Final BLOG

      This class was very useful for me and I have learned a lot of new staff. I learned about symbols and archetypes. I have learned about myself, my own archetype. I found out that I am an orphan and it was not a big surprise for me, but during the class I learned a lot about orphan archetype. I read the book Coraline and it helped me as well. I mean while my reading I was looking at the main character – Coraline like at me. It helped me a lot to understand her and her actions. “Archetype can also help you to realize your potential in life and face with who you really are. My archetype helps to transform my view of this world to others and help me realize creativity and effectiveness. “Coraline” by Neil Caiman helped me to understand my archetype in different way." (from my earlier blog)

         I also learned symbols and how to see them and see what they mean. We discussed the Shakespeare poem ”Macbeth” and in the beginning it was very hard for me, but with the help of professor I kind of started to understand it better and after seeing all symbols, they actually helped me to understand the poem. And the same with “Goblin Market”. Knowing symbols really helped me to read it and understand it.

       So I think this class helped me a lot in understanding literature and I think in future it will be easier to read books, especially poems.

       I was impressed by the final project of Benjamin Chivas.First of all the whole idea was really cool and I never actually heard about it that close. I mean I heard about it but I never faced it. So his project I think was the best and it impressed me in many ways. The quality of the project was very great, and the music choice….was fantastic. The music was scary and was changing just in time, in a right way. And the whole information and the sound of “these things”, it was really amazing.

     He did a really good job, and I am sure that he spent a lot of time. His project made me interested in these sounds and I think that I would like to dig more information about it and make my own research. Because if it is a true and we can hear these voices, so maybe they are trying to worn us or to tell us something important. I think I will definitely do my own research.

Entry 4.2

I was done with my project and the only thing left was to upload it online, so everyone can see it.I did it on youtube page  but it didn’t have any sound. Then I tried to do it again and make my page private, but still it had only video and no sound.It happened because youtube recognised the song and in copyright issue was not allowed me to have the sound. My next step was that I tryed to put it on my facebook page, but again the space was not enough.After that I tried to make my facebook page  bigger with space and finally I uploaded the video online. So it was working fine with  the sound.And next step was – to make it public,so everyone can see it.

So my classmate helped me. On video  on facebook I copied embed code and plug it in my blog page.I never knew that, so I learned something new for me and very useful in future. And finally I got it. And it took only 1.30 hour.   J

PROJECT ENG 102

This is my project.
I hope you all enjoy it
Thank you

Blog entry 4.1 Upgrade

So I found all pictures that I need for my project, so I think that the biggest part of it is already done. And I found a song in a good quality, so I can just record it to my movie maker program.
So this is one of them.I think it is very cool

I also looked through the effects in movie maker program, and I found the ones that I am going to use for my video.

I think that the most hardest part was to cut the song with pictures to make it real.I mean every word in song should have the picture at the screen. And it is not that easy, because sometimes for 2 seconds you need to change 3-4 pictures.And also I have to left some time for effects, so it was a detailed work,took long time.
I think that next week I will be done with my project
I actually pretty done with my project.I  made all effects that I wanted to do and right now  I need only to upload it in youtube and finish my written part.
I hope you guys going to  enjoy it.

Blog Entry 3.4

So I decided to do the video on the song Eagles: "Witchy women". I listened to the song and I think it is goes with the thyme of the class, and it is kind of interesting representation of witchy women.
So what I am doing I am listening to the song and imagine in my mind pictures of it. So I go to Google and try to find the pictures that are fitting the most. So far I found a lot of them already, but not enough, especially of witch women. Because the character from the song is not a witch, it is a witchy women, and it is kind of different thing.

So I will need couple steps to make it done:

1. I have to record the song in movie maker program
2. I have to find all pictures that will fit my song
3. I have to add pictures to the movie maker program and plug them one by one
4. Make sure that the words from the song are  at the same time picture are appearing
5. and do effects to make it look interesting

I think that to the next week I will be done with pictures already and the song in movie maker program. And I will be left with only effects.

Entry 3.5 Coraline- (second version)

According to psychologist Carol Pearson, all of us have archetypes within our psyches. My primary archetype is orphan. According to freedictionary.com Orphan means:

1.  A child whose parents are dead.

2. A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.

3. A young animal without a mother.

4. Lacking support, supervision, or care.

        When we think of orphans we think of sad lonely children with no hope or future, who are always trying to find someone, who can give them happiness. An orphan is a child that has lost both of his or her parents. The orphan is a metaphor for something that is very deep inside us, something that makes us feel lonely and don’t give us normal life. And only after we let this thing out, we can start normal life.
          We always have feeling of sympathy to orphans, because they are sad and lonely and they are trying to find happiness, because now one cares about them (That how they are used to think). I think it is a negative thing, because knowing that this person is orphan, you already have some feeling of pity. And that feeling is not always the right one. The positive trait is that orphans are usually good people and they value many things that others don’t.
           After reading the book “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman, I realized that there are a lot of archetypes there. Some of them are: Miss Spink and Forcible are wizards when they read tea leaves, Old crazy men is a protector, who warns Coraline about the door, the black cat is a mentor; the children in the closet can be see as guides, because they give Coraline advice one urge her to flee from this place and look thought the stone (Chapter 7): “Flee! Flee, while there’s still air in your lungs an blood in your veins and warmth in your heart. Flee while you still have your mind and your soul” (85). And of cause the mail character – Coraline. I see her in many archetyper. First of all as a hero and explorer and, second of all as an orphan. She is yang and love to explorer. She is intelligent, curious and courageous. She is not taken serious because of her young age. So Coraline is look like me in some ways, because she is lonely all the time and her parents don’t have time for her, so she feels sad and lonely.

          Even after she feels lonelier, because her parents were taken by her other mother. Although the other mother claims to be a good, real mother to Coraline , she is still alone and doesn’t want to accept her other mother. This is displaying some of the characteristics of the orphan archetype.

           So I see my archetype active especially in Chapter 3, when Coraline is  home all along and no one are there for her. Her mother doesn’t coming back and she had left Coraline on her own. I can say that during the whole book Coraline is always on her own, she has conversation with only some people, because for the majority of time she is on her own: or in her own house, or in the other house in her other room or even when she is exploring, she always do it by herself:’ Coraline put on her blue coat with a hood, her red scarf, and her yellow Wellington boots. She went out” (13).
           Knowing my archetype helped me like a reader to understand the book better and deeper. I can see the main character more brightly and I can understand what she feels and what feelings are driving her for actions. For example, when she is willing to save her parents - she will do everything and will try every chance to do it in order to find them, because she is very lonely without them and she doesn’t want that kind of life. And being a young girl she is afraid of a lot of things, but because she needs her parents she is exploring dark rooms and weird things. Being an orphan I can see that in myself as well, so it helps me a lot in understanding the book.
        I think that others who knowing about my main archetype can understand the story better as well. Because they know me and the way I behaved, they know how I feel, so in the same way they can see this story deeper and more colorful, because they have a good example already –me.

         Before this class I really didn’t know my archetype, so in many cases I was reading books and didn’t really was understanding many things. So I think that knowing archetypes and especially your own will help us to understand the literature and characters. I started reading in different way. For example, Coraline’s  story, I read it with more deeply understanding, especially the main character - Coraline. She is an orphan archetype, and so I am .So I understood her and her actions like I will do the same. For example, she rather to find her parents than return home without them. Because she was very lonely without them, so she ricked herself in order to find them. And I realized that I would do the same thing, and we are very similar. I can see how she was suffering and surviving.She is just like me.

       Also knowing archetypes help us to see the main character from different sides. Like Coraline, she is also an archetype of the explorer when she seeks to find her parents and the souls of the tree children. She is also embodies the altruist archetype, because she sets out to find her parents despite the danger of herself.So being altruist helped me to understand how she sacrificed and gave to others. So knowing archetypes help us to read the literature differently and helps us to understand the characters.

        The knowledge of archetype is very useful and can help you in many ways to understand this world and things around it better. It can help you to become more aware of this world, and everything that is around you. It gives you opportunities to make better choices in your live.

        Archetype can also help you to realize your potential in life and face with who you really are. My archetype helps to transform my view of this world to others and help me realize creativity and effectiveness. “Coraline” by Neil Caiman helped me to understand my archetype in different way.

Blog Entry 3.3

I think I would like to do a sort of video with movie maker program, it will be or a song and I will illustrate it with pictures. The choice number two - I will find a poem or a story and read it in a scary way (unusual) and illustrate with pictures, and make some kind of video. So you can actually see the song or a story through my images. It is like when you read a book and then you watch a movie for this book and now you can see it.  I think it is a cool idea and it will be a good project for me.
For the song i think Eagles  "Witchy women"
For the story ,something with witches or ghosts.
I was also thinking to do a presentation on my archetype,but i think i will stay with video.it seems like more fun. but I think that the movie is more fun and that is wht i would like to do and will enjoy as well