In today's film literature class we picked up right where we left off on Tuesday with the objective: IWBAT evaluate cinematic choices through my own choices of diction. Unfortunately today was a shortened period where we got absolutely SHAFTED with just 25 minutes to learn. While everyone was distraught over this news we refused to let this stop us from learning all about evaluating cinematic choices.
Today we focused just on step one of this process which was to SPECIFY THEME. To do this we learned to focus on the important aspects of who, what, when, where, why, and how. To further this discussion we analyzed our fellow classmate Vincenzo's theme for Ready Player One and applied it to the final page of the text in the book. His theme was: "Everyone needs an escape of some sort" and we absolutely tore it apart and roasted him. Just kidding that would be mean we actually just read over this passage and then the theme and discussed how we can add more detail to this theme. We talked in our groups and posted a few revised themes relating to the final page of the book and the original theme. Then as a class we all took the time to analyze the themes posted and critique them. I personally pointed out Tommy's theme and stated how I liked how his theme explained the reasoning for his claim effectively in just a few words. His diction translated to a strong theme. Then to conclude the class we took this one step further and Mr. Rivers split the class in half designating one half to make a statement agreeing with a theme and how it is present in the real world and the other half to disagree with a theme and its presence in the real world. I personally was designated to the agreement side and we were strongly challenged when a student from the disagreement side made a great point to support their argument. But then, before me or any other members of the agreement side could refute this strong point the bell suddenly rung concluding the class. I was absolutely devastated I had no time to refute this point and I sat there in defeat...but I promise my team will be back and better than ever in tomorrow's class to continue this heated conflict of themes. We may have lost the theme battle but we will win the theme war I thought to myself. Okay maybe the last part was a little dramatic but overall it was a pretty interesting class.
OTHER REMINDERS: Absolutely do not procrastinate like I always do and wait until the last second to do your MP2 movie review blog. Also we will be beginning to film movies with our groups in class soon so that too. Do not forget about these things that would be bad.
Thank you for reading if anyone did, and I hope my blog helped.
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