very very rough draft

Ariel Knight

Film Evaluation: 2001: A Space Odyssey

12-2-09

2001: A Space Odyssey is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick and was released in the United States on April 6^th, 1968. It had received 10 awards such as the Golden Laurel Award, the KCFCC Award for Best Film and Best Director in 1969, and the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, the David award for Best Foreign Production, the CEC Award for Best Foreign Film and BAFTA Film Award for Best Soundtrack, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction in 1969. It was also nominated for another 6, including some such as the BAFTA Film Award for Best Film and the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The film, also called just 2001, was written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke and was very controversial for its time.

SUMMARY OF FILM…(not in my point of view)

Critic’s opinion on the film when it first came out…

The overall reviews of the movie are still as they were when it first came out, people either loved the movie, thinking it was the greatest film of all time, or they hated it. After watching the movie for the first time in class, I had already made a mind set that I did not like the movie at all and was not going to give it a second chance. During class we watched roughly the first half hour of the film. My first general reaction to the film was that it was boring and pointless. I had no interest in watching the rest of the movie and as dreading writing a whole paper on it. To me, the music was very repetitive and I was lost within the first ten minutes. There was no conversation and I thought the apes were not convincing. The plot was boring and it was hard to follow the story line when there was finally conversation. I am a huge sci-fi fanatic and I was excited that we were watching a space movie, and was disappointed when I thought the movie was turning out to be a bust. Even with my teacher and my father backing the movie, saying it was one of the greatest movies of all time, I still had my doubts. MY NEW POINT OF VIEW…

Interview with Lynnell Knight, a fan of the movie…

Conclusion…

compiling a prtfolio

Well, to be perfectly honest, I did not really follow this blog entry. This blog is about the reading in the Norton Field Guide chapter 27 "Compiling a Portfolio", pages 224-236. It started out with the basics, what is the purpose? Who is your audience? what genre to do, what is your stance? and what is the media or design going to be? Then it jumped right in to "Writing a Portfolio". I like how it laid it out for us, giving us ideas fo what you might include in your portfolio. Things like outlines, drafts, writing assignments, tests, quizzes and reflections of your work. One of the things that I thought was interesting was the differences between paper portfolios and online portfolios. I personally think that an online portfolio would best fit me. I'm not going to lie, the next part of the hapter was a sample of a self-assessment, and I did my best to read it, but ended up scanning over it. The chapter wraps up with "Reflecting on your literacy portfolio", why is basically self explanatory.

Evaluations

This Blog entry is a summary of what I think about the reading assigned to us, pages 120-126 in the Norton Reading book. This chapter is supposed to prepare us to for a film evaluation that we will be doing over the next few weeks. It starts out with having us read an evaluation written about Dawson's Creek. After reading the evaluation I like how the chapter breaks down the Key Features to an Evaluation. I was pretty intrigued through all of that, but then started to suffer on the next part. Not that it was not good information, it is just early in the morning and I do not want to be reading anything to do with homework right now! haha. The last page was helpful with two graphs to show ways of organizing an evaluation, and I really liked how it had a place where you could go to different, sited, spots in the book if you needed more help. I thought that was very helpful.

all done!

We just got finished posting our blog to youtube and on here. I'm pretty happy with our final product! I think we are going to find it a lot funnier than the people in the class, but still I had fun doing it. Now we have to work what we are going to say before and after the video, which is pretty hard I don't really know why we all have to talk for like a minute...but we will get it done. I liked this project because we got to be independent and work outside of class. I hope we get to do more of these in the future...

almost done...

Our project is due tomorrow and we are almost finished. It went pretty smoothly and I think we all had fun filming it. We chose to do a video because we thought that it would be the most fun to do and watch, and keep the interest of our viewers. We had some problems the first time that we filmed, with the camera, because it kept cutting off the last few seconds of everything. But after we figured out it was doing that we re-did all the filming and it was much better the second time. At first our group didn't really get along but by the end we got along fine! we are finishing up the last touches!

Our Video English Project

We chose this subject because as freshman we wanted to see which restaurant appealed to the upperclassmen around Ball State's campus and why they liked it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbjXPIzPN7U

Yet, another blog

This reflection blog is over The Norton Field Guide, Chapter 30, Analyzing Causes and Effects and Chapter 31, Classifying and Dividing and Chapter 32, Comparing and Contrasting.
Chapter 30 has many was that you can analyze cause and effects. It talks about all the different ways to analyze them like, determining plausible cause and effect, arguing cause and effects, ways to organize cause and effects and considering the rhetorical situation. I felt like after reading this chapter it helped shed some light on different ways of analyzing. For the next chapter, i liked how it was shorter than the other chapter. When I first read "Classifying and Dividing", I really didn't know what to expect. For classifying the chapter suggests that you group similar things together. Dividing is breaking something into different parts. I guess I don't really know how that has anything to do with the writing process, but I'm sure it has to do with something! I did think that "Considering the Rhetorical Situation" on page 265 did bring a few good points to what we are doing in class. Alrighty, I've had about enough of blogging for the night! Till next time...