Reflection Unit lll (Movie)

Reflection Unit lll (Movie)

This unit was my favorite unit, but unfortunately it went fast. I really liked to have more fun with movies. Just like the two previous lessons, I learned new things about movie. My Aha moment was in that session that you showed us the first animation and horror movies. I really like that session. Indeed, I am interested in movie, but I did not know about the first movie or animation and how they were built, specially about horror movie that a train was moving and the people of salon escaped. My Bumper Sticker is “Explore the world of motion picture”because I really could explore some part of the cinema world that it was so excited. In my opinion, each person is interested in movie and cinema should explore and know about the different genre, first movie, big company production, or how first movies made and by who. If I claime that I am a movie lover, but I do not know about these things it means I am a superficial watcher. In this unit I learned about different genres, in fact some names of genres were new to me such as Chick Flicks, Road Films, or concert films. The other interesting experience about this unit was making a movie poster or trailer. Although I was confused how should I make it, the good points about this project was I used a new tool and I learned how to use it. Unfortunately, I could not attend to class in presentation genre movie, but when I was making my slide about “Chick Flicks” I knew I do not like this genre. Also, I read about the other genre and saw the others slides and learned about the content of movie and that a movie can be in more than one genre. I did not know about different genre, I just knew comedy, horror, and drama genre, but when I wanted to explain what they are, I could not. Now I know the content of each genre and I can explain it to the others. Also, I can know my favorite genre and choose the correct genre in Netflix when I am watching movie or series.

Bumper Sticker: Explore the world of motion picture!

Movie Trailer Notes

Movie Trailer Notes

Dan, a student has everything a college student could possibly want- the looks, fame, great friends, attention from every girl and talent in his gymnastics, his passion. Yet, he’s unhappy, deeply troubled and has trouble sleeping at night.  One night, he meets a guide and from there his journey of self-discovery begins… Also, Dan experiences some weird events such as somebody shoot him, but he does not hurt. He is afraid of being weird, he thinks he is different, and he is worried if his girlfriend figures out. The guide tells him that you are special not strange, and you have some magic abilities that can use it in a good way, but the main reason you cannot sleep well or you do not have a good feeling about yourself is that when you were a kid a witch cursed you, so the only way you can get rid of it is improve your magic abilities and fight with the witch. Dan decides to tell his girlfriend about his magic abilities and his plan to fight against the witch. At the end Dan with the help of guide and his girlfriend can fight against the witch and defeat her.

The Movie Trailer (Dan & His Amazing Power)

Genre Movie (Chick Flicks)

Team Project

My Reflection about Unit II (Pop culture)

        By reading the texts you gave us, I learned that all people have culture, some have high and some have low. Also, I learned about fads and trends and the differences between them, now I know trend is for long time and fad is for short time. By researching among websites and You Tube videos and TED talks, I learned about pop culture and how important it is. For instance, I learned from one of the TED talks videos that pop culture may change the future of children, how? The speaker mentioned that when she was child, she was a nerd and shy, her parents had put the name of a woman hero on her and bought her some comics books about this hero, she said this caused her feel well about herself and thought she is a hero. In bell hook video I learned that learning heavy sociology and political concepts can be easier through pop cultures such as movie, TV shows, and so on. By the fad presentation, I knew the old and recent fads, and I found out the differences between fad and trend. For-example, Converse shoes are trend, but Walkman was a fad because nobody uses Walkman these days, but there are a lot of people who use Converse shoes and it still are fashionable. My AHA moment was that I used to think that some people have no culture, and I believed that culture belonged to the elite and educated people, but I understood that this is not true, and everybody has culture. Also, before Unit II, I considered Pop culture with low esteem and I thought I am avoiding it, but it was wrong! I figured out that I used Pop culture whole my life, and everybody uses Pop culture during their life. In this case, the “What is Pop culture” sheet surprised me a lot! MYBumper Sticker is “If you want to know people, look at their favorite pop cultures!”, and it means that the pop cultures one is interested indicate their personality and taste. For example,if someone likes comics books, we can know his/her taste, or if someone likes American Wrestling, it shows their personality and taste.I did not know that Pop culture can change with time and becomes high culture or high culture becomes pop culture and it indicates relativism of Pop culture, which is interesting. I learned it from the paper sheet of “What is Pop culture?”, so all these sources helped me to form the concept of Pop culture.

Bumper Sticker: If you want to know people, look at their favorite Pop cultures!

1950s Fads

Information about My Star, Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an actress, talk show hostess, and TV producer. She was born in January 29, 1954 in Mississippi. She lived with her maternal grandmother until 6, then she went to Milwaukee to live with her mother. Her mother was a housemaid and her father worked in Army. She was sexually abused by her uncle, cousin, and a friend family when she was 9. She beacame pregnant when she was 14 and her was born dead, this event affected her and after this she decided to change her life. at 16 years old, her mother sent her to Tennessee to live with her father. Her father forced her to read a book each week and write something about it. At this age she was working for a radio station to read the news. At 19 she started working in Baltimore TV as a reporter, but she fired at 22 years old. The direction of TV gave her a chance and ask her to work in a talk show, and she did it successfuly for 7 years, then she moved to Chicago and worked in a talk show, and after 4 years changed the name of the talk show to "Oprah". She also has worked in a movie called "The Color Purple", and nominated for Oscar. She have many achivements such as Emmy and Golden Glob awards and the Presidential Freedom Medal. Also, she is a richest self-made woman in America. She has supported many charities such as Unicef, Women for Women International, V-Day and so on.

Star Presentation (Oprah Winfrey)