Outside Reading #2

For this outside reading, I am going to comment on the movie that we have been watching in class. This movie is called "Duel" and is written by Steven Speilberg. I really enjoyed this movie even though it was a little old. Speilberg used a lot of interesting camera techniques to portray different things. For example, to make the truck look bigger he shot with an angle low to the ground. Also, to make the truck and the car look as if they were traveling faster, he had them shoot up against a landscape. Seeing the landscape whiz by the truck made it seem a lot faster. Although I'm a little upset I didn't get to see who the driver is, I still really enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to many people.

Outside Reading #1

For these next few blog posts, I will be commenting on a book that I am just starting to read. It is called, "The Enemy" by Lee Child. I have read just the first twenty pages, and already I am really enjoying it. It is about a man named Jack Reacher who works for the Army. The book opens with Jack receiving a call from an officer saying that there is a dead general in a hotel 50 miles out of town. He goes down to check it out and finds out that it is an Army general. I stopped reading where Jack is waiting for the autopsy report to see if the mysterious death was natural or a murder.