10 I Thursday, Sept. 9,2010
Group to create films within 48 hours
By Lauren Ingeno
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Ready, set, action there is no
time to waste.
In a process that can take film
makers years to achieve, Penn
State students will attempt to
write, shoot, edit and produce
their own films in just two short
days.
Penn State’s Student Film
Organization (SFO) will be dis
cussing and assigning film
prompts for its annual 48-hour film
festival during the club’s second
Author
reads
poetry
aloud
By Lauren Ingeno
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Poet Catie Rosemurgy proved
to audience members that her
narrative poetry, influenced by
the 2003 movie, "Monster,” can be
understood more visually when
read aloud.
Rosemurgy read from her lat
est book of poetry, "The Stranger
Manual" which was released in
2009 and assigned to the MFA
poetry students to read over the
summer, said Evan McGarvey
(graduate-poetry). McGarvey
was one of about 40 students and
faculty 7 members who listened to
Rosemurgy read in the Foster
Auditorium on Wednesday night.
"Her poetry is really fresh; it
isn't tethered to something old
and archaic." McGarvey said.
"The cinematic influences just
make it more visual and appeal
ing."
The Rona Jaffe award-winning
poet was cheerful and funny, sim
ilar to her contemporary poems,
which center around a quirky
character named Miss Peach.
Miss Peach speaks with the
voice of a sullen teenager, and
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meeting at 6:30 p.m. tonight in
113 Carnegie.
The meeting is open to all stu
dents and will serve as a briefing
on the rules of the contest. Groups
of three to six students will be
formed at this time, SFO
President Sam Broscoe said.
“You don’t have to come with a
group,” Broscoe (senior-film and
video) said. “Last year, some peo
ple came with friends, but for the
most part people just joined up
with whoever they werg next to.”
The students then have the
freedom to create a film of any
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Philadelphia poet Catie Rosemurgy reads her work Wednesday
evening in the Foster Auditorium.
deals with some questions of
female identity. Her stories are
funny, but they have somber
undertones. When asked by a stu
dent where the name “Miss
Peach” derived from, Rosemurgy
bashfully explained that it was a
nickname her ex-boyfriend called
her. She used the rihme in her
first poem as a form of revenge.
“I couldn’t think of a good thing
to tell you so I’m telling you the
truth,” the poet said after the con
fession. “I hate the truth.”
Rosemurgy also said she didn’t
intentionally create the narrative
of Miss Peach and she didn’t orig
inally mean for the poems to be a
lament.
"In the beginning the poems
were fun but there was a lot of
darkness underneath them,”
Rosemurgy said. “In the end, I
knew the book was about vio-
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length about whatever they want -
with a twist. Using an online
random generator, SFO officers
will give each group a log line that
they must incorporate into their
film.
She zookeepers resolving their
differences is an example of one
randomly generated premise.
SFO Vice President Manami
York who will take part in judging
the contest, said she always
enjoys the crazy 48-hour film festi
val.
“I’ve been able to watch some of
them throughout the years and
lence. But I didn’t want to directly
address the issue.”
Although Rosemurgy said giv
ing poetry readings makes her
nervous, some students agreed
with McGarvey that her poetry
came alive after listened to out
loud.
“It was an entirely new experi
ence to hear it and watch her
expressions,” Rachel Mennies
(graduate-poetry) said. “When
she was reading it was like watch-
ing a movie.”
After the reading and a ques
tion and answer session,
Rosemurgy signed her book for
the students who stayed after to
speak with her.
“This is such a remarkable
community. I love meeting these
young writers,” Rosemurgy said.
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some of them are pretty fantas
tic,” York (senior-medieval studies
and art history) said.
Eric Hamilton (senior-film and
video) knows all about the chal
lenges of the 48-hour film festival.
His group’s film a complex film
noir about prohibition and assas
sins won the festival last year.
Though last year the event was
actually four days long, Hamilton
said he and his three group mem
bers took just two days to com
plete what he called an “exhilarat
ing” project. “I think the hardest
part was just getting to know
Students offer input
on touch-screen devices
By Will Schultz
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
With the release of the original
iPhone in 2007, touch-screen
technology has transformed from
a kiosk gimmick into an everyday
convenience.
By the end of 2009, the iPhone
was available in 79 different coun
tries and every major cell phone
manufacturer had produced its
own competing touch-screen
smartphone. Touch screens then
migrated to Apple's iPad and
Microsoft’s table-sized Surface.
They remain the most prevalent,
however, among cell phones.
Avid touch-screen supporter
Matt Weckesser doesn’t think he
will ever use any device but his
iPhone. “I am all about touch
screens," Weckesser (sopho
more-finance) said.
Job Hunter said he believes
touch screens have their place
within the technological world.
While Hunter (junior-anthropolo
gy) still prefers to use the slide
out keyboard on his cell phone for
typing, he said the touch screen
is ideal for “scrolling, browsing,
things like that.”
But like any technology, touch
screens have their issues. The
high cost of producing high-quali
ty touch screens has led some
companies to rely on less accu
rate versions of the technology.
This discrepancy leads to the
performance and price differ
ences between devices such as
the Blackberry Storm and the
iPhone.
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What: Student Film
Organizations's film festival
Where: 113 Carnegie
When: Begins 6:30 tonight and
ends 6:30 p.m. Saturday
where the others were coming
from and then to piece together
our own ideas,” Hamilton said.
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Without a physical button to
press, some people, like Sylvester
Dukes and Nicholas Pinn said
they sometimes accidentally end
their own calls.
Noting this issue, Grant
Rowlands (sophomore-biological
engineering) said he likes to have
the option of using physical inter
faces, adding that he likes to use
touch screens for browsing the
Internet, but also uses “joysticks
and touch-pads” for more deli
cate work
Besides cheek-induced issues,
there are also more practical
ones. Restricted by the device’s
screen size, virtual keyboards are
considered by some to be difficult
to use. Those reasons aside,
many people are comfortable
using a physical keyboard and
say the virtual one does not come
naturally to them. Others have
found themselves adapting to the
new technology seamlessly. Pinn
(junior-mechanical engineering)
said his fingers “glide” over the
keyboard.
Dukes said he would enjoy hav
ing the feature on more devices
because of their relative ease, but
would like to retain other inter
faces such as the mouse and key
board.
And Pinn said he looks forward
to a day when the devices
become even more natural.
“The more upgraded some
thing can be, the more conven
ient and beneficial [it is] to the
world,” Pinn said.
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