Final Exam Planning Warm-Up

1. I will shoot this assignment this weekend.
2. I will shoot at my house.
3.  For my project I will be documenting the process of drawing and paining a picture.
4. I will need a camera and my art supplies.
5. I will use the video part when I'm sketching the drawing out to show the movement of my hand. I will narrate the parts where I use a new tool of describing what colors I will be using.

Captain Phillips Movie Review

  Plot-  The movie Captain Phillips covers the real life events of the Maersk Alabama hijacking that took place in early April of 2009. The cargo ship led by Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) along with the First Officer Shane Murphy ( Michael Chernus) and his crew was following the path through the Somali waters on its way to Mombassa. Even after receiving the warning about the privates in the area, the ship continued throughout the waters and incorporated practice drills to prepare the crew. While spotting two small boats following the ship Captain Phillips takes attics to lose the boats and manages to hold them off. After one failed attempt of attacking the ship only one small boat returned with four Somalian privates led by Abduwali Muse ( Barkhad Abdi) to hijack the ship.
 
   While the majority of the crew hides down in the engine room the Captain and other crew members are held hostage with guns  by Muse, Bilal (Barkhad Abdirahman), Najee ( Faysal Ahmed) and. Captain Phillips offers Muse the $30,000 that available on the boat but Muse insist on being paid more than a million dollars. Captain Phillips takes Muse and Bilal on a tour of the boat to find the crew while Murphy sneaks up to get some supplies for the crew. After hiding from the pirates Murphy see that Bilal isn't wearing any thing on his feet and alerts the crew to put broken glass outside the door. The power of the ship is cut off by the crew to make the pirates think it is broken and once entering the room Bilal steps on the glass and gets injured.

  Furthermore due to Bilal injuries, Muse sends him and Captain Phillips back up and continues to search the engine room alone. While searching the room Muse is attacked and held hostage by the crew. The crew forces Muse to tell the rest of the pirates that they will give them Muse and a lifeboat in exchange for Captain Phillips. The exchanges ends up with the pirates taking Captain Phillips hostage and leaving with him in the lifeboat. The pirates plan on getting in contact with their mother ship on the way back to the Somali shores.

    Meanwhile the crew continues to follow the lifeboat with the ship before help arrives. Tension rises in the lifeboat with Najee trying to convince the others that Captain Phillips isn't worth it and to kill him. Unable to get any help from the mother ship the pirates are left on their own to get back to the coast. The Maersk Alabama is forced to turn around and to leave by the U.S Navy destroyer USS Bainbridge. Additional ships are called in to take over the mission to rescue the captain.

The moral of the story leadership is needed to resolve a situation.
This movie would be for those who enjoy action and this movie isn't for those who don't take violence well.
I thought that the beginning of this movie was a little slow but began to pick up pace once on the ship. I enjoyed how the movie showed what was going on while pirates were leaving the tribe to go to the ship. The characters had a great ensemble effort. Overall I thought this movie captured the reality of the event it was based on.

I would give this movie a 3.5/5 because it was well produced and directed but they could have cut out some parts that didn't seem necessary to the movie.
 

Final Exam Preview Assignment

1. I read about how iMovie can be used to edit videos or make a video composed of photos. In iMovie you can either make a movie or a trailer and they both have different formats to use to make a project with a theme. After finishing a video or making a project iMovie lets the editor send it to someone through iMovie and always the video to be shared on social media.                                        2. I already knew that iMovie always you to edit how long each picture and how to edit videos.
3. I didn't know that iMovie projects can be edited on the iPhone then moved to reedited on the mac.
4. I am concerned about making sure the photos turn out the way I want them with the lighting at the concert.
5. I can't have anything ready at the moment because the concert will be happening this weekend but after the concert have iMovie at home to edit the project and narrate it.
6. I would probably do the project on the Beyonce concert I'm going to over the weekend.

Movie Prep

1. Main characters are Richard Phil lips, Ali Aden Elmi, Hamac, Abduwali Muse, and Larry Aashiem.
2. I expect the plot to be mainly based on the process and events that took place during the hijacking. Based on the real life events I expect the movie to be on the experience that the crew and the captain  went through.
3. This story was important because it showed the dangerous of going through these parts of the ocean and also how the crew in the real live event claimed that he wasn't a big hero as claimed due to ignoring warning.
4. The pirates took the ship because they wanted money.

1. The top 5 most important characters in the movie was Richard Phillips, Abduwali Muse, Adan Bilal, Nour Najee, and Walid Elmi.
2. The movie was rated PG-13.
3. The movie was directed by Paul Greengrass.
4. The movie was produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca.
5. BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role andWriters Guid of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, AFI Awards, America Cinema Editors, ASCAP Film and television Music Awards, Black Reel Awards, Capri Hollywood, America Film Institute, London Film Critics Circle Awards, and San Diego Film Critics Society.
6. It cost $55 million to make it.
7. The audience gave it a 93% out of 242 reviews.
8. Other movie reviews gave the movie a 3/4.

Free Write #3

Prompt: "You let a blind man drive, so you don't get a opinion."

   

  Bright yellow police tape stretched between the large oaks that run along the outskirts of the field,  enclosing the crime scene form the  public viewing. Multiple police and EMS vehicles line

 the park while officers keep the curious citizens from entering the scene. Six very annoyed detectives surround yet the second dead body found that very day. "Why is the body always found at the most inconvenient time of day?," whined Detective Todd.

 "It's only 2 in the afternoon," bluntly stated Detective Young.

 "But that is the time my Soap Opera comes on."

 "You have to be kidding me."

"Hey! I don't judge you on-"

"Will you two stop bickering!," cut in Detective Molly. "We have a job to do and were already short one person."

  The other three detectives who were moments ago watching the argument with amused expressions now had a sour look on their face at the mention their fellow detective who has failed to show up to the scene yet. Not wanting to argue with the head detective, the group got down to work. 

The body laying in front of them looked like any other middle aged women who obviously had one to many plastic surgery done, other than the fact that she was found buried under 3 feet of solid ground.

"Do we have any witness?," questioned Detective Scott.

"Only two homeless guys," answered Detective Eric while motioning the witness to come over.

Of course the witnesses had to be Henry and Gus, their always the same ones to "claim” to see every attack that happens in the park but gives the most useless information when asked about it. 

"Are you going to give us information that is actually useful this time?," plainly asked Detective John.

"We'll talk for money," stated Gus.

"That’s not how its works."

"Fine then I guess we won't tell you."

"We could get more useful information from broken security cameras then from you two," commented Detective Eric already turning away from the two.

"Wait, last night I saw-," started Henry.

Before he could finish his story, the sounds of screeching tire wheels cut him off mid sentence.

All heads whipped towards the  entrance of the park where a white Honda rushed into the park leaving tire tracks behind, before doing a full 360 turn and stopping yards away from the group of detectives.

The passenger opens and the one and only Detective William steps out with smug smirk on his lips.

"Best uber drive ever, who ever knew a blind man could drive so good," happily chirped Detective Williams while walking to the rest of the shock group of people. After realizing what the heck just happened Detective Molly furiously walked up to the new arrival and japed a finger at his chest asking, "Why were you late and what the heck were you thinking?"

"That not important at the moment what is important is the case," said Detective Todd who's impatiently waiting for this to be over so he could go back to his TV show. 

"Okay then my theory is that she has hit multiple times with a-," started the least popular person at the moment Detective Williams.

"Shut it," harshly stated detective Molly who was currently glaring daggers at the fellow detective.

"I was only going say what my opinion-."

"You let a blind man drive , so you don't get a opinion."

"Fair enough."

CE #6.1

1. Harriet Tubman
2. A new elevation system that tries teachers score to student performance on standardized test.
3.
4. How microgravity affects algae growth.
5. Layout, paint, window treatments, and upholstery.

Short answers
1. After reading this story I think that the government and officials in charge of the water department did a terrible job of making sure the citizens were healthy. I think that more officials should be charged if they had any connections to this issue. I am socked that the government let this situation become this much of a crisis before taking any type of action.
2. I did know this issue before reading the story. This situation has been talked about in the news for a  while but i didn't know that anyone was charged yet.
3. The people who knew about this information but choose not to take action and but many people in risk of health hazards should be charged. I think that anyone who messed with information and knew that the were also effecting children's drinking water should be help accountable for their actions.
4. I think that if the governor or other big government officials are founded guilty of knowing about this issue the should b charged with the same charges as the city leaders. I think that it doesn't matter how high up in the government they are they should still be held accountable for their actions.

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