Aaalright this is my 5x5 video

1. Pouring water out of the fish bowl
2. Cleaning the fish bowl
3. Putting the fake plant back into the fish bowl
4. Pouring water into the fish bowl
5. Pouring my fish into his home, the fish bowl

It's about my fish, well, cleaning my fish's bowl. So you don't really see my fish until the end. His name is Fishmael. I made this video using my Panasonic Lumix camera, which is pretty nice. I edited it using iMovie, which was pretty simple. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I think it looks pretty nice, and I'm happy with it. For our next independent video project, I think we should do something like a music video, or the 5x5 project with music. Because I like music, and I thought this was fun. The end.

The Woody Allen film "Sleeper", while still resembling his more traditional comedic works, does take place in a dystopian future, where people are led by a mysterious leader and a government that keeps the citizens dumb, in a "Brave New World like scenario. Woody Allen's character, Miles Munroe, is cryogenically frozen in the year 1973, after a routine surgery goes horribly wrong. He is awoken 200 years in the future by a group of scientists hoping to use him in for the resistance. Hijinks ensue.

In the trailer for the movie, Woody Allen is interviewed by an unseen person about the movie. He answers the questions sarcastically, and the clips shown after his answers show how sarcastic he is being, because really, he is being extremely sarcastic and it's pretty funny. Early on, one of the clips establishes the problem that Miles finds himself confronted with. Other clips show the kind of society that exists in "Sleeper". Most of the clips shown, and the answers given by Woody Allen emphasize the comedic and romantic nature of the movie. The interview with Woody Allen is really effective, and the clips make the movie look entertaining and funny. Overall, it is a very effective trailer. However, I don't think I'll be able to use most of the techniques used in this trailer. For one thing, Woody Allen's schedule is probably far too busy for him to come and star in our dystopian trailer, and for another, that was a joke. While this movie takes place in a dystopian society, it is largely a comedy, so the trailer is pretty comedic too. The dystopian movies that we aren't actually making are way more serious, and so for our trailer we're going to have to use different techniques than those used in this trailer. This very trailer. That one right there. This is the end of my post. The end.

Alright so for this post I am writing about this article, which is called "World Without Walls: Learning Well With Others". What a title. Such alliteration. Ok so basically the author of the article is saying that schools have to move on from the traditional ideas of teaching, and embrace the technological revolution to help teach. So using blogs for connecting outside the classroom, and Google Docs, and all those other great websites. I mean personally, I don't know why it's taken this long. Sharing websites have been around for a while, and it's a really great idea. For one thing, the school's are always saying that they're trying to use less paper, and yet they send home piles of it. And it's not like the internet is going to go away, so you might as well adapt to it. Adapt or die. Our school system is already not that great, but by not updating themselves they fall even further behind. So I think it's a good idea. Relating specifically to our class, I do think it's a good idea because we can post videos and talk to our change group members, and do all sorts of other useful things like that.

One of the points that the article made was that we're going to have to be more careful about where we get our information. Here is my direct quote yeah "We must also expand our ability to think critically about the deluge of information now being produced by millions of amateur authors without traditional editors and researchers as gatekeepers". I mean, we all pretty much know this. Our teachers have been telling us which websites to use for research and which ones not to use since middle school. But when you get into blogging, it's a little bit different. People talk about things that they don't actually know about, and say that they're things they're not. I dunno, I just feel like it's different because all the websites are pretty much in the same format, and you're basing you're judgement of whether to trust the information or not on what they're saying and nothing else. 

I didn't really like the way the author talked about kids and their dealings with the internet. Thats what surprised me. The way she wrote about it was like kids don't use the internet at all and we need to protect them from it. Which is totally not what actually happens. We little children know our way around the interweb pretty well, and we also know what counts as the creepy candy van on the internet. All those classes and super dramatic movies about kids being lured into getting into the creepy candy van taught us well.

Aaaalright I'm almost done the last thing I have to do is say what I think we should use our blogs to learn about. I would like to learn more about filming techniques. So I can make my videos look cool. Because whenever I try to film something, it looks really boring and bland and awful. So that is what I would like to learn about. Alright. The end.

Alright so this assignment is to write about a movie review. Review a movie review. So I'm writing about Roger Ebert's review of the awesome movie, "The Fall". It's great. The movie, I mean. Mr. Ebert's review was published by the Chicago Sun-Times. Said review has a pretty basic structure. He starts out with his reactions to the movie, and a little description of some of the images, and then he moves into the plot. He gives a really detailed description of the plot. Then he moves into his analysis of whether a reader would like the movie or not, with some reasons, and then the final paragraph deals a little bit with the theme and it's also just sort a conclusion. Wrapping things up. He writes a lot about the plot, but he didn't give away the ending which was really nice. Even though I've already seen it. I just don't like it when people do that. There's not a lot about the scenery or the other dramatic aspects of the movie, which I found surprising since they're so spectacular in the movie. Ok so our movie reviews. I think we should get more freedom with them, because last year when we did this we really didn't get a lot of freedom and had to write exactly what the teachers wanted us to write. Which was ok, I guess, but it would be really nice to have more freedom. Some basic structure would probably be a good idea, so that you can grade it, and so that we have some idea of what we're supposed to be writing about. Also, it would be awesome to write more about what our opinion was on the movie, not only whether we thought it was good or bad but also what we thought could be improved in the movie. Like if we see plot holes or something. So now I'm done. Here is the review that I reviewed. The end.

Hi so my name is Ruth. The "I like turtles" thing is kind of a joke, but I guess I'm really going through through with it. I mean, look at my background...that's going to change eventually. I'll leave it up for effect. So let's see. I only kind of like turtles, I don't really have an opinion on them. My favorite animal is actually penguins. They're awesome. What do I do....I watch television and I eat and I sleep and I read and I listen to music and I do some art stuff and then I go to school, and isn't that just a fun mix of stuff? This is actually a school blog, so I'll talk about some school stuff now. I'm a sophmore, and I'm in CAP, and I don't like getting up early for school at all. I wish the lunch periods were longer. Those are my opinions about school. I'm supposed to say what aspects of film-making I'm interested in. I like making them, that counts. Let's see in eighth grade my class went to New York, and we interviewed the director of SNL (I am two degrees away from Tina Fey hahaa) and shot a bunch of b-roll, but I don't remember ever actually touching the camera...but it still counts. I did a lot of editing. Which I have now forgotten how to do. So how can we use our blogs...well, I mean maybe the teachers could get blogs so we could have another resource in addition to edline and I guess edline kind of already takes the place of a blog but edline takes a while to update, or is that just for grades....it might be useful for the teachers to have blogs too. I dunno. For our change project, if we split up the project into assignments for different people, the different people could use the blogs to keep each other updated on their progress. And my third and final idea iiiiisss.....we could post finished videos onto our blog so that we could share their glorious and magnificent beauty with the world. My assignment is finished. I'm changing my background now.

Wait no I have to have a picture ok here's my picture

It's a microscope because I like science, and a microscope does everything you would ever possibly need to do in science. I'm a good schience officer. Ok. Now I'm done.