Angela, I went to mark your poem and you have not posted it.
Mrs.C
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Movie Project - The Ring
The Ring revolves around a woman named Rachel Keller who's investigating the death of 4 teenager's, once in which was her niece. She learns that all the teenager's died 7 days after watching a movie that's said to kill you after 7 days. During the investigation, Rachel watches the video and is given a week to live, and it becomes a race against time to find out how to stop the curse. It becomes even worse when her son watches the film and stopping the curse becomes even more important in order to save her life and her son's. Rachel's life soon becomes entwined with Samara Morgan's, the young girl killing all the people after seven days and hopefully with this information a way to end the curse. The first layer of this movie is that how it's impossible that a tape can kill of people after watching it. But then in the second layer it becomes believable once you become the victim and are given only seven day's to live before Samara comes for you. The way this movie shows darkness/evil is through the character's, the plot line and objects in the movie. In the first way, the antagonist, Samara, is killing off people after 7 days without any remorse to what she is doing. Samara was an evil child who was killed by her own adoptive movie by drowning in the well. Samara put her message on a tape which was how the curse began. The plot itself shows darkness in how people die out of revenge and by how all of this began simply began from an evil child and how she became more powerful when killed. Some of the objects in the move that represent darkness are the TV, the well, the phone and the tape. The TV because Samara uses that as a portal to getting to her victim's and killing them after seven days. The well because Samara died in the well and as a result turned her into the menacing character she is now. But the two most dramatic objects were the tape and phone because the phone showed just how real the tape was after watching it. After watching the tape to the end Samara would call you on the phone and tell you that you've got seven day's to live. A character can represent darkness by but has happened to them in the past and how they treat character's in the present. Samara is an example of this. A connection I can make to this movie is by Text to text to another movie, The Grudge. What these two movies share in common is that their main antagonist's were both killed and became powerful after death. Using their power's they turned on the living world and started to kill off whoever got in their way.
EQ: How does the study of fiction and nonfiction texts help individuals construct their understanding of reality?
There is a fine line between what is true and what is made up. What is shown in the movie is that at first nobody really believes that a tape can 'kill you'. Once the tape is watched it's first like, this is nothing but a hoax. But when the phone rings after the tape is finished, and a voice says 'seven days', in the back of your head you see it as nothing but a coincidence, but you're also thinking about how true this may be. Rachel experiences this, and then goes about trying to figure out if what she thinks is happening, really is happening and isn't fake. Once she learns that this tape is genuine, that there's history behind what has happened, and how this is all Samara's doing, Rachel accepts and understands her reality.
EQ: How does the study of fiction and nonfiction texts help individuals construct their understanding of reality?
There is a fine line between what is true and what is made up. What is shown in the movie is that at first nobody really believes that a tape can 'kill you'. Once the tape is watched it's first like, this is nothing but a hoax. But when the phone rings after the tape is finished, and a voice says 'seven days', in the back of your head you see it as nothing but a coincidence, but you're also thinking about how true this may be. Rachel experiences this, and then goes about trying to figure out if what she thinks is happening, really is happening and isn't fake. Once she learns that this tape is genuine, that there's history behind what has happened, and how this is all Samara's doing, Rachel accepts and understands her reality.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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.
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.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Response
You do see how one who was onced an isnsider does become and outsieder. I like how you do bring in a quote to back up what you are saying. Next time could you have added more ways to talk about being an insider/outsider?
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Lottery + Image
The Lottery
What does it mean to be an insider and an outsider?
In the lottery, everyone in the village are close friends. But when Old Man Warner says "It's not the way it used to be...People ain't the way they used to be", he is refering to the other villages who have dropped the tradition of sacrificing other's for the sake of the crop. Everyone in the village is for the lottery, up until the point where you are chosen. An example of that would be Tessie Hutchinson, she was all for the lottery but when she was chosen she exclaimed how unfair it was. Everyone on the inside understand why this has to be done, but an outsider wouldn't see it as fair.
In the lottery, everyone in the village are close friends. But when Old Man Warner says "It's not the way it used to be...People ain't the way they used to be", he is refering to the other villages who have dropped the tradition of sacrificing other's for the sake of the crop. Everyone in the village is for the lottery, up until the point where you are chosen. An example of that would be Tessie Hutchinson, she was all for the lottery but when she was chosen she exclaimed how unfair it was. Everyone on the inside understand why this has to be done, but an outsider wouldn't see it as fair.
Brother Dear
The character that I connect with is Sharlene because of how your family's are almost the same. I am the youngest of the family and I have two older brothers. My mother wants to make sure I get a good education, and have a well paying job in the future. Her reasoning for making sure I have a good future is because she doesn't want what happened to her to happen to me. Also like Sharlene, I find that my second older brother is right most of the time and I understand his logic more than anything else. He is a free spirit and does what he likes.
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