Aug 27th

WHAT HAPPENED TODAY

Today was the first class of film, and after going through the rules of the film class we watched a couple of clips, two trailers for the same movie. One was edited to make it look like the movie (Mrs. Doubtfire) was a horror film, and then the original, which showcased the original style and feeling, which was a comedy soap opera kind of thing (well, by my judgement without actually seeing the movie). I had a bit of a hunch that, after seeing the initial horror-edited trailer, it was a comedy, mostly judging by the bits of story we could garner from it, especially a few key moments that simply would be completely out of place in a horror film. That's not to say that it wasn't well done horror, because it was pretty chill inducing, but it also felt kind of overdone at the same time. That was our introduction to our first unit, editing. We got into groups of about 4, and started planning the editing exercise where we have to do the same thing as the Mrs. Doubtfire horror trailer did, but with another movie. Our group was split a bit in terms of movie taste, which was a conflict we didn't exactly resolve but glossed over by just agreeing to the other two's movie choice, The Parent Trap.

IB LEARNER PROFILE

To be honest, I think most of today's class would be thinking. Most of the class was just taking in new information, brainstorming and such, which is generally classified to be thinking, and it felt pretty satisfying to get it right.