ANSWER THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION FOR SESSION FOUR

After completing the online session four and all of the homework, please return to this post and answer the Essential Question for Session Four by posting a "COMMENT" to this blog entry.

What is the conceptualizing process and how will you do it? 

Alex's Movie-Image Exercise

Encanto: A Study in Compassion

Encanto is a beautiful family movie that follows a multigeneration Colombian family, the Madrigals, led by a matriarch whose children and grandchildren--except for Mirabel Madrigal--receive magical gifts from a miracle that helps them serve the people in their rural community. When Mirable learns that the family is losing their magic, she sets out to find what is happening and save her family and magical house. The film's music is phenomenal, and the characters are well thought through. Everyone who has a family can undoubtedly identify in one way or the other with the Madrigals. It's a heartwarming story.

 

Anca's movie exercise

Glow is a study in women empowerment. The series follows the story of 13 women who get the role of their lives in a small production in the 80’. The show has an original idea for the time, namely women wrestlers. The series shows the struggles of these women to have a career before joining the production, because of family obligations and difficulties to succeed as actors. The director of the show, and older grumpy man, follows also a path of growth during the series by succeeding slowly to organize his disordered life and discovers a meaning in his role as a father. It is a series about women empowerment, friendship, career and personal/romance related struggles.

Nico`s Movie Image Exercise

 Hytti nro 6: A Study of Humanity

   

The film “Hytti nro 6” tells the story of a young woman Laura who travels by train through the Siperia to Murmansk, Russia to see petroglyphs. Unfortunately, Laura gets a slightly younger miner Ljoha as her cabin mate in the train. At first this man seems like a complete drunkard with no manners at all. During a journey lasting several days, two completely different people find connection, friendship and even a bit of romance.

Ran's Movie Image Exercise

 

Summary: The film is based on the novel “Wives and Concubines” by Su Tong. It tells the story of a young woman (19 years old), Songlian, an educated woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy man, whose face is never clearly shown during the 1920s in China.

The film explores themes of power, control, tradition, and patriarchy as Songlian becomes embroiled in the intense competition and jealousy between the four wives for the attention and favor of their husband. The wives' lives are highly regimented and controlled, with strict rules and rituals that they must follow.

In fact, the master decides on a daily basis the concubine with whom he will spend the night; whomever he chooses gets her lanterns lit, receives the foot massage, gets her choice of menu items at mealtime, and gets the most attention and respect from the servants. 

Songlian, who had briefly attended university before the passing of her father and being forced into marriage, comes to the conclusion that she is happier in solitude; she eventually sees the competition between the concubines as a useless endeavor, as each woman is merely a "robe" that the master may wear and discard at his discretion. The following summer, after the Master's marriage to yet another concubine, Songlian is shown wandering the compound in her old schoolgirl clothes, appearing to have gone completely insane.

Ran

ANSWER THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION FOR SESSION THREE

After completing the online session three and all of the homework, please return to this post and answer the Essential Question for Session Three by posting your answer as a COMMENT to this blog entry.

How does your teaching style influence your instructional designs?  

MOVIE CONCEPT-IMAGE EXERCISE AFTER SESSION THREE

The following exercise will give you experience creating an image 

combined with language that brings you to the essence of the subject.

     1.  Select one film that you have seen. 

2. Write a short summary.

3. Create or (find online) an advertisement or image for this movie.

4. Complete this sentence for your movie: 

(Name of film): A Study in ______________

5. Post your Summary, Image and Sentence on the course blog

      before the 4th session.

To do this, you must click the "NEW POST" link at the top of this page. You will then see the toolbar which will allow you to add an image to your post. Click the picture icon and browse to find your image and insert it. Please use images not larger than about 4 inches or 450 pixels. You can use the controls to make it smaller.

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