Final Presentation

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First Presentation

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What to think about while listening to the auditions:

• Does this person sound familiar?
• Is there natural talent or potential for talent (could they succeed with or without the help of a manger, voice coach, etc.)
• Does this person have anything in common with any other artist (including the others who have 'auditioned')
• Would you consider investing in them

Masterpiece interviews

• What are you working on?
• Working on getting to know other journalists, going to go down to LA to meet up with an upcoming artist to interview her. 
• Why?
• She wants to do entertainment journalism so she's tryin to get a feel for it. 
• What is the significance of this project in your life/career?
• She loves writing and wants to pursue this as her career.
• How do you see this work helping you in life outside of school?
• Preparing her for her actual profession, getting the experience now.
• Has anything surprised you in your work?
• Yes, a famous person talked to her!
• What do you need to successfully complete your project and present it?
• She needs to get her interview questions together.
• What have you learned that's worth teaching someone else?
• Be presistent, don't be a dumbass, have good manners, and reach out to others even when you doubt your confidence.

Connections

I didn't want to post this yesterday because I was hoping for more interactions and moments that would remind me of my masterpiece. 

My first "moment" is when I was watching a vine and I noticed a girl using a book called Everything You Must Know to Suceed in The Music Business. 

Walking in the hallways I heard a group of girls talking about wanting to post covers to YouTube and this reminded me of how a lot of talent scouts find talent! 

I was having a casual conversation with a friend when she started talking about music festivals and wanting to go to a bunch of concerts and this reminded me of my future which sort of relates to my project. I think I heard music and immediately was reminded of my masterpiece. 

Listening to Pandora an Ad came on for 

Online music business schooling. This one obviously relates to my masterpiece. 

Literature Analysis #3



The Night Circus

1.  The Night Circus is about a magical traveling circus that is secretly hosting a competition between two magicians who have to prove who had the better teacher. Their reward? Life. The only way to win is to survive. Celia, a little girl whose mother dies when she is only five years old is taken to live with her father who is also a magician. He is known to be the greatest of his time, when Celia is introduced to him, he immediately doesn't like her. She gets mad at the way he treats her and she uses her 'powers' to break his hot tea cup. This intrigues Prospero, her father. Her father then sets up a meeting with an old friend and it is them that arrange the competition between Celia and Marco (the chosen competetor). The two do not know who they are competing with until Celia catches Marco performing and then everything starts to crumble. The two have fallen in love and now they are refusing to continue the competition knowing one of them will die. The problem with just stopping the competiton? The circus and the people in it will die off and the two lovers won't be the only ones suffering the consequences.Celia figures out a way for the two to live together and keep the circus running without letting anyone else get hurt. Celia and Marco kill themselves, but find a way to stay in spirit and keep the circus alive.
2. The theme of this book is very similar to The Hunger Games themes, anything and everything over love, to die with you would be better to die alone, a competition for survival.
3. The authors tone is bitter and knowing. The author has a lot of sass and you can see that in the main character Celia, the most. She makes it seem as if she were using her story to vent out her hate for someone and her longing for another.
4. Foreshadowing:

In the beginning Marco explains that he loves to love and he loves to be in love and it always happens so quickly, but he doesn't know what being IN LOVE is really like, therefore he'd do anything to be with her. This is setting up his attitude towards how is going to feel about Celia and the situation they get put in having to kill eachother.

Prediction:

Celia grabs the wrong umbrella, but she notices that the umbrella she did grab has some sort of spell on it and this is how she discovers and predicts that Marco is her challenger.

CHARACTERIZATION
1. Direct characterization

Celia: The author directly explains how she looks feels and acts. There is no asuming or guessing on how she felt towards something, the author is very direct with her.

Marco: The author also explains everything Marco feels directly and we know from the very beginning how he looks and what his morals are.

Indirect characterization

An example of this is a teenager named Bailey who is brought up very little and then at the end becomes the protagonist all with one feeling. The author indirectly tells you that Bailey has this passion and dedication towards the circus that will essentially save everyone. The author then refers to two twins who live in the circus and will be helping Bailey save it. This is dropped by hints such as dreams and fortune tellers.

The indirect characters are all the smaller characters that we don't get to read about directly.
2. The authors syntax changes when she concentrates on a different part of the story. The novel jumps around from character to character and you can tell whose side of the story it is when the sentences get longer or shorter and the it goes from first person to third person.
3. The protagonist is very round and dynamic, he starts off seeming useless to the storyline, but then their is a plottwist and it all starts to make sense. It is part of his destiny to either save or destroy the circus and it all comes down to one decision; does he chase after a circus or give up on it all together. He chooses to chase after it and that is his first step to saving it. 
4. I did not feel as if I had just met someone after reading this story. I think that because the storyline was something I was not use to and compeletly unrelatable I had trouble connecting to any of the characters due to the whole "I'm a magician fighting for my life against another magician whom I'm in love with and I can't kill him because I love him" theme. However, I understand what it is like to not want to do something because the decision is too hard to make and it might hurt someone else. Overall I didn't make any easy connections with this book, too ficitonal and unrealistic.

Is there an expert in the house

What will my expert look like? 

Someone with determination and patience 

Someone who has delt with and experienced the crazy Hollywood life

Someone who can handle criticism and let downs, who can turn that negative energy into a motivator

Someone who knows what they are talking about and how to turn their words into actions

Someone who is not self centered, but looked upon as a mentor and a giver

Someone who is on top I things

Someone who isn't afraid of being the underdog 

Someone who knows how to achieve their goals 

Someone who does what they do, because they love it, not because they want money

This someone will be admirable