Romeo and Juliet Questions

Who are the main characters?

-Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence and Mercutio

What is the setting?

-The main setting of Romeo and Juliet is in Juliet's house in Verona, Italy

What are the important themes?

-The most important themes are Love, Violence, the individual against society and inevitable of fate

What are the key moments in the plot?

-       1. Prince Escalus orders peace amongst the Capulets and Montagues  or there will be big trouble2. Romeo and Juliet meet at a Capulet party

-       3. Romeo and Juliet get married

-       4. Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt

-       5. Romeo is banished

-       6. Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan to give Juliet poison that will make her seem dead and then for Romeo to be contacted to be told of the plan.

-       7. Juliet takes poison and all the Capulets think she is dead.

-       8. The message from Friar Lawrence does not reach Romeo but Romeo does hear that Juliet is dead.

-       9. Romeo sees Juliet dead and kills himself

-       10. Juliet sees Romeo and kills herself

 

Commercial Unit Reflection

Ad Reflection

What worked well on your commercial?

What I believe that worked well was the song we picked, I think that it matched the message conveyed on our commercial, also I liked how the song picked up when the students came to help pick up the trash on the floor. I also liked the the camera angles the scenes were filmed, specially the beginning where we show trash on the floor, a strong beginning and then we close up on the janitors face so the audience sees that actually someone is working extra hours to keep our campus clean.

What still needs improvement?

In our commercial there were some things that we could have done to improve our commercial. One of those things was the spelling, in the text showed in the commercial we could see that some words were misspelled. Also we could have improved the fadeaway of the song, maybe end up with a different part of the song or start fading away so the end the song does not disappear all of the sudden. 

What will you do different to improve the commercial?

We will make sure that all of the spelling is correct, also we will maybe take more pictures of trash on the floor to make the commercial be a bit longer because 5 sec after there is a pause on the song that we can use to end the video. 

Group Reflection

Who worked m-the most in our group?

In the discussion we had the conclusion that I worked a bit more in the group, this was not because my group did not want to work it was because we chose each members qualiteis and let them do what they do best and the editing part was a bit longer than the rationale. 

Who had the best attitude?

I believe that we all had a good attitude. There was no one that did not want to participate and all of us were exited to work

Who was the hardest to work with?

In our group the member that was harder to work with was Lucia, this was due that she was absent several days in this unit.

Self Reflection

What did you learn?

I learned about the film angles in order to catch the audience attention. I also learned techniques to make a commercial or a film more interesting and apealing. 

What did you feel you did not learn enough?

I actually felt that in this unit we learned a bit about everything. We read and improved our vocab, we learned about film-making techniques we also learned about punctuation. I believe that in this unit we tough ourself several things.

What is one of your weaknesses collaborating with others?

A weakness that I have collaborating with others is that I usually try to do the part that I am assigned to by my self. Even though I try to accept comments and ideas I am a person that is very hard to convince.
What did you contribute with?

In this project I did the part of the filming, actually all of the group helped filming, what I did on my own was the editing. I edited all of the video

Final Commercial

Final Book Discussion

Today in class we finished to read Tuesday With Morrie, well actually we read it at home and then discuss it in class. We talked how destiny is such an interesting thing, and that all things affect each other at one point. When the company where Mitch worked in went on strike it gave Mitch more free time; this happened in the same time when Morrie got sick and was told that he was going to die. As Mitch had more free time he was able to spend more time with Morrie who at the end tough him a very important life-long lesson.

After discussing this topic in class we talked about how were we going to film our commercials. We decided that in order to make a strong well-delivered message it was going to be better if we moved away from the comical take of our commercial and do a impacting sentimental commercial with strong images. We also discussed how we were going to alternate shots while filming scenes of the janitor to make the commercial look more professional. As well our group decided that it was going to be an important tool to keep our audience interested in our commercial. The last subject we touched today the start of the commercial. As we saw in many commercials seen in class a good way to start the commercial is to show an impacting or strong HD scene. We decided to start the commercial with a shot of a green are full of trash, representing how the students like to be in the green areas but do not take care of them throwing their trash on it.

Reflection (march 21 2012)

Book reflection: For me tuesday with morrie grates lesson has been that "once you learn how to die you learn how to live" For me this quote represents that when you die you have your life figured out, you are in peace with yourself, you have made peace with your demons. Once you have accomplished all of this you will learn how is to live, how to live truly happy and in peace. This quote also can mean that in order to live life to the fullest you have to understand yourself, do what you want to do, work on whatever you want to; specially don't be forced into a career yo don't like.

Self reflection: Something that motivates me is learning about a topic that i can relate to. For example if we studied physics I would be much more motivated if we used as an experiment or example kicking a soccer ball than if we would just read a powerpoint as we normally do. Another example would be to study the roman culture, since I am partly Italian and I have visited Italy plenty of times I would feel motivated on learning about the roman culture. Something that kills my motivation is the abuse of power; when a teacher tells you exactly what to do, how to do it and when to do it; for me that is the maximum motivation killer. 

Tuesday With Morrie, Blog Post

Today in class we discussed how morrie chapter by chapter is deteriorating. Even though he know he does not have much time left he always keeps this positive attitude. This for me is a very important and valuable lesson that we can carrie among all of our life's because this shows us that due that he is able to maintain a positive attitude Morrie is being able to actually LIVE whats rest of his life. This teaches me that a negative attitude and looking at the negative aspects of life will only ruin my spirit, instead if I look at the good side even in a complicated situation I will eventually be able to get over it. 

I think that this individual teaching is a good method to succeed and learn. We know that if we don't do the work, write the posts, reflect on the messages of the book, analyse commercials and brainstorm ideas we will not be successful in this unit so we have to stay on task and do the work because if you dont you are not only auto-sabotaging yourself but you are retaining your group from learning and doing well in this unit. 

Monday (week 2) analysis 

One theme, that from my point of view is one of the essential lessons that this book teaches you is the support that one, just one person can provide. One important point that we touched in our group discussion was how Mitch starts to reflect upon his life, and starts to become the genuine person he was when he, Mitch, was in collage. Morrie is able to make Mitch reflect about how all of the job people have, how all of the stress our chaotic life gives us, blind fold us. All of the preoccupation's we have do not let us live the life to the fullest, we are so concerned about money and that job upgrade that we do not fight for thing we REALY want to do. Mitch as 99% of the people around the world would have never of thought about. Once Morrie touched this subject Mitch started to understand Morrie's point of view, this showed how one person, just one person could eventually, we are not sure yet, change a man's perspective towards life. 

Group Reflection

Monday 25: Today I realized how hard it was to work alone specialy on the first day, if I miss a day I will try to make sure that I tell them so I can still do the work. Also today I was talked with a friend a bit, next time I will try not to sit with friends because I know that I can be distracted specially when I have not seen them in over a month.

Wednesday 27: Today our group got  together and discussed the themes of the book, it is important for all of us to keep reading because otherwise if someone does not reed it will affect the group. As well we discussed the theme of positivity which is shown when Morrie is told about his illness but even though he knows he is going to die he does not let time pass him by.

Thursday 28: Today we discussed the themes seen in this part of the book, one thim that some members of my group including me could relate to is the feeling of seeing someone that is your friend after a long time, that moment when you remember the special connection you have with that person. This is seen in the book when Mitch and Morrie reunite for the first time after Mitch had graduated. We also discussed how when you reunited with a person who you have not seen in a long time you start talking about what has happened in your life.

Overall I believe that we worked well today, we managed to discuss in detail the section of the book that we were assigned to read, as we worked well and fast, in a efficient manner we were able to gather time to brainstorm about ideas which we could make the commercial about so when we have to do the commercial we can have several ideas in which our commercial can be based.

Group discussion                                                               

Wednesday 27: So far in the book showed the theme of positivity, this is showed when Morrie is told by doctors that he has only 2 years left, even though that body was deteriorating he always maintained a positive attitude.

We can connect the book with our school because in the book Morrie had a living funeral which consisted of a gathering of people which had a purpose of telling Morrie how they felt towards him. In the school when people leave or graduate many of them gave a gathering in which friends and loved ones get together and express how they feel towards them.

Thursday 28: When Mitch saw Morrie in his middle of his business conversation he keep talking and when he was done he went to talk with morrie, it looks as if Mitch fell ashamed of letting Morrie, his friend, his teacher, wait over a business call.

-Mitch has a chaotic life, everything has a schedual

-Morrie tells that Mitch is a nice person but Mitch feels he is wrong, this shows how Mitch feels that he has changed, he is not the same person who went to Morrie’s class.

-When he is very workaholic

-Mitch gets depressed since he never accomplished to achieve his dreams of being famous, moreover for a living he rights about famous athletes.

-For the past 6 years he was only thinking about his job and earning money but once his company broke he realized that he now had time to do several things that when working he would not be able to do.  

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