Voice your opinions with The Sidekick suggestion box
Kimberly Del Angel Staff Writer Do you read The Sidekick? Do you want to see something more in the next issue? Here’s your chance, The Sidekick suggestion box is here. The Sidekick is the voice of Coppell High School and we are always looking for good story ideas, this opportunity will serve to draft in new ideas into our future issues. It is necessary to contribute your ideas so that our award winning paper is able to stay on top. Don’t shy away, every idea is treasured within our room. Stop by D115 the next time you find yourself in D-Hall and drop your ideas into the box shown on the right. If you can’t…
New Years Resolutions
By Chase Porter Video by Sophie Dasbach First off, happy New Year to all the readers out there; any New Years resolutions already falling through the cracks? Here are some tricks and tips to keep you on track for the resolutions of the New Year. The most popular resolutions for recent years has of course has been to lose weight, quit a bad habit, improve a career or grades and start volunteering more or donating money to charities. If you don’t have a resolution just yet, it is not too late to start. First, your going to want to set a goal for yourself- something that you think you can achieve. Then, give yourself a…
Highly Anticipated movies to be released
I’m a movie fanatic, if you have not already guessed. Every part about movies interests me. The writing, the producing, even the camera man. He intrigues me for some reason. So for this blog post I thought I would preview my three most anticipated movie releases for 2010. Let’s get started. MOVIE # 1: Green Zone Matt Damon (Bourne Ultimatum) pairs with director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Ultimatum) to bring you an afghan- war scenario where Officer Roy Miller (Damon) stumbles on evidence of several cover up missions that threatened the lives of innocent civilians. Miller now must decide to sweep his knowledge under the rug forever or try to show it to the world. But…
The Story behind “Avatar”
By Wren Culp Staff Writer What do movies like Terminator, Aliens and Titanic all have in common? What unites these movies together? The answer is Academy Award winning director James Cameron. Movies are always progressing with technology. Today’s modern technology is the backbone for everything on set and in the editing room, but what happens when the technology for your movie does not yet exist? Cameron took it upon himself to make technology catch up with him. He developed everything from new state- of- the- art cameras to innovative movie sets. He even changed the way actors look in a 3-D environment. All this for one movie. A movie with a $237 million budget and…