Christoph and I had our first wonderful holiday here in Savannah, Valentines Day! We celebrated in numerous ways and knowing us, this included lots of yummy food.
On Valentines day morning I hid some dark chocolate m&ms in Christoph's dresser drawer for our first surprise. We spent the morning hanging out in the apartment and right after I got out of the shower my beautiful flowers were delivered from a local florist. It came in a large red glass vase and there are white daisy's, red roses, and red and pink carnations. They are the most beautiful flowers ever!
For lunch I planned a surprise picnic in forsyth park. I marinated fresh mozzerella and bought artichokes and olives. My theme was 'antipasta in the park' so we also had steak, asparagus and crusty focaccia bread with olive oil and parmesan cheese to dip it in. For dessert I made chocolate covered marshmellows instead of chocolate covered strawberries which Christoph does not like. Then we packed everything up and walked over to the park. It was a beautiful day for a picnic it was 70 degrees and sunny and being a Michigan girl I still cannot believe how beautiful the weather here can be.
After lunch Christoph had just one class that day and I took a nap on the couch then he came home and we watched a romantic movie! Well I watched "Night's in Rodanthe" and Christoph did homework and tried to ignore the movie which is thought was boring! I guess the film major just needs more entertainment than a sappy love story. But since it was Valentines Day he was sweet and did not laugh at me when I cried at all the sappy parts. Then it was time for the main event dinner!
I had gone shopping with our friends Katy and Kristen, and bought a cute new dress for the occasion. It was black on bottom and the top is pink and shiny, it sort of looks like a shirt and skirt combo. Christoph looked equally spiffy in his nice khaki pants and his white and pink striped shirt. Needless to say we were "that couple" if you will. And after all of that effort to look so nice we forgot to have our friends take a picture.
For dinner we went to Garibaldi's Cafe in City Market. For those of you that don't know, City Market, is an two clock area of Savannah that is walking area over and it has many nice restaurants and touristy shops. Garibaldi's Cafe is an Italian Seafood restaurant and it is my new favorite restaurant. We started with Christoph's favorite calamari with a sweet apricot sauce. Then my entree was grouper and shrimp in a rich sauce over parmesan risotto and with zuccinni on the side. Christoph's dish was a beautiful bass fillet filled with seafood of all kinds, lobster, shrimp, and scallops. Then on the side he had mussles and clams and his was served in a red sauce with spinach. I thought I had dish envy when I saw his come out but honestly I thought mine tasted better and he thought his tasted better so it worked out great for all of us! For dessert we shared a decedant creme brulee.
After dinner on our way home we stopped in at our friend Alex's house. It was so nice to spend the whole day together but we are both such social people we needed time with our friends. Luckily he did not mind us stopping by and everyone was there including Kristen, Katy and Micheal. Overall I would say ur first holiday down south was an overwhelming success and I cannot wait to see what the next holiday will bring.
-Molly
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Film 701 Film Project!
So, one of the classes I am taking this quarter is Film 710, Film and Digital Media Production. The basic premise of this class is to learn the technical aspects of film making, specifically the role of a cinematographer (lights and camera).
At the beginning of the week we had to turn in the final cut of our first/midterm project. For this project, we had to shoot on film instead of on a digital format. I worked in a group with four friends with whom I was in last fall's 500-level classes, so we had all worked together before. Out of the four of us, only one had actually worked on film before, so we knew this may be kind of a rocky production.
The biggest challenge in working with film is that what you see through the eye piece is NOT what you are going to see as your final product. You have to measure the distance between the camera and your subject to set the camera to keep them in focus, you can't expose the film to light, you have to deal with cleanliness of the lenses, aperture plate, etc... the list goes on.
So, we each switched roles acting as director, cinematographer, gaffer and key grip for one of the four scenes we filmed for our project. As you will see, we were definitely in a new element but as the films progressed, we were able to correct our mistakes and each scene definitely improved on the other.
All of the following scenes are based on embarrassing stories that have happened to myself, Kristen, Alex or Rachael (the production team), and Alex and I took these stories and adapted them for the screen:
We have just begun work on our final project, which we can shoot on digital! So, stay tuned for that next month!
At the beginning of the week we had to turn in the final cut of our first/midterm project. For this project, we had to shoot on film instead of on a digital format. I worked in a group with four friends with whom I was in last fall's 500-level classes, so we had all worked together before. Out of the four of us, only one had actually worked on film before, so we knew this may be kind of a rocky production.
The biggest challenge in working with film is that what you see through the eye piece is NOT what you are going to see as your final product. You have to measure the distance between the camera and your subject to set the camera to keep them in focus, you can't expose the film to light, you have to deal with cleanliness of the lenses, aperture plate, etc... the list goes on.
So, we each switched roles acting as director, cinematographer, gaffer and key grip for one of the four scenes we filmed for our project. As you will see, we were definitely in a new element but as the films progressed, we were able to correct our mistakes and each scene definitely improved on the other.
All of the following scenes are based on embarrassing stories that have happened to myself, Kristen, Alex or Rachael (the production team), and Alex and I took these stories and adapted them for the screen:
We have just begun work on our final project, which we can shoot on digital! So, stay tuned for that next month!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Poltergeist!
So, while I was in Savannah on my own last fall there were a few strange occurrences that would happen to me. Next to the bed is a bookcase with books on it, obviously. A few times throughout the fall I would go to bed (with all the books on the shelf) and wake up the next morning to find three of them lined up at the foot of the bed. I told my friends about it, and they thought I was nuts- or sleepwalking. Molly also thought the same thing...
... So a few weeks ago, Molly spent her first night alone in the apartment. Being a little freaked out, she triple checked everything and knew everything was in its place. Low and behold, the next morning she found that one of her heavy textbooks was moved from the shelf to the floor at the end of the bed...
We decided that the ghost only makes himself known when there is one person in the apartment. However, today we noticed that a drawer we have been keeping in that same shelf moved too! It was inside the top shelf of the bookcase and the last time either of us touched it was two nights ago when I took a jar of Vick's Vaporub out of it... this afternoon we noticed it was sitting ONTOP of the bookcase! Hmm...
... So, what do you all think? Do we have a ghost in the apartment? Or just two very over-active imaginations?
- Christoph
... So a few weeks ago, Molly spent her first night alone in the apartment. Being a little freaked out, she triple checked everything and knew everything was in its place. Low and behold, the next morning she found that one of her heavy textbooks was moved from the shelf to the floor at the end of the bed...
We decided that the ghost only makes himself known when there is one person in the apartment. However, today we noticed that a drawer we have been keeping in that same shelf moved too! It was inside the top shelf of the bookcase and the last time either of us touched it was two nights ago when I took a jar of Vick's Vaporub out of it... this afternoon we noticed it was sitting ONTOP of the bookcase! Hmm...
... So, what do you all think? Do we have a ghost in the apartment? Or just two very over-active imaginations?
- Christoph
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Sunday afternoon in the park
So last Sunday was a beautiful day here in Savannah. It was a high of 75 and partially sunny so Christoph and I decided to go out for a walk. We drove to Skidaway Island and visited the Georgia state park there. Now first off all let me say for the record that I usually have a good sense of decoration however the park map we were given left something to be desired.
When we entered the state park I asked the park ranger to direct us to the path and for a map. Surprisingly she admitted that as a worker at this park she has never been on the walking path. So we parked in front of what we assumed to be the interpretation center and the park ranger had said that this path was right behind the interpretation center.
Now our first sign that we were in the wrong place should have been that all of the other cars were parked on the opposite side of the parking lot. So Christoph and I took off towards this building and walked around in the brush looking for a path. At this time I should also note that we both were a little over excited about the warm weather and I was in a sundress and sandals and Christoph was in shorts and flip-flops. Not exactly good footwear for marching around off trail.
After we determined that the path was not behind this building (still under the assumption it was the interpretive center) We consulted the map and continued to walk around the parking lot AWAY FROM ALL OF THE OTHER CARS. Anyways after about 20 minutes spent wandering around the parking lot it occured to us that perhaps the building we parked in front of was not the interpretive center but that maybe it was the building that everyone else had parked in front of.
Finally we were on the path and it was beautiful. The path was mostly through marshlands and it went over several rivers where we looked for crabs. I could not believe how pretty it was with the spanish moss hanging off of the trees. I kept feeling like I was in the great movie ferngully mixed with the secret garden. One of the things I cannot believe about living down here is how beautiful everything is. My favorite part of the walk was that on our way out we saw a gecko! Yes like the Geico one!
We had a lovely walk and intend to go back again and hopefully not waste our time wandering around in the nicely paved but ugly parking lot.
-Molly
When we entered the state park I asked the park ranger to direct us to the path and for a map. Surprisingly she admitted that as a worker at this park she has never been on the walking path. So we parked in front of what we assumed to be the interpretation center and the park ranger had said that this path was right behind the interpretation center.
Now our first sign that we were in the wrong place should have been that all of the other cars were parked on the opposite side of the parking lot. So Christoph and I took off towards this building and walked around in the brush looking for a path. At this time I should also note that we both were a little over excited about the warm weather and I was in a sundress and sandals and Christoph was in shorts and flip-flops. Not exactly good footwear for marching around off trail.
After we determined that the path was not behind this building (still under the assumption it was the interpretive center) We consulted the map and continued to walk around the parking lot AWAY FROM ALL OF THE OTHER CARS. Anyways after about 20 minutes spent wandering around the parking lot it occured to us that perhaps the building we parked in front of was not the interpretive center but that maybe it was the building that everyone else had parked in front of.
Finally we were on the path and it was beautiful. The path was mostly through marshlands and it went over several rivers where we looked for crabs. I could not believe how pretty it was with the spanish moss hanging off of the trees. I kept feeling like I was in the great movie ferngully mixed with the secret garden. One of the things I cannot believe about living down here is how beautiful everything is. My favorite part of the walk was that on our way out we saw a gecko! Yes like the Geico one!
We had a lovely walk and intend to go back again and hopefully not waste our time wandering around in the nicely paved but ugly parking lot.
-Molly
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