For this project, we decided to convert Notting Hill into a thriller film. Notting Hill (1999) is a romantic drama by Roger Michell, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. According to IMDb, Notting Hill tells the story of “The life of a simple bookshop owner [who] changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.”

Like most genres, thrillers have a signature style. Thrillers are identified by the “thrills” a viewer feels and they often overlap with Horror and Science Fiction genres. Thrillers focus on action since they’re more defined by their plot. They excite their audiences by being fast-paced, having frequent location changes, and by being laced with tension and suspense.

In our version of Notting Hill, we will incorporate elements of thrillers and adjust cinematographic and theatrical components to transform this classic film. Our main take is that Anna is an obsessive stalker and William is her victim.

The components that we are keeping the same will be framing. We will continue to use two-shots, shot-reverse-shots, and eye level angles to keep a section of the characters’ conversation relaxed and natural.

The minor shifts we will change to convert this film will be the camera angles and acting choices. Throughout the scene, low angles will be used for shots of Anna and high angles will be for William. A low angle shot is a result of the camera being placed below Anna with the lens pointing up. This causes Anna to appear large and menacing, a dangerous stalker. A high angle shot happens when the camera is placed above William with the lens pointing down. This makes William appear small and vulnerable, allowing the audience to be scared for him.

The change in action choices will also be minor. Anna will smile widely more often, a freakish action. She will also move slowly (recognized by the sound of her footsteps to be addressed later) which will paint her as a monster. William, on the other hand, is casual at first, making the audience relaxed and unaware. When Anna’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic and violent, then he freaks out.

Our major shifts to Notting Hill will be camera movement, lighting, sound, costumes, and props. Our main change in camera movement will be a dolly zoom onto Anna’s face while William is waiting for her response to his rejection.  This dolly zoom is achieved by zooming the camera’s lens while the camera dollies (moves) forward Anna’s face. This effect distorts the audience’s perception of the shot since the background appears to change size. This distorting will make Anna creepier, therefore thrilling the audience with the possibility of violence.

For lighting, we will include flickering and darker lighting, to add a sense of foreboding. The flickering lighting will be used with Anna in the frame, adding to the idea that she is unnatural and monstrous.

In terms of sound, we will have diegetic noises (sounds made by objects in the story and heard by the characters) and non-diegetic music (sound effects added for dramatic effect). As mentioned earlier, the diegetic sound of Anna’s slow and careful footsteps will be pronounced, making the audience think that she’s creeping around. We will add non-diegetic music (creepy strings) that are a typical horror/thriller element and will explicitly paint Anna as nightmarish.

The costume changes will dress Anna in a fiery red dress and William in simple blue pants. This contrast of color temperatures will foreshadow their character - Anna being hot-tempered and William being cool.

Finally, a prop will be added to our conversion of this scene. Throughout this thriller version of Notting Hill, the audience has been waiting to see if Anna’s concerning actions will lead to violence. When she pulls out a knife, the audience is as scared as William is and completes Anna’s career as a villain.

Annotated Bibliography

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Dial Press, 1963

The Fire Next Time is a poetic story that has a complex commentary on the issues that Black Americans faced in the Civil Rights Era. The two essays together serve as a commentary on race relations in the 1960s as a whole and the intersectional issues that race and religion often make for black people of faith. Baldwin’s language in both pieces of The Fire Next Time

De Beauvoir, Simone. “Untitled” Received by Nelson Algren, 1951,  pp. 1–1.

For the beginning quote of the section “Angry” I will use a quote from a letter Simone De Beauvoir sent her longtime beau Nelson Algren. She wrote to him and during it she says “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” This quote speak a lot to me because I find that often the source of my anger stems from frustration. I chose to use this quote because of how it resonates to the feelings reflected in the section that follows it, “Anger”.

Gay, Roxane. Bad Feminist. Harper Perennial, 2014

In my journey to prepare for this project I read several different essay books. I chose to use Bad Feminist as one of my example readings. I used this book mainly as a way to understand and dissect how Roxane Gay relates to her readers, how her dialogue flows and how I can use my own words in my work in a similar way.

Huxley, Aldous. Unknown.

To begin the section entitled “Happy”. Aldous Huxley is credited with saying “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” The majority of the things that have made me happy, were not something I planned. The essays I am writing in this section fit this quote very well and I think that this quote is a good way to set the atmosphere going into the section.

McPeck-Stringham, Marisa. “I Can't Get Out of My Sweat Pants: An Essay on Depression.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 30 Apr. 2015, www.huffingtonpost.com/marisa-mcpeckstringham/i-cant-get-out-of-my-sweat-pants-an-essay-on-depression_b_7175836.html.

As I partially mention in other sections, I am planning on writing about some very hard times in my life, some that people may not be able to handle. This essay talks about these things in a way that is emotional, but not so much so that it doesn’t work to convey the message. I used this to study the way she finds that balance in her writing, which I sometimes have trouble with.

Orwell, George. “A Hanging.” George Orwell - A Hanging - Essay, www.george-orwell.org/A_Hanging/0.html.

I used this essay as a reference point in my early research, before I started reading the essay books of other authors. In several different articles about essays, this one written by George Orwell came up several times in several different articles. After I read it I got the vibe that Orwell has a very dark, haunting way of describing things. It was interesting to read and overall, his essay made me understand exactly the way I was going to approach writing for “Angry” and “Sad” because I plan to talk about very emotionally taxing times of my life in those sections.

Sedaris, David. Naked. Little, Brown and Company, 1997.

I used several different sources to gather inspiration for the way I would write. Sedaris is known for adding a sarcastic and humorous tone in his writing, usually about awkward situations he has been in. He writes in a very cynical way but still people enjoy his books immensely. As a writer he has found the balance between being a skeptic and not being a complete downer in his essays. He’s essentially turned the things that were really hard for him into something funny for other people to equally enjoy. I can relate to some of the emotions he has and reading this book helped me understand how he manages to convey the messages he does, the way he does.

Staff, SLA. “CAPSTONE.” Google Sites, Science Leadership Academy,

https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/capstone/home

The Capstone website mainly serves as a base for any work I do. The capstone project has a lot of rules and a strict structure. Whenever I do work on my capstone, I have to have a tab with this site open so I know that I’m actually answering what is being asked of me by

SLA.

Schulten, Katherine. “From 'Lives' to 'Modern Love': Writing Personal Essays With Help From The New York Times.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016,

www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/learning/lesson-plans/from-lives-to-modern-love-writing-personal-essays-with-help-from-the-new-york-times.html.

I used this article in my search for advice on what to avoid and use when writing my essays. It explains common tropes and mistakes that people run into when they write personal essays in a way that makes a lot of sense. This helps me distinguish my writing because I now know what to avoid and what to continue doing when writing essays like this.

Thoreau, Henry David, and Bill McKibben. “Chapter One / Economy .” Walden, Beacon Press, 2004, pp. 11–11.

I used a quote from Henry David Thoreau as a preface to the section entitled “Nervous”. The quote goes as follows: “In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.” This quote for me represents and personifies some of the feelings I have when I am nervous, which makes it fit well as a preface to this section.

Intro

For my essay I wrote about the identity issues that a lot of Native Americans face. Since Europeans first came to this continent, they have been oppressing Native People. Through hundreds of years of oppression, cultures were hard fought to keep. My essay talks about how Native People claim their identity in a society designed to oppress them. For this essay I wanted to look more into Native American People. I recently re-watched a documentary called Reel Injun. It's about the portrayal of native people in popular movies and film.The movie often connected back to how these movies painted these stereotypes really hurt the communities that today, live in large parts, poverty. My essay is largely inspired by this movie because it goes in depth about stereotypes Native Americans experience.

Essay

In October of 2014, a protest was held in Minnesota against the Washington Redskins for their name. The Native American people in attendance shouted “not your mascots!” during a sunday football game in Minnesota. The message of the football team known as the, ‘Redskins’ is considered a hateful and insulting name to native americans. To many people, it perpetuates a negative stereotype surrounding Native Americans. For hundreds of years they have been victims of hate speech and harmful stereotypes; any of which, native youth are fighting to shed to this day. In an article she wrote for The Guardian, Ruth Hopkins talks about the harmful stereotypes that white people (Pretendians) formulate that hurt and offend Native People. “By supporting generic, false stereotypes that encourage a belief that Natives are monolithic, all Pretendians commit cultural genocide and contribute to the erasure of legitimate, unique, ancient indigenous cultures while spreading misinformation about us.” Native People have faced this erasure and now, they’re finding ways to reclaim their identity.

For years, native americans have been forced to adhere to western standards of living. This by and large, has had a negative effect on a native communities. Jekeva Phillips wrote, “For Native American people, identity in many respects is a foreign word. Faced with crippling poverty, violent  abuse, and severe alcoholism, Native Americans are kept in a position of dire straits with the American government, and a position of pity with the American public.” Native American people in many ways have been forced into a kind of box when it comes to identity. Forced to be the stoic, brave, warrior or poor, drunk, and unemployed. This stereotype has made Native People feel trapped without many ways to address their identities. In some forms, it makes people turn to ways that may not be helpful to the native communities.

Many Native American tribes require proof of native blood to a certain fraction. To many Native People, they look more white than they do native. In an editorial by cultural survival by an unidentified author the person says, “Identity is an extremely complex issue. Certification of blood quantum is usually required in order to be legally identified as Native American, and some tribes require a certain blood quantum for membership. Informal constraints within the tribe also affect identity as some tribal members with full-blood quantum consider tribal members with mixed ancestry not to be truly "Native American."” This also creates a loss of identity for Native People, not solving the problem of identity within the community. However, some people within this community, have provided an answer.

Hopkins wrote an article for The Guardian, talking about what blood quantum represented to her and many other Native People. “Natives today agree that blood quantum is not the sole determinate of Native identity: kinship is key, because no true Native is an island. We have grandparents and cousins, blood roots and homelands.” Where she finds her identity in family, others find it in culture. “Today, local communities or reservations devote resources to perpetuating oral traditions, their Native language, and activities they regard as traditional.” These ways to experience their identities has helped many Native People with finding themselves.

Ultimately, the way that Native American people claim their identity is up to the individual. For some people, it's about being with your family, experiencing traditions with family. Others find it in their culture, in being apart of their respective tribes. With all the harmful stereotypes that Native People face today, it is important for them to have the ability to point to something tangible for identity. Identity for Native People will continue to evolve. However, it can always connect back to family and culture, whatever tribe you are apart of, identity can be found within the family and culture.

1. Ella fue lleva un blanca pantalones, camisetas y camisas. Las Zapatas fue blanco con las correas.

2. La vestida son marrón claro con haciendo juego con las zapatas.

3. Las zapatas son negro. La vestida son un brilliante verde.

4. La chaqueta son largo y gris.  Las zapatas son negro con la vestida gris. La vestida son la seda.

5. Las pantalones son negro. Las camisas son despejar, con  la sosténa negro. Las chaquetas son negro

I wish I had found a way to establish the disconnect between police and the people in a narrative. I wanted to show the human sides of each group that they're not just what the media portrays. I don't think I quite showed that they way that I wanted to. I know a lot already on this topic and I feel like anything I would learn would be on random research, Since I do do a lot outside of school research on things I find interesting.

       It went well. I think I could have taken more initiative and shown these people that I really wanted to interview them that they would’ve been more responsive to my project. I would change my topic as I mentioned, to the stigma of natural hair. To shed a light on how our society seems to value European standards of beauty above any other kind of beauty. How to make a crack in that giant glass system waiting to be shattered. I think one of the main things my final product was missing was the perspective of a police officer. It would’ve helped to show the prospective of the perpetrator and what they when a complaint launching incident happens.  

       I didn’t have as much of an impact as I thought I would. I wanted to show the more privileged parts of Philadelphia what is going on for the rest of us, what can happen when you involve police. I wasn’t able to get my petition to a high enough count that it could be view changing to many people. So they could take it upon themselves to learn more about the issues outside of their communities. No I did not have the exact impact I was hoping for but I did have some impact on how some students see police oversight as it occurs in the city of Philadelphia.

Esto es Nisa.Nisa tiene dos padres, dos hermanas, una abuela y dos perros. Ella le gusta ver la tele y pasar un rato con amigas. los padres tiene dos carros. ella no le gustan los deportes y no le gusta cocinar. Su Madre le gusta cocinar para familia. Sus hermanas tener que una por separado dormitorio. la abuela tiene a dormitorio. Ella familia tiene que estar juntos.

La Casa Diseño

                La Casa De Nisa tiene cuatro pisos. El Sotaño tiene la cocina, cuarto de lavado y sala de estar. Ellos todos comer en sala de estar. uno dormitorio para dos hermanas, y uno dormitoro para los padres. La abuela de Nisa para dormitorio con uno ventana. Nisa tiene una todos piso. Este casa es mucho divertido para la todo familia!

 #1.-

         #1. garaje

# 2. Familia nisa para ver la televisión juntos.

# 3.El donde sus cocineros madre.

#4 habitación de lavandería

#5.El baño- el baño es para las dos hermanas de Nisa.

# 6 dormitorios Hermanas de Nisa

#7. Segundo dormitorio de la madre y el padre de Nisa

#8. Segundo padres baño- tienen un cuarto de baño

#9. abuela tercer dormitorio Nisa

#10 . Baño de Nisa- ella el baño tiene bañera

#11.- Dormitorio de Nisa-  Nisa tiene una televisión de Netflix y HBO Go

Diez Frases

1.Nisa le gusta ver la tele.

2.Su familia tiene dos coches y se necesita un garaje.

3.Familia de nisa le gustas la televisión  juntos.

4. la madre de Nisa le gusta cocinar

5. Nisa le gusta lavar la ropa.

6. Sus hermanas le gusta para ir al baño

7. Sus hermanas de Nisa le gusta dormir

8. Sus padres le gusta para leer juntos.

9. El cuarto de baño tiene una ventana

10. La abuela de Nisa le gusta dormir

  In my first Blog Post, I summarized the problems of complaint process against an officer when made by a civilian. Then in my Second Blog Post ,I interviewed a person who deals with these complaints on a daily.

For my Agent Of Change I have started a petition to show the Police Department that this is what the people of Philadelphia want. We want these investigations to available to the people both in law and legislation.

my petition on Change.org. The hyperlink is down below

People are noticing and sharing this with their social groups. This will help people understand the issue and be vocal about it. I feel like I made a voice for myself and others that have been wronged by police brutality in the greater Philadelphia Area. I learned that even though Philadelphia hasn't had a law changing martyr case like Ferguson or Cleveland that these kinds of shootings do happen and that they are not uncommon.

   I could've tried harder to reach out to more people and hear their opinions. I think this could have helped my project have more than one view. Having a more diverse view on the subject would help others understand it more. I still need supporters for my survey which you can sign here. Share it on social media and tell your friends and family to take it!

one comment made by a classmate under my petition.

The National Police Accountability Project, is a movement organized to fight for justice when police do not conduct themselves according to the laws. They do this through the legal system, using lawyers to help victims of police misconduct deal with their legal struggles.

This way of changing the situation is  mobilizing the people of Philadelphia and others affected by police misconduct to make legislative change in how we handle police affairs  and violence in minority groups of the greater Philadelphia area and other cities.

 In my journeys into finding out more about the ever so secret investigations of Internal Affairs, I decided to interview Kelvyn Anderson, the acting director of the Police Advisory Commission to have a frank and honest talk about the issues of the Philadelphia Police Department.

I am doing my project on the philadelphia Police department and their handlings of complaints made by the public. The issue that I wish to address and make more aware to people is that The Philadelphia Police Department, is an organization that oversees one of the largest cities in the U.S, yet thousands upon thousands of complaints ranging from stealing to shooting unarmed people. These complaints, when they are made are filed with the Police Advisory Commission. However, Internal Affairs is how the PPD chooses to investigate these claims. But they rarely ever release these documents to the public, despite the freedom of information that still holds in our society today.

  This is an issue because the usual outcomes of these cases. The Police officers are not given any punishment in most cases. Most recent to come to light is the story of Brandon Tate Brown. He was shot in the back of the head by a police officer. In all of these big influential cases police departments have always made the facts of the case public. The Brandon Tate-Brown case was handed out completely the opposite. The way that case was handled is just one of many ways that the Police Department has done the citizens of Philadelphia a great injustice. The way that I intend is to show this is through three steps: Interviews, Outreach and Conveying the message

 First I will interview three different people who all have different roles in the problems with the police department. First I will interview the chair of the Police Advisory Commision, Kelvyn Anderson. He can show the board’s view on the public affairs and handlings of the Police. Second I will interview a police officer. I have decided to talk to the police officer in charge of Public Affairs, John Stanford to see if he can get me in touch with an officer willing to talk to me. Then I will interview an Activist who is voiced in the problems of this particular problem that the PPD seems to have.Then I will do community outreach. All I have to do is take a handful of students and see what knowledge they know of this issue. Then proceed to show them my project and hope that by influencing them in any way that I can show them the problem so that they might become aware of it and try to help improve it.

Brandon Tate-Brown. 26 year old man shot by a police officer. There were no charges made on the man.

Kelvyn Anderson Head of the Police Advisory Commission

La Familia de  la Srta. McKeown

Paige McKeown es la profesora en Science Leadership Academy. Ella está casada.Han vivido en Filadelfia por tres años. Creció en Roanoke virginia. Ella fuera nacido en diecinueve nueve. ella tiene dos padres una madre y una padres. Ellos vivir en Roanoke Virginia. Roanoke tiene un bajo población comparaba.

Page McKeown es un interno en SLA. Ella tiene trabajado ya está para seis meses.  Ella  era una Wake Forest University, ella asistió para cuarto año. Ella eligió para trabajar en LA. A ella le gusta que diferente justo como ella escuela secundaria. Wake Forest es un universidad en North Carolina. siete mil quinientos noventa y un estudiantes asistir clases ya está.  Srta. McKeown estudiando  para ser concejal.  

Srta.Mckeown es muchas talentos. Ella juega el piano, ella cocina y bailes. a ella le gusta pasar tiempo con su familia. Van de la playa juntos, porque sus padres viven cerca de una playa. Sus padres tener un barco. Ellos tienen viajado juntos  en el barco. Srta Mckeown hace muchas otras cosas. Ella escuchó a música. Ella trabaja fuera. Ella es de decendia europea. Srta Mckewon tiene rubia. ella le gusta ir lugares con amigos y familia. Van a restauramos cuándo ella tiempo libre y los fines de semana.  Estudios show que ser activo marcas usted  más feliz. Eso es Srta McKeown es siempre sonriente. Música es muy útil con un personas emociones. En la foto en la  superior es de Srta.Mckewon  y Nick. Ella es sonriendo Nick no es sonriente. Ellos tienen el pelo rubio. Ella obras con Srta.Siswick la escuela concejal. Srta.Siswick es casado también. Ella es en SLA un pocos veces un semana. Srta.Mckewon es en SLA tres veces un semana. En Martes, Jueves y Viernes. Nosotros amar tener ella en SLA!

Ensayo : SLA promo

Bienvenidos a Science Leadership Academy. Hola nosotros es Ijustice, Tia, y Lydia. Somos estudiantes de Science Leadership Academy. Está en Trader Joes. Hay muchos estudiantes en nuestro escuela encima quinientos. Hay muchos maestros. Me gusta la Srta. Giknis. Ella enseña Inglés La escuela tiene cuatro plantas. Tenemos equipos deportivos para las niñas y para los niños.nuestra escuela es raro.nuestro almuerzo es muy largo toda una hora!Yo trabajo durante el almuerzo. Me gusta club de música. I cantar en el club de música. Participo en clube de música Porque me gusta cantar.

En es escuela, Science Leadership Academy hay mucho clases. Tenemos historia, mathematica, teatro, arte, informática, bioquímica, literatura, español, consejería, educación física, salud, y almuerzo. Es mi clase favorita teatro. Nosotros actuamos, y cantamos. En más de nuestro clases nosotros uso el lapiz, las hoja de papel, la carpeta, la mochila, y la computadora. Noveno grado profesores son señorita Jonas, señor Todd, señorita Georgio, señorita Thompson, señor Kay, señorita Giknis, señorita Dunda, señorita Sessa, señorita Manuel, señorita Hull. Para tener éxito en clases usted necesario hacer toda la tarea y trabajar dura.

Le gusta historia. El señor Todd es el professor. Tenemos que tener unas computadoras. Es requerido prestar attencíon. En la clase aprendemos de la historia negro.  Me gusta nuestro proyecto para clase. Tenemos que escribir una hoja de vida de una figura histórica. ¡Qué chévere!   Depende del dia, se nos permite to a dormir in la clase. Ja ja ja! ¡Es una broma!.

Lydia’s Benchmark Script

Yo

   ¡Hola! Me llamo Lydia Tengo catorce años. Me gusta escribir y cantar. Asisto a Academia de Liderazgo de la Ciencia. Yo También como pasar un rato con amigos. Tengo dos hermanas. Cuando tengo tiempo libre me gusta nadar.

Ella

   su nombre es Tajnia.  Ella es hermanosa. Ella es muy loca sin embargo, ella ella me hace reír. Los fines de semana le gusta pasar un rato con amigos. Estamos un poco loco.

Ell@s

  Su nombre es Deanna y Jasmine. Les gusta cantar, bailar, estudiar. Deanna tiene una familia grande. Le gusta estudiar. Tiene  el pelo negro y los ojos marrones. Jasmine es su mejor amigo. Jasmine asiste CAPA y Deanna asiste una escuela privada.  Son buenos amigos. Depende del día le gusta, que les gusta rato con amigos.

Nosotr@s

   ¡Esta es mi familia¡ mi hermana y mi padre y mi madre. i los quiero mucho. mi hermanas nombre es Ruby, ella es dieciocho. Mi Padre es Kelvyn tiene cincuenta y cinco. Mi madre es Suzanne, tiene cincuenta y dos. nos gusta comer como una familia, escribir como una familia. lo que me gusta de ellos es ellos me hacen reír. De vez en cuando, nosotras le gusta ir al cine.

!Gracias por tu atencíon¡ ¡Adios¡

Getting to know you Skit

 in the beginning of the year, we learned getting to know you questions. In this video, Matt and Lydia are new students getting to know each other .

En la clase de español

In the beginning of the year, we learned the Spanish alphabet and the numbers. This video shows Matt and Lydia answering quiz corrections using letters of the alphabet for their teacher played by JLynn.

In the beginning of the year we learned how to greet someone in Spanish. In this video, Lydia recognizes JLynn and they have a brief conversation.

In the beginning of the year we learned how to say numbers in Spanish. In this video, Matt is a creepy guy trying and failing to get JLynn's phone number as she makes a phone call.