Romeo and Juliet: Q&A

Who are the most important characters in the play?

Romeo and Juliet, obviously.

What is the setting?

It takes place on Verona, Italy in the fourteenth century.

What are important themes?
1) Love as a cause of violence

2) The forcefulness of love

3) The individuals against society

What are the key moments in the plot?

1. Prince Escalus orders peace amongst the Capulets and Montagues or there will be big trouble
2. Romeo and Juliet meet at a Capulet party
3. Romeo and Juliet get married
4. Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt
5. Romeo is banished
6. Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan to give Juliet poison that will make her seem dead and then for Romeo to be contacted to be told of the plan.
7. Juliet takes poison and all the Capulets think she is dead.
8. The message from Friar Lawrence does not reach Romeo but Romeo does hear that Juliet is dead.
9. Romeo sees Juliet dead and kills himself
10. Juliet sees Romeo and kills herself

Rationale

We are FDR (Good Aspect):

Something that is not seen in this school, but is definitely felt, is the fact that FDR is unlike any other school. As this school grows, it teaches us how to grow and as a result, there is a mutual benefit that we fail to appreciate. We grow so much with the school that it leaves a mark in each student's career life. This mark is called unity

When we were in the planing stage, we saw other videos that were professional and others that were cliché and dull. The cliché commercials were often created with iMovie and had the same font, same pictures and same format. In order to avoid this, we had to choose different angles, in which we would film the commercial. These were all included in our pitch that we presented to our class. In terms of iMovie editing, Emilio made sure to change the fonts and the transition effects in order to make them more genuine and professional.

The setting our commercial takes place, varies from EC classes High School classes. An effect that we expected the audience to catch was the innocence of the youngsters showed in our film such as the kids crawling around in the room and the 2nd Graders in their intense PE classes. Another aspect that we proved effective was the 180˚shot that we took of the PAC at the end of the video. The vintage-like effect benefited us to keep the commercial nostalgic-like.

The audience, we choose for the commercial, that "catches" these effects are alumni from the school, as well as students and parents interested in enrolling their sons or daughters in this school. This made us make the commercial solemn, "cute" and, most of all, nostalgic. We believe that we had truly excelled making these effects true and professional, leaving aside our filming limitations (as well as our editing limitations)

Final English Commercial

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Reflection (Tuesday With Morrie): 21 of March 2013

What motivates me the most, when working in a group, is when I see a great equal interest for what we are doing. I really like to see passion on people and when I don't feel them get passionate about the subject, but I do see this spark, I attempt my best to try to turn that spark into a fire that is big enough to incinerate a forest; however, if I see that some people don't have an interest I give up on them and I just let them follow their own way. Nothing necessarily kills my motivation but what does stop me down would be the fact that a person doesn't turn in their work on time or simply forget their materials. If that happens then I will get disappointed and I would probably try to push them away from a project since I don't trust them much.

Reflection (Tuesdays with Morrie): 18 of Mar 2013

As a writer, I have realized that I tend to write with formality and due to this, I find it hard to constantly try express some ideas and feelings when I am writing on my blog; nevertheless, I feel that this formality benefits me as a person since my writing sounds more professional. I dislike the fact that when I am writing in 1st person, I feel uncomfortable and mostly awkward. This is one of the very few reasons that I don't appreciate writing with high formality. I do take pride when I write in Spanish since I feel that my writing is very similar to the newspaper "El Comercio". I might be exaggerating but I still find a couple of similarities. 

Reflection (Tuesdays With Morrie): 14 of March 2013

Unlike Mitch's connection with his brother was quite weak, I believe that my connection with my brothers is strong. Although one of my brothers, is in Canada (studying marketing) I feel that we still are in constant communication. My family is in fact loving and affectionate but we are not like the stereotypical U.S "movie families". We do talk and have constant topics while we are in a conversation mood, but we don't talk about our feelings during dinner. One of the most stereotypical aspects of the U.S "movie families" is reflecting about out day, but my family watches movies on blu-ray. The truth is, I would rather watch the movie "Argo" with my family instead of sharing our feelings.

Relfection (Tuesdays With Morrie): 11 of Mar 2013

In Morrie's fourth Tuesday, he mentions the aphorism, "Once you know how to die, you learn how to live" (82). He is referring about how only people that are dying, and know that they don't have time left yet they enjoy socializing and enjoy the presence of people, know the "right" way of living. I believe that I have not lived enough to learn how to live and that I have a very short vision of what is life and how to live it.