Animal Farm Project Paper

We did the theme, Revisions of the Past. For this we decided to do the seven commandments and how the pigs changed them all to benefit themselves. We used Megan’s animals for the actual ones and for some of the revised ones. The past is the original commandments, when they were first thought of. We used Megan’s animals to show what each commandment was about. Then we looked through the book to find how the pigs changed the commandments to make sure that they were the higher animals of the farm. I video taped the clips and also edited them, and I spent like two hours everyday working on it. I spent about 6 hours on it all together maybe more. Then we spent about 4 hours on the Saturday after we got the assignment to shoot the clips of the commandments. We had a general idea of what we were doing, and then we changed our minds sometimes on where we would do the scene and how we would do it like with the animals. We got most of the filming, just about all of it, the I added a few clips to where I thought we needed it. I thought it turned out pretty well, on our computer it didn’t look that good, but on the sheet screen it looked pretty good and the music went well even though I had no idea what it was. We all contributed to the video equally. If we can make another short movie, I think I would do it because we had fun shooting the video for it.

Animal Farm Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ocOZE3pUc

Poetry Out Loud Performance

My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun, by William Shakespeare, performed by Allison Strong. Allison did a good job at picking a difficult poem to memorize. She needs to work on not moving her head as much and her hands a little less. I could tell she understood this poem, but she didn't say it so that I would get it. She did well on voice and articulation. You could understand her and she didn't mumble into the microphone or trip over herself in the words. There was no song rhythem. She had good physical presence. She looked confident and looked at the audience the whole time instead of looking at the gound.

I didn't really understand the poem. She's discribing her mistress and how she has bad breath and no color in her checks. Then she calls her a goddess. I don't understand if when she is talking about her in the beginning if it is a good thing or a bad thing. The performer did well at understanding it. but she didn't really tell it so that the audience would understand it.