Scrolls from Sir Charlie

Colorado Friday, February 16, 2018 : Dad and I left our house as Mom arrived home just in time to say goodbye to us. We took a Lyft to Santarpio’s Pizza (my dad’s favorite pizza place) before heading to Logan airport. We got a shrimp pizza as well as a meat lovers pizza. I preferred the meat lovers because I did n’t. We took another Lyft to Logan airport and quickly made our way through security and into our gate. During the flight I watched The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 for the first time, then my computer died so I was forced to watch mind dulling boring cable shows and doze off. When we arrived in Denver, we grabbed our bags, walked through the airport until we got outside. As we got outside, Neil (a college friend of my dad’s who lives in Denver) pulled up with almost perfect timing to pick us up. We were staying at Neil’s house for the first night before we headed to Vail. Neil’s house was crazy, it had a massive kitchen (because he is a really good cook), ...

The Art of Documentary Filmmaking For the past three weeks, I’ve been working on a documentary about the access to healthy foods. We interviewed five different people who have access to healthy foods as a large part of their life, whether personal or helping others in their access. For the first week we learned about the technical aspect of the product, we watched various different documentaries and learned about what made them good. We had to know what angles and scenes would make good content. We learned the importance of what was not in the picture as well as what not to show. Every time we took a picture or a short video, we had to keep in mind the light sources, depth of field (how deep the focus goes in order to highlight what we want), rule of thirds (to try to keep the main subject in one of the thirds of the frame, rather than the middle), the composition (What is actually in the frame and why) as well as many more things. After learning all of the...