Our Movie

Character, Setting, and Mood

What did you learn about determining a character’s physical appearance? Explain how you figured out what your Avatar would look like.

I had to read through the book to figure out if any lines talked about their appearances. Some parts of their appearance weren’t described so I had to make an informed guess as to what they looked like. This included rereading certain sections where they might have called them a word that referenced their looks. An example of this is in Act 3, scene 2, when Lysander says, “Away, you Ethiope!” to Hermia. The line is insulting but I could find the definition of the word and understand Hermia’s appearance more.

What did you learn about determining the setting of a story? How did you apply this to choosing the images in your movie?

I learned that you have to fully read and understand the text to figure out where the story is taking place. The setting wasn’t mentioned that many times so I had to read the lines to figure out where they might be when they are talking. The mood of the scene also influenced the choice of the images for our movie.

Explain what the word mood means in literature and movies. What mood did you decide on for your movie? Why did you pick the song that you picked?

Mood refers to the emotional atmosphere that the writer has created with the lines, for example, if the lines in the scene talk about a bright sunny day it creates a mood of happiness and joy. The mood we decided on was a little bit sad with little hints of joy, the song isn’t so upbeat that you feel overjoyed and it’s also not heartbreaking. It is right in the middle which allows you to link the song to the movie perfectly.

This story was heartbreaking yet heartwarming at the same time, each character had their own story, all intricate and unique.

Core Competency Reflection

An example of where I built upon someone else’s ideas is in our conclusion paragraph. We originally decided that one group member would write it and that would be it, after reading what they had written I decided that we could write something better. We merged our ideas while using the original paragraph to create something that better summed up the movie.

In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by sharing my point of view with the group to see if we have a mutual understanding. If we didn’t all share the same ideas about what’s happening, I would take the time to support my thoughts with evidence to hopefully allow the group to have the same understanding I do.

Some skills I have developed to make my creative activities better are communication and research. Examples of this are instead of sectioning off the project and not communicating with the group, we would talk to each other about ideas we had and what we thought about each other’s work. This allowed us to have a more creative and interesting project. An example of research was taking the time to reread certain sections of the book to make sure we all knew what we were writing about and explaining in our project.