Last Post!! O.o

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This is a free post and it will be the last one for this year.

In this song we can see the notion of "spaces" because in the video there are a lot of beautiful landscapes like the Bryce Canyon , where we can see the inmense space that surround the two artists.
This video is also filmed at the burned section of the Dixie National Forest and at the red Canyon. There's also a notion of "exchanges" because music is a way to exchange ideas and emotions that the singer or musician wants to transmit.

I think that is an "Idea of progress" too because in this song the two musicians mix two songs, one is Pavane Op.50 by Gabriel Fauré and the other is Titanium by David Guetta. So this is a progress of what we can do with two completely different songs writen in diferent periods. These two songs blended don't sound bad at all and seem the same song. With imagination and effort we can do these kind of things.


Here there's another video of these guys playing "Over the rainbow" with other awsome landscapes.

Miss Piruleta (:

'Myths & Heroes' - American Dream

The American Dream

Definition:

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.

  

Study of the six documents:

Document nº1:

              

 

This document is a graph in which we can see the different aspects that people think of when they are asked  about the American Dream. Firstly they think about "Opportunity" with 20% of votes, the "Freedom", "Family", "Financial security", "Happiness", "A good job", "Home ownership", "Wealth" and "Others". So  people think that American Dream is a kind a perfect way of life in which nothing lack.

Document nº2:

Document nº3:

 

This is a cartoon were we can see a black father in a living room sitting in an armchair, with his two kids, he's telling them that NOW America can realise the dream that everybody dreams. This is what society thinks and tell to the new generation because before people thought that everyone could arrive at the top if he decide it, because The American Dream was that, but not always this dream keep. So nowadays people have the same chance.

Document nº4:

  We can think that this document is a drawing made by Greanberg on which we can see a woman holding an instruction book of the American Dream. We can think that this document is a caricature because you must add money if you want to have everything that the American Dream gives you.

So, it want to show us that if you have money you can realise the American Dream and have everything that promises you to be happy. So it's a critique of the American Dream because instead of making easier everything people want, you need to have money to to do realise it.


Document nº5:

(I can't put the video, here is the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JndvKlX5IXs

This video shows us a man Bob Herbert that gives his opinion about life nowadays; it's very hard to find a job even if you studied a lot and have an exelent curriculum because there aren't so much works to so many people.

Document nº6:

This document is a video that criticises how banks work; they seem to help you giving you everything you want and more, but then when you don't have money they take you everything without negotiation.

Watching this video we get closer and the way it's made, make easier to understand because it's at the same time funny, instructive and informative.

Document nº7: Personal document

This is how people think the American dream gives you; Success, a good job where you earn a lot of money  to buy a big house. And like this you can create the tipical family with your splendid blond wife and two children.

But in reality that's not true because nowadays there are more or less the same problems, not everyone can get a job easier and have a confortable way of life.

Conclusion:

In my opinion I think that The American Dream is just a myth and a way to attract people to America, it's true that some people arrive to realise their dream but no everybody. There are so many young people that worked a lot and can't find a job, a house to live, because they don't have money... American Dream is for people how have money and can pay everything they want.

So people expect that in America they can find their dream but it's false, it's another country like France, Spain, Germany... 

Witness as a thriller

DEFINITION: These are types of films known to promote intense excitement,suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation,uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features.

Primary elements of  the Thriller as a genre	Witness as a thriller Illustration in the film
1.Central protagonist  The central protagonist(s) faces death, heir own or someone else.	John Book is the protagonist and we can see that in many scenes he faces death because he is working in a case of a murder. Also his friends who help him face death.
2.Force/s of antagonism  The force/s of antagonism must initially be clever and/or stronger than the protagonist	We can see that in this film the forces of antagonism are a higher up coworker and not suspicious at all because one of them has an important award and is picture is put in a frame in the agency.
3.Main storyline  The main storyline for the protagonist is either a quest or the character who cannot be put down.	John Book cannot be put down because he's the main character and if he dies the story will end. Even if he faces death he'll always get on well.
4.Main plotline  The main pot line focuses on a mystery that must be resolved.	The main pot line is firstly to find the murder of this police at the train station, but then when we know it the mystery is what will happen with John Book and Rachel.
5.Narrative construction  The film's narrative construction is dominated by the protagonist's point of view.	We can think that the narrator of this film is John Book because we discover the Amish way of life through John's eyes.
6.Action and characters  All action and characters must be credibly realistic/natural in their representation on screen.	Every character is credible and no one is exaggerated. The characters express their emotion in the exactly moment. We can even think that is a documentary when we see the Amish world.
7.Major themes  The two majors themes that underpin the Thriller are the desire of justice and the morality of individuals.	In this thriller film the major themes are the search of justice through John's book actions because he tries to fight against injustice and he applies himself a lot.
8.Small but significant aspect  One small but significant aspect of a great thriller is the presence of innocence in what is seen as an essentially corrupt world.	I think that Samuel (Rachel's son) is the innocent character who doesn't know the world and now he's discovering it. Even if he lives in a pacific world (Amish world) he needs to know the modern world and all the problems that are around him (he faces death at the train station, just in the beginning)

Rachel Lapp

Here you can see the link of Rachel's description!! 

 You only need to clik on HERE

Shooting Script

Class Production

Shooting Script  of 'Walking Home Alone' Video                   21/01/2013

OVER BLACK:

MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

The first notes of the song sound.

FADE IN TO BLACK AND WHITE SETTING:

1.EXT. BUSY STREET IN A BIG CITY - MORNING

PAN SHOT of the street, followed by TILT UP toward the top of high-rise towers (skyscrapers) and TILT DOWN

to ZOOM FORWARD on the date on the front page of a crumpled newspaper lying on the sidewalk:

'Sunday Newspaper'.

CUT TO:

CLOSE SHOT of the newspaper which is blown away down the street (TRACKING SHOT) and ends up near a man's foot .

CUT TO:

EXTREME CLOSE UP on a piece of chewing gum, then ZOOM OUT/BACKWARD to show a man from the waist down, then from head to toe.

He looks depressed, his head bent.

The man's feet step very close to the gum and then the man walks on, now shown in a FULL SHOT.

The man walks away into the distance. He is now seen in a LONG SHOT.

MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

Chorus of the song.

DISSOLVE TO COLOR

2.INT.APARTMENT-AFTERNOON

FULL SHOT: A couple is arguing while having a cup of coffee, They are gesticulating and talking angrily.

CLOSE UP on the woman's angry face.

PAN TO THE RIGHT: A Broadway tune is being played on an old radio transistor.

The man is seen begging her but she does not want to talk to him anymore. However, the man kneels down.

MAN

(IN SUBTITLES)

Baby, please don't go. I forgive you.  But ... am I not good enough for you?

We can work it out. Please stay with me. I love you.

The  woman suddenly throws the coffee cup to the floor. (SLOW MOTION)

HIGH-ANGLE SHOT of the kneeling man  who now picks up a broken piece of the cup and sighs deeply.

He stands up, shakes her hand and says 'OK'.

The woman angrily turns her back on him and walks out of the room.

CUT TO:

3.EXT. STREET. MORNING

FULL SHOT of the man as he walks down the street, then walks past a stray dog.

CLOSE UP on the dog's nose, followed by ZOOM OUT to show the man .

P.O.V. SHOT of the man staring at the skinny dog which in turns stares back at the man with an imploring look in its eyes.

CUT TO:

4.EXT.SAME STREET-MOMENTS LATER

 MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

Chorus of the song

HIGH-ANGLE SHOT + TRACKING IN of the man walking on down the street while the poor dog stays behind on the

sidewalk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                             
FADE OUT

At Exhibition Review

"La Isla Del Tesoro"

Exhibition title:  "La Isla Del Tesoro" from Holbein to Hockney.
Venue Name:  " Fundación Juan March"
Website: http://www.march.es/arte/madrid/exposiciones/la-isla-del-tesoro/
Exhibition Dates: 5th October 2012 - 20th January 2013
Venue Address: Calle de Castelló, 77, 28006 Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid 

This winter exhibition called "La Isla del Tesoro" was on exhibit at the "Fundación Juan March". In this public showing there are lots of artists from different  periods;  

•   Destruction and reforms (1520-1620) with artists like Hans Holbein, Robert Peake, Marcus Gheeraerts or William Lakin...
•   The Revolution and the Baroque (1620-1720) with artists as Anthony van Dyck, Peter Leley, William Dobson and Godfrey Kneller with the landscapes of Jan Siberechts and the Historic paintings of James Thornhill. 
• Society and Satire (1720-1800) with Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, James Gillray,  Thomas Rowlandson and William Hogarth.
• Mind's Landscapes (1760-1850) with artists like Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, George Stubbs, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. There are watercolour paintings of Thomas Girthing  Samuel Palmer Thomas and some other painters.
• Realism and Reaction (1850-1900) with lots of important artists as John Frederick Lewis, David Oberts, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, J.A.M. Whistler and Frederic Leighton.
• Modernity and Tradition (1900-1940) with Walte Richard Sickert, Henry Lamb, Gwen John and Spencer Gore, and the more radical art with Wyndham Lewis, Duncan Grant and David Bomberg.
•  "Britain seen from the North" the huge sculpture made by Tony Cragg in 1981.

This exhibition is showed  in a museum called "Fundación Juan March".

The effect the exhibition has on the viewer is that when you enter, it seems to take you to an ancient time, to a far past seeing all the paintings from 1520 to 1941. Everything is worth seeing but if you really like landscapes you can see the section of  "Mind's Landscapes", they look enigmatic, and deal with nature and beauty, I personally love this part. The paintings overwhelm me. The works that I valued the most in this section were:

¨Proserpine¨, an appealing young woman, with an enigmatic look, and an absent expression.
This woman represents Proserpine or  Persephone in the Greek mythology. She has in her hand a pomegranate, the fatal fruit, because she ate six seeds, therefore she must stayed six months in Hades' Kingdom and the other six months in the earth with her mother.

Proserpine, 1874

Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

Currently housed at Tate Britain

¨Nocturne Blue and Silver¨ a beautiful and simple landscape where the colour blue predominates and where silver and yellow colours are also present. These sweet, soft and pale colours make you feel calm and relax when you look at them:

Nocturne Blue and Silver, 1872

Dante James Abbott McNeil 

Tate Britain

The title of the exhibition, "The Treasure Island", has a significant concept because all the paintings and sculptures that we can see in this exhibition are from the island of  Britain and all these works of art are considered treasures. So the meaning of the title exhibition has been well chosen.

As a sixteen year old student of the Lycée Français of Madrid specialized in Literature I'm going to present  the painting I talked to my class in the Juan March exhibition.

My painting  is "Britain Seen From The North" it was made by Tony Cragg, a British visual artist specialised in sculptures. He was born in April 1949. If you know a little bit of Tony Cagg's works you may know that his early works are made from found materials; like the work "Britain Seen From The North"  made on March 1981.

This is a wall relief made from broken scrap materials which he had collected from streets and waste sites in London immediately before the exhibition. It's often interpreted as commenting on the social and economic difficulties Britain was going through at that time. This was the first occasion on which he had incorporated materials other than plastic in a work of this kind, because here we can see discarded plastic objects, metal and wood.

This work consists of two elements:
  - On the left side there is a standing male figure, possibly the artist himself.
  - Next to him a representation of the British Island.
Therefore we can think that the artist is "seeing" Britain from the North.

The male figure was made by the artist drawing around his own body on to a sheet of polythene pinned to the wall, and the map by freehand from an atlas used as a reference.

I like this work because it's quite fun and very original. This painting is enormous and when you look at it,   it impacts you because you look so small compare to this work of art. 

"Britain Seen From The North", 1981

Tony Cragg

Fundación Juan March

" The Treasure Island" ends the 20th of January 2013 but there will be another exhibition called "De la vida doméstica, bodegones y flamencos holandeses del siglo XVII" on the same venue.