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5 Features Irish Eyes Thursday, September 30, 2010 By Anna Whitaker Layout Editor New generation 3-D movies empty wallets, mesmerize viewers BIG EASY FLOWERS (504) 524-9989 750 CARONDELET ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 Monday - Friday 8:00 - 5:00 Saturday 8:00 - 3:00 MICHON MUSIC 3200 SEVERN AVE STE 110 METAIRIE LA, 70002 INSTRUMENT RENTALS AND REPAIRS (504) 454-7581 HELP SUPPORT GRACE KING HIGH SCHOOL BY JOINING THE GRACE KING HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION JOIN AS:ALUMNUS MEM- BER, STUDENT MEM- BER, FACULTY MEMBER, FRIEND OF GKHS DUES ARE ONLY $20/ YEAR. Assistant Principal expresses high hopes for this year Suzan Serigny, the new Assistant Principal of Curriculum Instruction, may be new at King, but she’s very familiar with King’s standing. Serigny was working at L. W. Higgins for four and a half years as the Assistant Principal of Curriculum before being transferred to King due to administration moves. She’s been in education for 30 years. Upon hearing the news of her move, Serigny became anxious. “I was worried... King has such an outstanding reputation. It’s very prestigious.” However, she says that she is very honored and excited to be here. Serigny attended South Lafourche High School in Galliano, Louisiana. She admitted that she did not begin as a model student. “Unfortunately, I got into a lot of trouble until about 10th-grade,” Serigny said. She conceded to being “wordy” with teachers. However, she began to find things she liked about school. For example, she got involved with the drama program. “My grades started to improve... I started to improve.” Serigny is also an avid football fan. “If I could have played myself, I would have,” she says. Even today, Serigny’s love of football is apparent. As a dedicated Saints fan, Serigny’s office is decorated with Saints paraphernalia. “I loved the Saints since they developed. I believed when no one else did.” Serigny considers student achievement her number one responsibility. Her other responsibilities include: being of assistance to teachers, knowing how to get the supplies teachers need, helping with any issues the teachers see in students, deciding testing schedules, and monitoring testing. Serigny’s biggest challenge at King is for her to do the best job that she can and be of assistance to everyone. Overall, Serigny wants to make sure that outsiders have the same perception of King as herself: outstanding. people still complain about the prices, the glasses being too big and headaches,” Waguespack said. The AMC theater in Elmwood also has multiple 3-D projectors. They play movies in 3-D as well as IMAX 3-D, which are played on larger screens, up to eight stories high. These screens are converted from regular screens to permanant 3-D IMAX screens. Avatar is the largest grossing movie in 3-D ever, with over $760,167,650 made since December of last year. Now, people are able to bring the 3-D experience home with the new Sony SXRD Front Projector and 3-D televisions that were released in 2010 as well as 3-D video games. Stores such as Best buy sells the 3-D televisions at an exorbitant price of $4500. The demand for 3-D merchandise is rising as technology is able to advance quickly and not be so pricey. Senior Kelsey Lichtenstein thinks that having a variety of different genres of movies in 3-D is senseless. “Only specific movies like action or horror movies should be in 3-D. It is useless for all other movies,” Lichtenstein said. superimposed onto the same screen through different polarizing filters. The viewer wears low-cost eyeglasses which also contain a pair of polarizing filters oriented differently (clockwise/counterclockwise or vertical/horizontal). As each filter passes, only that light which is similarly polarized and blocks the light is polarized differently so each eye sees a different image, producing the three-dimensional objects. Recently, many major movies have reached high gross sales, also due to the fact that tickets cost more because special glasses must be bought. At the AMC Clearview Palace in Metairie, as well as being more popular than 2-D movies, 3-D movies are a full $3.00 more than 2-D. Senior Samantha Waguespack, who has worked at the theater for almost a year, feels as though people are 3-D movie crazy. “We only have three 3-D projectors, but the three movies are our most popular movies, and somehow New Assistant Principal Suzan Serigny announces students’ names at the awarding of certificates at the first annual Top Ten Luncheon, held on Sept. 23. Nicole Foerstner Since the blockbuster movie Avatar was released in December 2009, three dimensional (3-D) movies have had a noticeable surge in popularity compared to the last thirty years since its introduction to theaters. Derived from stereoscopic photography, a special motion picture camera is used to record the images as seen from two perspectives (or computer-generated imagery generates the two perspectives), and special projection hardware and eye wear are used to provide the illusion of depth when viewing the film. These types of movies have been around since the 1950’s but have grown in popularity within the past few years. The combination of digital and digitized source material with relatively cost-effective digital post-processing has spawned a new wave of conversion products, making it easier to mass produce the films in most theatres around the world. The twenty first century has been able to accommodate and catch up to the new technology. Instead of using the earliest 3-D method of anaglyph images where two images are super imposed in an additive light, a polarization system was perfected for motion pictures in theaters. To present a stereoscopic motion picture, two images are projected Top Ranking 3D Movies 1: Avatar 2: Toy Story 3 3: Alice in Wonder- land 1980-present Infographic by Anna Whitaker Source: boxofficemojo.com By Olivia Normand Managing Editor Productions Manager Jessica Parker & 3440 DIVISION ST. METAIRIE, LA 70002 504-780-0100
