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What did I experience as an audience member?

As an audience member, I watched the film ‘Avengers: Endgame’. I experienced the excitement of all the avengers teaming up all over again after “infinity war”. Infinity war is a movie about an evil alien named ‘Thanos’ who is looking for the infinity stones so that he gets the power to wipe out 50% of all living creatures in the universe and the Avengers (a group of superheroes) are trying to stop him. 

Endgame blue ray CD:

What did I like best and why?

My two favourite scenes were the final battle and the part where they have to time travel to get all the infinity stones back. The reason why I loved the final battle was because it was cool seeing this avenger’s team that was not actually the avengers, but all the marvel characters together.

What do I think could have been done better? I think they should have thought of which of the avengers they were going to take out a bit more because some characters would be better for the part of the movie when they have the left-over avengers from “infinity war” and try to make something big out of it. Although, I did think that Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and some of the “Guardians” of the galaxy, were a good team even though they did not really know each other that well. There were some actors that I did not want to be blipped because I thought they could have done a better story if they switched the actors that were blipped.

What artforms were involved? The way they showed Hulk as not so aggressive anymore was very creative and gave a great amount of impact on how the audience viewed him. Also, a lot in the script and the camera movement was very intense and unexpected in a way. The fact that Hulk could not create the time machine, but Stark could, it showed the difference in intellect of the two completely different characters. One of my favourites scenes was when Thanos was attacking (around the end of the movie) and sent all of his weird four-legged creatures in to attack the Avengers and it was dark and even though that scene happens a lot in other movies, it really stood out from all of them because you did not know what was going to happen next or if Thanos would come in the tunnel with the creatures or later into the movie. The camera movement when the Thanos ships arrived, how they got the whole ship in the camera was good and the detail in Thano’s minions is very good and makes it look real even though I think they are puppets who control it electrically. Another art form is when Wanda is trying to destroy the soul stone so that Thanos does not get it, Thanos uses the time stone to get the soul stone back and the effect on him and his veins is always cool and never gets old.

Some other art forms are: Camera filming Special effects Acting Script writing Costumes and makeup

Me watching Endgame:

Me watching endgame while looking at camera:

Would I recommend it to others and why? I would recommend it to others because it has very good reviews and in my opinion, (and millions more) I think it is a nice way of showing that all the cool separate movies like ant-man, captain America, black panther etc., are all in the same universe of movies.

Here is a discussion I had with my advisor about the film:

Plan:

What art skill would you like to share?

A skill that I would like to share is Audio recording. I have been participating in a workshop the past 7-8 weeks and I have been learning how to record the vibration of water or surfaces e.g., metal. I have been recording myself telling a story of objects in Two Temple Place that I thought was significant. One example of a story that recorded was about a figure of a lion in the middle of a heater. I talked about its meaning and why it was made the way it was. The skill that I would like to share is audio recording using ‘REAPER’.

How am I going to do it?

I will be using the app ‘REAPER’ to edit and record myself and the vibrations or sounds that other objects make. I’m going to show my mum the various items in ‘REAPER’

What practice or preparation are you going to do?

At the sound workshop it was fun to throw the hydrophone into the water and listen to the sound waves that are being recorded by our water microphone (the hydrophone). This was practice for the real recording that we are going to do. But it wasn’t just practice, it was also collecting sounds to use in our recordings.

I will have the laptop charged and rehearse what I will say.

How are you going to make it fun and interesting?

There is a website called ‘BBC sound mixture’ which has loads of interesting sounds like when I did my recording about the lion on the heat railing, I had a recording of a lion roaring in the background. It was and will be very fun to listen to the different sounds that the BBC has recorded and edit them so that they fit perfectly with the recording of me talking about the lion.

What will success look like?

I think that success will look like a ready recording with another bar of recording which was originally separate but must be relevant to the topic. It must also be edited right so that there are no ‘Uhm’ in the speech. The volume must be correctly balanced and the recording from the BBC must not overpower the speech. Also having my mum understand and know how to use ‘Reaper’ in the end.

This is me doing my demonstration:

This is the Reaper software:

My Review:

What went well?

We did a very good edit with the audio and the are no ‘Uhms’ in the speech. We found sound from the BBC sounds mixture that are related to the thing that I am talking about. We used a wolf howling, a fire roaring, and the sound of birds in a forest to say that the wolf is wild.

Did everything go to plan?

Everything went to plan, and we also got to make it better more detailed sounds to set the scene

What would I do differently?

I could probably redo the audio recording of myself so that its clearer because you can’t do everything just by editing

Feed back from my mum:

Describe what arts activity you are going to take part in: I am going to take part in a 12 week workshop that focuses on audio recording and recording of objects and sound waves from surfaces and even sometimes in water. The workshop is at Two Temple Place.

Inside of Two Temple Place:

Recording sounds outside:

Recording stories we had written about objects in the house: 

What did you learn? I learnt how to record myself with a microphone and how to edit it the sound recording with the ‘REAPER’ software. We learnt how to record sounds and voices so that we can put them together when it comes to using ‘REAPER’. 

I learnt that the owner of Two Temple Place used to be the richest man in the whole world and that Two Temple Place, which is four times the size of a normal house, was only his study.

List at least three things you enjoyed: I enjoyed taking the hydrophone and the other microphone that records surfaces and going to the beach to record underwater sounds. I enjoyed having a tour of the building and finding all those secret cupboards where the owner used to keep his money in. I enjoyed finding sounds in the ‘BBC sound mixture’

Using the hydrophone:

My Reaper work from The Two Temple Place workshop:

Describe what arts skills you improved on:

I really improved my knowledge on microphones and how to use ‘REAPER’ software to edit my sound recordings. I found out that you can press ‘s’ to ‘split’ the track and you can also press the square on the top left so that when your delete a bit of the track, the other two bits glue to each other but without the square, they stay apart. 

For example, I have made a recording of me talking about a very interesting marble fireplace, and how the dog was standing proud on top of the fireplace:

Here is one of my final peices:

Philip Reeve - Lucca Comics & Games 2016.jpg  - credit: Niccolò Caranti 

My Arts Inspiration is:

Phillip Reeve the Author of the books: mortal engines; predator’s gold and infernal devices (these are all the ones that I know of).

Why they Inspire me:

He inspires me because his writing is very expressive, and he has been given lots of awards for his books. He uses a lot of techniques like show not tell or cliff hangers and vivid verbs and his books and writing are unique. They also have all these very good plots e.g., mortal engines are where this girl called Hester has an uncomfortable past and meets this bot called Tom that lives in London, but London and all the other cities have turned into a city with wheels, traction cities they call it in the book. So, these two 17-year-old teens are having adventures and fighting these traction city wars. And they also made a movie about it. And all the other books that he wrote are great and have their own plot like Predator’s gold is still based on the girl Hester, an 18 yar old girl, that is now in Predator’s gold. All the books are different. Like how the mortal engines series is set 3,00 years in the future.

What they make and do and how (why not include an example of their work):

He is the author of the books: mortal engines; infernal devices and predator’s gold and other books that are not part of the real story but with the same characters and the same world. He does mostly Science fiction. He uses a lot of techniques when describing the appearance of someone or something and he likes to describe the smells or looks and tastes from his experience or if he ate the food before. To describe, he uses words like: bitter; sweet; uncomfortable taste.

What do others think about their work?: Well, a lot of people adore his books and think he is a great Author and he has been given countless awards for most sold book of the year and things. He is pretty famous but not so famous that people in school talk about him but he is still a very good author.

“Mortal engines Reviews”

On Rotten tomatoes it got “26%”

On Metacritic it got “44%”

On IMDb it got “6.1/10”

“Predator’s gold”

On Goodreads it got “4/5”

“Infernal devices” does not have reviews yet.

Picture of “Infernal devices”

Picture of “A Darkling Plain”

What I like about their work:

What I like about their work is that he uses all these great techniques e.g.: show not tell; cliff hangers. But also, the way when he is trying to change the scene from one place to another is very cool because he uses words e.g., meanwhile. I also like that he spends a lot of time describing the scene. Like when someone punches, he does not say he punched him, he describes the gesture e.g. “he threw his up to the warm skin of his face, making a red mark knocking him down on the ground”  

What I have found out about their career / technique: