Filming Day! 12/2/16 - Kada Cernek

For the past month or two, Mr. Rivers has had us preparing our group blogs by choosing movies, books, and unifying ideas. After preparing and reading for the past few weeks, we finally did our first podcast today. However, first we had to plan our podcast by using the pre-production page in the classroom. Michelle and I planned our podcast by coming up with goals, objectives, and questions to complete during the podcast. We also planned which of us were going to say what topic questions to help our podcast go as smooth as possible. Michelle and I decided to watch the movie Alice Through the Looking Glass and read the book Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Our podcast is called "A New Twist". Today our podcast focused on the connections between the film and the novel. For example, the main characters Elphaba and Mad Hatter, both tend to disappoint their parents creating a weak parent child bond. Because of this, other characters step in as mother figures to guide and support the main characters. In Wicked, Elphaba's nanny steps in as her mother figure while in Alice Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen steps in as the Mad Hatter's mother figure. This is just one example of something we analyzed in our podcast today. Our unifying idea of our podcast is the recreation of disney classics. So we also analyzed how the movie Alice Through the Looking Glass differs from the original Alice in Wonderland. The rest of the class also filmed their first podcasts today. Because it was a half day, we only had enough time today to plan our podcast and then actually film our podcast.