Vi lærte hvordan vi starter en idé og jobber på den slik at vi får et produkt som kan bli vist for verden. Her er den filmen vi lagde i min gruppe. Vi gjorde noen små feil, men det har vi lært ifra.

This week we had teori about project work. We put this knowledge into a short film with jump cuts.

We learned how to start an idea og work with it to make it a product for the world to see. Here's the film my group and I made. We did some minor mistakes, but we have learned from them.

The BenRock Shake

Håper den var bra, selv om vi hadde på auto fokus.

Hope it was good, even if we had auto focus on.

Vaycay

Ferie. Herlig ferie. Ingen skole på en uke. Jeg tenkte jeg skulle være frempå allikavel og tok et par bilder.

Vacation. Lovely vacation. No school for a week. I thought i wouldn't fall behind so i took a some pictures.

Jeg vet ikke hva dere synes om bildene, men det var bare sånne "nå føler jeg meg inspirert" og "dette blir sikkert stilig" bilder. Jeg bare tok bilder der jeg følte for det.

I don1t know what you think of the pictures, but there were just those "now I feel inspired" and "this seems fun" pictures. I just took when i felt like it.

Jeg er på høyre side av bilde, jeg har klippet meg :) Selv.

I'm on the right, i cut my hair :) Myself.

BIFF

Wow! For en opplevelse. Vi så tre filmer som alle var veldig øye åpnende og sterke. Anbefaler alle å dra på noe sånt en gang.

Wow! What an experience. We saw three films and everyone of them were eye opening and powerful. I recommend everybody to go to something like this once.

BIFF

The Internett

Internettet er et stort sted og på skolen har vi nå om media, budskap og hvordan internett har innvirkning på hverdagslivet vårt.

The internett is a hugh place for information. At school we have turned our interest onto media, message and how the internett has impacted our daily lives.

Det finnes mange typer kommunikasjon, og måter å få sendt videre et budskap. Massekommunikasjon er den formen vi bruker mest når vi vil ha en mening. Massekommunikasjon kan være å sende en tweet. Da når du hele verden og det blir kalt massekommunikasjon. Dette var noe av det vi lærte i første kapittel i media timene. Vi lærte også om hvordan vi sender og tar imot et budskap. Støy og den slags.

There are a lot of different types of communication, and ways to deliver a message. Mass communication is the form we use when we want to get the message out and about. Mass communication can be sending a simple tweet. When you do, you can reach the whole world.This is some of what we learned in the first chapter in media class. We also learned about how to give and receive a message.

Ytringsfrihet. Den er bra å ha, men pluss den sammen med internett så har du kanskje et problem. Det internett gjør med ytringsfriheten, er at den tar vekk ansiktet til den som sier det. Anonyme personer kan si hva de. Dette ender ofte opp med nettmobbing. Fordi mobberne ikke har noe ansikt, får de heller ikke konsekvensene ved å mobbe noen. De forsvinner i Cyberspace og ingen kan gjøre noe med det og de holder på til de er lei.

Freedom of speech. It's a good things to have, but pair that up with the internett and you might have a problem. What the internett goes is removing the faces of people. Anonymous people can say whatever they want to. It often ends up as bullying. The bullies don't have a face and therefore there are no consequences. They disappear into Cyberspace and since nobody can stop them they continue until there bored.

Vær forsiktig med hav du legger ut på nettet og bruk den gyldne regelen i alt du gjør. Ikke stol på alt du ser og hører på nettet heller. Nettet er en spindelvev av informasjon og tull. Tenkt deg om og vær grei.

Be careful with what you post on the internett and use the golden rule in everything you do. Don't trust everything you see and read on the internett either. The internett is a cobweb of information and nonsense. Think twice and be nice.

The Media Way

Mitt navn er Maud Solli, jeg er en media student på Årstad Videregående skole i Bergen. Første året!

Jeg har nå gått her i litt over en måned og jeg har lært mye.

Jeg går i en fantstisk klasse, med 90% gutter.

My name is Maud Solli, i'm a media student at Årstad "High School" in Bergen, Norway. Fresh! Man!

It's been a little over a month and I have learned so much.

I'm in a great class, where 90% are boys.

 Dette er bare noen av bildene jeg har tatt.

These are some of the pictures I have taken.

Uuh, blurry!

Jeg tror dette er ett av mine favoritt bilder som jeg har tatt. Skogen var ikke så mørk, men jeg brukte feil innstilling og fikk dette bildet. Bildet ble tatt midt på dagen og det var sein sommer.

I think this is one of my favorite pics that i have taken. The forest actually wasn't that dark, but my mistake became this picture. This picture was taken mid day on a late summers day. Just FYI!