THE GLOGSTER PROJECT

   

       We made this project with Hülya. Firstly, we watched the video and read the notes related to 1984. Later we wrote our clauses at the glogster. I think this book is quite different. I liked it very much.

MY WEBSITE PROJECT

     I listened an interview recording with a celebrity. I think this project is really challenging for me because they were speaking very fast and I am not accustomed to listening the speech of the native speakers. I listened the recording over and over again by taking notes. However, I have learned a lot of new words and new information in this process.:)

     James Cameron was interviewed and the interviewer was Francine Stock. James Cameron explained his last film, Avatar. He mentioned about the title of movie, the features of film characters, 3 D technology, make-up of the avatars and the battle of avatars with humans.

     The interviewer constructs the interview by mentioning Avatar which is the biggest selling film of all time. She said ‘James Cameron reflects on the future of screens big and small. Avatar taking 2.7 billion dollars around the world will be released on DVD in the America on Monday. And also, she talked about the opportunities of film increasing sophistication related to blue rays in home.

     The first question was related to title best noted for computer gaming. According to James Cameron, the term of Avatar became quite common and people are associated with their online avatars, gaming avatars. His aim was not to change the title having different associations for people. And then, people began to like doing online. He added that they invested their all energy within this film like Jack into his body and he spent more time to biological avatar.

     The second question was associated with the characters in his representation of Avatar. Avatar was a physiological representation and James Cameron casted people to play both Na’vi characters and the avatars who had strong faces. When he wanted them to be beautiful, fast or active, they had to have active ears or tails, bodies. It was a part of spirit that wants to be free, powerful or wants to be in touch with nature but wiser. It was a simplification of that Na’vi versus the humans according to him.

     Later the interviewer asked him to give explanation about how to strengthen the humanlike characters on screens. He said ‘I spent a lot of time and energy on building a system to keep the spark of life in actor’s face alive through the inventers of CD characters. But when the technical means flapped, we benefited from make-up and recordings of very detailed motions of mouth, eyes or ears.’

     Later, Francine Stock talks about the usage of 3 D in the film and she asked ‘Do you think 3 D is going to be stable film?’ After that, he agreed with this idea. He said that ‘I will continue to produce films in 3 D and we see the world in 3 D.

     Another question was related to the fact that 3 D in home is slightly destroying the idea of they are went when you go to the cinema you are getting something which you can’t get from the home entertainment. James Cameron agreed that 3 D in cinema is different from home in terms of screen, size and 3 D will be always more powerful than 3 D in home.

     They talked about the effect and the role of science in cinema. According to him, we are curious human beings always trying to find new things and science is not the major factor in cinema. lastly, the intense message was discussed among them. Ecology and colonization are said to be possible reasons of big battles at present or in the future.

My Personal Questions:
1. Do you have another project related to science fiction after Avatar?
2. How could you imagine this world being different and what was the starting point of Avatar in your mind?

 Please click here for the interview recording

THE WEBQUEST PROJECT

It is our webquest project. I and Ümmühan Ülker wrote a fable of a rabbit and two squirrels. Firstly, we used the webquest  and followed the directions to create the fable. We completed the documents related to the task. It was so enjoyable assignment. We tried to write an original fable with my friend. I hope we can be successful.

   A RABBIT AND TWO SQUIRRELS

There were two squirrels and a rabbit in a big forest. They were close and sincere friends. While they were playing hide & seek joyfully, the curious squirrels found a big chest in the soil and said:

-          Come, come here. There is a big chest help me it is too big to take it out for me.

The rabbit came and said:

-          Oh it is a piece of cake, you are so weak. I can engrave it easily by myself.

One of the squirrels said:

-You’re very arrogant but it requires much more strength than yours. It is impossible to do it by yourself. But all of us can overcome it easily.

The rabbit said:

-I don’t need your help. It takes only a few minutes to engrave it for me. Now watch me and see my success.

The squirrel said:

-          Ok, firstly you try it!

A few hours later, the rabbit could not be successful yet and got so tired. At the end, the rabbit understood that he couldn’t do it by himself. He decided to ask for his friends’ help.

The squirrels and the rabbit tried to engrave it altogether. A few minutes later, they could overcome it easily. So that, the rabbit realized:

 "TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE.’

Please click here to see Document 1

Please click here to see Document 2

REFLECTION PAPER

    It is my first reflection paper about Technology and Materials Design Course. This document includes my personal thoughts and opinions. And also, I explained the things which I have learned in this lesson.
Please click here to see my reflection paper