Trailer- Nice Work by David Lodge

For the execution of this Trailer of Nice Work, we´ve captured textual parts of the novel for us to reflect a faithful version of it. Taking into consideration that this novel has many aspects to be focused on, we´ve chosen to focus on Vic and Robyn´s love affair so as to make this story more appealing to the public.

The programmes we used for this trailer were xtranormal.com for the recreation of the scenes and VideoPad to put together all the scenes created by the previous software mentioned and to add some captions.

Due to the limitations of the programmes, we couldn't be as precise as we would have liked to be, but all the same we used this software because it is user friendly and it allows us to cause the effect we wanted.

The first scene that appears in the trailer was recreated by us, since we as readers only know about this event when Robyn tells her friend about the shadow scheme. However we thought it could be interesting to recreate the moment in which Swallow proposed this to Robyn. This scene was extracted from page 85 from the novel.

The following scene was extracted from page 144 when Vic and Robyn were complaining about the rights of Danny Ramm. We´ve thought that it would be interesting to show this part of the novel because it was the moment in which these two characters clashed the most.

The last scene was extracted from page 301. We´ve thought that this scene was fundamental in this trailer to show the turn of their story and to show Vic´s irrationality towards his feelings.

The scene of the plane flying was extracted from this link and the background song was extracted from this link.

I must say that, leaving all the difficulties that we´ve been through in this task behind, we think that this was a very interesting experience for us, not only because we got to know new softwares that we as teachers can use in the future with our students, but also because it helped us to be more immersed in this extraordinary novel.

By Marina Robledo, Sofia Piotto and Maria Isabel Trabaina

i like my body when it is with your

i like my body when it is with your is a poem by e e cummings.

After reading all the poems, this was chosen for two main reasons: the lowercase letter i and what it made me feel.

To understand why he used lowercase, I did some research and I found this excerpt that explains his peculiar style:

 ¨... In his poems, he didn't use punctuation or capitalization.  Capitals were used only for special emphasis.  Punctuation marks were used only for a shock effect.  He was also noted for the use of the lowercase letter "i" in his poems. [...]   His work looks like random words and phrases thrown together, and the reader must stop and think beyond the written text.  E.E. Cummings was a different breed of poet.  He used his unconventional, yet brilliant style to send a message to the reader.  In his work, E.E. Cummings didn't use capital letters, proper punctuation, or proper grammar.  He used this to his advantage in mixing the message into the poem. He deliberatley [sic] confused the reader by having them follow the winding paths of words he had created because he felt that a straight one would narrow the reader's mind."

Taken from: http://english11poets.pbworks.com/w/page/19005388/ee%20cummings
(I decided to write in bold the main concepts)

After reading the poem several times, I experienced strong feelings like love, passion, desire, longing... 

This poem is about the physicality of a new loving relationship (concept taken from this webpage). It stimulated my creativity and, therefore, this was the result.




It was easy for me to visualize the story that was told in these stanzas. 

I imagined these lovers could have felt that they were flying into the heavens, that's the reason why the wall of my Glogster is a sky. Besides, I found another relation with the Passion this couple could have felt in the extract of a lecture that was given by the character of Barbara Streisand in the film The Mirror Has Two Faces.

I associated each image with a different moment in the poem.

The image of the couple that is hugging with the lines:

" i like its hows. I like to feel the spine of your body and its bones"

and the image of the couple kissing with the following line:

"kiss, I like kissing this and that of you"

While I was reading it for the third or forth time, I found myself humming the song "Loving you" and I decided to included it as well. I embedded this video that is not the original version, but it was made of lovely pictures of couples, which I found pretty appropriate.

This was the analysis and the Glogster of the beautiful poem: i like my body when it is with your by e e cummings made by Marina Robledo.

POSTMODERNISM

I've chosen The Final Cut and Educational Use of Second Life

The film is a postmodernist one. It is an excelent example in which we can see the advent of computers. The key feature here is knowledge. On one hand, real knowledge is the one that can be stored in a "digitalized" way, in this case in a chip that is implanted in a baby as soon as it is born. When this person dies, the images can be used to make a "memorial" video, which is shown in their wake. On the other, we can also analyse knowledge as functional because we make use of it to produce this video.

The video that explains the educational use of second life was stricking for me. I knew that lectures were given using this platform but I didn't know the fact that you could go to different museums to see the paintings which are there and this is the key element of postmodernism. The reality created by simulation, the virtual reality. This world is not original it's a copy of the real one, we could say is a reproduction of life.

In my opinion, I found these videos appropiate to analyse two key features of postmodernism: knowledge and simulacra.

Art in the 19th and early 20th century

Literature in English 4th Year: Art in the 19th and early 20th century


 I’ve decided to focus on Modernism and Impressionism. It's a brief summary of what we dealt with in our art class.

As Felluga stated, Modernism was a movement in which wild experimentation was made in all the artistic fields.

The Impressionist started to experiment with different subject matters and different techniques. Their characteristic subject matters were landscapes, nature and scenes of modern life. The technique was based on more visible brushstrokes. This happened because they started to paint outdoors and they played with the sunlight, so they had to paint quickly in order get the same effect of light.

We can see in the painting A CORNER OF THE MEADOW AT ERAGNY by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)

Another characteristic of this movements, that differenciated it from the Victorian painters, is that the impressionists left aside black and different greys and started to use complementary colours. This was a crucial scientifical dicovery which has changed the way artists paint. That's why the painting are so colourful.

I want to share with you the The Guide to Impressionism from the National Gallery.  It's a great to understand the causes of the movement.

WEST

Muriel West considered “The turn of the Screw” as a self-referential and self-contained, as she is a structuralist.  She didn’t take into account the external factors but the text itself.

She wrote A Stormy Night With The Turn of the Screw. It is a book which combines fiction with literary criticism and, in order to do this, she emulates the structure of “The Turn of the Screw”. “A stormy Night” is based in an anonymous manuscript edited by someone called H.K.Y. and told by a narrator who obtained it in a package of old books who bought at an auction.

In the book, the editor, H.K.Y., made comments that affected the reader’s perceptions. For example, we can appreciate the way in which events are presented. At first we can’t understand them, so it is easy to get confused and to consider them unnatural, but then we can find a natural and logical cause.

It’s pretty suitable the way the Turn of the Screw is analyzed by West. As a structuralist, we can see that she didn’t influence our perceptions, she didn’t tell us if we should followed a non-apparition or an apparition perspective but she took the most intriguing part of this book, its structure, its ambiguity. This ambiguity is key of the success of this novella.

Pattern poem- biopoem

Marina

Sensible, reticent, responsible, modest

Sister of a girl

Lover of reading, dancing, cooking and exercising

Who feels delighted when she is with her soul mate,

Frustrated when unforeseen circumstances change her plans,

And lost when she forgets her glasses.

Who needs beach, summertime and weekends.

Who fears not remembering who she really is,

Not recognizing the vital things in life, and

Not being good enough to achieve her goals.

Who would like to see herself become

A beloved mum, a loyal life partner

And a dedicated professional.

Resident of Rosario, Santa Fe

Robledo

I've chosen this pattern, the biopoem as I could show all of you who I really am. Enjoy!