My name is Troy White, and I have Adult Attention Disor... 

I do get easily distracted when grading. I also have a history of mashing students' orals with some sort of silly tunes. In a recent IOC prep marking marathon, I got antsy and had to take an extended break and make these two. And no, I did not spend hours on them. And yes, there is a lot of potential integration to be had with these as far as future assignments go. They incorporate a lot of business...
1) Using iShowu "borrowed" a few tracks from the interwebs
 - When you set the recording to "system" it will grab the audio of anything playing
 - open up the screen casting in Any Video Converter and convert to mp3 
2) Garageband 
   a) import student oral 
   b) add a few effects to the audio (the kids might call it autotune) 
     - amplifier (British Clean), Voice wa, Theatre, etc. There are a ton of 3 minute tutorials on this 
  c) import borrowed track d) cut up both student oral and track - can't really go wrong here... 
  e) Export my track as Mp3
3) Photoshop - Find a decent Joseph Conrad image from the web a) and one of a dude named Skillet?      
    b) some blonde lady's hair
 ***Note, copying from the web and pasting into Photoshop is very easy with your command+ctrl+shift+4 
 *** good opportunity for students to play with layers and filters 
  c) Export image 
5) Blabberize 
   a) set up image for the mouth moving business 
 6) iShowu again 
  *** set this to "record system audio" 
  a) set the capture parameters to Blabberize 
  b) record the screencast 
  c) Hit play on the song 
7) On the second song, I did not want Joseph's mouth to move the entire time, so I 
   a) first screencasted the Blabberize  while I stated the lyrics 
   b) then aligned the chronology of the Blabberized screencasting to the audio track and 
   c) ONE LAST Screen cast.... it is a little off. 

Voila! I swear this only took a few minutes... 

Awesome bits... 
1) Screencasting + Blabberize 
 a) Poetry recital with author's image 
 b) Parody and focus on diction - Analyze your teachers... use their image, use their language, why are they so repetitive with their catch phrases, etc.?
 c) History - sooo much, autobiographical prior knowledge 
 d) Create a Monologue - characters in context - out of context 

There is something to be done with the mashup audio as well... 
   - Much like a word, cloud they can extract the principal language - inherent themes, key phrases, etc.... just a thought. 

 **FUN - they like the mouth to move... and 
   
***Motivation - lot's of students prefer to be dramatic than expository. When they can be a character, they are less inhibited

Movie Review

Movies, films, Holly-Bollywood… what sort of person with a pulse doesn’t like movies?
What’s a film you absolutely love, or hate, or perhaps saw last? When one writes a review of a film they are giving their:

Giving a brief account of the film; setting, characters, major themes and without giving too much away (spoiler), they let the reader in on the plot.

You (no please this time) MUST read the following TWO links regarding writing a film revew.

http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/how-to-write-a-movie-review.aspx

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/englishresource/filmreview.html


I chose a film, not only because I like it, but because I think a number of you will like it.
“The Devil’s Backbone” (2001) is a historical mystery/horror film by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (you may know him from the “Hell Boy” series and “Pan’s Labyrinth”). Below you will find a review by Neil Smith for the BBC. It’s a decent review and most of what Mr. Smith says is does justice to the film.

The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Reviewed by Neil Smith
Updated 27 November 2001

On the back of "Cronos" and "Mimic", Guillermo del Toro has emerged as one of the horror genre's most striking new talents. "The Devil's Backbone" (El Espinazo del Diablo) may be more conventional than its forebears, but it's still a superior ghost story/murder mystery which confirms del Toro as a name to watch (his next movie will be "Blade 2").
Set in a school-cum-orphanage at the end of the Spanish Civil War, the movie begins as a childhood rite-of-passage for ten-year-old Carlos (Tielve) before spiralling into a "Shining"-style spook fest.
Although the orphanage lies on a remote and dusty plateau far away from the frontline, the threat and dread of war is omnipresent - not least due to the huge unexploded bomb that sits reproachfully in the middle of the courtyard.
Carlos' life is hardly made easier by the bullying Jaime (Garcés) and the school's menacing janitor, Jacinto (Noriega). But things get even more threatening when Carlos begins seeing the pale spectre of Santi (Valverde), a fellow orphan who was brutally murdered shortly before his arrival.

Cleverly lacing its chilling melodrama with a political twist - with Jacinto's brooding rage implicitly equated with the fascist oppressor - "The Devil's Backbone" reverses expectations by telling its doom-laden Gothic narrative in broad daylight and baking sunshine. The climax is a little disappointing, and the glowering Noriega is really too handsome to pose much of a threat. Unlike most so-called thrillers, though, this is one "Backbone" that's guaranteed to send a shiver down yours.

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muñoz
Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Íñigo Garcés, Fernando Tielve, Irene Visedo, Junio Valverde



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-both an image and the trailer to the movie.
-credit information including date of release, director, actors
- language

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