Summer Work
Summer Work 2018
Listen to a Podcast
I listened to Duolingo's Spanish Podcast, it is a bilingual podcast that tells stories from the point of view of a Spanish speaker with an English-speaking narrator. I find it helpful as I am learning Spanish as a hobby, the stories are also interesting to listen to and this intermediate level Spanish is easy for me to mentally translate. The episode I listened to (Episode 6: En el camino) is about a young man who is fascinated by travel stories so follows the journey of his favourite book across America.
Go for a walk for its own sake
I often go for walks with a purpose or destination but I do not go to just walk. I am fortunate that my local area is pleasant to walk around and I found the walk quite helpful. I can use the time to think while I walk, if I have a problem to solve or I need ideas for something, walks provide time to think.
Draw a frame from a TV show
I do not draw very often but I am decent at art so I thought I might try this task. When thinking which frame I would draw, I remembered a funny moment from 'The IT Crowd' which I had seen a few days before on a Youtube video so I googled the frame and plenty of images appeared. When drawing, I struggle with getting the scale from the image to the paper and this was a problem in this instance. The frame is when Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade) is on his computer while equipment in his eyeline is on fire but he ignores it, its a humourous moment in the many from the show.
Watch a film twice back to back
I watched the short film 'Thunder Road' twice in a row, it is a one-scene monologue of a son giving his father's eulogy. However, the main character has no self-consciousness so his memories of his father spill into a karaoke performance (with dance moves) of his father's favourite song ('Thunder Road' by Bruce Springstein). Watching it, the film is bizarre but hilarious as you see that the other characters want him to stop but the protagonist (played by Jim Cummings) is paying his respect to his late father. I was recommended this film by my GCSE Media teacher as inspiration for my own project and I found it so funny I had to watch it twice.
Watch a black and white film without sound
I searched for the best black and white film and I saw 'Schindler's List' and found a scene from it that I would never have seen before. I watched it without sound and made notes of my observations and then connected the clues to guess what was happening. I then watched the scene again with sound to see what had actually happened and I saw I was quite accurate with my estimates.
Go for a walk for its own sake
I often go for walks with a purpose or destination but I do not go to just walk. I am fortunate that my local area is pleasant to walk around and I found the walk quite helpful. I can use the time to think while I walk, if I have a problem to solve or I need ideas for something, walks provide time to think.
Draw a frame from a TV show
I do not draw very often but I am decent at art so I thought I might try this task. When thinking which frame I would draw, I remembered a funny moment from 'The IT Crowd' which I had seen a few days before on a Youtube video so I googled the frame and plenty of images appeared. When drawing, I struggle with getting the scale from the image to the paper and this was a problem in this instance. The frame is when Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade) is on his computer while equipment in his eyeline is on fire but he ignores it, its a humourous moment in the many from the show.
Watch a film twice back to back
I watched the short film 'Thunder Road' twice in a row, it is a one-scene monologue of a son giving his father's eulogy. However, the main character has no self-consciousness so his memories of his father spill into a karaoke performance (with dance moves) of his father's favourite song ('Thunder Road' by Bruce Springstein). Watching it, the film is bizarre but hilarious as you see that the other characters want him to stop but the protagonist (played by Jim Cummings) is paying his respect to his late father. I was recommended this film by my GCSE Media teacher as inspiration for my own project and I found it so funny I had to watch it twice.
Watch a black and white film without sound
I searched for the best black and white film and I saw 'Schindler's List' and found a scene from it that I would never have seen before. I watched it without sound and made notes of my observations and then connected the clues to guess what was happening. I then watched the scene again with sound to see what had actually happened and I saw I was quite accurate with my estimates.
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