Reading Notes:Turkish Part B

Book Cover of Forty Four Turkish Fairy Tales blogspot

The second reading had about six different stories. In most of these stories I felt like the person who did wrong got what they wanted. Such as in the Wizards Pupil, the apprentice left the wizard and did not follow the intrusions. In the end he was granted the princess in the end. I was very confused by the last story Kunterbunt. The whole thing was a riddle and I couldn't figure out what the answer to the riddle was. I was trying to figure out the lesson to be learned in this story but i have a feeling there wasn't one. It was there to be a riddle and make the reader really think when reading this story.
There was a common theme amongst them. It was that everything comes at a price. Whenever you want to get something you must give something in return. We can clearly see this in The Liver. Anytime the maiden would need something someone else would ask for it in return. If I was going to do one of these stories I would probably do The Liver. I would base it off of one of the characters the maiden talks to. Base a short story around them. Or even twist the story and make it be at an amusement park. I think The Wizards Pupil and The Liver where my favorite stories to read this week.

Bibliography: Ignacz Kunos Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales Link to text 

Reading Notes:Turkish

I chose the Turkish story for this week. Within this there were four separate stories I really enjoyed the first one called fear. I feel like it had a lesson to be learned. That even the bravest hero is afraid of something. I am thinking of using this story for this week. Maybe placing it in the 80s or ever modern times. I feel like the idea of showing someone what fear is, would be a very interesting story. The other one I liked was the wizard-dervish.

Turkish Illustration Mythology and folklore 

I was also thinking of using the scene where the maiden and the youth are trying to hide from her mother. I was thinking of kinda using these ideas and creating a new story from it but i haven't decided yet. I felt like I escape into a difference work when reading these stories. I really enjoyed these readings this week. And I can't wait to see what the readings are tomorrow.

Bibliography: Forty-four  Turkish Fairy tale by Ignacz Kunos link to text

Famous Last Words: Week 3

It's week three of the semester and I am actually socked how fast this semester is already going by. Luckily the stress has not kicked in yet. I haven't had any major projects yet. I have actually had time to do my readings in most of my classes. last week was a little bit of a struggle with the reading but having Monday off has helped me play catch up just a little bit.
For some reason I do my best writing during my film screenings on Wednesday. I watch a movie musical every week in my film class. My creative process has been the strongest during this class. So far this has worked. I am going to keep trying to do this and see what I come up with. My writing is getting stronger every time I write a new story.

My mind when I read webdevelopment

I am loving creating a new story every week for this class. And it is actually a stress reliever. I get to escape into my own worlds and let my imagination take over. This is the same result when I am reading other peoples stories. It is my favorite point of the week. It gives me a chance to escape into someone else's world and imagination. I did some extra credit commenting as well.
All of these things have helped me keep my stress level down so far. The rest of the week seem like it will flow by very nicely, especially since we have our first home game this weekend!

Story: Film Week

Film week in Vegas was here. Holly had been looking forward to this all semester. Her school only picked seven film students a year to fly out to Vegas, to work on a set of a major motion picture. This year the movie was called The Beautiful Sirens, based on the Greek mythology creatures the sirens.  All Holly had to do was get through day without to many distractions. Luckily she had managed to do this. All she had left was the required trip meeting, which she almost missed because of a nap. Before she knew it, she was on a plane with six of her friends to Vegas. 

Las Vegas Strip Bilnkit Travel Journal

     When they got there, they had about six hours to kill. "Come on lets go explore before the shoot." Jake said. They all agreed and headed out for the strip. There weren't a lot of people out and it was rather quiet, which was strange for a city. So Jamie and Holly decided to throw on their headphones and jammed out to the playlist they made for the trip. The seven of them couldn't decide which casino they wanted to go in first. They had past the Bellagio, Planet Hollywood, MGM Grand Casino, and casino after casino they still didn't go in. They had been walking for about a hour and once they past the hooters casino Holly moaned, "Ugh Jake can you just pick one! We have to be on set in like two hours." he waved her off and they wake about five more until a striking women with a singing voice like a bird caught their attention. Well everyone except for Holly and Jamie who were still jamming out to their music.

   The group had stopped so abruptly it caused Jamie and Holly to run into them. "Hey what gives" Holly said. There was no reply, just blank faces; the group’s attention was on the woman. An abandon casino rested behind the striking woman and as soon as she turned away everyone except for Jamie and Holly followed her inside. "Hey guys, I don’t think this is a good idea." Jamie said trying to steady her voice. As they walked inside the beautiful melody grew stronger. They had walked into the center floor of the casino and about three dozen women with equally beautiful singing voices appeared. 

Inside an Abandoned Casino Untapped Cities

      Jake was following a girl with silky black hair, that didn’t look older then twelve, straight to a black pit in the ground. “Jake look out!” Jamie screamed, but nothing happened he kept walking towards it. She ran towards Jake, pulling him away from the pit. Before she knew it the silky blacked haired girl ripped her headphones out of her ears and began to sign louder putting Jamie into a trance. “Ok guys we should, probably head back.” Holly said. But once again nothing happened. The music grew stronger and Holly had had enough. She began to drag Jamie by her arm but she wouldn’t budge. “What’s wrong with you?” she yelled.

  “Shh... Relax Holly. Listen to the beautiful music.” Jamie replied with a breathless voice. Holly sat there for a moment staring at Jamie. “music…music.. THEIR SIRENS! IT’S THE SINGING.” Right then she scrolled through her phone to find the most grunge song she owned. She pulled out her beats pill from her bag. Putting the volume as loud as possible the grunge music blared through the hall causing the women’s music to stop just long enough to pull her friends back to reality.  “What happened.” Jake said coming out of the trance. “I’ll explain once we are out of here. Just listen to my music and only my music.” Holly ordered. With confused looks on there face they began to follow the horrible sounding music. The women tired to regain the melody but the music blaring through the speaker changed melodies every measure causing the women to shriek and fall back deep into the hall.

   Finally out side and at least a block away from the abounded casino they stopped to catch their breath. “I don’t think I would ever say this but thank the lord for grunge music.” Jake said laughing.  “You and me both, you and me both.” Jamie said. After a long walk back to set in silence and jumping at any sound of a woman singing they met up with their professor. “So how did exploring go?” he said. The group gave a little giggle, and Holly said, “They are right what they say about this place.  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.”

Las Vegas Sign About Travel

Authors' Notes 

I based this off the last story in the Odyssey. The story about the sirens. Instead of Odysseus and his crew on a ship and trying to make it through the sirens with no damage, I changed it to a trip to vegas and exploring gone wrong. I felt like this was a new way of showing the sirens trance and the idea that the group of students already know what sirens are by the film they are about to work on. 

Bibliography: Homer's Odyssey Link to text

Reading Notes: Odyssey

I choose to read Homer’s the Odyssey. It was one of my favorite stories we read in high school. This story intrigued me by the adventure aspect it had. Anytime Odysseues’ looked to be in the clear something else bad or challenging would happen. One of my favorite stories was the one about the sirens. I am thinking of using this part of the story and using that idea to create a new story. I had some suggestions to continue the story from last week. So I think I am going to try and tie in last weeks story with this one. But the setting of this will be in Vegas or I may keep them there at the school.

Odysseues and the Sirens wikipedia

The idea of using the sirens to distract people into doing something they wouldn’t really do may be the lead of my story for this week. The reason I liked the last story so much was the idea even when we was told not to listen he disobeyed and listened anyways. He did this just to see what he would be missing. I am going to try to tie in the lesson into my story this week.

The one difference I did see from Homer’s lliad to Homer’s Odyssey was the odyssey was writing from a person’s point of view instead of third person. I felt like this gave the story a more storytelling vibe then lliad. Even though we don’t see inner thoughts we can tell what the emotion from Odysseues. To me this adds a spicy of adventures from ones point of view to it.

Bibliography: Homer's:The Odyssey link to article

Story: Weekly Party

Every Friday for the past month Henry had thrown a massive party at a different location every time. His excuse was to celebrate being young and a live. The only thing was you had to be invited. These parties were compared to the great Gatsby himself.
    Henry's girlfriend well now ex-girlfriend was invited to every party but she went. Annie would always come up with some excuse, most of the time she had better things to do. But her closet friend Pat begged her to go every week but every week Annie would refuse to go.  Once again another invite come for Annie and Pat. and once again they refused The two of them set up for there annual movie night.

Girls watching tv Gurl

   BUZZ
 Pat's phone lit up. Opening up the message, it was David. "I thought you and Annie would want to know that Kate's decided it would be a  fun to rip up all the photos and art that Annie made for Henry." Pat's face turned red with anger. "what is it." Annie stated. "we have to go to henry's party! Kate, she's destroying everything." Pat began yelling. Annie got off the couch to grab more popcorn. "I'm not going."
"What! But Kate is..."
"I don't care."
Pat paused the movie and walked up to her grabbing her full attention. "ok I know Henry cheated on you but we can't let Kate get away with this. If we just went." Annie slammed the bowl of popcorn on the corner. "i'm not going if you want to go then more power to you." Pat's eyes widened. "wait really? You'll let me take care of it?" Annie's back was still facing Pat. She was trying to hide her tears. "If you go just promise me that as soon as you take care of my art you'll head home. you wont talk to Henry or deal with Kate you'll come home." Taking a deep breath she turned around. Pat was trying to hold a devilish smile. "Now promise me." Pat nodded. " i need to hear it." "I promise. I swear I'll come home after I'm done." Pat grabbed Her keys and headed to the party.
   When she got there, Kate had already managed to tear up all the scrapbooks and was about to start on the paintings. David rushed over trying to stop her. "Kate Tallic Put That Painting Down!" Kate's eye's got wide and slowly placed the painting on the ground. Pat took a quick step towards her and Kate ran for the bedroom. Pat followed her meeting with a slammed door to the face.  She tried ramming the door with her body three time. On the fourth time David grabbed her arm and Pat met David's eyes. "Pat go home, take the canvas and go home. This isn't your fight. It's Annie's." Pat yanked her arm away and picked up the last piece of art that Kate didn't destroy. As she was leaving, the door cracked open and Kate swiftly walked towards her. Pat swung around grabbed a can out of the closet persons hand, threw it at her, and  knocked her in the head.  She began to laugh. David grabbed her arm once more. "leave Pat." Turing around  to head back to the door, she was met with a blow to the gut and something sticky spilled on her. "you should have left when you had the chance."

Authors Notes: I uses the Deeds and death of Patroclus for my story. I changed the characters to women and put it in the modern day. Pat was Patroclus character. I didn't really want to kill this character. I felt like the lesson to learned was don't over step you ground. Because if you do then you might get the lower hand.  

Bibliography: Homer's lliad retold by A. J. Church. link to reading

Reading Notes: Homer's lliad

Homer's Lliad was not what I expected. I was expecting just a battle not seeing Achilles decide he wasn't going to battle. As well as the amount of Greek God and Goddess interaction. I think my favorite character would have to be Apollo or Athena.

Drawing of Apollo and Athena The Grub Street Project

Apollo sparked my interest by the way he acted when we was in the story. Especially at the end of Part A in Deeds and death of Patroclus. Patroclus tries to rush troy's wall four time and Apollo tell him to go back when Patroclus doesn't listen Apollo doesn't care and deals with the problem. I feel like this is how Apollos personality  is in most greek stories. I think I would want to do a story based on Apollos personality or make the interaction longer between Patroclus and Apollo. Have that ending sequence between the two of them be a story. It could be almost like a dark comedy. 

  Then Athena when she is trying to give wisdom instead of fighting. most stories I've read with her always have her fighting. I enjoyed seeing this side of the Goddess. 

I may try to add Hector in the story with the immortal horses and chariots but instead of horses make it be like race cars or something.  I may even make a story upon the scene with all the gods in the room watching Zeus and Hera argue. I think these two scenes stick out the most for the reason of being different from the rest of the story. 

Over all I really enjoyed learning the lessons this story had to teach.

Bibliography: Homer's lliad retold by A. J. Church Link to reading A