Chris Link 2/14

         Today the fourteenth of February, in the year two-thousand seventeen, also commonly referred to as Valentines day, we started off the class by observing the two similar, yet vastly different images that appeared on the projector. Mr. Rivers announced that he had posted a question on the classroom page so that he could track what we individually had gained from class time today. We then moved on to discussing the topic of genre and redirected the class'es attention back to the projector which showed the google doodle for today which featured a large valentine in the center, but in the other image it showed a real human heart in the same positioning. As a class we decided that google went for the doodle that depicted the valentine because of tradition and aesthetics. Society is more comfortable with the traditional symbol of a valentine because it is more appealing to the eye, along with various other reasons.
        We then were shown various romantic comedy movie covers and were asked to point out similarities between them all. Some similarities include the following: all of the starring actors/actresses on the covers seemed to equally share the space on the cover, the actors all seemed to have a goofy expression while the actresses all seemed to have a knowing smile, they were all beautiful people, all white, and all in the age category between too young and too old.
         We moved on to the song city of stars, dissecting the lyrics to find that the song was entirely made up of simple rhymes that didn't require much effort to figure out the meaning for. For example one line reads, " Yes, all we're looking for is love from someone else". We then listened to the song and were asked to point out the effect that this song has when it was sung by the actors Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. We found that the way they didn't take this song entirely seriously added a certain aesthetic to the song making it more romantic. We then watched the video that went along with this song and were asked to find the effect that the moving picture had on the song. We discussed how the twilight lighting added a sense of beauty, paired with how Emma stone's focus was directed at Ryan the entire time thy sang the duet.