Final Mime Solo Performance

I think that my background fit with my theme because there was water in which I was swimming and paddling in as well as a platform which I was walking on. There was also a tower in the background which I rang a bell in. The music also gave the affect that something was wrong, I might of been able to choose some music that's a little more adventurous but I felt like it still fit the theme. My costume was just regular clothes so next time I could instead wear completely black clothes to show that something dark is lurking and it's not a regular day. My editing is probably something that I would change the most because I had to perform twice. The first time, I hadn't put the music in imovie so iTunes only gave me a preview of the music, therefore I got cut off and didn't have time to perform one of my illusions. Luckily, I performed again where the music worked perfectly as well as the background and I didn't get cut off at all.

My performance basically started out with me begging for mercy because someone was threatening me. I noticed a lake and decided to jump in it and swim away to get to safety, away from the threat. I swam until I reached a boat which I climbed onto. I kayaked to shore where I walked in place, looking around in awe at a new world which was unknown to me. After walking in place for a while, I heard something that sounded like the person who might of been threatening me in the beginning. So, I looked around helplessly till I saw a ladder leading up a tower. I climbed up the ladder where at the top of the ladder on the tower, I shouted for help. I rang the bell to attract attention to any friends who could help me but no one came. The people threatening me heard the bell and came to the platform I was standing on. Therefore, I kneeled and begged for mercy, ending my scene with me crouching on the ground begging, in a similar manner to how I started my scene. Hence, the five illusions I used were swimming, kayaking, walking in place, climbing a ladder and ringing a bell.

I think that this showcased a pretty good level of my mime skills but there are definitely some things that I would change if I redid this performance. Firstly, for the things that I did well, I think that I had good focus throughout this performance as I didn't look at the camera or audience and looked at my illusions as I performed. I also think that I had a good fixed point because I my hands mostly kept the illusions like when I was kayaking or climbing the ladder, my hands were in the same place and my hands were curved like I was holding a round object(rungs and paddles). As for my size, the size of my objects didn't really change throughout my performance but when I was reaching the top of the ladder to enter the platform, the top rung became lower as my foot went over the rung the second time. Therefore, showing that the size of the ladder has decreased because the height of the ladder has become lower. I could have done a better job with my clic by doing my clic at a slower speed to actually symbolise that there is an object there and not just jump into the action. I could've also made my clic firmer to show the weight and size of the object. Out of all of the criteria of the performance, I would've changed two things the most. First, I would fix my illusions as I broke some of them. When I was entering the boat, my foot went through the boat same goes for when I was reaching the platform at the top of the ladder. Second, I would fix my weight. I didn't show much and barely any weight in this performance. I only showed some weight with ringing the bell as I lifted my feet off the ground showing how light it was. I didn't show any heavy weight like paddling or any exertion when climbing the ladder which I could've used to make the story more interesting. 

Fitness Blast Reflection Quarter 3

Quarter THREE

1. Which area of fitness seems to be your biggest strength?

Flexibility ___   Strength and Endurance ____  Balance ____           

Core  _☺_  Coordination ___   Agility____   Speed and Power_____

2. Which area would you most like to improve in?

Flexibility _☺_   Strength and Endurance ____  Balance ____           

Core  ____  Coordination ___   Agility____   Speed and Power_____

3. Which area would you most like to improve in?

List 3 activities you can use to improve that area of fitness.

1) Bend down as far as I can go with my legs together straight.

2) Bend down and reach as far as I can go with my legs separated from each other.

3)Do the butterfly stretch

Solving Climate Change

Picking a Handphone Plan

Assignment:

You are a representative for a handphone company and it is your job to promote different phone plans to your customers.

• Plan A costs a basic fee of $29.95 per month and 10 cents per text message

• Plan B costs a basic fee of $90.20 per month and has unlimited text messages

• Plan C costs a basic fee of $49.95 per month and 5 cents per text message
  
• All plans offer unlimited calling
• Calling on nights and weekends are free
• Long distance calls are included
  

1. Write an equation to represent each the cost of each plan, C, based on the number of text messages, n.

2. Determine the cost of each plan if you send 500 text messages in one month.  Show your supporting work.
   
3. Your boss asks you to visually display three plans and compare them so you can point out the advantages of each plan to your customers.
• Create and post a visual image/display...graph, table, etc
  
4. A new customer wants to know how to decide which plan will be the best deal. Determine which plan has the lowest cost given the number of text messages a customer is likely to send. Explain your process and reasoning to support your decision-making process. Use math calculations to show your process and words to describe your reasoning.

Answers:

A)

Plan A: c=29.95 + 0.10n

Plan B: c=90.20 + 0n

Plan C: c=49.95 + 0.05n

B)

Plan A: c=29.95 + 0.10n

c=29.95 + 0.10(500)

c=29.95 + 50

c=79.95

It would cost 79.95 dollars if you sent 500 text messages in 1 month and used plan A.

Plan B: c=90.20

c=90.20 + 0(500)

c=90.20

There is an unlimited amount of text messages so it would cost 90.20 dollars no matter how many text messages you sent in a month(even if you sent 500 messages, the price would remain the same), if you used plan B.

Plan C: c=49.95 + 0.05n

c=49.95 + 0.05(500)

c=49.95 + 25

c=74.95

It would cost 74.95 dollars if you sent 500 text messages in 1 month and used plan C.

C)

Purple: Plan A

Blue: Plan C

Red: Plan B

D)

Avg. number of texts sent in a month: 600 messages

Plan A: c=29.95 + 0.10n

c=29.95 + 0.10(600)

c=29.95 + 60

c=89.95

Plan B:

c=90.20 + 0n

c=90.20 + 0(600)

c=90.20

Plan C: c=49.95 + 0.05n

c=49.95 + 0.05(600)

c=49.95 + 30

c=79.95

The average number of texts sent in a day is around 20 text messages and since there is approximately 30 days in a month, 20 multiplied by 30 equals to 600, meaning that a person is most likely to send around 600 messages in one month.

Using equations I found out that Plan C was the best deal. For plan A, the equation is c=29.95 + 0.10n which means that you start with paying 29.95 dollars plus an additional 10 cents for every message sent. If you send 600 messages, 29.95 added to 600 times 0.10 equals to 89.95 which means that the customer will have to pay 89.95 dollars if they were to send 600 messages in a month using Plan A. For Plan B, you have an unlimited amount of messages you can send and the cost will still be the same. The equation for this is c=90.20+0n, therefore, if you send 600 messages but pay a starter fee of 90.20 dollars, your final cost will be 90.20 dollars. So, we already know that Plan B is worst than Plan A and is therefore not the best deal. Lastly, for Plan C, the equation is c=49.95 + 0.50n because you have to pay a starter fee of 49.95 plus ad additional 50 cents for every text message. Thus, if you pay 49.95 plus 0.05 times 600, you will pay 79.95 dollars. If you message 600 texts in one month and use Plan A, the cost will be 89.95 dollars, if you use Plan B, the cost will be 90.20 dollars, and if you use Plan C, the cost will be 79.95 dollars, concluding that Plan C is the best deal.

I also used a graph to support my reasoning and make sure that Plan C was the best deal. You can look at the graph above, but below is the same graph but a zoomed in version so that we can clearly see which plan was the best deal. From the graph below, we can see that at 600 text messages(is circled), the blue line has the best deal because it is lowest, meaning that the price is lower. The blue line represents plan C, you can check the pricing and colouring from the graph above as well. We, then see that the purple line is the second best deal which is Plan A. Lastly, we can see that the plan that is the highest and has the highest cost, is Plan B which is the worst deal. Therefore, Plan C has the best deal. (To see better, the red dots represent the point the line is at when 600 text messages have been sent. The 600 represents the messages because messages is independent variable and cost is dependant, so messages is on x-axis and cost is on the y-axis).

Zoomed in version of graph:

Tavishi's Mime Box Rubric

	Below Expectations	Approaching Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
Click on the wall	Hands on the wall are not flat. There is no sign of clic. Wall seems mushy and not at a fixed point. Eyes are not following the moving hand.	Hands are flat, but little sign of clic. Wall is generally in fixed point.	Hands are flat. There is some sign of the clic (touch with hands soft, then pushing to flat position without pushing wall forward.) Eyes follow moving hand.	The mime has successfully created and maintained the illusion of the wall. Hands are flat. The clic is always present. Eyes follow the moving hand.
Following directions	Actor has forgotten you must either start outside structure and end inside or vice versa. They are touching less than 4 walls.	Actor either forgets to touch 4 walls or starts outside box and ends outside box.	Actor starts in or outside box and ends in the opposite. They touch 4 walls and meet expectations.	Actor starts in or outside box and ends in the opposite. They touch 4 walls and meet expectations. Their location is creative and their entrance or exit is very clear and understandable to an audience.
Facial Expression	Facial expressions are not exaggerated at all.	Some emphasis on facial expression.	Facial expressions are used to tell the story.	Facial expressions are comical and super amusing. Clearly exaggerated.
Fixed Point	The wall is not flat and is a bit mushy. When actor moves the wall it breaks the illusion.  The room/box size is not consistent.	Most of the time the fixed point is believable and the illusion is only broken in a few places.  The room/box size is not always consistent.	The fixed point is realistic and actor almost never breaks the illusion. The room/box size is generally consistent.	The walls are totally realistic. Actor works hard to maintain the illusion. The room/box size is consistent.
Focus	The actor moves their hands without moving their head/eyes first. The actor looks at audience and does not keep eyes on illusion.	The actor sometimes moves their eyes/head before their hands. They generally keep their eye on the mimed object to keep it alive.	Actor uses their eyes to effectively make the wall illusion look real. They sometimes break the illusion by not keeping their eyes on the object.	Actor effectively uses their eyes to keep the illusion alive.

Tavishi's Wall Reflection

In drama class, we have been perfecting the infamous wall during our mime unit. We have all seen the wall being mimed countless times and we decided that we wanted to try it for ourselves! This was the first time we were miming the wall in front of our classmates. Since, we hadn't done the wall before, we used tape as the place where the wall should be. The video above is a video of me trying to mime the wall using routine pre-prepared!

In this routine, I think that something I did well was that I had a fixed point and didn't usually have one hand too in front or too behind. My hands were normally at equal length on the wall. I also believe that I had a good click but my palms stuck out a bit and were not entirely flat. When, I got over the wall, both of my legs made it over and I mostly maintained the shape of the wall until the very end. Lastly, at the end, I didn't look at the camera and stopped.

In this routine, I also had a lot of things that I needed to work on. When, I came into the wall, I banged too early and looked too prepared as though I knew that there already was a wall. When pulling the wall down, my arms trembled realistically but I pulled down too quickly, I should've pulled down slower to make the wall seem heavier. I also should have put more weight on one hand when changing my grip as I pulled down the wall. Luckily, I did not have a prop and so there were no disappearing props during this routine.

Frozen

1. What part of this group project are you really proud of?

I am proud of our levels because I think that in almost every scene we had different levels as well as our suggest movement because we had a lot of action which made our tableau interesting.

2. What do you think your group could or should have done differently?

I think that we could've improved our lighting by using less circles and having more face light, this would've helped the audience see our facial expressions much better.

3. What could you personally have done to help improve your group's final project?

I could've helped Eleanor test out the lights by seeing if we could come in break or lunch just to see the lights as this would have helped improved our tableau a lot!

4. Was your group mark score higher or lower than what you gave yourself? Did this surprise you?

It was slightly higher as I gave myself 11 and my average was an 11.6. This surprised me because I didn't really help everyone that much in the beginning but towards the middle and at the end, I helped Serena a lot and helped everyone stay on task but I didn't do anything very noticeable so it was surprising that they saw how I had helped Serena with proof reading and captions.

5. What does this teach you about how you are perceived(seen) within a working group?
It taught me that I am seen as quite hard working and that I do stay on task. It also taught me that the small actions I do are noticed and that this affected how I was seen.