Movie? What Movie?

I tried not to think about the movie over the weekend. So go ahead and ask me the name, because I don't know it (actually I do). It was difficult to take my mind off the movie, but I don't want to write about my opinion of it so far because I want to see the entire film first. It wouldn't be fair to write about it on my blog when I haven't fully absorbed it in yet. That would be like judging a book by its cover. Of course I already know that I really like the movie and my opinion on it probably wouldn't change. But still, writing about it would be like critiquing a painting that you only saw half of. Does it even matter if the half you saw you liked? I'm not making any scene.

Anyway, this week we alternated between book binding workshop and working on our scrips. My group was first up for book binding. At first I was really frustrated. It takes a lot of patience to bind books. I cursed more that day that I ever did my entire time in high school. But after a deep breath, some help from fellow classmates and some reassuring words from Carl, I managed to enjoy making my little book. It came out better than I expected. That might be because at the rate I was going, I expected cardboard paper throw up.

It was very easy to work with my Be Kind Rewind group. Although we did get side tracked a couple of times we did get a lot done. Whenever we would get stuck someone would suggest something and we would all jump right into it again. I love the way ideas flow between us. I love doing projects like this. STAC is so much different from my other classes where the more people in a group makes it harder to work together. But with us more people mean better results.

Be Kind Rewind 2

These batch of Be Kind Rewind films were all so amazing! They improved so much from last year. We have learned so much so far. Writing the synopsis's for the Prisoner defiantly helped us in getting things done simply and quickly. I think that the problem last year was that no one (especially my group) focused on a concrete plot. But this year, our ideas were all over the place and building off of each other, and we still managed to pull a story together. We took the process very seriously, but I think that that was necessary to get the results we got. It's funny now to think about how we had intelligent conversations about the motives of a stuffed unicorn. I think we should defiantly do these projects more often.

Lazy Entertainment

Earlier this week we watched the Prisoner. It was a confusing episode, but I liked it much better than last week's episode with the election. Its like I want to not like the Prisoner because it is so confusing and doesn't make any sense at some points. But I can't because I like how it is confusing, it makes you think. I hate lazy entertainment, where you don't have to put any effort in. With the Prisoner, it constantly forces you to pay attention. Its like a thriller in a way, you are always at the edge of your seat and on the tips of your toes. If I had to pick a model episode to summarize what the prisoner is so far, this would be the one I would pick. I know that picking just one is pretty much impossible because they are all so different, but I think that this episode had the perfect amount of mystery and craziness with a reasonable plot behind it.

We had two days of STAC art today to work on the Busby Berkley projects. I did this exact project freshmen year in Gane's art class, but I am glad that I'm doing it again. I can already see how my art has progressed since the beginning of high school.

We also watched To Sir With Love on Firday. At first, I thought that the movie was predictable and that there was nothing fresh and new about it. But then I realized that it was made years before the movies that I was comparing it to. It was the original and all the ones that came after it are predictable because they took from this movie. I'll include more about this in my review.