ER GCE Portfolio

    During the winter term of our humanities course - 'Banned Books'  we studied the intricacies of being censored and what it means to be censored.  We learned lot's about how many types of media such as book, comics,movies and songs have been stolen from us through censorship.  We learned about how librarians and teachers are trying to fight to keep banned books on shelves for children to read while many parents choose to complain about these books for reasons like violence, sex, language, sexuality or even touchy concepts such as the holocaust that they fear is too much for their children.  During this time we did two major things to immerse ourselves in this idea of censorship. FIrst we began to read a book thats been banned in many schools across the US - 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury, and visiting Quimby's an Indie bookstore offering offbeat titles, graphic novels & magazines, because graphic novels like the ones Quimby's sells have been a hug...

       This term for the civic term we took a class called Ollywood where we learned all about the ins and outs of movie-making. We learned about everything that happens in pre-production, production, and post-production.  We met with experts in different fields like foley art, Film professors and even directing for our Field experience. My favorite of which was watching the new movie "Caged Birds" at the Siskel Film Center and getting to do a virtual Q&A with the director of the movie. This experience was so interesting to me because I got to ask questions about inspiration and creative choices from the director himself! How often does a person get to do that?  We learned about movie analysis and different ways to critique a movie using the correct terms.  For our Final Presentation or FP, we took what we learned to analyze a movie of our choice. I worked with Damian and we did 'The Matrix'.  After watching we chose to do a generic analysis o...