Conclusion

While taking many science lectures during the semester, I inferred with my knowledge of films that movies are made with processes that are similar to many science principles. There are capturing ideas while writing a screenplay like an atom capturing another atom in covalent bond, filming a movie by changing a script into a picture alike to animal's metamorphosis of changing into different form and post-production of shaping the original into a product that is close to what the director intended comparable to the convergence of getting into specific value. Movie production, like natural phenomenon,  doesn't process with something out of nowhere but is executed according to certain principles like science does.

Intro

Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free. This is a famous word from movie Shawshank Redemption. These kinds of words and events that hardly can be heard or can occur in real life are what attracted me into the world of movies and let me know how movies are made. The movies people usually see is made through three stages, which are pre-production, filming, and post-production.

Body 3

After wrapping up the process of filming, the final step of making a movie is post-production which consists of editing shots, sound mixing, and putting CGI. As written in Calculus Concepts and Contexts, convergence is a value that approaches to certain value. (Jewette, Serway). As reported by Batman News, a superhero movie, 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' finished filming and began post-production, which will involve scoring and editing. When film editor is handed over a whole film, he or she begins to contemplate what kind of editing skill he or she will use and what scene should be discarded to make the film consistent. After determining what to do in the editing process, the editor creates few editions and pick one for actual release. The sound mixing process also progress in the post-production. To make the film more absorbent, the score which is familiar to normal people as word soundtrack, is added into the screen. If the voice of an actor is considered too ambiguous for audiences to understand, the editor record actor's voice and mix it with what was recorded from the filming process. Post-production also involves realizing scene which is impossible to film in the filming process. The editor puts computer graphics to make a film more realistic and persuasive. I can infer that the whole process of post-production is similar to the convergence due to the reason that during the post-production the movie, like convergence, reaches what the film supposed to be.

Body 2

After writing script, the next step if movie production is filming which consists of turning words into images, deciding which place to film a movie on, and editing a movie. As described in Campbell Biology, metamorphosis is process of physical development by an animal, which involves change in body structure. Conforming to news by Variety, a movie named 'Alone in Berlin', starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson, started shooting in Berlin. Filming is like metamorphosis in three ways. When changing words into a film, the director has to follow common senses to make a motion picture understandable to audiences. Likewise, when an animal metamorphose itself into new shape, the shape cannot be random. The appearance must be following the data in its DNA. Also, appropriate locations must be chosen for cinematography while shooting a film. When what was put on screen doesn't match with the stream of story, audiences will find the work awkward. It is also the same to metamorphosis to find a right place. If one cannot find a safe place to change itself, predators will come and eat it up. Lastly, editing process is needed in the filming stage for the pace of the film. Metamorphosis also has a property similar to the editing, which is getting rid of its useless outer layer.

Body 1

 The beginning of movie production starts by writing a script which involves capturing ideas, developing ideas into contents, and shaping contents into actual words.  According to the 9th edition of Chemistry which is written by Zumdahl, covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves two atoms sharing electrons. As stated in Hollywood Reporter, Tricia McAlpin, a screen writer, is going to adapt a book named 'Forever, Interrupted', which is a story about a young woman who lost her fiancee, into a movie. Writing a screenplay is like making a frame for beginning of a construction. It is not only a simple step but it is also the most important step out of while procedure. A screenplay determines what directors, actors and staffs should do when filming, which means that it will be a instruction book for them. When a movie production company launches a movie project, it first hires a writer to write a screenplay. Before beginning to write a screenplay, the screenwriter look for right ideas that match with the concept that production company suggested. After obtaining right ideas, the writer develops ideas in many ways and finds one final developed content. Then, the writer shapes the content into actual words. I can derive that this whole process of conducting a screenplay is similar to the covalent bond. A covalent bond is also created by an atom finding other available atom at first. When atoms connect to each other, there could be many ways to connect to each other even with the same reactants. Finally, the atoms give each other electrons, forming themselves into a new molecule which has different characteristics, compared to those of reactants'.

Week 11: Reporting a Reference

Body 1

According to 9th edition of Chemistry which was written by Zumdahl, covalent bond is a chemical bond that involves atom sharing electrons.

As stated in Hollywood Reporter, Tricia McAlpin is going to adapt a book named 'Forever, Interrupted', which is about a young woman who lost her fiancee, into a movie.

Body 2

As described in Campbell Biology, metamorphosis is process of physical development by an animal, which involves change in body structure.

Conforming to news by Variety, a movie named 'Alone in Berlin', starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson, started shooting in Berlin.

Body 3

As written in Calculus Concepts and Contexts, convergence is a value that approaches to certain value. (Jewette, Serway)

As reported by Batman News, a superhero movie, 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' finished filming and began post-production, which will involve scoring and editing

WEEK 10: Big Science Connections and Sources

Directing a Film

1. Covalent bond - Collecting ideas and datas -script

2. Metamorphosis - turning words into something else -filming

3. Convergence - turning the uncut film into something director wanted -post-production

Ford, Rebecca. "Tricia McAlpin to Write Script for 'Forever, Interrupted,' Starring Dakota Johnson." The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2015. Web. 21 May 2015.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tricia-mcalpin-write-script-forever-780180

Barraclough, Leo. "Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson Movie 'Alone in Berlin' Starts to Shoot." Variety. Variety, 26 Mar. 2015. Web. 21 May 2015.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/emma-thompson-brendan-gleeson-movie-alone-in-berlin-starts-to-shoot-1201460945/

Begley, Chris. "That’s a Wrap: ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Heads to Post-production." Batman News. N.p., 05 Dec. 2014. Web. 21 May 2015.
http://batman-news.com/2014/12/05/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-heads-to-post-production/