# 4
New York International Children’s Film Festival (NICFF) was founded in 1997 by Eric Beckman with his wife, Emily Shapiro, attempting to draw that audience with features that are creative and provocative but without nudity or graphic violence. The purpose of the film is to define a more compelling film for their special audience, children. Currently, this festival is the largest festival for children and teens in North America, with an audience of over 25,000 attending the most recent event. Since 2000, all screenings have sold out in advance. This program is an academy qualified festival (one of the twos holds this honor).
Each year the festival presents 100 animated, live action and experimental shorts and features from around the world plus gala premieres, retrospectives, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, audience voting, and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony. But the festival has become much more than just an annual event; NYICFF now offers year-round film programming, a touring festival, an online festival, and film production workshops for children ages 6-16.
The program emphasize the children’s vote in making decisions of its winner. In addition, the film festival also hosts camp in which children are immersed in filmmaking workshops and classes lead from professional filmmakers.
# 3
Singin’ in the Rain
It was so fun just watching the movie. I was really fascinated by how those MV like songs are record. Well, I believe all of them might not be fun even. And how the actor’s skill of singing dancing, basically everything. There’s a particular scene in the musical when Don was traced by a track and he just grow bigger in the screen. The costumes are very suitable. Probably cost a great deal of money. The light was pretty good. Also at the ballet dancer’s dancing scene with the while dress, she was like a princess. And the movie probably used a lot of technics to get the scene done. I saw the powder under the dance’s feet. She must been using it for more fraction. It might be that the wind was too big. And I also researched a lot of fun facts.
# 2
sharing Kelly’s and my thoughts about super8 project
We decide to tell a story between a person or two and a doll (not sure what yet). The emotion is aimed as a gentle and warming comedy. We are going to use a regular speed. Also adding in cutting scenes (like the make something disappear vine) is also a goal of ours. We have not decide the whole story line but it might connect with the expression of the doll.2
# 1
WPA blog post
Daisy Miller Close Reading
Maggie close reading
Last Source Evaluation: B.B. King – Life of Riley
Second Source Evaluation: The Arrival of B.B. King
The Second source I found helping with my research is a book called The Arrival of B.B. King by Charles Sawyer which is authorized by B.B. King. I focused on a chapter named “The arrival of B.B. King” under part two and the whole part three. The Appendices also interest me. I wish to focus on “The arrival of B.B. King” specifically. Related to my last source, this one also focused on his early life experience and the influence.
King’s character development fascinates me a lot. In this particular part, the author tells stories about King’s harsh childhood. Under a circumstance of being a poverty colored person, King had a tough early life. Nevertheless, he shows his positive attitude towards his life. King was worried about people’s comments about him. He was afraid to be called “illiterate”. So he started reading book when he had time. He was insecure about lots of things. But his positive attitude influenced him to get improvements. Winning the Grammy Award for 15 times, he discovered his own style of Blues. The key concept of the self-improving was discussed through the whole process. Discussing King’s morality, the understanding of King went deeper.
Even better than the last source, this one gives me a better sense of the stories and backgrounds of B.B. King. It’s a form of description instead of autobiography. It helps me narrowing my topic into Riley (B.B.)’s early life. I definitely need more investigation on B.B.’s particular songs and their inspiration. Drawing some connections between his terrible status early days and his later masterpieces. I suppose I will read more chapters of the book and research particular songs that B.B. wrote. This source helps me massively to get into the right direction of making a arguable thesis statement. I think self-improvement is one of the best details I can get for my research paper.
For further research, in order to find my thesis, I think I need change some aspects, find some video or musical datas that helps me investigate the project in a different way. I have an idea that my thesis would be something like, “B.B. King’s music pieces was influenced by his harsh childhood and an opposite attitude of life”, or even something more specific. The book source is not diverse enough. So I will try to watch some documentaries the next time.
Sawyer, Charles. The Arrival of B.B. King: The Authorized Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980. Print.