Response to Project

1) In the whole play of Macbeth, I found that the two essential questions that it linked to were what is power and how does power corrupt. For the first question, power became something that Macbeth wanted and what Lady Macbeth wanted as well. But out of the two of them Lady Macbeth had the most power because she was able to convince Macbeth to do what she liked. She is able to use her abilities, such as her cunning, to get Macbeth to do what she wanted. Lady Macbeth played with him, making Macbeth feel less than he truley is, and making him feel less manly.
     To be the same in thine own act and valour 
     As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
     Which thou esteemst the ornament of life,
     And live a coward in thine own esteem,
    (I, vii, 43-46)
The first essential question then links to the second essential question. How does power corrupt? Well, once Macbeth has the power he gained from killing the King and becoming the new King, he begins to crave more power than he currently has. All of Macbeth's values, and concerns go out the window and he becomes power hungry as a result. But at the same time he doesn't want the power stolen by Banquo who's son's are said to become king. So, Macbeth has him killed off so that the power he currently has isn't taken away from him in the future.

2) What I learned about working in groups is that things are always changing. There were times that new plans had to be made, or ideas shifted. An example of this was when when Anisha and I were trying to decide what to use as characters, it kept changing because we lacked the materials or time to make what we needed. So in the end we ended up using little action figures instead of the puppets we were going to make for the movie.

3) Something I learned in total was how well a project can be when done in advance. We worked on the project one week before it was due, and it came out like we expected it to. Sure there were some faults, for example the camera slowly panning down, but the project was still a success because it wasn't done at the last minute.

4) I need to improve on reading the critera completely because I forget about the part where we had to say about how the previous scene linked into our scene. I'm not always good at reading the critera or I sometimes forget, so it is something i need to work on.

5) I am proud of the editing job I did on the video. Usually I'm not very good when it comes to technology, but with the week I had to edit it I managed to learn everything I had to about the program I was using and edited the video to the best of my ability. Without that extra week, chances are the video wouldn't be as good as it is now.

6) Work divided, Anisha did 50% and I did 50%. The both of us contributed to this project, that's why it worked out well.