A picture

Our teacher told us that we had to take a picture on the neighbourhood of the school.
I decided to take this picture because this is the street that I used to walk every day, and is very special for me as I had been walking around this street since I was a child.
When I took this picture I used some tips that we had already learnt at school. Such as  rule of thirds, leading lines and contrast. Since I thought the result was outstanding I thought it would be a good idea to take part in the contest, and I titled the picture:" Itzalik baina bizirik"

I didn't win the competition so this is my picture:

Film: A space Odissey

A space Odissey (1968)

Data sheet
This is a science-fiction and spacial adventure film, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
The film was made in 1968 and written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Clarke.
Long film 149 minutes, 2h 29 minutes.

The pitch: The film revolves around the theme of revolution.

-The story follows the evolution of man from man ape

-Then, the evolution into the future, Jupiter mission.

- Finally, the arrive to Jupiter.

The story pattern:

1. YOU: The primats the dawn of man, Jupiter mission, Jupiter and beyond infinitive
2. NEED: The astronauts want to arrive to Jupiter
3. GO: The 400 operator became evil, it starts having sentiment that it wasn’t programmed to have.
4. SEARCH: as one of the astronauts is more intelligent than the operator 400  he gets to win the operator.
5. FIND: he almost dies.
6. TAKE: he had problems with the operator, he gets to desconect it.
7. RETURN:he arrives to Jupiter. life is a sycle, never ends.
8. CHANGE: he is a baby again, he is born.

Content analysis

This film was filmed in 1968 and it starts with a very typical scene that all of us know. This scene represents the evolution from man ape, how they start acting and using stones to survive. The film is divided like in 3 parts; the first one was this one, then the evolution into the future which involves humans creating artificial intelligence. HAL, the operator represents this evolution. And here it arrives to the problem, that in my opinion we will have it in the future, where the astronauts don’t have the full control of the machine, in this case the operator Hal. But finally the astronaut gets to win. In the end, he arrives to Jupiter and he starts living in a strange home, where he will live for years. It’s like a home of the future and he sees a monolito that appeared before and that’s the moment when he is born again.

Technical analysis

The first 20 minutes are mute so it can be a little bit boring. But I think that in this film the music is very important because it gives like an special sensation in each part. This film has won 4 awards, such as the Oscar of the best visual effects. About the filming, it seems to me that it is very well filmed, all the shoots are connected in each scene, for example in the space it gives like a sensation like if we were floating.

And also its incredible how not using dialogs there is a relation between humans and also the operator Hal.

The plot

The film revolves around the theme of evolution.

-The story follows the evolution of man from man ape

-Then, the evolution into the future, Jupiter mission.

- Finally, the arrive to Jupiter.

Conclusion

In my opinion, this is a very typical films that anyone have to see it once in his life. I like the film, but it was a little bit long and sometimes boring because it had so many shoots with only music and I don’t like this type of relaxing scene because I get bored. But the film was well and in fact it makes you think about life and humans. I make many questions to myself like: why are we on earth? What is life?

The final presentation

Our team (Irati, Aitziber, Irati and Aitana) has made an incredible job to archieve our idea. The challenge was about making children eat fish. We have been working with Angulas Aguinaga for about six weeks and even if we have been working hard, we have had an amazing time.

1. Detail your idea: Our idea would be to change the package introducing appealing characters for children that we will show them to you later on, we are gonna insert some recipes for parents to have ideas to make their children eat fish. Furthermore, we are gonna add 2 stickers per package for children to collect them, in that way children will like to buy more packages.
2. Two virtues Children will eat more fish in a healthier way and parents will get inspired by the recipes for cooking and they will save time as it is easy to prepare.
3. Two problems and your response Because of the author’s rights, it would be expensive to add a character such as spongebob so we decided to create our own characters (Kris and Sia). The other problem was that at first we thought to put the recipe of the croquetas just in the package but then we thought to sell them already prepared, as it eases parents job.
4. How to make it real? What do you need to make it possible. On the one and, the only thing needed would be the machine to print the new packages and to make the stickers. On the other and, we would also need the machine for the production of the croquetas.
5. Which points of the challenge do you address with your proposition. They asked us to promote the eating of fish in children and young people and even if we focused on children, we think we archieved their expectations. Also as we ad to promote krissia, we put krissia in our product. And we archieved the idea of catching the attention of children by adding te collectionable stickers.
6. Which technical help do you need. As we have already mentioned we will need a machine to print the new packages and to make the stickers, and also for the production of the croquetas. Another technical help that we would need will be publicity company to inform the clients about our new ideas.
7. Why is your project the best possible? Because our idea will be appealing for parents since we are showing them different and easy ways to make children eat more fish, and it also will be appealing for children because they will love the characters that we are going to make, and they also will like to complete the collection of the stickers.

Visual thinking

We had the honor to meet an incredible artist called Javier Miguel Garay who taught us how to to a visual thinking. This visual thinking of our project for krissia shows in a really clear way what our idea is about. We really enjoyed this activity and we think we did a great job!

Challenge work

 As you know, we have been working with Krissia, they told us to give them ideas to make children eat more fish. That it why, we thought that it could be a good idea to create some characters appealing for children, and put some recipes in the back for parents.

Intro to the challenge

This month we are working with people from Fomento de San Sebastian and Angulas Aginaga. Angulas Aginaga told us about a challenge that consists on inventing new ideas to make children eat more fish. For that we are having some lessons that are going to help us to build our ideas. On the one hand we will have a lesson with Iñigo from Fomento San Sebastian to learn how to make a Canvas and a Swot. Then we are having a class of attitude and team working to know how to work with different people. After that, we are meeting people from Angulas Aginaga to present our idea to them and make changes if it is necessary. Then we will have a lesson with Javier Miguel who is a professional of visual thinking, and with him we will learn to explain our idea in a visual and clear way. And to finish we are going to have the last lesson in which we will have to present our last idea.

We think that is going to be an enriching experience because we are going to work for a company for the first time, and we are going to have the opportunity to know how a company works. Furthermore, we are exited because we are also learning about visual thinking. We will do our best to convince them that our idea is the best and that although we are really young people, we can do a great job.

Second term

We have finished the first term and now we are going to work  on Advertisements and Films, on the second term. I learnt many things on the first term. I like doing projects and working in teams. Maybe, on the second term we could do excursions or cultural visits.