Debt! And How to Get Out of It- 1st Period- Class #4

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As far as Lily was concerned, it was just another week. And really, given the initial reaction to Evelyn the cockamouse, this was how everyone should prefer her: nice and in the dark.

"So the last couple weeks we've been racking up debt," she said. "This week we're going to start on how to solve it. And the first step, when you've finally begun to realize how far you are in the hole, is to start coming up with ways to pay it off. Yes, after you've told the bill collectors to go away. That's how it works.

"What I want you to do today is come up with a list of ways to raise money. Are there jobs you could take? Can you sell anything? Be as specific as you want, since that's really the fun part, and then after you're done we'll read them aloud, so as specific as you are, remember you have to share with the class."

[YES IT'S LAME. IT'S BEEN A MORNING.]

Photography [Week Four]

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Veronica was not completely focused today. Probably because she was really wishing she was in LA right now. Piper had called her yesterday to tell her about Angel but convinced her that there was no need for her to rush home and promised to keep her in the loop.

"Welcome back," she said, once her students arrived. "I've got some feedback for all of you about your photos from last week. I'll pass that out and then we'll hit the dark room to develop your photos for this week."

After the photos were developed, Veronica asked them each to display their best one and explain why they felt it conveyed anger.

"For next week, I want you to take photos that portray anxiety. If you have questions, you can stop by my office on Thursday."

Film Through The Ages, Tuesday Period Three

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"Last week, we talked about Europe," Mitchell started without much of a preamble. "This week, we'll be discussing the country you're standing in. The Great War gave a massive economic impulse to American society, but we're not here to talk about that kind of history. What matters is that in the 1920s, American film started to flood the markets. The Roaring Twenties were all about the fast pace of life and the big film studios really started to live. Paramount, MGM, Universal, Fox, Warner Brothers, all of these studios came to integrate themselves. They built their own studios with artificial lighting and editing systems."

He made a few gestures. "They developed many new forms of cinematography, like this blurry kind of image they created by taping bits of gauze to the camera." He had to let go of a laugh at... something, over that one. "They changed the film stock, too, so the camera could capture all of the colours, not just purples, blues and greens - and turn them into different shades of grey. It doesn't sound like much right now, but trust me, audiences were excited about it." He'd know, yes.

"It was also the rise of some of the first true star directors," he said, "D. W. Griffith had started early, of course, but you also had people like Cecil B. De Mille, who did The Ten Commandments, and John Ford, who shot a lot of the first early westerns. Europeans flooded the American shores again as well, looking for a bit of luck on film, see if they got anywhere. One of these blokes was called Charlie Chaplin. Some of you might've heard of him." He glanced around the room. "He used to do musical halls in Britain," he continued, fondly, "Sort of a big thing. But not as big as he became once he started doing comedies. Then there was Ernst Lubitsch, who shot Madame Ducherie and The Commitment Cycle and so on. F.W. Murnau who did Sunup, bringing expressionist style into American film. It didn't bring in a lot of money, but it had an effect like most could only dream about."

He swung his legs up. "Finally, the 1920s in America brought us animation," he said, "The techniques had been invented in the 1910s, but they didn't quite get it right until then. Brought us the first Mewix the Cat films. The Mouse came to be in that period, too - as Disney produced Big Boat Millie, which would establish them as the big cartoon powerhouse to be reckoned with."

"Animation was a big process," he said, "One artist would draw the key frames, another would draw the tiny movements in between, and then there was a lot of other stuff going on. I'd like you all to pair up and try that."

Creative Writing [Tuesday, 5th Period]

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There had been an email to meet at the Danger Shop for today's class.

Rick, who looked remarkably like a child who'd had all his Christmases come at once, greeted each of them at the entrance with a red or blue sash. The Danger Shop for its part was a mess of darkened corridors, stairways, and open spaces. Smoke drifted close to the floors.

( Write what you know... )

[OOC: OCD up.]

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