Today’s class started off with Mr. River’s reminding us to have Ready Player One level 2 read by thursday. In addition the assignment must be completed before 7:00 A.M. Thursday morning. We then went into talking about the short movie Feast. We jumped right in from what we did yesterday talking about the changing aspects during the short movie that each group chose to analyze. The topics chosen by each group were, music, mood, color, and characters. Each group then came up with 2 claims that could be turned into themes from the topic they chose. Our group’s claims for mood were, “The changes in music change the mood of the film from happy to sad, and then back to happy” and, “The juxtaposition of the the owner and Winston changes the audience mood when they see how depressed Winton’s owner is after the breakup”. After this every group came up with 3 abstract topics and 3 concrete topics in Feast. We had love, depression, and relationships for abstract, and dog, food, and dieting for concrete. From this each group turned one abstract into a theme and one concrete topic into a theme. Our abstract theme was “A relationship can be created with anyone or anything at anytime”. Our concrete theme was, “Food can be a great way to bond with another individual”. We ended the class talking about what to do during the third viewing of a film which included determining where to look for evidence, searching for those specific themes, and refining your analysis.
The short movie Feast reminded me a lot of the beginning of the movie Up. The way the mood changes very quickly from happy to sad is similar to Up, where the there is a happy buildup showing the relationship between Carl and Ellie, and then a very sad downfall when Ellie’s health deteriorates and she passes away. Both of these films use the happy buildup to make an even more depressing downfall as the audience quickly grows attached to the characters, and gives a much bigger emotional roller coaster to the audience than just having the whole part be sad.
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ReplyDeleteGreat details in terms of homework and and classwork. Love the examples from your own group. Strong connection to Up. Keep up the great work!