movie cliches are the bane of modern movie goers existence, the plight of seeing the same plots, hooks and charaters is a tragedy of the modern age. Cliches usually are the result of lazy screen writing or wanting to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Most regard them as boring and over used but what if they were something more, something that shapes how we see the world. Take for example guns, in movies they are potrayed as unlimited ammo death machines that never offer and recoil or hurt the users ears when rapidly firing them. Many people think this way about guns, never holding one in their life their perception of them comes from what they see of them and about them. Cliches in that way have a significant hold over how the population views something, because if you see the same cliches over and over again about a topic we have little knowledge of then the cliche becomes our knowledge of the subject. This is because it is hammered into our brains whenever we see it a constant reminder of mostly false information. Serveral ideas we have come from cliches, true love, violence, heroism, drug dealers and so on and so forth.
I figure this to be my body and begining. I'll probably add to it. The take away would go like this.
All I ask is that when you think something, think about why you think that way. Not all of our incorrect assumptions and information comes from movie cliches, some can even come from your own mother. You gotta ask yourself why you view the world a certain way and where those views really come from.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Monday, November 16, 2015
Topics ideas and the like
My topic is movie cliches
I could start out with describing a scene from a movie we've all watched at least a dozen times (happy ever after ending) (narration from begining is at end with new meaning) stuff like that, or I could just show it, or I could do both.
The body of my speech is gonna be about how cliches mold our views of the world and how it works from a young age. Give examples like (how guns work) (how love works) stuff like that. I'd talk about how this can lead to negitive or positive stigmas about things such as all crime is perpetrated by Russian mafia or how if you don't act like this a certain way when you love somebody it isn't true love.
The takeaway is that what we expose to our children and ourselves, even innocent movies about love can shape how we perceive and act in the world.
I could start out with describing a scene from a movie we've all watched at least a dozen times (happy ever after ending) (narration from begining is at end with new meaning) stuff like that, or I could just show it, or I could do both.
The body of my speech is gonna be about how cliches mold our views of the world and how it works from a young age. Give examples like (how guns work) (how love works) stuff like that. I'd talk about how this can lead to negitive or positive stigmas about things such as all crime is perpetrated by Russian mafia or how if you don't act like this a certain way when you love somebody it isn't true love.
The takeaway is that what we expose to our children and ourselves, even innocent movies about love can shape how we perceive and act in the world.
Peter Pan: a awkward tale
Let me say right off the bat that I didn't hate this play or the performances of any of the actors. It was not the worst thing I've ever seen but it did have its failings. Overall the play had a good cast, the production value was lacking of course and the script left a lot to be desired. It's run time was satisfactory, I didn't feel as if I was there forever and it wasn't too short though I did start to get anxious towards the end.
The cast of charaters in the play had a variety of performances ranging from good to very poor, no one in the play was terrible I feel though the weren't really putting effort into their roles and no one was excellent. Even Charlotte who was the best actor felt flat at times and preformed way better as the mother then as a pirate. Peter Pan was played by areon who's preformance was mixed as well, at times I felt she did somewhat well with her role and others just seems as she was playing herself. Wendy played by vepca who I felt was good at her role but it wasn't a strong performance. The brothers played by maddy and whoever were ok, the older brother being the better then maddies performance. Maddy's performance was simply talking like herself without having any emotions to her lines and it was rather annoying and detracted from the entire experience, it didn't help that her voice is grating. The side charaters such as the lost boys, the extra pirates and the Indians were all done well for what they were.
The production value of the play was of course cheap but it was creative for what they did, I felt however that the visual representation of tinker bell wasn't neccisary and the alligator was more humous then scary and was a bit underwhelming. The sets were good for what hey had to work with and nice enough so it didn't take away from the experience.
The script for this play was horrible, they said it was supposed to be "darker" but ended up having way to much redundant dialogue and failed humor. The dialogue is one of the main reasons I'm not faulting anyone for weak performances because it is honestly one of the worst attempts to recreate human speech that I've ever seen. It was like watching a chat bot try and pretend to be human . I however thought that the Pirates had the best lines especially the villain Captain Hook and that the interaction between the Pirates and Peter Pan at the lagoon while dumb and corny was actually kinda funny. To recap this play was nowhere near good but it was ok and I give it 6/10.
The cast of charaters in the play had a variety of performances ranging from good to very poor, no one in the play was terrible I feel though the weren't really putting effort into their roles and no one was excellent. Even Charlotte who was the best actor felt flat at times and preformed way better as the mother then as a pirate. Peter Pan was played by areon who's preformance was mixed as well, at times I felt she did somewhat well with her role and others just seems as she was playing herself. Wendy played by vepca who I felt was good at her role but it wasn't a strong performance. The brothers played by maddy and whoever were ok, the older brother being the better then maddies performance. Maddy's performance was simply talking like herself without having any emotions to her lines and it was rather annoying and detracted from the entire experience, it didn't help that her voice is grating. The side charaters such as the lost boys, the extra pirates and the Indians were all done well for what they were.
The production value of the play was of course cheap but it was creative for what they did, I felt however that the visual representation of tinker bell wasn't neccisary and the alligator was more humous then scary and was a bit underwhelming. The sets were good for what hey had to work with and nice enough so it didn't take away from the experience.
The script for this play was horrible, they said it was supposed to be "darker" but ended up having way to much redundant dialogue and failed humor. The dialogue is one of the main reasons I'm not faulting anyone for weak performances because it is honestly one of the worst attempts to recreate human speech that I've ever seen. It was like watching a chat bot try and pretend to be human . I however thought that the Pirates had the best lines especially the villain Captain Hook and that the interaction between the Pirates and Peter Pan at the lagoon while dumb and corny was actually kinda funny. To recap this play was nowhere near good but it was ok and I give it 6/10.
Friday, November 13, 2015
What makes a TED talk good
I believe there are three things neccisary for a good Ted talk, 1. is a interesting and relatable subject matter, 2. Is keeping the audience interested in you either by entertaining them or using visuals 3 is a take away that makes the audience go "oh wow never thought like that before"
The first one is kinda tough because your subject must be interesting enough to talk about without constantly repeating yourself or bore the audience. It's gotta be exciting to the audience, something fresh and new that they haven't thought about much or not at all. At the same time it has to be relatable, if your gonna talk about quantum physics don't talk about formulas and rules and actual Science, you gotta Paint a word picture. For instance if you were gonna talk about how the speed of light slows down time if you get near that speed you don't quote a bunch of numbers at the audience, you talk about how if a train had a track that circled the earth and could go the speed of light everyone on that train would experience time differently, a time bubble if you will and when they got of that train having been on it for a few hours they would be 100s of years into the future.
Secondly you must entertain your audience, you could do this numerous ways. One way is the word picture as I said before, humor is a good way, audience interaction is good too but usually that dies off when the speaker gets into the meat of their speech, or appealing to the emotion of the audience. Visuals are important too but if you do not need them you don't hafta use them. Entertaining the audience is less about keeping interested in what your saying and more about stopping them from being bored. As long as you keep them paying attention you should be able to at lest leave them with the take away which is your only lasting impression on the audience. No one will remember your statistic about incarnation rates in America but they will remember you saying that being reborn is the best experience of your life. This leads us to our third part.
Which is the take away. The take away is vital, it makes the audience think for just a moment about something they never have. It's the main reason anyone bothers to watch TED talks cause if people just wanted to know about a subject, they'd look up the subject the speech is about and research it themselves. No, they want a spoon fed "wow never thought like that before" feeling that makes them feel good for about ten minutes. Your take away hasta sound impressive and reflect on what your speech was about. Use clever word play, big words, the works. You gotta make this the most amazing thing that was ever said about anything. Once you figure that out you got yourself a speech. Now your ready to say it to the masses.
The first one is kinda tough because your subject must be interesting enough to talk about without constantly repeating yourself or bore the audience. It's gotta be exciting to the audience, something fresh and new that they haven't thought about much or not at all. At the same time it has to be relatable, if your gonna talk about quantum physics don't talk about formulas and rules and actual Science, you gotta Paint a word picture. For instance if you were gonna talk about how the speed of light slows down time if you get near that speed you don't quote a bunch of numbers at the audience, you talk about how if a train had a track that circled the earth and could go the speed of light everyone on that train would experience time differently, a time bubble if you will and when they got of that train having been on it for a few hours they would be 100s of years into the future.
Secondly you must entertain your audience, you could do this numerous ways. One way is the word picture as I said before, humor is a good way, audience interaction is good too but usually that dies off when the speaker gets into the meat of their speech, or appealing to the emotion of the audience. Visuals are important too but if you do not need them you don't hafta use them. Entertaining the audience is less about keeping interested in what your saying and more about stopping them from being bored. As long as you keep them paying attention you should be able to at lest leave them with the take away which is your only lasting impression on the audience. No one will remember your statistic about incarnation rates in America but they will remember you saying that being reborn is the best experience of your life. This leads us to our third part.
Which is the take away. The take away is vital, it makes the audience think for just a moment about something they never have. It's the main reason anyone bothers to watch TED talks cause if people just wanted to know about a subject, they'd look up the subject the speech is about and research it themselves. No, they want a spoon fed "wow never thought like that before" feeling that makes them feel good for about ten minutes. Your take away hasta sound impressive and reflect on what your speech was about. Use clever word play, big words, the works. You gotta make this the most amazing thing that was ever said about anything. Once you figure that out you got yourself a speech. Now your ready to say it to the masses.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Monday, November 9, 2015
Ted talks
Why some of us have don't have one true calling, a look at how just because people say you hafta only do one thing with your life doesn't make it true
https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling/transcript?language=en
school kills creativity. Why our education system sometimes fails our children and students by being too focused on one thing and not allowing students to find themselves
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity/transcript?language=en#t-993000
Falling in love is the easy part. A talk about love. How people think that just because people are in a relationship means here is love and she says that instead of asking if they are still together, ask the harder questions about their relationship.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mandy_len_catron_falling_in_love_is_the_easy_part/transcript?language=en
https://www.ted.com/talks/emilie_wapnick_why_some_of_us_don_t_have_one_true_calling/transcript?language=en
school kills creativity. Why our education system sometimes fails our children and students by being too focused on one thing and not allowing students to find themselves
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity/transcript?language=en#t-993000
Falling in love is the easy part. A talk about love. How people think that just because people are in a relationship means here is love and she says that instead of asking if they are still together, ask the harder questions about their relationship.
https://www.ted.com/talks/mandy_len_catron_falling_in_love_is_the_easy_part/transcript?language=en
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