Video Commentary

For my video commentary, I chose August Rush, one of my favorite movies. It tells the story of a boy, August, who lives in an orphanage but believes his parents are still alive, and if he can just ‘follow the music,’ he will find them. Meanwhile, his mother discovers he is not dead like she thought and starts looking for him while his father has spent 12 years missing his mother and finally decides to find her again. It’s sappy, it’s funny, it has Robin William as an uncharacteristic bad guy (and he does it beautifully!) and I just love it.

I have split my commentary into two movies – the first is of just one scene, while the second is of two. But the second includes the final scene of the movie and I didn’t want to ruin it for anyone who has not seen it yet. Also, the second scene has a lot of music that is important to comment on, but you can’t do so during the music or you won’t hear it. So, there is one place where I added a little text so you can read it, and I tried to keep my commentary shorter and to the point so that you can see/hear what I am trying to say by actually watching the clip.





As a last note, the girl singing is actually singing. She is AMAZING!! Only eleven years old, I think, when this was filmed. There is another song she sings in the movie that is incredible, which you can see here. This song was nominated for a grammy, and it totally was better than the other nominations. =]

Recipes

Recipes Redone has been updated with this past week's cooking - Chicken Parmesean and Marbled Stuffed Potatoes. It was pretty delicious! =D

Uninteresting Story - Automobile history

Audacity has become the most hated program I have ever used - it crashes about every two and a half minutes, and I have started saving my work after literally every single change I make. UGH. As such, I didn't edit it as much as I would have liked and it probably isn't that interesting still.

Anyway, here is my uninteresting story. It's a sixth grade lesson plan my boyfriend Christopher taught in his practicum a few days ago. Sounds come from timtube, mich3d, Kibben, fonogeno, and the background song is from the Harry Potter 5 soundtrack. =]

automobiles in twentieth century

Project Website

I have posted my first cooking event at recipes.tomatolemonade.org, which will be where I post all of my recipes and cooking. I will update here every week to say just a little about it, so you can just follow this page if you don't want to add another site to your RSS feed. =] This afternoon I will be doing my second post after I make Peach Salsa, so don't forget to check that out.

I am having a few troubles with the theme at Recipes Redone - I can't figure out how to make the scroll box underneath the first entry not have a broken image sign. =[ Any help with this would be very appreciated!