Thursday, October 25, 2007
Alaska
Every summer i go to Alaska to work on a commercial gillnetting boat, my dad owns the boat. The day after school gets out I get on a plane in Seatac and that plane takes me to Anchorage. I get on another plane there that takes me to King Salmon, from there my dad picks me up and drives me to the camp we stay at. The company we sell the fish we catch to is called Peterpan Seafood's Inc. Usually I get there right after free week which is a week of fishing right at the beginning of the season where you kind of just test it out. There are lots of different areas to fish at in Bristol Bay, there is the Naknek Quejak district, Nushagak, and a few others, but we usually fish in the Nushagak district for most of the season and towards the end of the season we transfer to the Naknek Quejak district. At the very end of the season we put the boat away, the company has a big crane that lifts our boat out of the water and then we clean it up and winterize it and put it in the warehouse and go home, and my favorite part (get paid).
Friday, October 12, 2007
Rear Window Essay
Cameron Schille
American Studies
10/3/07
Rear Window Essay
Alfred Hitchcock was a great film writer. He made lots of great films in his days and one of his best films was Rear window. Hitchcock liked to set challenges for himself in his films and the challenge in this film was too tell a good story without the camera ever leaving Jeff’s apartment.
One way Alfred Hitchcock made this film interesting was he always had people coming in and out of Jeff’s apartment. They would have real life conversations that were very interesting and grabbed the audiences attention. When the people came into his apartment he would tell them about his day and everything he saw. There was also a relationship with one of the characters and Jeff had love scenes with her which caught peoples attention.
Another way this film was interesting was because Jeff and his friends were always looking out the window and spying on people. there were always really interesting things going on outside the apartment in other peoples windows, and the characters were always talking to each other about these things to tell the audience what was going on and the actors opinion on it.
Another thing that made this film interesting was that there was a problem that the people in Jeff’s apartment were trying to figure out and solve. The problem was that there were lots of signs that one of Jeff’s neighbors might have murdered their wife. There were things like long distant phone calls and trips out late at night. One of the biggest signs were he had a box and rope that made it look like he was putting his dead wife in there.
These are all good reasons why this film was a good one. I would recommend this film to anyone who hasn’t seen a good movie in a while or just likes good movies because it is very interesting.
American Studies
10/3/07
Rear Window Essay
Alfred Hitchcock was a great film writer. He made lots of great films in his days and one of his best films was Rear window. Hitchcock liked to set challenges for himself in his films and the challenge in this film was too tell a good story without the camera ever leaving Jeff’s apartment.
One way Alfred Hitchcock made this film interesting was he always had people coming in and out of Jeff’s apartment. They would have real life conversations that were very interesting and grabbed the audiences attention. When the people came into his apartment he would tell them about his day and everything he saw. There was also a relationship with one of the characters and Jeff had love scenes with her which caught peoples attention.
Another way this film was interesting was because Jeff and his friends were always looking out the window and spying on people. there were always really interesting things going on outside the apartment in other peoples windows, and the characters were always talking to each other about these things to tell the audience what was going on and the actors opinion on it.
Another thing that made this film interesting was that there was a problem that the people in Jeff’s apartment were trying to figure out and solve. The problem was that there were lots of signs that one of Jeff’s neighbors might have murdered their wife. There were things like long distant phone calls and trips out late at night. One of the biggest signs were he had a box and rope that made it look like he was putting his dead wife in there.
These are all good reasons why this film was a good one. I would recommend this film to anyone who hasn’t seen a good movie in a while or just likes good movies because it is very interesting.
Fishing
On sunday night I went fishing with my dad. We were fishing in Tulalup for silvers. When we got there my dad threw the buoy and the end of the lead line as far as he could up onto the beach and then he set the net and anchored the boat, which you are not suppose to do with a drift gillnet because fish and game doesn't allow it, but he does it anyway. The boat we have is 32 feet long and my dad brings a rowboat with him because with the rowboat he can row down the net and get the fish out before the seals get to them without having to put the whole net back on the drum. While my dad rowed down the net the first time i scooped ice from a cooler or (toat) into another toat that had water in it to make slush ice. At the end of the night in the morning we ended up with 23 salmon. It was pretty fun.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
new blog
hey my name is cameron and this is my first blog i am doing it for my american studies class
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