Extra Blog - Canstruction.

I visited the World Trade Center a couple of weeks ago, before Thanksgiving. My godmother told me about an event called Canstruction, that takes place at her job every year. It was exactly as it sounded; A bunch of exhibits made entirely out of recycled cans. The exhibits were nicely done, and they had a point to them. They were bringing attention to the suffering of the 9/11 victims and letting the people know that they could still use our support. The exhibits I saw were a replica of the infamous art piece "The Ponderer" or "The Thinking Man", the upper body of an astronaut, a "water" fountain that relied solely on different can colors to depict the water, and a couple of other ones. It was nice to see creativity and to see what people could come up with. Art could be made out of virtually anything.

Blog #4 - Clip Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQYNzJXJnDI

The scene I chose was the "Sandstorm" chase scene in Mission Impossible. The main character is chasing the antagonist while having his vision almost completely obscured by a sandstorm. We don't have much vision of the antagonist at all, and we must rely on the clips of him viewing his radar for us to "know" that he's near his target.

After the first gunshot around 0:35 main character loses his target and the chase music dissipates. Once he views the radar, confirms his locations, and restarts the chase, the music resumes and sets an urgent tone. The sound helps us understand how important it is for him to catch his target, and without the music, we're left with a guy running & driving blindly through a sandstorm with no sense of his progress.

The music also changes drastically around 3:00, once the character has affirmed a new plan in his head (which the audience can quickly grasp). Clips keep switching between him driving, and the radar displaying the two arrows moving towards each other, with the music constantly building up. The music ends right before the two cars crash into each other, and signal that the action has ended.