Daily Blog 4/17

In class today we as a class broke up into our groups and started to podcast. Since PARCC testing is going on our class periods are much shorter, and due to that Mr. Rivers decided to break up Monday’s and Tuesday’s (today) class by having us prepare the prewrite yesterday and then conducting our podcasts today. We had class the second period of the day which means it is the shortest period. Yay us! Here is some of my group’s pre-production:

AFTER Dodgeball: Monday & Tuesday

• How does this satire develop a range of humor to critique the smaller and larger faults of:
• The sports/underdog genre?
• Problems in society?
• What does the film’s cosmos assert about the way the world should be?
• Form: Podcast? Movie Review? Something else?
• As you watch
• Tone
• Theme
• Humor theories
• Genre conventions

Personal Objective:

Based on your objective critical review (or a review of your group member), what is your personal objective for this podcast? How will you accomplish it?

Name	Objective (What will you DO?)	How will you accomplish this?
Lauren	Classic coming of age story but, with a twist	In most sports movies there is always an underdog fighting the big and powerful enemy but unlike the other sports film, this one is more of a parody. With the character's  personalities The extreme and unrealistic training
Tori	Stereotypical Characters Stereotypical Mockery of Sports	The leader of the group- Peter LaFleur The pretty girl - Kate hysterically egotistical and arrogant sports and fitness fanatic - White Goodman Dumb teen- Justin Immature Adult- Steve the pirate Blades of Glory The comeback
Elias	Compare the movie to Miracle in how it makes fun of some of the classic sports movie tropes	Big team they need to play against Russia and Globo Gym (characters such as Lazer and Blazer) Coach/mentor that is quirky and weird: Patches vs Herb The team needs to win: the USA for political reasons and to show that USA hockey is good, Peter needs the money to save Average Joes Big star gives advice to player: Lance Armstrong tells Peter he’s rooting for him
Alexis	Talk about the three theories in the movie	Superiority: Justin ends up getting crushed by the fat girl and we laugh at his misfortune One dodgeball in the second match ends up hitting a guy in the stands and we laugh at his misfortune Every time a player got hit with the ball the sports casters would comment on how bad they get hit and we laugh Incongruity: Wrong uniforms when they open the box (not what we expect) When Owen goes for Fran (the ugly Russian girl) When Peter leaves his team and Lance Armstrong gives him a pep talk Relief: Patches tell you to pick on the weaker players in his film about Dodgeball When Lance uses all of his illnesses as jokes Chaos to cosmos In the beginning of Dodgeball Average Joes is a complete mess and by the end of the dodgeball tournament they were a team/ family    *** Tori- Even when you look at Average Joe’s gym in the beginning. Everything was so out of place when Kate needs some paperwork like tax forms she walks into peters office and there are boxes and papers flying all over the place. In the end, the Average Joes gym was back to being a popular successful gym again.
Marielle	How it pokes fun at the underdog story arc	Plot elements and defining/notable moments, comedy genre, can tie into character analysis

In today's age podcasts are careers for some due to the rise in media and the pride of freedom of expression and spread of knowledge. Podcast are also a great way to abtain information when one is on the move.