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"This course investigates how distinct modes of communication impact the creation of messages, dissemination or knowledge and reception of meaning. Students will examine aural, textual, and visual communication in the context of print, electronic, and digital media.Our intention is to begin tounderstand how media and images are central in shaping forms of communication in the present age. We will do so by studying the formal, semiotic, social, political, cultural aspects of images and the media forms that circulate them. We will look at older forms of media and image production in order to better locate our current practices in a rich history of scholarship."
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[[Film]]
[[Photography]]
[[Social Media & The Internet]]
Television</span>[[Editing]]
[[Film Theory]]
[[Ideology]]
[[Genre]]
[[Visual Pleasure]]
[[Video vs Film]]
[[Video Essays]][["A REFLECTION: PLATO'S CAVE"]]
[["SEEING ≠ BELIEVING"]]
[[“REPETITION TAKES THE EDGE OFF”]]The internet has created viral-ness and therefore created a universal language that ALLOWS us to have important conversations!
Language gives us permission and permission has created markets!
[[IMPACT]]
[[How many of trending political #'s can you name?]][[What is Cinema Editing?]]
[[Elements of Editing]]
[[Key Terms for Editing Form]]FILM THEORY by Elements of Cinema
"Whether concrete or abstract, the subject matter of an artwork must be expressed with form – a set of conventions of patterned relationships used to perceive, evaluate, and define an artwork."
"Filmmakers have two basic senses to explore in their movies: sight and hearing. The elements that stimulate these two senses are innumerous. Consequently, the combination of them generates infinite different styles and stories. But all these different possibilities are found in one of three possible film forms."
[[Narrative form]] tells stories.
[[Documentary form]] exposes reality.
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[[next]][[MOVIE GENRE QUIZ!]][["The Male Gaze: Laura Mulvey"]]
[[The Bechdel Test]]Bechdel Test
/bech·del test/ n.
1. It has to have at least two (named) women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
[[Click here.|https://bechdeltest.com/]]+ The joining of two images to create connection or dusjunction with regards to space, time, narrative, visual meaning
+ Produces meaning via patterns, rules, techniques - each shot is specifically chosen to convey larger ideas of film
+ Goal is to guide audience's focus<span class="bigtext">+ CUT:</span> break between 2 shots, emphasizes something important in the narrative, draws our attention to it in oder to direct our focus
<span class="bigtext">+ TYPES OF EDITING:</span> linear & non-linear
<span class="bigtext">+ FORMS OF EDITING:</span> transitions, cut on action, eye-line match, 180 degree rule
<span class="bigtext">+ GRAPHIC EDITING:</span> visual patterns produced through the combining of 2 shots including 'graphic match' (dominant shape/line creates match between shots)
<span class="bigtext">+ MOVEMENT: </span> matching on action
<span class="bigtext">+ RHYTHMIC:</span> editing to a particular pace or remp, cutting shots to match rhythm
<span class="bigtext">+ EXAMPLE</span>
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These include: capitalism in respect to ownership and enterprise; the work ethic and the idea of honest labour; marriage as legalized heterosexual monogamy; the desire for success and wealth; and America as the epitome of prosperity and happiness. American cinema is a part of building that gilded promise that capitalism brings all of these things. Wood sees these ideological concepts "riddled with hopeless contradictions and unresolvable tensions"
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It is these ideologies that developed the genre theory. Genre theory is used to categorize film dependent on the story, the director, the expectations of the audience, etc. What we know it to be. Wood indicates that genres stem from the contradictions in ideologies and should be studied "in terms of ideological oppositions.” He states that the problems of genre theory "has been the tendency to treat genres as discrete."
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"Virgins never die" is a recurring plot theme that occurs in American horror a lot.
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Which leads me to wonder what a film that has successfully severed that tie between cinema and its ideological function would look like? Would it have to be entirely nonsensical?
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Thus, far from reinforcing the reality of the world, cinema reproduces its ideological constitution. Yet as we have heard, Comolli and Narboni do not believe that all films are the same. How differently can filmmakers respond to this problem, this political challenge?
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[[Click Link]]Fascinating to see how rooted we are in our ideologies and I believe that knowing this, we need to beg the question, how do we use this to our advantage, how do we use film to correct and improve our current ideologies in a way that we will be breaking our current ideologies instead of reinforcing them?
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The End.<span class="bigtext">Narrative filmmaking</span> refers to the types of movies that tell a story. These are the films most widely screened in theatres, broadcast on TV, streamed in the internet, and sold as DVDs and Blu-rays. Though fictional filmmaking is another term for narrative cinema, the word “fictional” doesn’t imply that such movies are purely based on fictive events. In some cases, veracity and creation blend together.
One of the storylines in James Cameron’s Titanic, for instance, pertains the steamship RMS Titanic that struck an iceberg in her maiden voyage and sunk soon afterwards – a real, greatly documented incident that happened on April 14, 1912. However, the romance between Rose and Jack, another prominent storyline in the movie, is a product of Cameron’s imagination, just like both characters.
The terms “fictional cinema” and “narrative cinema” carry the understanding that the filmmaker has the freedom to create storylines and alter historical facts as he or she sees fit. This freedom allows the director to shape the movie and perfect the story. One of the many reasons why Titanic broke a box office record was because the audience could identify with Jack and Rose and root for them.
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<span class="bigtext">The Classic Structure of Narrative Films</span>
Fictional films are composed by a string of events and structured based on cause and effect. While the beginning of a movie and the introduction of certain characters are always arbitrary, the subsequent scenes, all the way to dénouement, must happen for a clear reason; an identifiable motivation that justifies character behavior, action, and goals. The occurrences in narrative cinema are never random; rather, they are always organized based on a main line of action and connected through theme.
In The Shawshank Redemption (1994), when Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and unfairly incarcerated (cause), he begins to plan his escape (effect).
In Tootsie (1981), when Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is confronted by his agent who says that he will never find job in show business, Michael decides to dress up as woman and prove that he is a great actor worthy of major roles, regardless of his gender.Contrary to narrative cinema, which tells stories that are usually pure fabrications of someone’s imagination, <span class="bigtext">documentary filmmaking</span> is concerned with the exposure and analyses of real facts and historical events. Subjects of documentaries can be the hunting of endangered species, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, and the downfall of the Nazi regime.
Even though documentary cinema explores actualities, not all documentaries present the absolute truth a hundred percent of the time. Filmmakers, like any other artists, are both privileged and burdened by the power of manipulation. As such, they are blessed and cursed by the possibility to bend the truth.
While some directors choose to simply broadcast occurrences, like Jacques Perrin with Winged Migration, others prefer to judge them, like Michael Moore with Bowling for Columbine. Still others work to alienate an audience, like Leni Riefenstahl with her Triumph of the Will, a famous propaganda movie.
Despite their different purposes, the three movies above are considered documentaries because they debate and analyze real events.
<span class="bigtext">The Structure of Documentaries</span>
At its core, documentary filmmaking is an opinion former and a trendsetter. Its structure is built as to allow the filmmaker freedom to manipulate and persuade. Even the purest directors fall prey on their position and the liberty of the medium, and they end up being biased enough to impose their own perspectives onto the world.
Documentary filmmakers have the following weapons in their arsenal for persuasion:
VOICE OF GOD: This is the voice-over heard in the movie. The pretentious reference to the almighty is due to the influential force the voice-over has in documentaries. In narrative cinema, voice-over offers exposition and personal comments. On documentaries, however, voice-over is used to state unquestionable veracities. If you hear the sentence “There are only 80 pandas left in the entire world” spoken by a deep voice, you will believe it. That’s the reason why most narrators are men and many from Britain – apparently the British accent is more persuasive than American English.
DOCUMENTATION: To make a point convincingly, the filmmaker must present evidence from legitimate sources. The evidence is the documentation. A letter from your Uncle Bob carries less legitimacy than an article from the New York Times, hence selecting sources is paramount for documentaries. Newspaper articles, bank statements, government records, surveillance footage are all fair game for the filmmaker because they carry the weight of truth. For the most part, at least. Occasionally, directors may intentionally misuse documents and take it out of context to mislead the audience.
INTERVIEWS: Much like documentation, interviews are common on documentaries and equally necessary as sources. In the documentary Super Size Me, since the movie director, Morgan Spurlock, has no official knowledge over heart health, he has to consult with cardiologist Stephen Siegel, MD, who becomes his expert witness.
EXPERT WITNESS: An expert witness is anyone that has great knowledge on the subject that they are testifying on. It requires no degree but vast experience. An illiterate farmer from Texas could be considered an expert witness on a documentary about cattle manure used to fertilize soil. As a general rule, the audience is much more likely to listen to an expert witness than a random John Doe from the streets. Expert witnesses don’t always have to be interviewed on camera. Their statements or archival footage also carry great weight.Also known as experimental films, <span class="bigtext">avant-garde</span> are rare and totally unpopular. Some people may spend their entire lives without ever catching a glimpse of an experimental movie. Most will never sit through one.
As the word “experimental” suggests, this type of movie is trying something new, different...so different that, at first, it will cause confusion, if not annoyance on the viewer.
In simple terms, experimental films are incredibly easy to define but quite difficult to understand since most people have no preconception of what they are. Imagine a movie that is neither narrative nor documentary. What remains? Chaos, disorder, incoherence … An amalgam of ideas forced together by the filmmaker without any regards for characters, structure, or theme.
The vast majority of avant-garde films are not screened in theatres, aired on TV, or sold in discs – they are not mainstream and have no commercial life whatsoever.
Film vs. Video
During the first century of photography and moviemaking, everything was shot on film – a celluloid material whose light-sensitive surface could record lasting images. Film was good because it was the only option. And during that first century, it did a fantastic job of recording those masterpieces that we love and treasure, like Gone With the Wind, Citizen Kane, and The Godfather. However, as technology advances, digital filmmaking gains dominance and poses a threat to the film hegemony. The Oscar-winner Social Network (2010), for instance, was shot on the Red One, a video camera.
Why Shoot Film
Film is still preferred by most filmmakers because this is the tradition and the technology they understand. Other two big advantages of using film are (1) depth of- ield and (2) broad exposure latitude.
Why Shoot Video
Video is spreading quickly. As technology evolves, video will soon become the industry standard. It's impossible to know when, but the push towards it has already begun. The main reasons to choose video are (1) workflow, (2) price, and (3) reproducibility.[["In Transition: Graphic Matches"]]
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Photography has the ability to turn a moment into an event. As noted, an event is seen through the lens of an ideology and it is an ideology that determines what’s worth the film. Therefore, through photography, we’re giving that movement power, but it is important to note, as Sontag warned us, that the power isn’t consistent. Repetition of images “takes the edge off.” A perfect example of this is the Western gaze of the other. In particular, the repeated photographs coming out of Africa of starving children. Not only have we become partially numb to this content, but it’s also simultaneously misinforming the Western population by creating a generalization of the current status of Africa.
Sontag argues that photography is flawed, in essence, falsely interpreted and therefore gives an inaccurate representation of the world.
"Photographs are a kind of proof, a testimony, and for this reason they are so important for bureaucracy and are an instrument of control with the capacity to convict and equate." (SONTAG)
Another discrepancy that makes Sontag’s words even more relevant is photoshop. Photoshop creates unrealistic depictions of the world - a different reality is being created, a new norm and a new focus. We must now, even more than ever use critical judgment and seeing can no longer equivocate to believing. “Photos may exist only as a world of images, nothing more: shadows of reality and the truth, but more critical judgment may show otherwise.” (SONTAG)
It is important to recognize this when engaging with social media.
A Picture Perfect Life
Humanity, argues Susan Sontag in "In Plato's Cave" in her collection of essays "On Photography", is still in Plato's cave. Photography changes are conditions of imprisonment and create a kind of "ethics of vision" and the feeling that we can contain the whole world in our heads.
Collecting photographs, Sontag Argues, is in a sense collecting to world. Photographs are artefacts, which create and condense the environment that we perceive to be modern. She argues that photographing something is gaining ownership of it and creating a kind of, knowledge-like, relation to the world. Photography creates a miniature representation of parts (always just parts) of the visible world that anyone can obtain as his own. Photographs are a kind of proof, a testimony, and for this reason they are so important for bureaucracy and are an instrument of control with the capacity to convict and equate.
But Photography for Sontag is always an interpretation of the world and this interpretation, be it on the side of the photographer or the person viewing the photograph, is always ruled by conventions, ideology and the zeitgeist. Photographers always, inevitably, impose their own preferences on their product merely by choosing where they point their camera and how they point it.
Sontag says the man has developed dependence on photography for the sake of the mere ability to experience something that has meaning. By converting the experience into an image photography gives shape, and time, to the transient experience. In other words, we need the camera in order to realize and substantiate our experiences.
A photograph is an event, which lingers to, in principal, eternity. It is a way of participating in an event without being a part of it. Sontag sees the camera and a kind of sublimated weapon, and the act of photographing as symbolic shooting, or even raping. Sontag compare photography with rape because in photography we see people in a manner unavailable to themselves and we gain knowledge of them which can never be theirs, and thus photography reifies people into objects which can be subjected to symbolic ownership.
Photography for Sontag is also a form of nostalgia, an attempt to connect with a passing reality and to gain custody of it. Photography grant meaning to the moment, and as Sontag argues, a photographed moment is a privileged moment which was chosen for cultural reasons. Photography turns a moment into an event, because an event is something that is worth photographing, but it ideology, which decides what's worth the film. But though photography captures a moment and gives it meaning, its power is not constant. Repetition of images, be it horror or pornography, takes the edge off their affective capacities and the event becomes less real.
In concluding "In Plato's Cave" Sontag notes how photography separates history into unrelated fractures, a collection of anecdotes. But we are now all addicted to approving and ratifying reality through photography. Today, everything exists in order to be photographed.
Work Cited
Montag, Susan. On Photography. London: Penguin Ltd., 1977. Print. In Plato’s Cave.
The typical hero in my film is:
[[A clueless man or woman who succeeds in the end.]]
[[A fearless character with a lot of common sense.]]
[[A character that may encounter failures but that you can't help rooting for.]]
[[I don't do the heroes and villains thing. It's too black and white.]]
[[If anything, someone taken from history or current events.]]What is your average movie night like?
[[Me and my friends getting together so we can have a good laugh.]]
[[Me and a close friend watching something really high-energy.]]
[[Me and a close friend enjoying a good story.]]
[[Me and some friends trying to scare ourselves senseless.]]
[[Me watching something intellectually stimulating on my laptop.]]What is your average movie night like?
[[Me and my friends getting together so we can have a good laugh.]]
[[Me and a close friend watching something really high-energy.]]
[[Me and a close friend enjoying a good story.]]
[[Me and some friends trying to scare ourselves senseless.]]
[[Me watching something intellectually stimulating on my laptop.]]What is your average movie night like?
[[Me and my friends getting together so we can have a good laugh.]]
[[Me and a close friend watching something really high-energy.]]
[[Me and a close friend enjoying a good story.]]
[[Me and some friends trying to scare ourselves senseless.]]
[[Me watching something intellectually stimulating on my laptop.]]What is your average movie night like?
[[Me and my friends getting together so we can have a good laugh.]]
[[Me and a close friend watching something really high-energy.]]
[[Me and a close friend enjoying a good story.]]
[[Me and some friends trying to scare ourselves senseless.]]
[[Me watching something intellectually stimulating on my laptop.]]What is your average movie night like?
[[Me and my friends getting together so we can have a good laugh.]]
[[Me and a close friend watching something really high-energy.]]
[[Me and a close friend enjoying a good story.]]
[[Me and some friends trying to scare ourselves senseless.]]
[[Me watching something intellectually stimulating on my laptop.]]Visually, what's the best part of the movie?
[[The close-ups where you get to see all of the emotion in the character's face.]]
[[The latest batch of special effects and CGI.]]
[[The unique camera angles and editing techniques that heighten the mood of the film.]]
[[Mindblowing panoramic views of nature or space.]]
[[I don't really pay attention to any of that stuff.]]Visually, what's the best part of the movie?
[[The close-ups where you get to see all of the emotion in the character's face.]]
[[The latest batch of special effects and CGI.]]
[[The unique camera angles and editing techniques that heighten the mood of the film.]]
[[Mindblowing panoramic views of nature or space.]]
[[I don't really pay attention to any of that stuff.]]Visually, what's the best part of the movie?
[[The close-ups where you get to see all of the emotion in the character's face.]]
[[The latest batch of special effects and CGI.]]
[[The unique camera angles and editing techniques that heighten the mood of the film.]]
[[Mindblowing panoramic views of nature or space.]]
[[I don't really pay attention to any of that stuff.]]Visually, what's the best part of the movie?
[[The close-ups where you get to see all of the emotion in the character's face.]]
[[The latest batch of special effects and CGI.]]
[[The unique camera angles and editing techniques that heighten the mood of the film.]]
[[Mindblowing panoramic views of nature or space.]]
[[I don't really pay attention to any of that stuff.]]Visually, what's the best part of the movie?
[[The close-ups where you get to see all of the emotion in the character's face.]]
[[The latest batch of special effects and CGI.]]
[[The unique camera angles and editing techniques that heighten the mood of the film.]]
[[Mindblowing panoramic views of nature or space.]]
[[I don't really pay attention to any of that stuff.]]When you hear a great line in a movie, you:
[[Use it when describing the film to those who have never seen it.]]
[[One good quote does not a movie make.]]
[[I don't obsess over cool movie quotes.]]
[[Quote it wherever I go to everyone I come in contact with.]]
[[Repeat it to the people who saw the film with me or think about how awesome that line was.]]When you hear a great line in a movie, you:
[[Use it when describing the film to those who have never seen it.]]
[[One good quote does not a movie make.]]
[[I don't obsess over cool movie quotes.]]
[[Quote it wherever I go to everyone I come in contact with.]]
[[Repeat it to the people who saw the film with me or think about how awesome that line was.]]When you hear a great line in a movie, you:
[[Use it when describing the film to those who have never seen it.]]
[[One good quote does not a movie make.]]
[[I don't obsess over cool movie quotes.]]
[[Quote it wherever I go to everyone I come in contact with.]]
[[Repeat it to the people who saw the film with me or think about how awesome that line was.]]When you hear a great line in a movie, you:
[[Use it when describing the film to those who have never seen it.]]
[[One good quote does not a movie make.]]
[[I don't obsess over cool movie quotes.]]
[[Quote it wherever I go to everyone I come in contact with.]]
[[Repeat it to the people who saw the film with me or think about how awesome that line was.]]When you hear a great line in a movie, you:
[[Use it when describing the film to those who have never seen it.]]
[[One good quote does not a movie make.]]
[[I don't obsess over cool movie quotes.]]
[[Quote it wherever I go to everyone I come in contact with.]]
[[Repeat it to the people who saw the film with me or think about how awesome that line was.]]How deep do you prefer your movies to be?
[[Dude, it's just entertainment.]]
[[I definitely want some central conflict but that's about it.]]
[[I want the events to be ficticious but to play out just like real life.]]
[[I want to rack my brains for months trying to figure out how that movie really ended.]]
[[I want to become smarter by having watched a film.]]How deep do you prefer your movies to be?
[[Dude, it's just entertainment.]]
[[I definitely want some central conflict but that's about it.]]
[[I want the events to be ficticious but to play out just like real life.]]
[[I want to rack my brains for months trying to figure out how that movie really ended.]]
[[I want to become smarter by having watched a film.]]How deep do you prefer your movies to be?
[[Dude, it's just entertainment.]]
[[I definitely want some central conflict but that's about it.]]
[[I want the events to be ficticious but to play out just like real life.]]
[[I want to rack my brains for months trying to figure out how that movie really ended.]]
[[I want to become smarter by having watched a film.]]How deep do you prefer your movies to be?
[[Dude, it's just entertainment.]]
[[I definitely want some central conflict but that's about it.]]
[[I want the events to be ficticious but to play out just like real life.]]
[[I want to rack my brains for months trying to figure out how that movie really ended.]]
[[I want to become smarter by having watched a film.]]How deep do you prefer your movies to be?
[[Dude, it's just entertainment.]]
[[I definitely want some central conflict but that's about it.]]
[[I want the events to be ficticious but to play out just like real life.]]
[[I want to rack my brains for months trying to figure out how that movie really ended.]]
[[I want to become smarter by having watched a film.]]Do you like new things?
[[New things are the only things worth enjoying.]]
[[I like new technology, but I'm also partial to timeless entities like nature.]]
[[There are just as many good new things as old things.]]
[[It depends on what would be most effective.]]
[[I could care less about trends; they won't last.]]Do you like new things?
[[New things are the only things worth enjoying.]]
[[I like new technology, but I'm also partial to timeless entities like nature.]]
[[There are just as many good new things as old things.]]
[[It depends on what would be most effective.]]
[[I could care less about trends; they won't last.]]Do you like new things?
[[New things are the only things worth enjoying.]]
[[I like new technology, but I'm also partial to timeless entities like nature.]]
[[There are just as many good new things as old things.]]
[[It depends on what would be most effective.]]
[[I could care less about trends; they won't last.]]Do you like new things?
[[New things are the only things worth enjoying.]]
[[I like new technology, but I'm also partial to timeless entities like nature.]]
[[There are just as many good new things as old things.]]
[[It depends on what would be most effective.]]
[[I could care less about trends; they won't last.]]Do you like new things?
[[New things are the only things worth enjoying.]]
[[I like new technology, but I'm also partial to timeless entities like nature.]]
[[There are just as many good new things as old things.]]
[[It depends on what would be most effective.]]
[[I could care less about trends; they won't last.]]What gets your heart rate up the fastest?
[[Anything, so please just leave me alone!]]
[[Not being able to sleep and loving it.]]
[[Exercise.]]
[[Going to the library.]]What gets your heart rate up the fastest?
[[Anything, so please just leave me alone]]
[[Not being able to sleep and loving it]]
[[Exercise]]
[[Going to the library]]What gets your heart rate up the fastest?
[[Anything, so please just leave me alone!!]]
[[Not being able to sleep and loving it..]]
[[Exercise..]]
[[Going to the library..]]What gets your heart rate up the fastest?
[[Anything, so please just leave me alone!!!]]
[[Not being able to sleep and loving it...]]
[[Exercise...]]
[[Going to the library...]]What gets your heart rate up the fastest?
[[Anything, so please just leave me alone!!!!]]
[[Not being able to sleep and loving it....]]
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[[Going to the library....]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears...]]
[[B. Face punch 3...]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack...]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you...]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet...]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears?]]
[[B. Face punch 3?]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack?]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you?]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet?]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears.]]
[[B. Face punch 3.]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack.]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you.]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet.]]
Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears]]
[[B. Face punch 3]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears...]]
[[B. Face punch 3...]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack...]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you...]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet...]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears?]]
[[B. Face punch 3?]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack?]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you?]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet?]]
Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears.]]
[[B. Face punch 3.]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack.]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you.]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet.]]
Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears]]
[[B. Face punch 3]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears...]]
[[B. Face punch 3...]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack...]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you...]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet...]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears?]]
[[B. Face punch 3?]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack?]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you?]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet?]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears.]]
[[B. Face punch 3.]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack.]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you.]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet.]]
Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears]]
[[B. Face punch 3]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears?]]
[[B. Face punch 3?]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack?]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you?]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet?]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears.]]
[[B. Face punch 3.]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack.]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you.]]
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Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears]]
[[B. Face punch 3]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears...]]
[[B. Face punch 3...]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack...]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you...]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet...]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears?]]
[[B. Face punch 3?]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack?]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you?]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet?]]Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears.]]
[[B. Face punch 3.]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack.]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you.]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet.]]
Which made up movie would you want to see.
[[A. So many tears]]
[[B. Face punch 3]]
[[C. Man goes to Mars and forgets to pack]]
[[D. Can't stop singing about you]]
[[E. You should have stayed in the closet]]Need a tissue? YOU GOT ROMANCE!YOU GOT ACTION!
I hope you Marvel at your results!COMEDY IT IS!
50% Rom-Com/50% Spit Ball to be precise!YOU GOT MUSICALS!
Have you seen Singin' In The Rain?So YOU'RE the one always laughing at horror movies!
Cool fact: "the virgin never dies" is a common theme amongst horror movies.Need a tissue? YOU GOT ROMANCE!YOU GOT ACTION!
I hope you Marvel at your results!COMEDY IT IS!
50% Rom-Com/50% Spit Ball to be precise!YOU GOT MUSICALS!
Have you seen Singin' In The Rain?So YOU'RE the one always laughing at horror movies!
Cool fact: "the virgin never dies" is a common theme amongst horror movies.Need a tissue? YOU GOT ROMANCE!YOU GOT ACTION!
I hope you Marvel at your results!COMEDY IT IS!
50% Rom-Com/50% Spit Ball to be precise!YOU GOT MUSICALS!
Have you seen Singin' In The Rain?So YOU'RE the one always laughing at horror movies!
Cool fact: "the virgin never dies" is a common theme amongst horror movies.Need a tissue? YOU GOT ROMANCE!YOU GOT ACTION!
I hope you Marvel at your results!COMEDY IT IS!
50% Rom-Com/50% Spit Ball to be precise!YOU GOT MUSICALS!
Have you seen Singin' In The Rain?So YOU'RE the one always laughing at horror movies!
Cool fact: "the virgin never dies" is a common theme amongst horror movies.My Personal Reflection
I've grown up in the Mennonite community. A community I love and hold closely to my heart. A community that values peace, restoritive justice, faith based education, and community service. But it's not all perfect. I've never met a female pastor or a female speaking leader in the church. Rooted in our history lies the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Eve: the root of evil, cursed by temptation, setting the framework for all women to come. "Women must submit to their husbands." At the foundation of my faith lies repentence and forgiveness. I stride to be someone who is quick to forgive. But perpetuating out of this foundation is a lack of space for conversation about sexual abuse. How am I to be able to turn to God and spiritual leaders to cope if there is no societal push, no language and no Christian framework standing to support me. The recent cultural movements like #METOO and #TIMESUP have created an awareness, a need for service (ex MEDA - Mennonite Economic Development Associates) and a language that has given permission for discussion.
The following article was recently published in the Canadian Mennonite Magazine. Something I once considered unfathomable - proving the power of the internet, social media and media itself.
https://www.canadianmennonite.org/stories/decades-old-sexual-abuse-comes-light