Merchant of Venice

 For the past few weeks my english class has been working on video making for each group. My group movie was based on The Merchant of Venice. Our short film is all about a heist at the bank and how someone ratted them out to the police but they paid the judge to say they were not guilty so in court they were charged not guilty. Some challenges we all had to face was when some people that needed to be in the shot weren't at school to do it so we had to think outside the box and find a way to still film with one less person to act in the scene even if it was the main character in the shot. We connected this movie to The Merchant of Venice by using elements like betrayal, a court scene and the "villain" getting karma for doing the main cast "wrong". After doing using all the film techniques were had to pick two of our own to put in the film, so we chose to do the High angle and Over the shoulder. If I were to do this activity again and I could do something different I would do everything differently.

Show Don't Tell

 Today we are doing "show don’t tell” to write 3-5 effective narrative openings. I will be reflecting on 3 photos that I'm going to "show not tell you". This has to do what image has given, I hope you enjoy it. Here's what I wrote.

1.  As I was sitting down on the step while it was frosty, a man walked past me and gave me this side view that didn't surprise me.

 

2. Is anyone around me? I need to take this luscious meat home tonight for my kids.

  

3. It was just a common day for me as I felt the feeling of boredom once again.