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Looking back on 2013, I think the best film that was made this year is Mama. It was a good movie but the ending was...it was okay I guess. Looking from the little girl's point of view she basically lived with mama longer than she lived with her parents. So it makes a little sense that she turned back in the ending and called out to her. It's just sad though to see mama throw her own dead child (although she herself is also dead) off the cliff and run for the little girl. Poor baby though. I think some of the most overrated films this year were The Purge and Insidious 2. The Purge was really really, stupid. It kind of made me mad when the little boy was still alive because he was the one who put his family in danger. Oh right, the daughter also. Her adult boyfriend nearly killed her father because she brought him into their home and they almost did it. In the end of course, he did die (the father). I think. But it was a pretty messed up movie, I don't know how people enjoyed it. Who the heck 'cleanses' themselves by killing people and doing crime? It'll just give them the satisfactory of doing something they're not suppose to do and make them want to kill even more. Like the guy who was talking with the guy in the radio in the beginning of the movie. He said he planned to kill his boss when the purge was going to start. Well if you kill your boss, who's going to pay your next salary? If you don't like your job then find another one and quit. Though it's harder than it sounds to do. At least you still have someone to pay you for your job. And about Insidious 2. It was okay, but it was too overrated. It wasn't too great, or too bad. I just don't get why people found it so scary and were so hyped about it. The only thing Insidious does is put creepy people in dark rooms with a blue lit lamp and use loud music for pop ups. Well, in my opinion that is.

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From my knowledge of sub-genres and the storyboard that I made with my partner. I know that all horror movies must have conflict and the main character is always hurt physically or mentally. The main character is always the one who delves into the reason of why supernatural things are happening to them and is the one who finds out about the ghost/monster's story. In most horror movies there's always a wise one, the one who helps the main character or the one who knows it all. And that person usually dies for some reason. There's always a place(town,house,city,bathroom,closet,etc.) where the ghost died, in which the main character travels to to get answers of the ghost's conflict or story.

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The goal for my storyboard is to finish it up and add in the important scenes to it. I will include the scenes that goes according to the timeline of the story in order. And will try to make it as best as how the characters would look like in the movie. I will try to also find scenes in the storyboard that would fit into the scenes of the movie.

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I learned that culture and religion plays a big part in horror movies. For example, horror movies that have to do with Christianity, Witchcraft, and Shintoism. Zombie movies back then had a lot to do with voodoo and witchcraft. Romance horror movies have a lot to do with romance(and people with necrophilia). But most horror movies are always about what will happen if you do this, or the consequences you face after you did something. And it usually plays into religion, like doing something forbidden and getting killed in a gruesome way. Or black magic versus white magic and lots of killings. Even movies that have to do with possession and insane murders are considered as horror. And how can we forget, gory movies with lots of blood splatter and people's organs spilling out of their stomachs! Yuck.

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As a viewer in the audience today I will ask questions when I have any and listen carefully to the presenter so I can fill in the guided notes they have for us. As a presenter I will present the information that I feel necessary for people to know and understand. I will also present them on information I've found and how cannibalism can be seen in an abstract view in other movies.

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My goal today is to get started on my cannibalism power point project and finish at the end of the day. I'll work on it today during film studies(if I can) and work on it when I get home so I can finish it right away. I'll research and look for videos on youtube so we can use as an example.

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Resourceful places I can use to research about my presentation project is; youtube, websites that don't have a lot of ads. And websites that don't just show a review, but gets into depth with the genre and the movie.

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My favorite sub-genre of horror films are horror-comedy films. I like how it makes you scared but at the same time you get the feeling where you're like, "Oh, it's okay now. The character is safe". And then all of a sudden things start to happen and you start shouting, "Oh shoot! It's right behind you!". The character will act in a dramatic way or something and you'll start laughing because you're half scared to death for the character. It just makes you go insane sometimes because the monsters could also do funny things to make you laugh. I think characters in horror comedies are smarter than characters in just horror movies and would be able to survive longer. Because even though dumb stuff happens in the movie the main character knows what he/she is doing. They fight the monster rather than just run away all the time. You don't know how much stamina a monster has, you can't just run away forever. You have to beat it up so it can lose some of it's strength to chase you. Though I don't know if that will work with a ghost.

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Horror is scary because It's meant to scare people and make them paranoid. It can dig into someone's worst fears and make them think about the movie or whatever they're scared of for days. Horror movies are scarier than others because of the graphics or the settings and story. For example old mansions, grave yards, the forest or the walking dead walking all over the earth. In my opinion, horror movies were made to fill in the unknown of a person's mind. A person may fear something, but they don't know what that fear is pointing at. Until they actually see a horror movie and soon figure out that the monster in the movie is their fear. It's like horror movies are made to plant an imaginary dangerous thing that eats up your mind while you're in the basement or alone even. And eventually you'll think about that stuff when you know that you have to be alone or in the dark. Some fear the unknown, some like to (evily) create the unknown for people, and some like to explore the unknown for themselves.

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I personally don't like horror movies. Because I usually end up cringing and screaming at the people in the movie rather than screaming at the killer or monster. I'm scared but at the same time I'm not because most horror movies today are just a lot of loud music and pop ups. The only horror movie I've ever been really scared of was a Hmong horror movie (forgot what it was called). But either than that horror movies aren't all that as it used to be.

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I know that directors spend a lot of money to do a film because of all the special effects they use and the actors they pay to act in the movie. They're in charge of dealing with the plot and the whole story, assigning roles to actors/actresses and guiding them into the correct emotions when filming. They're the ones who control the movie and everyone else, they say when to start filming and when to stop. I think that directors have the most power when filming over a movie, because they're mostly in control of what happens and what doesn't. They're the ones who create the settings and are in control of how an actor/actress should act. They're in charge of telling people what to do to prepare for a shooting and decide what is wrong and what is right.

To teacher, from student

Dear Ms. Quam,

         I joined this class because I had no choice, but that's okay. I enjoy watching videos because I can learn from them and I just like entertainment. I liked movies ever since I could remember my first favorite movie. Some of my favorite movies are definitely all from the same director, Hayao Miyazaki ._. But of all his movies, I will never forget 'Spirited Away'. My favorite music soundtrack though, is 'Howl's Moving Castle' theme song, though I never saw the movie. I hope we will get to watch it in class though, maybe. I usually like watching movies with subtitles because I have bad hearing. I also like to read and see things at the same time, so I know what I'm getting and not missing. I mostly enjoy movies that have slice of life, movies that aren't too cheesy and overboard. But I also like action movies, comedies and even angst. If my life was a movie it would be a messed up movie because my life is like a roller coaster.

       Sincerely, Arlee.