Kasunduan - English Short Film

For the past few weeks on English, we have been working on creating our short films. We had to work on our films as a small group while re-imagining the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice, a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare. The films included various filming methods, such as full shot, long shot, pan, close up, extreme close up, mid-shot, and two more of our choice. Additionally, it had to be around 5 minutes or less. 

The first step to creating our films was to organize our groups. We were fortunate enough to choose our groups; our group included Skyler, Janel, Shiela, Axle and me. Afterwards, we began plotting and planning our films and how we were going to re-imagine the court scene from The Merchant of Venice. Axle had an idea of taking inspirations from scenes of other movies, such as "The Godfather" and "John Wick". The main idea of our film, related to "oaths", which we re-imagined from The Merchant of Venice.

During the filming of our short movie, we have used several camera techniques such as the techniques above; and two different ones. The two distinct methods we used were "Eye Level" and "Over The Shoulder" angles. It was rather challenging to keep a neutral face during the filming, as it was hard to stay serious and not laugh during the scenes. If I were to do this project again, I would have probably tried harder on my scenes to make the film look better. Anyway, here is the final product!

Kasunduan

Narrative: Show not Tell - English

For the next following weeks in English, we are going to learn about a new topic "the narrative." There are a new set of tasks that have been set for us that would relate to narratives. The first task had us rewrite some sentences and makes them more engaging; show not tell. Anyway, I have completed the task and this is the work that I have completed. 

In the topic of show not tell, the second activity had us create various narrative openings. We created these narratives using our imagination; while using visual prompts as inspiration. We were required to make 3-5 narrative openings. Anyway, here is my three different narrative openings.

Metaphors & Similes - English

This blog post is my third activity for our writing task matrix. For this activity, I had to explain what a metaphor is and what a simile was. Additionally, we had to show examples of a metaphor and simile and blog it to our blogs. I created a poster to make it more interesting and used canva to create it. Anyway, I have finished my third activity for the writing task matrix. Here is my presentation.

Language Features - English

In English we are introduced to creative writing and it's types, form, and genres. We have been given a writing task matrix which included six different types of activities that we can do. The first activity I did was language features. In this activity we were required to create a slideshow that shows three terms, it's the definition, an example, and the effect of each. The three terms that I chose were personification, alliteration, and allusion. Anyway, here is the slideshow that I have made.