7/1

Today we continued to work on our film presentations. Me and Tiara found that we could use power point and work on the 7th floor at school so we could do the rest at home as Ms. Wong's laptop has power point. So we started to work on the power point for the first half of the lesson. We didn't get much done though as we took a lot of time working on the aesthetic of the power point, such as the background and agreeing on the font. As we knew we would have to do most of it at home we roughly split the work so that I would do all the notes needed to answer the even questions and Tiara the odd ones.

The second half of the lesson we started to talk of our second film. This is a Chinese film that follows the music created by one music student. We got into groups of 3's (except our group which is a group of 4) and went to listen to what the music students had created. The music students were to have started creating a piece of Chinese styled music in which we were to do a film to that. Their music follows a ABACA structure, in which the A's are happier and the B and C are for conflicts. My group (me, Tiara, Yasmine and Rachel) paired up with Amelia again as her music add components that we were looking for. Her music stuck mainly to the Chinese style and was romantic or violent but planned to be happy with conflicts. This was good for our group as we didn't want anything romantic (partially because we were an all girls group and finding others to act in our film would be hard) and weren't to keen on direct violence and wanted ours to be slightly comedic.

Together with Amelia we came up with an idea for our film. At first we were thinking of the Monkey King idea of how the Monkey steals the cakes from the humans but thought that the props and costumes would be way too hard to get and would take too long to put on. So from this idea I came up with the idea of a Chinese Robin Hood that was developed with the help of the others. The idea of the film would be that this Chinese Robin Hood steals from rich westerners and gives to the poor and is generally thief who escapes those who chase her down. We were not sure who would play who but we decided that Tiara would once again play the protagonist and that Rachel would be the min camera person. Having Tiara play the protagonist would be good as she already had a Robin Hood outfit.

I think today I was a thinker, a communicator, and open-minded.