Ritual

Word Count: 226

Tiffany Maynard

Filmmaking

“Eye” of the Universe

Norms: Individual Vs. Society-Ritual

My Sweet Sixteen

Teenage girls all over America know the meaning of “Sweet Sixteen”. It’s when girls who turn sixteen have the biggest celebration of her life. I have seen so many television shows broadcast this as an important event that everyone parent should spend a large sum of money for their daughter’s party. In today’s’ society the typical party is still held however my party was different.

Instead of having a party where everyone dances like a manic and gets drunk like al those shows fill our young teenage minds with. I had a themed party which was Hawaii to me this was still very fun and everyone I invited had a good time. I really don’t see the point on spending so much money in a birthday that we have every year. Even though we turn sixteen only once there’s still the party at eighteen and twenty-one.

I must agree with the facts that Sweet Sixteen’s are memorable because I vividly remember the cake that I ate, the colors of the balloons that filled the house and the feeling of happiness I felt when all my friends enjoyed themselves. Instead of wasting money and getting that empty feeling, I would much rather have a party where everyone can have fun so that I can have a memory that will always make me smile from years on end.

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

This showed me how parallel universes are created and how anything can happen to you and your parallel self. This interested me because this video showed how this man's dad discovered the parallel universe theory and how he implemented it.

Stills for Parallel Universe

Sliding Doors

This movie was about parallel universes and how Alice the main character's life splits in half and she becomes two different people at the same time. Her parallel self ends up becoming a successful women who starts her own business while her "true" self is still living a mediocre life running with 2 part time jobs that wears her out. In the end her parallel self and her true self get hurt causing her parallel side to die and this event allows her to meet the man she was supposed to meet.

Primer (2004) Screening Post 1

After watching the first part of the Primer video I was very confused. At first it started off with a group of engineers discussing about a project someone had to take control of. Then throughout the next few scenes the two main characters start to create a machine that they hoped would let them earn the "big bucks" but they ended up building a machine that stops time and allows the user to go back in time depending on how long they stay in the machine. By the end of the class period I was completely lost because the plot didnt really make much sense.

Primer (2004) Screening Post 2

During the second screening the confusion that i felt earlier disappeared as i began to understand that the machine that they built was a time machine. The two engineers created a parallel universe that they both became obsessed with. Aaron later confesses that he already knew about this machine and he was pretending so he can live perfect life. At the end of the screening it shows aaron in a different country trying to build a new and bigger time machine.