12/19/16 Connor Erickson

Today in Mr. Rivers' class we started class the best way to start any class, watching movies. Since period two had the fire drill yesterday, Mr. Rivers didn't want our class to be too far ahead so we watched two short films. The first short film we watched was called Day and Night, a 2010 short made by Pixar. This short film consisted of no dialogue but expressed many words just by showing instead of telling. It was about two characters, one showing the day time and the other showing the night time. Throughout the film we see the characters going back and forth about which character shows the better day of time and by the end they switch times so everyone is equal. After that short film we watched another one called, Paper man also an oscar winning film made by Disney. This short was about a man searching for the girl he met at the train station with paper planes. Again there is no use of dialogue but it does a great job at giving an interpretation of what the message should be. By the end of the film he finally finds his girl and both shorts end with a happy ending. After we had our fun of watching short films we got back to learning about transitions and how to strengthen a critical review.
Here are the notes we took today about what the critical review should consist of.

Goal: To develop transitions to strengthen the organization of a critical review

Always Consider Audience

1. Deliberately Title Article
2. Credit Relevant Artists
3. Provide necessary context
4. Summarize plot
5. Evaluate content
6. Evaluate meaning/theme (plant seed)
7. Conclude

After we finished taking notes we then looked at the feast review that we've been working on the past few days and constructed this opening paragraph of a critical review from all of the groups mini work in the class.

“Feast”, a short film directed by Patrick Osborn, illustrates a tale about a dog named Winston. It focuses on his food habits, and how those habits are affected by his owner’s relationship with a waitress. The Oscar-winning animated short was produced for Big Hero 6. In just six minutes, the film transcends the boundaries of what it means to be a short film.