Alex, Harrison, and Chris study for Alex's test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD0bn6zEXkk

snow

okay I'm gonna put some effort in here lol

it was snowing today!! I usually like snowing for no reason but after i came to the US, it's too much to like it!!!!!!!! last year, I had to shovel on my own birthday!!!! it's a little earlier than last year and it wasn't too much today, but I'm too afraid that its coming,,,,,D: Oh god, it was too much lol
I hate when the weather is too hot, but since I had so much fun spending my summer in beaches in long island, now I can say, 'i like summer in long island much better than winter'

Hamlet Skin (Update 5)

So, in the end, we ended up not going through with the iPod app.

The one major complication was getting the app up in the market, and that was definitely not happening....

Instead, we decided to do video blogs.

It's basically the same as our last idea, but instead of just regular blogs, we decided to do a video blog (or vlog) for each act of the play.

The vlogs will be in the perspective of Claudius.

Filippo would pretend to be Claudius in his room after each act and vlog about the different events that have occurred in that act.

I actually like this one better than what we thought of before....

I don't know why we didn't think of this before...

The next few blog posts will be the videos and a short description of each.

We wanted this to be as modern as possible, so Claudius' outfit is regular casual clothing.

His "crowns" are everyday hats and the objects used are all from my room.

His speech, especially, is really modern and ghetto like.

Each of us read an act and pretty much told what Filippo should say in each vlog and he improved from there.

The whole process of creating the videos was pretty hilarious.

Set Designs

In class the professor talked about set designs. He showed us different pictures of various set designs that he had gathered together. The thing about designing a set is that you have to be able to catch the attention of the audience within the first couple seconds, but you also don't want it to take away from the actual performance. There has to be some equal medium between the two so that the show, play, performance, etc. can amaze the entire audience. Throughout the course of human history theatres have always been an important part of our culture. There are many possibilities as to why that may have been bu the most import reason is that they amaze us and keep us interested. Think about anything you have done in your life, much like a theatre you asses the situation or whatever it might be. Within the first couple seconds you have an idea of what is going on. That might be one of the reason people stress so much about first impressions because people judge you and asses you when you first meet them and if you don't amaze them and keep them interested they'll want nothing to do with you. Just my thoughts...