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Horror Movie

This weekend I watched the first Paranormal Activity.  I had never seen it before but I had heard so much about it.  The movie is about a young couple who moves into a new house.  Micah, the boyfriend, buys a new camera and is obsessed with taping their lives.  Everything is going fine until the girlfriend, Katie, starts hearing noises around the house.  Micah does not believe anything she says, however Katie keeps on hearing and seeing strange things. Micah sets up the camera in front of their bed to tape while they are sleeping.  When they watch over the tape the next day, they notice that Katie is doing strange things during her sleep like waking up and standing over Micah for hours.  Eventually, Micah starts to get a little freaked out by the whole thing.  He notices Katie isn't acting like herself, but chooses to sort of ignore it.  Stranger and stranger things start happening, and Katie is getting weirder and weirder.  It turns out that Katie has been possessed by a demon living in the house.  At the end of the movie, Katie kills Micah.

My Apocalypse

Earth is not the same after the apocalypse.  It's not the earth I once knew with vibrant and lively nature everywhere I turned.  No, this is no longer my everyday scenery.  The flowers are gone and the trees are no longer green.  Everything is either technical or no existent.  I believe my apocalypse I closer to Phillip K. Dick's version because it has similar characteristics.  Nature is not an everyday sight.  Everything has been taken over by technology, and the simple things are no longer valued.  Phillip K. Dick's apocalypse seems sort of cold and empty, and that is how I pictured my apocalypse.

Comparing Blade Runner Scenes

In the first scene, the lighting is very dramatic.  In the background, the sun is the main focus.  It is very bright and orange.  The sky around it, however, is rather dark.  The sun lights the room in which Deckard and Rachel are talking.  The room is dark other than the orange lighting from the sun.  It adds a futuristic feel to the whole scene.  The costumes are pretty ordinary.  Rachel is wearing a black dress, Deckard is wearing jeans with layered jackets, and Tyrell is wearing is wearing a white suit with a bow tie.  These costumes portray the characters just like I would imagine them in the book.  In my opinion, each outfit fits that character and their personality.  The dialogue is pretty much precise to the book.  It is very straightforward, yet engaging.  The dialogue is way to portray that characters personality.  For example, Rachel is very formal and emotionless and Deckard is somewhat nonchalant.  

In the second scene, the music was very soft.  It was faint, but impactful because it makes the audience feel sad for Roy.  The tune is simple.  It's not sad, but it's also not joyful.  It makes the audience feel emotion because it fits what Roy is talking about so well.  Roy is giving a speech and the music is the background.  It's a sad scene, but also redemptive.  The music makes the audience and Deckard feel empathy for Roy.  The dialogue is very impactful.  Roy is very deep and explaining everything that Deckard never understood.  It made Deckard look at androids in a completely different light.  Deckard looked sad and remorseful.  I do not think that Deckard is crying in this scene, however it is hard to tell because of the rain.

Future For Deckard

Deckard and Rachel flee Deckard's apartment and plan to leave earth.   Rachel is being hunted by bounty hunters, and Deckard cannot let them find her.  He is love with Rachel and will do anything to keep her from danger.  Deckard and Rachel devise a plan to leave earth and leave no evidence behind.  Deckard has no one to take care of in his life except Rachel so he has no problem leaving his former life.   Rachel also has no one whom she is attached to because Tyrell is dead.  Tyrell pretty much owned her and no that he is no longer alive she is free.  Deckard and Rachel only have each other.  The other bounty hunters are on the search for Rachel.

Annotated Bib. Proposal

My question is "How does technology effect interpersonal communication?"  Research on this topic has been going pretty well.  I have found various articles about my question, but not many books.  I have found information about technology and how it effects the way people communicate face-to-face.  Some sources have different views and opinions on the topic.  The first solution to this question is that technology negatively effects interpersonal communication because people don't talk face-to-face as often.  The second solution is that technology actually helps build interpersonal communication skills because it provides people with new ways of talking to others and getting in contact.