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Jakob Dornhofer: Jakob was born in California in 1998.

He has had a passion for entertainment since he was young. He also enjoys mountain biking and playing lacrosse. He is the head editor for this magazine. And helps choose all the top stories for the magazine.

Andrew Emmick was born in Austin, Tx. He has been swimming for 9 years, and currently swims for the LBJ swim team. He is also on the lacrosse team and in german club. He is not certain, but thinks it highly likely that he would like to study medicine and become a trauma surgeon.

Christian Flores was born on December 4, 1998. He is a student at LASA High School also known as Liberal Arts and Science Academy. Christian Flores plays sports such as Basketball, Track, and Swimming. He wants to one day attend the college Berkeley California. He is a free spirited teen who enjoys life and all of its wonders.

Elliott Thacker was born and raised in Austin,Tx. He enjoys many activities including video games, lacrosse, skateboarding, and music. He hopes to be a comedian or to do something great in his life. The college he hopes to attend is Duke University. He has a few talents such as sailing and bass playing.

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Table of Contents Machinimists a Dream Job? Q and A...P 6-7

Minds Of Movies... P 20-21

James Bond, from DR.No to Skyfall and beyond... P 22-23

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Letter from the Editors If you love entertainment then you are in the right place. This magazine is all about entertainment. We take great care to bring you the best stories and news from the entertainment world. Since this magazine was started we have had a loyal and growing group of followers. With so many new movies coming out every year and many of them don’t make the big headlines. We like to make sure that all the movies, it is whether a blockbuster or a small hometown movie we want you to know which movies are worth watching and which not. We don’t like to waste our time so we will not waste yours. One of the main things we like to talk about is rumors about new movies. But we always make sure that the rumors and news we bring you is true and not just something that someone put on a blog. We also take pride in being connected to the community and are always open to suggestions for stories and interviews. Lastly I would like to thank all of our staff who keep this magazine running and make sure that you can rely on the information we give you. Thank you for supporting us. Enjoy the magazine!

The Editing staff

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Machinimists a Dream Job? Playing with video games all day sounds like a dream come true.

“All you have to play games, what’s so good about that?” Well whats good is your creating entertainment for people and have patience to create a new form of art. This job may seem like a great oppurtunity for people who enjoy gaming, but it may require more then you may believe.

By-Elliott Thacker

Charles Arscott quickly begins running from the car, a steady tick tick ticking noise follows him as he ducks behind a wall.

“PSHSHSHSHS” can be heard as the cars and surrounding people are blown to bits…..The light blue glow of the LCD screen feels the room as Arscott sighs and begins to re-edit the scene on his screen.

Machinimators like Arscott use video games as an art form to make animations or stories. This can be difficult if the person that follows this career path has a lack of motivation, passion or time. Entertainment is a broad subject, and things such as video games are used to entertain a person.

“I think using videogames in terms of 6

my videos make video games more of a art, I generally appreciate the time and work that takes to make one. Yeah I say that I have more of a fulfilling experience learning the in and outs of the game,”Charles Arscott said.

In many situations in life kids are told to follow their dreams or to work with what they love, this can be done but in life it will be as most things are ruined by having to do it, wanting to do it. All is good in moderation but for an animator, working with video games, they have to play a game to make money.

They need to know more about the game to create a animation and need to have learned how to go into a game and actual change things for a animation. For them gaming evolves beyond something to entertain themselves but to entertain others.

“I enjoy sporting activities [lacrosse] a lot, because its not my job, its my hobby, and I enjoy building stuff like Legos,” Arscott said.

Machinimators take gaming beyond playing the game and creates more of a situation where it’s not just for personal use but for the use of the masses to feel entertainment.

Everyone enjoys a break from work, but what do animators do if video games are their go-to for a break? Unless they enjoy gaming a lot, they may find other passions or hobbies.

Machinimator use video games as there form of art, creating a more entertaining animation for others to enjoys.

But in creating their own work from a game allows them to see more into the work gone into a game and how much time and effort is put into a game.

“I didn’t actually have any formal training like I said I watched a lot of YouTube tutorials and what not, and that would be the only formal training I had.

It’s definitely a lot easier if you take a class because then you have professional guiding you,” said Arscott.

Working in animation requires you to be able to go into a game and create your own words and actions of the characters.

Animating, if given the time can be done by anyone who has the background knowledge and skills. The more effort you put into a animation, will get more out of it. Animating involves writing a skit, acting it and then editing through all the clips you take.

A fantastic Q&A with a machinimator, Charlie Arscott: Q: Why did you began a career in entertainment and machinimators?

Charles Arscott:“People were getting laughs out of me anyway so I might as well start charging them for it, also I don’t know I like to make people laugh.I think being able to entertain is a really fulfilling experience and I like video games also.”

Q: Who inspired you to go into entertainment?

CA: “ The art form of Ray William Johnson, he just a very funny guy and his downtrodden look on humanity I really admire, also Tobuscus is a god amongst men and if you disagree then **** you” Q: Is machinamating difficult, if someone has trouble where do you suggest they look?

CA: “It really just takes time and perseverance. Also YouTube is a great resource for people looking to gain the skills necessary to animate stuff.”

Q What task do you find more difficult editing or creating skits?

CA: “ In terms of more difficulties, in terms of what i have to do for my skits and all that, I’d say editing is generally a lot more time consuming”

“I look at society and a lot of situations where people are stupid.

A lot of things that I remember is think about how stupid the average person is and then remember that half of them are stupider than that and thats where I draw inspiration for most of my videos,” said Arscott.

For most entertainers they can’t all be completely original.

They need to have something that made them decide to follow

Machinima.com is where you can find many Machinimists work, such as Charles Arscott.

“Skyrim, any Bethesda game because this course as a career its so easy for you to and to a place where mod it and for you to they draw inspiration capture it, the kind of from. To be an animator crazy [stuff] in games takes time and a lot like Grand Theft Auto of tenacity to keep on but Skyrim and any with getting everything Bethesda game is mainly you need done. To be what I use to operate, ” a entertainer you need Arscott said. to be able to actual entertain.

Animators need

to have a set games they

Machinimators use many work with or a variety of games. For some people type of games for their animations, some games these are games like G-mod (Garry’s Mod) are easier to work with, so depending on the skill which is used to make level effects whats game animations but some people go into certain you use.

games and use them for their animations. Gamers use a variety of consoles.

In many ways entertainers enjoy their media even after work, but they do have other hobbies completely separate of what they use to work with. Working in animation can be very fulfilling and can be a job that can be done with little previous experience, and patience.

“It really just takes time and perseverance,” Arscott said. DV

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Rocking through the By-Elliott Thacker

There are many forms of music, such as jazz, hip-ho ing in the border realms of the musical world is rock, altern not much is actual known about its origins, making it seem have yet to come to terms with how they started this timelin 1960’s Bands:

The Beatles, Supremes, The Temptations, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin Solo: Dick Dale, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan.

Genre:

• Psychedelic rock • Pop ballads • British rock • Folk music • Motown • Stax • British Invasion • Hard rock •Heavy Metal

‘60s

Led Zeppelin

‘70s 1970’s Bands:

The Beatles Sources

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Genre:

Led Zeppelin, Yes, Deep • Heavy Metal Purple, Black Sabbath, • Folk Rock T.Rex, Alice Cooper, • Progressive Rock David Bowie, James • Funk Taylor, Carole King, • Glitter Rock Kiss, Elton John, Bruce • Disco Springsteen, Van Halen, • Punk Rock Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Chic, Donna Summer, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Clash.

e Ages

op, classical, each with their own origins well known, but lurknative rock, and heavy metal. Rock is a well known genre, but m like it just came out of nowhere like an ominous force. If you ne will help you began your true journey of rock.

1980’s Bands:

U2, Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, The Go’Go’s, Phil Collins, Human League, Flock of Seagulls, INXS, Journey, Dire Straits, Foreigner, Billy Joel, Guns and Roses, Motley Crue

‘80s

Genre:

• New Wave • Hardcore • Speed Metal • Hair Metal • New British Invasion • Rap • Synthpop

‘90s 1990’s Bands:

Beastie Boys

Genre:

Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The • Grunge Pixies, Pearl Jam, R.E.M, • Alternative Blues Traveler, Phish and • Industrial Beck, Whitney Houston, En • House Vogue, NSYNC, TLC, Maria • Hip- Hop Carey and Britney Spears, • Techno Public Enemy, NWA, Ice • Trance Music Cube, Dr. Dre, Ice-T, Cypress Hill, Nas, Tupac Shakur

10 Best Things to do During the Summer Survey results reveal that among some of the brightest minds in Austin, these are The Top 10 Things to do This Summer. These things are what helps them relax after working hard for the full year.

If these can make them relax after all the work they do, there’s sure to be something in here that’ll make anyone relax better than ever before.

1:SWIMMING seems to be the most popular activity for obvious reasons(the unbearable Texas heat).

2: GOING TO THE MALL also seems to be right up there from research (although mainly from girls).

3: THE BEACH is very popular also, though more so from older students.

4: THE MOVIES is widely well liked with all ages, probably because there’s a movie for everyone.

5: GETTING ICE CREAM is popular for all ages, being another reprieve from that Texas heat.

By-Andrew Emmick 6: GOING TO A FAIR / CARNIVAL is not the most popular, but its a country past-time, and you can’t beat a classic.

7: FISHING is another of those popular past times, and it can be very relaxing, if that’s what people are looking for.

8: SIX FLAGS FIESTA TEXAS is very fun, but the heat makes it difficult to enjoy the rides to the full9: DRIVING is actually popular, although really only among those who just got they’re licenses, though the appeal is understandable.

10: CAMPING is the last of our top 10 things to do this summer, though its certainly not least with all the people who like being close to nature, living out there in the wilderness and being at peace with the trees and animals.

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James Bond Through the ages

James Bond Movie Progression Most of us have heard of James Bond. But few people know where it started. All of this will be covered from the very beginning. Following the amazing story from ejector seats to hand print recognition pistol grips.

DR. NO: M: Male. Bernard Lee Bond: Sean Connery Gadgets: None Car: No certain car You Only Live Twice: M: Male. Bernard Lee Bond: Sean Connery Gadgets: Mini helicopter Car: Toyota 2000 GT

by-Jakob Dornhofer Die Another Day: M: Female. Dame Judi Dench Bond: Pierce Brosnan Gadgets: Glass Breaking ring Car: Aston Vanquish Quantum of Solace: M: Female. Dame Judi Dench Bond: Daniel Craig Gadgets: None Car: Aston Martin DBS V12 Skyfall: M: Female. Dame Judi Dench Bond: Daniel Craig Gadgets: Hand recognition pistol grip Car: Aston Martin DB5.

Since the first Bond movie in 1962 the Bond franchise has seen many different actors villains and types of bond. from the tough get-the-job-done Sean Connery bond to the suave and charismatic Roger Moore and the comedic Timothy Dalton and then the tough no feelings Daniel Craig. We Live and Let Die: have also experienced multiple different M’s. we M: Male. Bernard Lee saw the change to a female M in Goldeneye which Bond: Roger Moore brought very little criticism. Dame Judi Dench Gadgets: Magnetic watch Car: no specific car was a very well liked M but after her seven movie long streak she is no longer playing M in future Octopussy: films. We have also had the pleasure of seeing the M: Male. Robert Brown progression of gadgets. we saw the ejector seat in Bond: Roger Moore goldfinger and the magnetic watch in Live and let Gadgets: Crocodile sub. die and Q, the gadget builder was always ahead of Car: Range Rover the times with his inventions. he designed many The Living Daylights: different features for the signature Bond car. But M: Male. Robert Brown sadly this character was not in the first two Daniel Bond: Timothy Dalton Craig movies. But now Q has had a very warm Gadgets: Exploding milk bottles. welcome back into the franchise in the most recent Car: Aston Martin V8 Vantage installment Skyfall. the producers say that in the future they want to return to the roots of James bond. with the classic car and car chases. all new gadgets and many new villains.

OHMSS: M: Male. Bernard Lee Bond: George Lazenby Gadgets: None Car: Mercury Cougar XR7

James Bond, From DR.No to Skyfall and Beyond By-Jakob Dornhofer The year is 1962 the first James Bond movie, Dr. No just started filming. Later that same year the first EON Production James Bond hit theatres across the world. Many years and movies later the franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary. In this amazing journey of fast paced action and suave one liners one thing stays the same: The love and anticipation of the next movie.

After the first movies were a raving success the public cried for more movies. After “Thunderball� hit theatres the production team was burnt out. Two years later the next movie came out and was another instant hit. At this point they decided to add quality over quantity and took more time to make each installment.

With this being done the movies were spaced further apart but had more

Daniel Craig as James Bond in skyfall

packed into them.

Then in 1969 Sean Connery, the first person to play Bond.

Decided he would no longer play Bond.

The producers then scrambled to find a new Bond and finally came up with George Lazenby. Lazenby was only signed for one movie and because Connery didn’t like his acting style he decided to sign on for a final movie.

After the contracts of both Connery and Lazenby ran out they had to have auditions for a new James Bond.

The producers and writers decided on signing Roger Moore

as the next Bond.

Moore took the way Bond was portrayed into a whole new direction. He showed him as a calm, smooth talking, and always well dressed gentleman. Even with this change in character the movies were still widely loved.

When Moores contract was coming to an end the producers started to renew the search for the next Bond. This search brought Timothy Dalton into the spotlight who they hired for two movies. After the second and last of Daltons movies came to theatres in 1989.

The franchise came

to an end. Many thought it would never return but in 1994 it was rumored that the franchise might start back up.

Later that same year the producers announced that they had started filming on the seventeenth Bond movie with a new actor signed to play Bond. The public rejoiced in happiness with this news.

With Pierce Brosnan leading the franchise into a new era of gadgets and electronics, stunts, cars, and women. The movies where all instant hits. with four new Bonds released and Brosnans contract ended

there was another break of three years.

In the beginning of 2005 filming started on Casino Royale. with a star studded cast and a young and ambitious Daniel Craig playing a new and tougher Bond.

With two new movies released the 23 movie set to start filming at the end 2009 the franchise had its first major crisis. The studio company , MGM inc. was in financial trouble. This forced the start of filming to be pushed back until the funding resumed this didn’t happen until 2010.

With funding back it looked like filming would resume but this was not the case.

The director, Sam Mendes was burnt out. He needed a break before he could continue working.

After another year of delay filming finally resumed. With the entire movie done in one year, and the fans of the franchise still on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the newest installment. The

movie was a raving success. In the movie James Bond (Daniel Craig) completely revamps who he is.

Going back to the old smooth talking style that was portrayed in the Connery-Moore era. In this installment Q, the man providing Bond with his high-tech gadgets.

Was reintroduced after having been omitted in the first two Craig movies.

The producers also brought back Miss.

Moneypenny the secretary to Bond's boss M. For the first time since “Licence to Kill” the actor to play Bond’s boss, M returns to a male character. Having made another block

buster the production team announced the planned release date for the 24 installment 23, Oct, 2015. Having revealed very little

news on the new movie, fans of the franchise are back to playing the waiting game. DV

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Ch-ip-s time By: Christian S. Flores

Have you heard of the game Sonic Adventure Battle 2? Well here are 2 secrets on how to care for Choa’s found in the game.

1) you don’t need to keep getting animals for your chaos you just need to place an animal right in front of their face and then place it and you can reuse it over and over again. 2) If you have a hard time getting money to take care of your choa get a very expensive item and sell it but as you hear the cha-ching noise press restart and you will hae the same amount that you had before plus the amont of the item you

Sometimes when people beat their games they think that is was so hard but its not as hard as you made it seem. Games have secrets that no one really notices and when you discover them its by accident. I want to give you a few cheat’s, tip’s, and secret’s on how to play these games more efficiantly or just some secrets I found along the way.

They will make your playing experience better and more enjoyable. Seeing these examples will show you that when you play all your games you should play very close attention to what is happening in the game Here is secret you probably havent noticed. and pay attention to all the mistakes you Have you ever played any Pokemon game make because they might just help you in and realized that Gengar and Clafable look alike well the secret is that Gengar is Clafable’s the end.

Shadow that has escaped it and now romes the regions as its own pokemon.

This Cheat is For Luigi in Super Smash Bros Brawl. If you use the taunt that makes him look like he is all shy and he kicks the dirt well its actually a really strong move if you use it next to someone everyother time you do it, it will give the aponent a massive blow and possably kill them.

Here is a tip/ secret for pokemon X and Y if you keep your exp. share on then all your pokemon will get the same omount of exp. never turn that off its the fastest and easiest way to train your pokemon.

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Everyone loves a great work out and most teens these days do not like to get active but when you play just dance any of the games they get you to excersize.

In these games you have to unlock new songs to dance to but if you play alone it is going to take you forever to get any of the new dance numbers so here is a tip i suggest that you get a fw friends or family members and play the game with them because you will get your score up faster and you will get what you want alot sooner. another tip is to when the song starts playing and you have to start dancing just go crazy do a dance that looks similar and you will get points for it the kinect just senses you body movements and if you make that movement at anypoint close to the time of you needing to do it then you will get the points for that move.

Alot of people loved the Epic Mickey Games so I am going to give you a tip on how to beat the game alot faster than you were previously doing before.

What you shoud do is always play with a partner because you can use Oswald The Rabbit because when you use him to fly Mickey around and stun all your enimies to make it easier to beat all the monsters and bosses plus everything is more fun with a friend.

Yu-Gi-Oh Forbiden Memories Is an all time favorite for alot of people who played the playstation before and if you have not played this game before then you should here is a Super Cheat you need 3 memory cards for this what you do is you get like 400 star ships from dueling and then after that what you do is you copy your file with the 400 star chips onto your second memory card and with the second memory card you buy some strong cards then you traid those cards to memory card 3 then you traid the cards from memory card 3 to memory card 1 and you have super strong cards and you also have all your star chips you can keep repeating this alot and you will be unstoppable.

Just because this game is so very interesting so i will give you 2 glitches that are in the game and they are pretty cool. so what you do is you choose knuckles and go to the normal chao garden and you hold a chao then you go to the entrance and face the gameboy machine and run towards and while your running throw you chao at the invisable barrier your chao will fly through it like it is not even ther and when you look through the barrier you will see your chao look like its drowning in the sky. Don’t woory your chao comes back. The second Glitch is go to the Dark chao garden and go to the gameboy machine with sonic when you get there go to the right side of it and walk very slowly and you will slowly start to go through the invisable barrier and you will be able to leave the chao garden and go to the island you see in the back but when you get there it is justa picture.

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Leo, the lion being used currently.

History: Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio’s production logo, which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss.

Since 1924 (when the studio was formed by the merger of Samuel Goldwyn’s studio with Marcus Loew’s Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer’s company), there have been around seven different lions used for the MGM logo; these lions include Tanner and Leo, the current (and seventh) lion. Tanner was used on all Technicolor films and MGM cartoons (including the Tom and Jerry series), and in use on the studio logo for 22 years (Leo has been in use since 1957, a total of 56 years and counting).

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How They Think By- Christian S. Flores

The difference between a childs mind and an adults mind of how they think about movies.

Have you ever wondered how adult thoughts on movies differ from a childs/teens thoughts on movies. Well have you?

It would be interesting to figure out how their thoughts differ on a movie with a powerful meaning for more mature grown ups than a movie that is meant to entertain children.

The two movies that have been selected are 42 the movie about how Jackie Robinson became a famous African American Baseball player, and Monsters University a movie about monsters from Monsters Inc. the movie going to college. When the two selected people, one adult one teen, watched the movie 42 this was their thoughts when asked the same questions.

Do you feel that this movie had a valuable lesson to be learned? “ Yes I feel that this movie had a powerful 21

meaning about how skin color should not stop you from following your dreams you should try for your goals no matter what, and Jackie Robinson portrayed that message very well.”

-Mary Rendon Of course the adult would get it because they have more real life experience when it comes to indentifying these sorts of things because they themselves might have been through some hard times themselves where they had to work hard to follow their dreams.

Now here is the teen’s answer. “ Yes and no it has a good message of how appearance is only skin deep and how skin color shouldn’t stop you and stuff but honestly the movie was kinda lagging and boring because segregation isn’t even around anymore so why send us this message now shouldn’t you have sent this message when segregation was still

around?” proper rating of pg-13 -Alyssa Martinez because I do not feel They both seemed to children under that age answer the same but would understand or Mary seemed to be more comprehend what they into it and had more in were referencing and the depth detail about the child would get bored lesson of the movie and most likely leave/ weather as Alyssa was stop watching or fall bored with the movie but asleep weather as us she got what the main older more intelligent lesson of the movie was. people can comprehend Here is what they said the true meaning/moral in regards to the second of the story.” question asked. The -Mary Rendon question asked was “Do Mary made some very you think this movie was valid points that a child given a proper rating as would get very bored if in do you feel everyone they did not know the should be able to see it?” concept of which the “Yes it was given a movie is portraying but

its not the same in all cases. some might be interested in the topic of the movie yet I don’t think anyone would take their 5-10 year old child to see a movie like this.

Here is what Alyssa had to say. “sure why not you’re never too young to learn a message like never give up and chase your dreams never let anything stand in your way.”

-Alyssa Martinez In both of what they said they had valid points.

Alyssa said that you’re never too young to learn about never giving up and to chase your dreams and don’t ever let anything stand in your way, and Mary said that although it has a good lesson little children would get bored with the movie and posably stop watching it. So they both

had valid reasoning on what they were talking about. Now its time for the next movie Monsters University. After watching this movie they were given fairly similar questions as before.

Here are their answers for the first question that they were asked. The question was “Do you feel this movie portrayed a message? If so how?” and this is what they answered.

“No I do not feel it did I feel like it was just one of those movies that families watch together to spend time together there was no real emotion or message in other words to me I feel like it was a huge waste of time.”

-Mary Rendon “Yes I did think it portrayed a message about how you must

truly work hard to get what you want in life like how mike studied none stop and thats all he cared about. To me it was like you should put your work before friends although save sometime for a little fun now and then. This movie also portrayed another message and then. This movie also portrayed another message cheating is never answer to anything example sully cheated for mike and they got expelled and became mail workers.”

-Alyssa Martinez Its surprising that this time the teenager got the message and the adult didn’t weird flip in how who sees what right?

After that question I asked this next question “Did it Deserve the rating it got? Why?” “Yes because it is a

family childs movie with no meaning but to make people smile and laugh.”

-Mary Rendon “ Yes but because it was meant for little kids and usually animated movies are rated Pg. but yes this movie other than being Pg it should get 5 stars because of the messages and how creative this movie was altogether.”

-Alyssa Martinez In the end I noticed that Mary (the adult) got the meaning of the more mature movie and Alyssa (the teen) got the meaning of the more child entertaining movie. This brings the conclusion maybe adults can grasp certain things that children can’t and maybe children can grasp things that adults can’t.

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