For the first unit of the course Economics, we studied opportunity cost and how everything has a price your time, your choices, and the things you do. It was heavily filled with concepts of how people think and incentives. We studied math concept such as, simple interest, compound interest, continuous compound interest and matrix. Another thing we learned was Supply and Demand curves, how it can shift depending on a product. We went to the Federal Reserve Bank for our FE and we were able to talk to Rick Matoon a Economist. We asked him question about his job and what the Federal Reserve controls the economy. For our action project, we chose a career and two paths to get to our career in college. I chose Music because I am a harpist and I wanted to see the number to get my bachelor's degree in that Major. I choose two schools that I could go to, I chose Valparaiso University and UIC University of Illinois at Chicago. During this project I had difficulties in getting the right numbers to do the math and I learned how pursing this Major can impact my future after college. Below is a sound cloud of an extended explanation for my decision and the slideshow shows the cost of attending college.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
In the eye of the goddess
In the second unit of the course Drama, we studied playwrights and we looks at lots of examples. In the unit we read lots of plays including The little Foxes and A Dolls House. We studied the stage direction, the characters descriptions and different meaning of scene-ring. For the unit we had the chance to go see the play of Marie Antoinette at stepped wolf, which was really good and we also go the chance to see the play at the Goodman theater. For our action project, we made our own play with three or more character. We had to have our selves, Nora and a historical figure or mythical creature. I chose the mythical creature Freyja a goddess of love and she is a warrior because she was everything a man wouldn't want a women to become. I also chose an extra character Alexandra from the little foxes and Ms. Linden from A Dolls House. During this project I had difficulty putting into words my script. Also I learned how to write a script with stage descriptions.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Stand By Me Critique
In the third unit of the course Ollywood, we studied post-production and different ways to approach a film critique. Post-production includes music, sound effects, editing, and special effects. For our action project we had to make a podcast of a movie review, I chose the to critique the movie "Stand By Me" because I like the song and because I like journey movies. Through out this project I had difficulty choosing an approach and finding extra information. I learned different approaches to critique a film and how to use one.
Hello everyone! Thank you for tuning into my review of Stand By Me, its a Drama/ Adventure film inspired by a Stephen King novella. The director of this film is Rob Reiner and it was released on August 8,1986, The film stars River Phoenix who plays Chris Chambers, Will Wheaton who plays Gordie Lachance, Corey Feldman who plays Teddy Duchamp, and Jerry O’Connell who plays Vern Tessio.
I will critique the movie through a genetic approach. This approach follows the film through all stages of its creation and release which means I will be reviewing the film for elements of pre-production, production, and post-production.
The film is based on a short story called “The Body” by Stephen King. Stand By Me is narrated by Gordie Lachance who is writing a book about an adventure that he had with his three closest friends when he was 12 years old. Gordie along with Teddy, Chris and Vern embarked on a journey to find a dead body. The journey is emotional for all of the boys, especially for Gordie who learned that his best friend, Chris was capable of looking after him like his older brother Dennis,who passed away in an accident.
I will start by critiquing the use of set design, location, and cinematography. The movie is set in Castle Rock, a fictional town in Oregon created by Rob Reiner. Many of Stephen King’s novels that became movies used the set of Castle Rock because King liked how Reiner created the set. Many of the scenes were shot in different locations throughout Oregon and many of them had little value. The set designers and Rob Reiner created mostly everything that we saw on screen including the train tracks that the boys guide themselves through.
An example of this would be the tracks, they were actually just a dirt path to which the set-design crew added train tracks. One of my favorite scenes happens sometime in the middle of their journey and the boys find themselves on an elevated train track as a train is approaching. Chris and Teddy get to the other side, while the speeding train appears to be inches from Gordie and Vern who are running as fast as they can. This scene was very realistic and very suspenseful, even though the train was actually very far away from the two actors. Through the use of a 60omm long-focus lens, the cinematographers made the train appear much closer than it actually was.
There was a recurring prop and action from the actors that really stood out to me. Throughout the film, the 12-year-old boys are often seen smoking. Even though, the smoking was something that appeared in the background, it was important in telling the story of what young boys do when unsupervised. When watching the film, I was surprised that the young actors were directed to smoke. But, Rob Reiner, the director is actually an anti-smoker. The cigarettes were made from cabbage leaves. I thought the actors did a good job in the scenes they smoke because I believed they were actually smoking. I believed it because their faces expressed that if the adults can smoke then they can too.
I am going to critique the use of film-cuts used in the film. At the start of their journey, Gordie goes to the store to buy food for his friends before starting their journey. After picking up the snacks, we see Gordie run back to the junkyard to find his friends jumping the fence of the junkyard. The scene starts with us looking at Gordie standing in the junkyard and through the use of the look-off film cut, the scene cuts to three friends climbing the fence. We see the scene through Gordie’s eyes, as if we’ve become Gordie in that moment and we can feel his disappointment with his friends for leaving him behind.
I really liked the scene where the young group of friends are on the train tracks walking, they put on the radio and the song Lollipop comes on. Vern and Teddy are ahead of Gordie and Chris. Vern has the radio so as soon as the song starts playing they make a choreography. Two steps to the right advancing and two steps left and when the pop sound happens they do it too, then continue doing the same thing. I thought that in this scene the actors did a good job in portraying their youth because they are not only going to see a dead body but they are spending time together as friends and discovering more who they are. Also this shows that kids can be fun, joke around, and express a little of themselves in acting.
Another prime example of the quality of acting and directing was in a scene when the group of boys are about halfway through their journey. In the campfire scene the boys are taking turns keeping watch for coyotes while the others sleep. When it was Chris turn to keep watch Gordie was having a nightmare so he woke up and kept watch with Chris.
Chris started telling Gordie how everyone think he is a thief and that when things go missing they blame him because of his family’s reputation. But he is not like that and he starts crying and saying that he want to go to a place where nobody knows him so he can start fresh. When filming this scene Chris faked cry but Reiner knew he could do better so he asked him to think of a time in his own life when an adult has let him down and use it.
Chris did but his emotions were too strong that the director had to comfort him after the scene was done. This shows that the actor put lots of his own emotions to the movie and also it shows that he actually relates to the character he is playing.
Also in this scene an effective film cut was when Gordie was telling a story he created to his friends about people bullied an overweight kid and how he got revenge. This scene used dialogue referent cut, the scene starts with Gordie starting to tell the storie then it cuts to the main character planning his revenge. I felt like that was a good cut because it made me see what the main character was doing and how his revenge ended up with everyone vomiting on each other.
Mostly all the music the director put in the movie was coming from the radio that Vern brought for their journey and they were just popular songs from that time like the songs Lollipop, Come go with me, Let the good times roll, and more. The only songs that didn't come from the radio was the song Stand by me and some instrumentals. The song Stand By Me would play when mostly every time they continue their journey. I also notice that when they played the song it would be different like it still has the same beat but something is added. The instrumentals would only play when dramatic things happened.
I give this movie 4.5 stars because it took me on a journey and it kept things real like the older guys bullied the younger ones and the way the actors acted. I liked it a lot and I recommend watching this movie especially if you like seeing calm adventure movies. Well thank you for listening my film review! Bye!
Hello everyone! Thank you for tuning into my review of Stand By Me, its a Drama/ Adventure film inspired by a Stephen King novella. The director of this film is Rob Reiner and it was released on August 8,1986, The film stars River Phoenix who plays Chris Chambers, Will Wheaton who plays Gordie Lachance, Corey Feldman who plays Teddy Duchamp, and Jerry O’Connell who plays Vern Tessio.
I will critique the movie through a genetic approach. This approach follows the film through all stages of its creation and release which means I will be reviewing the film for elements of pre-production, production, and post-production.
The film is based on a short story called “The Body” by Stephen King. Stand By Me is narrated by Gordie Lachance who is writing a book about an adventure that he had with his three closest friends when he was 12 years old. Gordie along with Teddy, Chris and Vern embarked on a journey to find a dead body. The journey is emotional for all of the boys, especially for Gordie who learned that his best friend, Chris was capable of looking after him like his older brother Dennis,who passed away in an accident.
I will start by critiquing the use of set design, location, and cinematography. The movie is set in Castle Rock, a fictional town in Oregon created by Rob Reiner. Many of Stephen King’s novels that became movies used the set of Castle Rock because King liked how Reiner created the set. Many of the scenes were shot in different locations throughout Oregon and many of them had little value. The set designers and Rob Reiner created mostly everything that we saw on screen including the train tracks that the boys guide themselves through.
An example of this would be the tracks, they were actually just a dirt path to which the set-design crew added train tracks. One of my favorite scenes happens sometime in the middle of their journey and the boys find themselves on an elevated train track as a train is approaching. Chris and Teddy get to the other side, while the speeding train appears to be inches from Gordie and Vern who are running as fast as they can. This scene was very realistic and very suspenseful, even though the train was actually very far away from the two actors. Through the use of a 60omm long-focus lens, the cinematographers made the train appear much closer than it actually was.
There was a recurring prop and action from the actors that really stood out to me. Throughout the film, the 12-year-old boys are often seen smoking. Even though, the smoking was something that appeared in the background, it was important in telling the story of what young boys do when unsupervised. When watching the film, I was surprised that the young actors were directed to smoke. But, Rob Reiner, the director is actually an anti-smoker. The cigarettes were made from cabbage leaves. I thought the actors did a good job in the scenes they smoke because I believed they were actually smoking. I believed it because their faces expressed that if the adults can smoke then they can too.
I am going to critique the use of film-cuts used in the film. At the start of their journey, Gordie goes to the store to buy food for his friends before starting their journey. After picking up the snacks, we see Gordie run back to the junkyard to find his friends jumping the fence of the junkyard. The scene starts with us looking at Gordie standing in the junkyard and through the use of the look-off film cut, the scene cuts to three friends climbing the fence. We see the scene through Gordie’s eyes, as if we’ve become Gordie in that moment and we can feel his disappointment with his friends for leaving him behind.
I really liked the scene where the young group of friends are on the train tracks walking, they put on the radio and the song Lollipop comes on. Vern and Teddy are ahead of Gordie and Chris. Vern has the radio so as soon as the song starts playing they make a choreography. Two steps to the right advancing and two steps left and when the pop sound happens they do it too, then continue doing the same thing. I thought that in this scene the actors did a good job in portraying their youth because they are not only going to see a dead body but they are spending time together as friends and discovering more who they are. Also this shows that kids can be fun, joke around, and express a little of themselves in acting.
Another prime example of the quality of acting and directing was in a scene when the group of boys are about halfway through their journey. In the campfire scene the boys are taking turns keeping watch for coyotes while the others sleep. When it was Chris turn to keep watch Gordie was having a nightmare so he woke up and kept watch with Chris.
Chris started telling Gordie how everyone think he is a thief and that when things go missing they blame him because of his family’s reputation. But he is not like that and he starts crying and saying that he want to go to a place where nobody knows him so he can start fresh. When filming this scene Chris faked cry but Reiner knew he could do better so he asked him to think of a time in his own life when an adult has let him down and use it.
Chris did but his emotions were too strong that the director had to comfort him after the scene was done. This shows that the actor put lots of his own emotions to the movie and also it shows that he actually relates to the character he is playing.
Also in this scene an effective film cut was when Gordie was telling a story he created to his friends about people bullied an overweight kid and how he got revenge. This scene used dialogue referent cut, the scene starts with Gordie starting to tell the storie then it cuts to the main character planning his revenge. I felt like that was a good cut because it made me see what the main character was doing and how his revenge ended up with everyone vomiting on each other.
Mostly all the music the director put in the movie was coming from the radio that Vern brought for their journey and they were just popular songs from that time like the songs Lollipop, Come go with me, Let the good times roll, and more. The only songs that didn't come from the radio was the song Stand by me and some instrumentals. The song Stand By Me would play when mostly every time they continue their journey. I also notice that when they played the song it would be different like it still has the same beat but something is added. The instrumentals would only play when dramatic things happened.
I give this movie 4.5 stars because it took me on a journey and it kept things real like the older guys bullied the younger ones and the way the actors acted. I liked it a lot and I recommend watching this movie especially if you like seeing calm adventure movies. Well thank you for listening my film review! Bye!
Monday, October 13, 2014
Survival on Mars
In unit 2 of the course Population, we studied evolution, specifically in animals. We learned about how birds have become endangered, extinct and new species of birds are appearing. For example, we looked at the passenger pigeon and how there were millions of them. When they migrated, they would cover the whole sky for 3 days and they would eat our crops. Then humans started capturing them to get rid of them and they ate them. We also learned about how a human grew tall as a variation of his species; his name was Robert Wadlow and he was 8ft 11in. For our action project, we looked at Mars 1 project (which is a tv show) and we had to choose animal to accompany the humans. The challenge for this was that we had to choose from any rescue center in Chicago. I chose a Labrador female dog. Her name is Lill and she is 3 months old. The trick for this was that the animal has to survive in Mars with the cold weather. In this project, I learned about Mars and one thing that I am proud of is my math portion.
Labradors came from Newfoundland dogs. There was a populated area of small dogs, they bred with Newfoundlands producing Labrador dogs. In 1830 they were reported as a new specie and British sportsman Colonel Hawker quoted "the best for any kind of shooting...generally black and no bigger than a Pointer, very fine in legs, with short, smooth hair...is extremely quick running, swimming, and fighting...and their sense of smell is hardly to be credited." They weren't called Labrador dogs until Duke of Malmesbury announced that he has always called them Labradors. Unfortunately the Newfoundland dogs died out for the reason of heavy dog tax and quarantine law. Which then lead humans to bred the few Newfoundlands dogs with Retrievers, that why they called them Labrador Retrievers and are similar to them.
Mean: 299/10= 29.9lb
Median: 32.5lb
Mode:None
Maximum:56lb
Minimum:8lb
Range: 48lb
Total-2802.72/9=311.413 
311.413=17.65
Lill weighs 8 lbs. She is 17.65 standard deviations below the mean of 29.9 lbs.
“Labrador Retriever.” American Kennel Club. N.p. Web. Oct 14 2014.
“Labrador Retriever.” Dog Breed Info Center. N.p. Web. Oct 14 2014.
“Mars.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Michael H. Carr, n.p. Web. Oct 13 2014.
Lill, ALIVE Rescue Chicago, 2014.
Labradors came from Newfoundland dogs. There was a populated area of small dogs, they bred with Newfoundlands producing Labrador dogs. In 1830 they were reported as a new specie and British sportsman Colonel Hawker quoted "the best for any kind of shooting...generally black and no bigger than a Pointer, very fine in legs, with short, smooth hair...is extremely quick running, swimming, and fighting...and their sense of smell is hardly to be credited." They weren't called Labrador dogs until Duke of Malmesbury announced that he has always called them Labradors. Unfortunately the Newfoundland dogs died out for the reason of heavy dog tax and quarantine law. Which then lead humans to bred the few Newfoundlands dogs with Retrievers, that why they called them Labrador Retrievers and are similar to them.
Looking for my animal, I chose 10 dogs to look at they weight and I represented it in a table.
8lb (lill)
|
40lb
|
50lb
|
15lb
|
43lb
|
10lb
|
12lb
|
56lb
|
30lb
|
35lb
|
Box and Whisker plot:
KIS. Weight. 2014
Mean: 299/10= 29.9lb
Median: 32.5lb
Mode:None
Maximum:56lb
Minimum:8lb
Range: 48lb
Standard Deviation:
x
|
x(x)
|
(x)2
|
8
|
8-29.9= -21.9
|
(-21.9)2=479.61
|
10
|
10-29.9= -19.9
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(-19.9)2=396.01
|
12
|
12-29.9= -17.9
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(-17.9)2=320.41
|
15
|
15-29.9= -14.9
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(-14.9)2=222.01
|
30
|
30-29.9=0.1
|
(0.1)2=0.1
|
35
|
35-29.9= 5.1
|
(5.1)2=26.01
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40
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40-29.9= 10.1
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(10.1)2=102.01
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43
|
43-29.9= 13.1
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(13.1)2=171.61
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50
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50-29.9= 20.1
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(20.1)2=404.01
|
56
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56-29.9= 26.1
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(26.1)2=681.21
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Lill weighs 8 lbs. She is 17.65 standard deviations below the mean of 29.9 lbs.
“Labrador Retriever.” American Kennel Club. N.p. Web. Oct 14 2014.
“Labrador Retriever.” Dog Breed Info Center. N.p. Web. Oct 14 2014.
“Mars.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Michael H. Carr, n.p. Web. Oct 13 2014.
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