Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Patience Final project
1) Our story takes place in the kitchen of one of the finest restaurants in Paris, La Tour D’argent. La Tour D’argent is located on the corner of the one of the oldest parts of Paris. The restaurant covers seven floors that have 10 tables, except the 7th floor which only has 4 VIP tables. All the tables are covered by beautiful tablecloth and a fresh flower bouquet decorates the center of each table. The silverware and china, which are of the utmost quality, are painstakingly placed precisely where they are supposed to be. The silk drapes are kept opened, revealing the breathtaking architecture outside. Each floor of the restaurant has several extravagant chandeliers that illuminate gold throughout the dining area. There is a small room on each floor next to the bathrooms that contain bottle of wine and other beverages. The kitchen takes up the entire basement, and has an small army of chefs working on a huge variety of courses. At the end of the kitchen there are three mini-elevators that are used solely for transporting dishes to each floor.
2) Despite La Tour D’argent’s very steep prices and seating for nearly a hundred guests, reservations are almost impossible to get. It is known as the oldest restaurant in Paris and has served numerous important and famous people, one example being Louis XIV. In the past, people have fought duels to get a chance to sit and eat the world-class French cuisine. The people who eat here are high society and are, of course, extremely rich and influential. Because of the difficulty of obtaining a table there, if you are dining there it means you are a somebody in society. There is no spoken dress code for the restaurant, because the guests it receives are usually dressed in their finest attire.
In the 19th century, a famous tradition started by the owner at the time, Fredrick Delair. Delair stated that every duck that was used to make “Canard au Sang” or bloody duck was to be given a number. For example, King Edward VII was served number 328 in 1890. This tradition has been kept and the duck count today is almost reaching number 40,000.
It is also important to address the seriousness that the French take in their cooking. Unlike Americans, the French consider cooking and serving a very serious career and even an art. The waiters are all very experienced in their craft and seem to almost read the minds of the guests. They fill the glass of a guest, before he lifts his hand to beckon for more. They know their cuisine so well that they know the perfect complementary wine to the year for each course.
There is a hierarchy in place in the kitchen. The head Chef, Laurent Delarbre, is the commander and chief. He decides which dishes are to be on the menu for that night and he is the one who enforces quality of the food. He takes his job very seriously, and even go to extremes of throwing badly made dishes into the garbage. He is very picky and has a very short temper. He has two assistant chefs, who organize the other chefs in what they are making and etc. Everyone in the kitchen handling the food has very refined skills and works with astounding efficiency. Everyone knows exactly what they are doing, so there isn’t much communication going on between them. The relationships between all the chefs are very high tension, because everyone has different cooking styles and taste preferences. The competition between them is fierce, because everyone is reaching for the glorious position of being head chef.
On this particular night, a very famous French celebrity is coming to celebrate his birthday at La Tour D’argent. Duck number 40,000 will be made for him in his honor. Head Chef Delarbe was just announced as one of the top 10 chefs in the world by one of the most celebrated and harsh food critics of the time. A young, chef’s assistant is starting his first day of work in the kitchen. Other than that, everything else is normal packed house for the restaurant.
3)
a. Head Chef Delarbe is absolutely ecstatic to be named as one of the top ten cooks of the world. After meeting with many-esteemed guest that all congratulated him in his accomplishment and drinking to many toasts that honored his cooking, he becomes very intoxicated and wreaks havoc in the kitchen. After ruining a couple dishes and trying to climb into one of the small elevators, he is lead away by his two assistant chefs to a storage room, where he falls asleep. Just then, a waiter arrives in the kitchen asking for the head chef. The guest of honor, the French celebrity, wants to meet the head chef. The two assistant chefs debate on what to do for this dilemma(to deny the honored guest a meeting with the cook is taboo). They decide to have Stephan, the younger and more ambitious of the two assistants (the other chef is too old to impersonate him), to dress in Delarbe’s clothes and pretend to be him.
b. It is Jean-Pierre’s first day as a chef’s assistant at the La Tour D’argent. Even though he finished school in one of the most prestigious cooking schools in France and worked as a chef in a four star restaurant, he is not allowed to do any cooking. He is to do the most basic jobs such as wash and prepare ingredients. Nevertheless, he is nervous because he knows that working at the La Tour D’argent is huge accomplishment in his career. The thoughts of his family’s words telling him not to mess this up no matter what echoes in his head. Despite it being his first day, he is given the honor of plucking and killing duck number 40,000 for honored celebrity guest. When he opens the box with the duck, it escapes from him and runs through the kitchen causing chaos. The duck slips out of everyone’s reach and makes it into a food elevator heading up. Jean-Pierre runs after it in the restaurant and everyone in the La Tour D’argent think its some kind of show or entertainment and so he keeps his job and doesn’t get in trouble.
c. Jean-Marie is man who spent his whole life trying to get rich. His number one priority was to be rich and powerful enough to eat at La Tour D’argent. When he was a child, his parents were too poor to afford such wonderful food. He passed the restraunt everyday on his way to school and became obsessed with becoming rich. He went to such extremes to get wealthy that he neglected his friends and family. On his anniversary, his wife takes his child and leaves him, but he goes to the restaurant that he made reservations for by himself. He is the only one in the restaurant that is eating alone. As he eats the delicious food by himself, he bursts out in tears. He realizes that he cannot enjoy the food he longed for for so long by himself, and that everything he really mattered to him was gone.
2) Despite La Tour D’argent’s very steep prices and seating for nearly a hundred guests, reservations are almost impossible to get. It is known as the oldest restaurant in Paris and has served numerous important and famous people, one example being Louis XIV. In the past, people have fought duels to get a chance to sit and eat the world-class French cuisine. The people who eat here are high society and are, of course, extremely rich and influential. Because of the difficulty of obtaining a table there, if you are dining there it means you are a somebody in society. There is no spoken dress code for the restaurant, because the guests it receives are usually dressed in their finest attire.
In the 19th century, a famous tradition started by the owner at the time, Fredrick Delair. Delair stated that every duck that was used to make “Canard au Sang” or bloody duck was to be given a number. For example, King Edward VII was served number 328 in 1890. This tradition has been kept and the duck count today is almost reaching number 40,000.
It is also important to address the seriousness that the French take in their cooking. Unlike Americans, the French consider cooking and serving a very serious career and even an art. The waiters are all very experienced in their craft and seem to almost read the minds of the guests. They fill the glass of a guest, before he lifts his hand to beckon for more. They know their cuisine so well that they know the perfect complementary wine to the year for each course.
There is a hierarchy in place in the kitchen. The head Chef, Laurent Delarbre, is the commander and chief. He decides which dishes are to be on the menu for that night and he is the one who enforces quality of the food. He takes his job very seriously, and even go to extremes of throwing badly made dishes into the garbage. He is very picky and has a very short temper. He has two assistant chefs, who organize the other chefs in what they are making and etc. Everyone in the kitchen handling the food has very refined skills and works with astounding efficiency. Everyone knows exactly what they are doing, so there isn’t much communication going on between them. The relationships between all the chefs are very high tension, because everyone has different cooking styles and taste preferences. The competition between them is fierce, because everyone is reaching for the glorious position of being head chef.
On this particular night, a very famous French celebrity is coming to celebrate his birthday at La Tour D’argent. Duck number 40,000 will be made for him in his honor. Head Chef Delarbe was just announced as one of the top 10 chefs in the world by one of the most celebrated and harsh food critics of the time. A young, chef’s assistant is starting his first day of work in the kitchen. Other than that, everything else is normal packed house for the restaurant.
3)
a. Head Chef Delarbe is absolutely ecstatic to be named as one of the top ten cooks of the world. After meeting with many-esteemed guest that all congratulated him in his accomplishment and drinking to many toasts that honored his cooking, he becomes very intoxicated and wreaks havoc in the kitchen. After ruining a couple dishes and trying to climb into one of the small elevators, he is lead away by his two assistant chefs to a storage room, where he falls asleep. Just then, a waiter arrives in the kitchen asking for the head chef. The guest of honor, the French celebrity, wants to meet the head chef. The two assistant chefs debate on what to do for this dilemma(to deny the honored guest a meeting with the cook is taboo). They decide to have Stephan, the younger and more ambitious of the two assistants (the other chef is too old to impersonate him), to dress in Delarbe’s clothes and pretend to be him.
b. It is Jean-Pierre’s first day as a chef’s assistant at the La Tour D’argent. Even though he finished school in one of the most prestigious cooking schools in France and worked as a chef in a four star restaurant, he is not allowed to do any cooking. He is to do the most basic jobs such as wash and prepare ingredients. Nevertheless, he is nervous because he knows that working at the La Tour D’argent is huge accomplishment in his career. The thoughts of his family’s words telling him not to mess this up no matter what echoes in his head. Despite it being his first day, he is given the honor of plucking and killing duck number 40,000 for honored celebrity guest. When he opens the box with the duck, it escapes from him and runs through the kitchen causing chaos. The duck slips out of everyone’s reach and makes it into a food elevator heading up. Jean-Pierre runs after it in the restaurant and everyone in the La Tour D’argent think its some kind of show or entertainment and so he keeps his job and doesn’t get in trouble.
c. Jean-Marie is man who spent his whole life trying to get rich. His number one priority was to be rich and powerful enough to eat at La Tour D’argent. When he was a child, his parents were too poor to afford such wonderful food. He passed the restraunt everyday on his way to school and became obsessed with becoming rich. He went to such extremes to get wealthy that he neglected his friends and family. On his anniversary, his wife takes his child and leaves him, but he goes to the restaurant that he made reservations for by himself. He is the only one in the restaurant that is eating alone. As he eats the delicious food by himself, he bursts out in tears. He realizes that he cannot enjoy the food he longed for for so long by himself, and that everything he really mattered to him was gone.
Monday, 16 May 2011
Listening Project
Theme: Scars that are proudly displayed hide and cover up bigger cuts that we cannot see
Premise: With the Iraqi conflict stabilizing and coming to an end, more and more troops being sent back to their homes. Staff Sergeant Lloyd Hawkins, known as Hawk, returns to the States, there is no one to greet him. He takes a cab to an old, broken down house where he talks to his father for the first time in nearly 9 years. He tells stories of how he got each scar. He doesn’t go in chronological order but rather tells each story as he sees them on his body. After his 7 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has many battle stories to tell. He reaches a scar on his knee, which he got as a child riding a bike. How his father dealt with the first scar gives us insight behind his choices in life. At the end, we see that Hawk isn't really talking to anyone but just a big picture of his father.
Program: Because Hawks spent nearly a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has trouble fitting back in to normal life. Since he was faced with combat we can see symptoms of PTS (post-traumatic stress), the scars on his body aren't the only effects of the war. His behavior is confusing and very emotional. The whole time he is talking to his father, we are made to believe his father is there. The camera will reveal a close-up of his father's face in the picture when he’s talking about his scar he got riding the bike, and the camera will show the same close-up one or two more times to show that his father's expression did not change or move. Then it will be revealed that there is a picture.
Treatment: A military plane lands and Hawks gets off. No one is waiting for him there, but he wasn’t expecting anyone. He takes a cab to a run down house, which does not look like it has been occupied for months and possibly years. He doesn’t unpack, but rather takes a bottle of whiskey from his pack and walks up to the living room. Inside this room there are two cushioned chairs in front of the fireplace and the only light comes from a small lamp on a coffee table in between the chairs. Hawks turns this on and sits in the chair. He starts to talk to his father in the other chair. The talk seems as if he is just trying to catch up at first; what he’s been doing for the last 9 years and how he is doing. He is doing all the talking, but he acts if he can hear responses. One of the responses, he pretends to hear is asking about a scar oh his right arm. He recounts of a story how a IED blew shrapnel into it while he was on patrol. Then he begins to talk about the rest of his scars, most of which were products of the war. Then he reaches a scar on his leg and pauses. He says that his father should know about this one. When he was 9 years old and he was riding his bike outside. He sees a friend of his fall off his bike and the mother of the child rushing over and treating it tenderly. He rides his bike home and purposely falls down scraping his knee. When no one rushes out of his house, he gets up and limp into his house. His father is reading a newspaper and Hawk walks over and presents his cut on his knee, which is bleeding a good amount. He begins to cry when his father doesn’t take notice. His father then takes him into the bathroom and pours alcohol on the wound. When he winces in pain, the father tells him, “ A real man should take cuts like this, and move on. It doesn’t hurt, it only makes you stronger.” Hawks breaks down telling the story and we see that who he was talking to was just a picture of his father.
Behavioral Composite:
Hawks gets off the plane and he is greeted with cheers and families rejoicing. As he is walking off the plane, soldiers run past him and reunite with their families. He walks past these reunions watching as a spectator. He walks by all this commotion and reaches a cab.
Hawks talk about his scars with so much excitement and enthusiasms. It is as if he is showing them off to his father, and recounting each moment with as much detail he can muster. Some of the near death experiences he seems to be really traumatized and even trembling after recollecting them. When he reaches the scar on his knee he rubs it tenderly.
Desperate for intention, Hawks fall of his bike. The scrape on his knee is painful, and he walks into his house when no one comes out from him. He walks past the kitchen, where his mother is preparing dinner to the living room. His father is reading a newspaper. Hawk begins to cry and sob. At first his father doesn’t do anything, and then grudgingly he gets up and takes Hawks hand and drags him into the bathroom. He gets alcohol and pours it on the cut. It burns but the father demands that he stop crying and that real men take cuts like this and get stronger.
Premise: With the Iraqi conflict stabilizing and coming to an end, more and more troops being sent back to their homes. Staff Sergeant Lloyd Hawkins, known as Hawk, returns to the States, there is no one to greet him. He takes a cab to an old, broken down house where he talks to his father for the first time in nearly 9 years. He tells stories of how he got each scar. He doesn’t go in chronological order but rather tells each story as he sees them on his body. After his 7 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has many battle stories to tell. He reaches a scar on his knee, which he got as a child riding a bike. How his father dealt with the first scar gives us insight behind his choices in life. At the end, we see that Hawk isn't really talking to anyone but just a big picture of his father.
Program: Because Hawks spent nearly a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has trouble fitting back in to normal life. Since he was faced with combat we can see symptoms of PTS (post-traumatic stress), the scars on his body aren't the only effects of the war. His behavior is confusing and very emotional. The whole time he is talking to his father, we are made to believe his father is there. The camera will reveal a close-up of his father's face in the picture when he’s talking about his scar he got riding the bike, and the camera will show the same close-up one or two more times to show that his father's expression did not change or move. Then it will be revealed that there is a picture.
Treatment: A military plane lands and Hawks gets off. No one is waiting for him there, but he wasn’t expecting anyone. He takes a cab to a run down house, which does not look like it has been occupied for months and possibly years. He doesn’t unpack, but rather takes a bottle of whiskey from his pack and walks up to the living room. Inside this room there are two cushioned chairs in front of the fireplace and the only light comes from a small lamp on a coffee table in between the chairs. Hawks turns this on and sits in the chair. He starts to talk to his father in the other chair. The talk seems as if he is just trying to catch up at first; what he’s been doing for the last 9 years and how he is doing. He is doing all the talking, but he acts if he can hear responses. One of the responses, he pretends to hear is asking about a scar oh his right arm. He recounts of a story how a IED blew shrapnel into it while he was on patrol. Then he begins to talk about the rest of his scars, most of which were products of the war. Then he reaches a scar on his leg and pauses. He says that his father should know about this one. When he was 9 years old and he was riding his bike outside. He sees a friend of his fall off his bike and the mother of the child rushing over and treating it tenderly. He rides his bike home and purposely falls down scraping his knee. When no one rushes out of his house, he gets up and limp into his house. His father is reading a newspaper and Hawk walks over and presents his cut on his knee, which is bleeding a good amount. He begins to cry when his father doesn’t take notice. His father then takes him into the bathroom and pours alcohol on the wound. When he winces in pain, the father tells him, “ A real man should take cuts like this, and move on. It doesn’t hurt, it only makes you stronger.” Hawks breaks down telling the story and we see that who he was talking to was just a picture of his father.
Behavioral Composite:
Hawks gets off the plane and he is greeted with cheers and families rejoicing. As he is walking off the plane, soldiers run past him and reunite with their families. He walks past these reunions watching as a spectator. He walks by all this commotion and reaches a cab.
Hawks talk about his scars with so much excitement and enthusiasms. It is as if he is showing them off to his father, and recounting each moment with as much detail he can muster. Some of the near death experiences he seems to be really traumatized and even trembling after recollecting them. When he reaches the scar on his knee he rubs it tenderly.
Desperate for intention, Hawks fall of his bike. The scrape on his knee is painful, and he walks into his house when no one comes out from him. He walks past the kitchen, where his mother is preparing dinner to the living room. His father is reading a newspaper. Hawk begins to cry and sob. At first his father doesn’t do anything, and then grudgingly he gets up and takes Hawks hand and drags him into the bathroom. He gets alcohol and pours it on the cut. It burns but the father demands that he stop crying and that real men take cuts like this and get stronger.
Monday, 25 April 2011
Flowing Project 2
THEME:
Searching for the truth and the reasons behind human actions/ leads to/ finding answers that you don’t expect or comprehend
PREMISE:
A girl, Lucy, cover in blood sits at a police station and she recounts her horrible experienced of getting kidnapped. She tells the detective, Becker, the events of what happened in reverse order starting with her escape. As she goes back through the events we see all the horrible things she went through, but when we get to how she was kidnapped her story becomes vague and shows some inconsistencies. When Becker pressures her and point out these inconsistencies, Lucy spills the truth behind the kidnapping.
PROGRAM:
Lucy is expected to follow the program of police station and answer all the questions detective Becker has for her. She is expected to tell the truth because she is being treated as a victim and so there would be no reason to lie. She is being questioned in Becker’s office. When Becker begins to see some loose ends in her story, the program changes of one of a criminal and she begins to interrogate Lucy and forces answers out of her. Lucy also follows the program of being a kidnapped person, who has to be obedient, fearful, and submissive, because she is so vulnerable. At the same time, she is constantly searching for opportunities for escape.
TREATMENT:
Lucy sits in the office of an Upper Brookville police station covered in blood and her dress ripped apart. Detective Becker walks into the room and places a blanket over her shoulders and rubs her. She sits down in front of her and tries to get her to talk about what happened from the start. Lucy, who is still traumatized and in near hysterics, breaks down sobbing. It takes a while to calm her, but detective Becky gets her to talk about the last thing she remembers and goes back from there.
Lucy stands over two men lying on the ground next to pools of blood holding a quivering baseball bat in her hand. She drops the bat and runs out of the house as fast as she can. Detective Becker asks how she got in that situation and Lucy begins to talk.
Lucy is tied to a chair with a gag in her mouth. One of the men, the bigger of the two, drags in a mattress into the room followed by a skinnier man who was arguing with him. The man drops the mattress and blood stains are revealed on it. Lucy begins to squirm vigorously and the skinny man objects. The bigger man disregards the objections and unties Lucy and gets on top of her on the mattress. After some time struggling, the skinny man grabs a knife and stabs the bigger man repeatedly. Skinny man drops the knife and proceeds to help her up and they get ready to escape, when the skinny man gets stabbed by the big man who just got up. Lucy grabs the baseball bat that was leaning next to the chair and beats the big man.
Detective Becker asks what she remembers before that and Lucy says that all she can remember is being at Alisa’s masquerade party, and then waking up in the house. Detective Becker senses that she is hiding something and pressures her to talk. Becker states that she was seen dancing and talking with the skinnier man, before she had gone missing. Becker also presents a photo of Alisa that was found at the crime scene. Lucy breaks down and talks…
She was at Alisa’s party, who she is very jealous of, and was about to leave her house when a skinny young man asked her who Alisa was. Lucy, who was upset at all the attention Alisa was getting, claimed to be Alisa. The skinny man introduced himself as Calvin. The two talked and dances and then the skinny man suggested that they get out of there. Lucy gets drugged unconscious and wakes up in a trunk. The door opens and she see Calvin and big man. The big man was yelling at the Calvin for grabbing the wrong girl. Lucy wakes up in the house to see the two men arguing over if they should kill her or not. The big man grabs a baseball bat and puts it next her face as if he was aiming it there. He then puts the bat down next to her and leaves the room with the Calvin following.
BEHAVIORAL COMPOSITES:
1) Everyone at the party was now looking at Alisa who was at the center of the room with a huge cake. Everyone in the massive room was singing happy birthday for Alisa and smiling, everyone except Lucy. Lucy finishes her drink glaring at Alisa and storms out of the room her face tinted scarlet.
2) As the big man was ripping apart Lucy’s dress and she screaming in terror, Calvin’s fists clenched. Eventually Lucy’s struggling slowed down and she was just staring at him. Blood rushed to his head, and he broke the chair he was grasping on to. Calvin grabbed the knife on the table and stabbed with fury.
3) Detective Becker’s expression kindness and comfort suddenly disappeared. Her face hardened almost instantly and her eyes beamed down on Lucy. Her voice was cold and assertive when she said, “I know you’re not telling me everything.”
Searching for the truth and the reasons behind human actions/ leads to/ finding answers that you don’t expect or comprehend
PREMISE:
A girl, Lucy, cover in blood sits at a police station and she recounts her horrible experienced of getting kidnapped. She tells the detective, Becker, the events of what happened in reverse order starting with her escape. As she goes back through the events we see all the horrible things she went through, but when we get to how she was kidnapped her story becomes vague and shows some inconsistencies. When Becker pressures her and point out these inconsistencies, Lucy spills the truth behind the kidnapping.
PROGRAM:
Lucy is expected to follow the program of police station and answer all the questions detective Becker has for her. She is expected to tell the truth because she is being treated as a victim and so there would be no reason to lie. She is being questioned in Becker’s office. When Becker begins to see some loose ends in her story, the program changes of one of a criminal and she begins to interrogate Lucy and forces answers out of her. Lucy also follows the program of being a kidnapped person, who has to be obedient, fearful, and submissive, because she is so vulnerable. At the same time, she is constantly searching for opportunities for escape.
TREATMENT:
Lucy sits in the office of an Upper Brookville police station covered in blood and her dress ripped apart. Detective Becker walks into the room and places a blanket over her shoulders and rubs her. She sits down in front of her and tries to get her to talk about what happened from the start. Lucy, who is still traumatized and in near hysterics, breaks down sobbing. It takes a while to calm her, but detective Becky gets her to talk about the last thing she remembers and goes back from there.
Lucy stands over two men lying on the ground next to pools of blood holding a quivering baseball bat in her hand. She drops the bat and runs out of the house as fast as she can. Detective Becker asks how she got in that situation and Lucy begins to talk.
Lucy is tied to a chair with a gag in her mouth. One of the men, the bigger of the two, drags in a mattress into the room followed by a skinnier man who was arguing with him. The man drops the mattress and blood stains are revealed on it. Lucy begins to squirm vigorously and the skinny man objects. The bigger man disregards the objections and unties Lucy and gets on top of her on the mattress. After some time struggling, the skinny man grabs a knife and stabs the bigger man repeatedly. Skinny man drops the knife and proceeds to help her up and they get ready to escape, when the skinny man gets stabbed by the big man who just got up. Lucy grabs the baseball bat that was leaning next to the chair and beats the big man.
Detective Becker asks what she remembers before that and Lucy says that all she can remember is being at Alisa’s masquerade party, and then waking up in the house. Detective Becker senses that she is hiding something and pressures her to talk. Becker states that she was seen dancing and talking with the skinnier man, before she had gone missing. Becker also presents a photo of Alisa that was found at the crime scene. Lucy breaks down and talks…
She was at Alisa’s party, who she is very jealous of, and was about to leave her house when a skinny young man asked her who Alisa was. Lucy, who was upset at all the attention Alisa was getting, claimed to be Alisa. The skinny man introduced himself as Calvin. The two talked and dances and then the skinny man suggested that they get out of there. Lucy gets drugged unconscious and wakes up in a trunk. The door opens and she see Calvin and big man. The big man was yelling at the Calvin for grabbing the wrong girl. Lucy wakes up in the house to see the two men arguing over if they should kill her or not. The big man grabs a baseball bat and puts it next her face as if he was aiming it there. He then puts the bat down next to her and leaves the room with the Calvin following.
BEHAVIORAL COMPOSITES:
1) Everyone at the party was now looking at Alisa who was at the center of the room with a huge cake. Everyone in the massive room was singing happy birthday for Alisa and smiling, everyone except Lucy. Lucy finishes her drink glaring at Alisa and storms out of the room her face tinted scarlet.
2) As the big man was ripping apart Lucy’s dress and she screaming in terror, Calvin’s fists clenched. Eventually Lucy’s struggling slowed down and she was just staring at him. Blood rushed to his head, and he broke the chair he was grasping on to. Calvin grabbed the knife on the table and stabbed with fury.
3) Detective Becker’s expression kindness and comfort suddenly disappeared. Her face hardened almost instantly and her eyes beamed down on Lucy. Her voice was cold and assertive when she said, “I know you’re not telling me everything.”
Monday, 11 April 2011
Gathering Project 1
Theme:
Unexpected encounter or interaction between two children/ leads to/ discovery of life long passion and friendship
Premise:
Johnathon is going to the first day of yet another new school. As the teacher introduces him to the class, he notices a kid with a teaching aid next to him. As he sits in class, he cannot help but notice a disable kid, Stanley, is obsessively drawling something with his fingers on his desk. During recesses, he notices Stanley arranging rocks on the ground. When Jonathon asks another kids what he is doing, he say that Stanley is retarded and that no one knows why he does the things he does. Jonathon, not satisfied with such an answer decides to try and ask himself. Much to his surprise Stanley is very intelligent and obsessed with stars and outer space. Jonathon discovers that Stanley was constructing the current positions of the planets in the solar system using rocks and tracing the forms of constellations on his desk. The two kids become friends and Stanley invites John to come watch the Hailey’s Comet at the observatory with him and his parents. That night Jonathon goes with Stanley’s family and fall in love with all the things he learns and sees. The next day at school, John arrives to school bringing a book about stars he found at home to find the teaching aid and the teacher in tears. Stanley had a seizure in the middle of the night and died. In shock, he sits down in his seat and tries to keep his composure. He opens the book to the page about Hailey’s Comet and tears begin to fall, he wipes his tears and flips the page.
Program:
Jonathon closes himself to others because he has move around so many times in very little time and so he has not been able to make close bonds or even been able to keep the ones he has made. Stanley, on the other hand, is alienated from others because of his disability and children’s prejudice against his strange behavior. The two are both outsiders who become attracted to each other and create friendship. Stanley’s passion for outer space is passed on to Jonathon.
Treatment:
Jonathon, a new 4th grader at his new elementary school, is very reluctant to make friends because he moves around often and doesn’t stay in one place for long because of his father’s job in the military. He doesn’t want to get hurt so he has closes himself from the other kids. As the teacher introduces him to a new class, he notices Stanley in the corner of the the class.
Stanley is drawing on his desk with his finger, but no one else in the class seems to notice or care what he is doing. The teaching aide attempts to get his attention to what is happening in the class, but Stanley doesn't care and shrugs off the aide, but stares up at Jonathan and then back down. He is so concentrated on what he is doing and almost oblivious to what is happening. People ignore Stanley and he ignores them.
During recess, Jonathan notices that Stanley is doing something. After asking some kid what Stanley was doing and being told that Stanley is just retarded and doing nothing, Jonathan wasn't satisfied with that answer. The reason for this is because Jonathan is observant and sees that Stanley is doing something very precise and calculated.
The interaction between the two are of two people hesitant to be open to someone else. They both have their own reasons for closing themselves, but they are attracted to each other because they both are outcasts. They like each other because they both reject the outside world.
When they go up to the observatory we see Stanleys' enthusiasm seems to be contagious and we see Jonathan being interested in something for first time. Jonathan up to this point has been uninterested in everything including making friends, and school. Stanley is alive with excitement wobbling around on his braces. Hailey's comet can be seen once every 75 years, so this is something big for him. This is a once of a lifetime event and symbolizes the importance of this very important life experience for Jonathan.
When Jonathan finds out that his new friend has died, and he lost another friend. He is surprised, because for the first time in his life someone left him instead of him leaving someone. He is sad and depressed, but he does seem to realize that he was left with something valuable. Space seems like a legacy left behind for him; something he will passionate about for the rest of his life.
Behavioral Composites:
As the teacher introduced him to the class he gazed around not really looking at anyone and not caring if they were looking at him until his eyes reached Stanley. The teacher asked him if he would like to sit anywhere in particular, and he replied, "I really don't care."
The balled rolled over to Jonathan and was followed by a short, freckled faced, red head boy. Jonathan asked, "What is he doing?" pointing at Stanley who was wiggling on the ground. The boy answered, "Oh, he's just a retard. He doesn't know what he's doing. Do you want to play football? We're short a player.." Jonathan threw the ball over the boys head and walked toward Stanley.
Stanley's usual slow crawl was replaced with his energetic wobble as he hobbled from telescope to telescope to look at the different things they were pointing at. His body was as if it was trembling with excitement as he was lifted up to peek inside. He barely blinked as he gazed with longing eyes in to the microscope.
Unexpected encounter or interaction between two children/ leads to/ discovery of life long passion and friendship
Premise:
Johnathon is going to the first day of yet another new school. As the teacher introduces him to the class, he notices a kid with a teaching aid next to him. As he sits in class, he cannot help but notice a disable kid, Stanley, is obsessively drawling something with his fingers on his desk. During recesses, he notices Stanley arranging rocks on the ground. When Jonathon asks another kids what he is doing, he say that Stanley is retarded and that no one knows why he does the things he does. Jonathon, not satisfied with such an answer decides to try and ask himself. Much to his surprise Stanley is very intelligent and obsessed with stars and outer space. Jonathon discovers that Stanley was constructing the current positions of the planets in the solar system using rocks and tracing the forms of constellations on his desk. The two kids become friends and Stanley invites John to come watch the Hailey’s Comet at the observatory with him and his parents. That night Jonathon goes with Stanley’s family and fall in love with all the things he learns and sees. The next day at school, John arrives to school bringing a book about stars he found at home to find the teaching aid and the teacher in tears. Stanley had a seizure in the middle of the night and died. In shock, he sits down in his seat and tries to keep his composure. He opens the book to the page about Hailey’s Comet and tears begin to fall, he wipes his tears and flips the page.
Program:
Jonathon closes himself to others because he has move around so many times in very little time and so he has not been able to make close bonds or even been able to keep the ones he has made. Stanley, on the other hand, is alienated from others because of his disability and children’s prejudice against his strange behavior. The two are both outsiders who become attracted to each other and create friendship. Stanley’s passion for outer space is passed on to Jonathon.
Treatment:
Jonathon, a new 4th grader at his new elementary school, is very reluctant to make friends because he moves around often and doesn’t stay in one place for long because of his father’s job in the military. He doesn’t want to get hurt so he has closes himself from the other kids. As the teacher introduces him to a new class, he notices Stanley in the corner of the the class.
Stanley is drawing on his desk with his finger, but no one else in the class seems to notice or care what he is doing. The teaching aide attempts to get his attention to what is happening in the class, but Stanley doesn't care and shrugs off the aide, but stares up at Jonathan and then back down. He is so concentrated on what he is doing and almost oblivious to what is happening. People ignore Stanley and he ignores them.
During recess, Jonathan notices that Stanley is doing something. After asking some kid what Stanley was doing and being told that Stanley is just retarded and doing nothing, Jonathan wasn't satisfied with that answer. The reason for this is because Jonathan is observant and sees that Stanley is doing something very precise and calculated.
The interaction between the two are of two people hesitant to be open to someone else. They both have their own reasons for closing themselves, but they are attracted to each other because they both are outcasts. They like each other because they both reject the outside world.
When they go up to the observatory we see Stanleys' enthusiasm seems to be contagious and we see Jonathan being interested in something for first time. Jonathan up to this point has been uninterested in everything including making friends, and school. Stanley is alive with excitement wobbling around on his braces. Hailey's comet can be seen once every 75 years, so this is something big for him. This is a once of a lifetime event and symbolizes the importance of this very important life experience for Jonathan.
When Jonathan finds out that his new friend has died, and he lost another friend. He is surprised, because for the first time in his life someone left him instead of him leaving someone. He is sad and depressed, but he does seem to realize that he was left with something valuable. Space seems like a legacy left behind for him; something he will passionate about for the rest of his life.
Behavioral Composites:
As the teacher introduced him to the class he gazed around not really looking at anyone and not caring if they were looking at him until his eyes reached Stanley. The teacher asked him if he would like to sit anywhere in particular, and he replied, "I really don't care."
The balled rolled over to Jonathan and was followed by a short, freckled faced, red head boy. Jonathan asked, "What is he doing?" pointing at Stanley who was wiggling on the ground. The boy answered, "Oh, he's just a retard. He doesn't know what he's doing. Do you want to play football? We're short a player.." Jonathan threw the ball over the boys head and walked toward Stanley.
Stanley's usual slow crawl was replaced with his energetic wobble as he hobbled from telescope to telescope to look at the different things they were pointing at. His body was as if it was trembling with excitement as he was lifted up to peek inside. He barely blinked as he gazed with longing eyes in to the microscope.
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