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I think you chose to do blogging instead of more traditional writing activites for two reasons. Firstly , with our economy growing so fast in the next 10-15 years/ writing an essay by hand will not even be accepted bny teachers. Not even in 10 – 15 years , i have some teachers who dont accept them . Every day programs are being thought up of where you dont even need a papater and pen to do anything. You are preparing us or our furute, highschool , college , work. Now you could be thinkgin how does that have anything to do with a blog? You could just print it out. But with global warming , why waste the peper when you could easily access it online. It is also easier to cath plagirism when you can just copy paste it into a word document and put it through a program that cathes it for you. Secondly because its a creative way to get us intersted . To me ,blog is much more interesting then just sitting down and wriringt with a papaer and pen . Some times a paper and pen can be better with braintstorming and and writing down ideas , but over all i still think a blog is more usefull.

      Some things i have accompllished is growing with the scores for the blog . A couple months ago when we wherer doing the wikis i noticed wthat consistantly went down. But this tiome with the blogs my grade either stayed the same or went up. Another accomplishment which may mnot be educational but personal is that i actually liked the blogs and the freedom we had with them.

       through out the tiem that we were doing our blogs. I learned alot. I learned how to use edublogs and i learned how to write about somethign i like and with language arts benefits. Ms.rumford would add on about 50 words each week to out blogs . And for come reason i didnt find it the least bit challenging . I guess its because i actually enjou movies. Through the blogs i actually enjou movies throught the blogs. I actually learned soem things about my self. I learned that im actually enterested in movies and how i could compare them to my day to day life. When the teacher first told us that we get to choose about what we wanted to write i automaticlly went to movies becasue i thougth i could jsut write anything and not even watch the movie. But after i did that i realized that i actually like blogging and movies.

       Based on skills i learned while blogging i will benefit if a teacher does a simillar activity then i know how to do it . Or even if when im wroking and if my boss tells me to design a blog now i know how to do that also. At the begginning of the unit i thoguth this activity would be really stupid. But now i realize that i actually liked it and i learned alot.

I know personally, that home videos are a major part of my families past. My parents would record every little play we acted out, every recital we performed at. As a child I felt like I was on a reality TV show. But now when we go back and watch them, I’ve got to admit that I’m grateful for the videos. Because without them I probably would have forgotten most of the cool things I did as a kid. Of course half of the videos are taped over or were dropped because of all the fun we were having, but in my opinion, that’s all part of the experience. If you haven’t had a video of you taken when your blowing out the candles off of your first as a matter a fact ALL of your birthday cakes, or have a video of a soccer game you were playing at , or just any video of you making a complete fool of you self, then there’s something missing from your childhood.

            Have you ever had your parents take a video of you falling so hard its funny? Or of you being scared so badly it hurts? Well I have. And many other people to. We’ve all heard of the show Americas Funniest Home Videos, and to tell you the truth yeah that show is hilarious! I’m just thankful my parents haven’t submitted anything of me and my sisters.          

            The Wikipedia definition for a home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment. But I don’t agree with that definition. For one they don’t have to be sold or hired, many of the home videos that my family has recorded are sitting in a box somewhere. Of course that’s telling something, but it still proves the definition wrong.  A home video can be anything from recording your baby’s first step to recording your self trying out a new net gun you bought.

             People even publish there home videos online, there are alot of websites where a bunch of people just upload them onto there. Home videos have come to a sort of tradition here at asd. After or even during every assembly some sort of home video is shown . If it was taken at school , or found on the internet.  

            Since we are in the 21^st century. You don’t have to lug around a hug video camera, or take out the tape and buy new ones. You don’t even have to have a tape player. All you need is a computer. Also in the past people would have to show them on slides but now all you have to do is insert the memory card into the computer and your done.

            Over all if it wasn’t for home videos I know my life wouldn’t be the same. And I know that a lot of other peoples wouldn’t be either. Just think  about all the memories you’d be forgetting . But instead you can re watch them all you like.

Have you ever taken a drama class? Or acted in the school play? Well I have. And I know its no piece of cake. Now imagine that, but 100 times harder. With more lines to memorize. And your whole career on hold, And at jeopardy. Well that’s what actors go through every time they decide to try out for the role of an actor. Or every time they agree to a script that was sent to them. 

The making of movies is not only difficult for the actors , but for the directors. It takes massive amounts of money just to make one scene of the movie. Yet alone the whole thing. Plus the actors income and the rest of the staff and crew. It is very pricy to make a movie. But if it is successful then it is worth all the trouble and all nighters they put in. If not then, they just have to try again.

            Many actors have later on become directors. For example Sean Penn who directed Into the Wild. And Robert Deniro , who directed more then one movie  A Bronx Tale , and A Good Sheppard. It is said that the reason most actors or actresses becomes directors later on when their acting lives have been successful is because they heard , or were told a story that inspired them and they thought that it should be made into a movie. Also because they might have met a director or have a movie that they acted in be directed by a director that inspired them to direct. And made them realize, that there real compassion is not acting, but directing.

Shooting the scene may not be easy. But actually putting the movie together can be very simple. If you have a digital camera and a Mac , you can most definitely make a movie using iMovie. People actually do it all the time. Instead of writing on a blog like this one , they just record stuff then post it. 

            If it wasn’t for all those directors and actors and film makers. I personally think that the world would be a much more boring place. People have become so hooked on movies that they cant go a week without seeing a new one .Of course of the film industry that is very good news. But for the parents of the teenage kids who are the ones who are going and watching the movies it means buying hundreds of movie tickets. But its totally worth it!

            For this weeks review I have chosen to write about the movie, Bride Wars . I thought that movie was something that could actually happen in real life. For me while I was watching it , I couldn’t enjoy it , because I was watching it with my sister who’s getting married in two weeks. So the whole time she would be agreeing with one of the brides or disagreeing. It was pretty annoying, but it did make me laugh, and it made me realize that that could actually happen. I’m willing to bet any amount of money that my sister would probably do some of the things those brides did (just not to that extent) .

            Bride Wars came out on January 9^th 2009, this romantic comedy made $58,702,788 in the US box office alone.

            Bride wars is a movie about two best friends who has dreamt about a summer wedding in the Plaza Hotel ever since they were kids. It ended up that they got proposed to by their boyfriends in the same week. But one of them was proposed to, and the other forced her now fiancé to marry her. In that same week they went to the best wedding planner so she could book them the reservations. The catch is that the wedding planner made a mistake and ended up booking them the same exact date and at the same exact time. Of course the two women fight and fight over who has to change there reservation, but in the end … well ill let you watch the movie and figure it out on your own .

            Kate Hudson plays the part of Liv (the one who forced her boyfriend to marry her). And Anne Hathaway as Emma .  I thought this movie was funny and laughable , but I felt bad for their fiancés who just went along with it . Even though there was conflict between Emma and her fiancé it still seemed to me that they were just there as toys and not fiancés.

        Here is the Trailer for you to watch and get a sence of whether you like it or not , I know I did . I hope you enjoyed my post for the week. 

How does freedom of speech relate to me as a blogger?

Freedom of speech relates to me as a blogger in many different ways. Firstly, that I’m allowed to talk freely so I can express my opinions on my blog and share my thoughts with people other than my family and friends. Secondly, that I could influence others with my opinion and it could affect their actions and thoughts. Thirdly, that I am allowed to publish anything as long as it is true.

That last point has been debated in our classroom. It has been debated because sometimes the truth can harm others. Or it could offend others, or it could be that you didn’t actually write the truth that you just wrote your opinion which could not be completely true. But you don’t have to just stop writing your opinions to avoid this. You just have to be more caucus when you are writing. And make sure to include the fact that what you’re writing are your opinions.

When I say that I could influence others with my opinion, I mean that for example. When I write my opinion about a movie and someone comes across my blog and happens to read my post. They are either going to agree or disagree with what I had written , they could have watched the movie and liked it , and I could have said in my weeks post that I also liked it , then that would mean that they agreed . Another way that they could agree is that they could have disliked the movie before reading my post, but then realized that the points I listed are true, or I could list some facts about how much the movie costed to make or who the director was, so they could lower their opinion to the standard of the movie.

I personally find this picture offensive, because its saying if you’re not rich, then you’re not allowed to talk, but really anyone should be allowed to speak what’s on their mind just as long as its not harmful to anyone.

I hope that you agree with the relationships I have as a blogger with freedom of speech. And that the next time you sit down to write your blog or a paper that’s due that you speak freely but truthfully.

            The other day while I was sitting watching TV, a commercial came up for “Slum dog Millionaire”. And I automatically changed the channel.  I automatically changed the channel because I’m not really into documentaries and true stories. Later on that week I started to hear people talking about it, so I looked up the trailer and it actually looked interesting. Slum dog Millionaire Trailer .

             The main actor who plays the role of Jamal Malik is Dev Patel who hasn’t been in many other famous movies, but I’m sure now he will be a very recognizable actor in the movie business.  Dev Patel is a British actor as well as a martial artist. If you’ve watched the movie or have seen previews, you’ve probably noticed the two adorable little boys who play Jamal when he was younger and his brother. Well those adorable kids, who I found to be the best actors in the whole movie, were found off the street and only paid 5 thousand dollars for the challenging work they did. I thought that was unfair, because if an actor from Hollywood had done the amazing job those two little kids did, they would have been paid more than 5 million dollars. But because the kids were uneducated, and didn’t understand that they deserved more than what they got.

            Slum Dog Millionaires genre was titled as a Crime, Drama, and Romance. Crime because they thought that Jamal was a criminal and cheated in the game of “Who wants to be a millionaire?” It was also considered a crime movie, because of the Downtown Indian Beggars / Con artists. It was considered a drama, I feel because of the constant dramatic music. And because of the conflict between the host of the “ Who wants to be a millionaire?” It was a romance because of the relationship between Jamal and Latika.  Freida Pinto played the part of Latika .  Jamal and Latikas relationship was cute but had an expected ending.

            Over all I enjoyed the movie and it was worth the watch . I hope you liked my review for the week!