A “Master Class” is basically a lesson taught by a professional in that field. Today, we watched one with the director Ron Howard about scripts and story-writing from a Director’s perspective. He directed many movies such as Solo – A Star Wars Story, Rush, Apollo 13, The DaVinci Code, and A Beautiful Mind. We will use the information from this to help us understand film-making and the work behind creating a good script and storyboard for a film.
Day 1 Post 2 – Monty Python
We are going to watch the film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and will observe cinematic elements. We will periodically stop to discuss which elements both in cinematic elements and camera angles/directions/movements are most prominent and how they are shown.
Day 1 Post 1 – Getting Started
Getting ready to start our film-making discovery term! We will go over several clips from famous movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Avengers – Infinity War and analyze their cinematic techniques and how those techniques impacted the final product.
Y2K Podcast
My partners were Dylan Horwin and Zack Woodcock. We researched the country of Sweden and its changes since Viking times. Enjoy the quiz show!
The Oppressing Bulldogs
Once upon a time, in a land where there was a plentiful amount of food and water, there lived a group of tigers. They had an amazing legacy and nobody ever thought that they could be defeated. One day, however, a group of bulldogs came from afar and started trading with the tigers. The tigers didn’t realize what was happening and before they knew it, the bulldogs had influenced them so much that the bulldogs seized control of the tigers. The bulldogs took control of the tigers because they thought they were the best because they were dogs. For a long while, the bulldogs were in control of the tigers, making the tigers obey their will and putting them in service. After many years, a tiger who grew up among the place where the bulldogs were from saw what the bulldogs did to other animals so that encouraged him to start protesting the bulldogs, but not with fighting. Instead, he started speaking out in ways like not working when the bulldogs told him to. When the tiger started speaking out, he was captured many times yet when he got out, it was to protesting that he went back to. When the tigers wanted food, the bulldogs started ordering too much from the tigers for their food so the protesting tiger led many more tigers to get their own food. These protests continued for years in ways like tigers not doing their work and disobeying orders.
The bulldogs were fighting other animals in other places and so many bulldogs were needed to fight (and the tigers were still not doing their work) so eventually let the tigers go free. Even though the tigers were happy to be free, there were two groups of tigers inside of the big group of tigers that didn’t get along. They had lots of disagreements and when the tigers were freed, the two groups split and still get into disagreements but on the bright side, the bulldogs stopped oppressing the tigers.
THE END
French Revolution Comic
Aarav’s French Revolution comic
Change the World Reflection
I would work on parts that I might be better at and my partner would work on parts of the project that she might be better at. The part of the project which I would consider my favorite was seeing everything that the Wix editor could offer (but it was also kind of confusing) and finishing the essay. If I could change anything, I would use a website maker that might be less confusing and easier to use and also that I didn’t get Friday so I could help finish the project. The project helped me realize how much teacher pay is dropping and I will try to help raise it again. I might try to research it some more and try to notify more people about it.
Pig Heart Dissection Reflection
I thought that the Dissection was very interesting and it helped to actually see a real heart and know where the blood travels. Something that was different in the heart from what i expected was that the heartstrings looked pale white like a stereotypical bone and how stiff they were. The most interesting part of the dissection was when we looked into the left ventricle and I saw how big it was. The most difficult part was finding the pulmonary veins because there were so many openings on the base of the heart. It would be very difficult and risky because they are still living and blood is still flowing through the heart and I wouldn’t want to do this because it might be too much pressure trying to help someone knowing that their life is in your hands. I learned that after a heart stops pumping, a being dies, blood clots are formed in the heart. I think that the dissection was really cool and my suggestion for future classes is to bring clothespins just in case people have big problems with the smell. Everything that I wanted to learn about was covered.
