Evaluation of the project

Romeo & Juliet was a project that I really enjoyed doing this year, it was so much fun rehearsing and perform it together on the 8th of June. The fact that I got to do two things was really great. First of all I got to do the music and sound effects and that was so much fun and second I was a priest with only three lines. It would have been more awesome if I had gotten a role with some more lines but I'm not complaining because I had a great time! The last dress rehearsal took a very long time for everyone to finish and I was really afraid after that we would really fail because it didn't went so well, but the play actually went very well in the evening. That really surprised me. Even though Romy fell behind the curtains and a lot of people forgot their lines I think most people in the audience liked it.

Comment on translating Act 1 Scene 1

Marielle and me both translated Act 1 scene 1. It seemed a lot of fun to us if we would create some sort of gangster version from the ghetto. Because we didn't understand every sentence of this part we used NoFearShakespeare to take a look at the modern version, we didn't copy it directly.

During the cancelled periods Marielle and I worked a lot on this translation. I brought my laptop so we could work on it.

We kept the ‘naked weapon’ joke because it was a pervy joke and an important quote. Boys are often more sexually in making remarks, and Sampson made this remark. The “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?” we changed into “Do you give us the finger?”. Many people do not know about biting the thumb as an insult to another person, this is why we changed it to giving the finger.

To use ‘modern’ insulting words, the play became more from nowadays.
The fragment of Romeo and Benvolio is a pretty important one, Romeo tells about his love for Rosaline. This is one of the most important events in the beginning, it comes back later during the play. To keep this part clear and everyone is able to understand it, we did not use too much ghetto words. The point Romeo tries to make is very clear.

Because of the fact that our play did not have many different events, it is not really interesting to get into every detail. The scene is pretty important because basically it's the first scene of the entire play, this scene needs to set everything and make sure everyone understands the problem in the beginning with the two households.

40-line analysis of Romeo & Juliet

Act 2 Scene 2 - pg. 10 to 53

I chose to analyse a part of the balcony scene because it’s so romantic and full of metaphors and other stylistic devices. The fragment starts with juliet talking to herself and romeo is listening but she doesn’t know that. Romeo is speaking about his love for Juliet, he says: 

‘It is my lady, O it is my love. O that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? Her eye discourses, I will answer it. I am too bold, ‘tis not to me she speaks.’

Romeo sees Juliet appear on the balcony and he’s saying that he wished she knew how much he loved her and her eyes are so pretty and then he continues with the following: 

‘Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes. To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,’

‘As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven. Would through the airy region stream so bright. That birds would sing and think it were not night. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!’ 

If Juliet’s eyes were in the sky at night they would shine so bright that birds would start singing. Romeo’s expressing his love by saying her eyes are so pretty and bright. He’s also saying he wished that he was the glove around Juliet’s hand so he could touch her. There’s also rhyme in these lines, bright and night.

‘O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art. As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven. Unto the white, upturned, wondering eyes. Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him. When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds. And sails upon the bosom of the air.’

Romeo continues speaking to himself about how Juliet is as bright as an angel and how she shines.

‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Of, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love. And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.’

Juliet still doesn’t know Romeo hears her and she’s saying and asking herself why Romeo has to be Romeo. She wishes he forgets about his family and his name and change his name or else she will stop being a Capulet so he doesn’t change his name. Romeo starts talking again:

‘Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this.’

He’s wondering if he should start saying something to Juliet or just keep his mouth shut. Then Juliet starts saying:

‘This but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes. Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for that name, which is no part of thee. Take all myself.’

Juliet keeps talking about how she wishes Romeo had a different family because only his name was her enemy. A Montague is not a foot, arm or face anyway, just a name. She’s saying: Romeo trade in your name and take all of me in exchange! There’s just a little rhyme in these sentences, rose and owes rhymes a little and there’s also some alliteration here: That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet.

The relationship between the two characters in this fragment is very obvious, they really love each other but it’s just impossible. In this scene both of them find out about the other how much they love each other which before they didn’t know for sure. They sure kissed but they didn’t realise the other one was so intensely in love. The tone is also very romantic of course, people imagine them in a garden with beautiful background music and romance. Shakespeare creates this tone with desperate sentences, for example when Juliet keeps saying why Romeo has to be a Montague and Shakespeare also lets Romeo say things like: she’s so bright as an angel and she’s so lovely and her eyes are pretty and that he wishes to touch her. 

Advertising Checklist

Audience: Teenagers
Topic: Cellphones
Theme: Music
Informative.

Propaganda techniques: A slogan is used in this ad (Express your musical side) and the logo of Samsung is used in the right corner.

Language use: There's no text besides the slogan.

Graphics: The graphics are really cool, all those cellphones on top of each other, I like it :). The blue colour is pretty cool because the colour  behind the cellphones is lightened up so it stands out a lot.

Also the cellphones have different colour like green, purple red which is really colourful.

Analysis of Toyota advertisement

This is an ad published by Toyota. There are bright colours used in this ad and the child is laying in a pink plant in a fetal position. This is probably done to describe that the child is feeling very safe. The text zero emissions immediately stands out because the colour is white and the background kind of pink and blue. 'Aim' is coloured red so that doesn't stand out much.

Analysis of the poem "Dulce et Decorum est"

"Dulce et Decorum est" is a poem writtern by Wilfred Owen in the first World War.

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, 

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4) 
Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(9) . . .
Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12) 
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13) 
To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.(15)"

The poem is a description of a battle in the war, it's sad and very inspiring because it's written in a way you really experience everything. The writer talks about froth-corrupted lungs and a man who is choking an drowning because of a gas explosion. Rhyme is a stylistic device used in this poem, the rhyme scheme is abab and this doesn't change. I couldn't find a really good alliteration sentence in this poem, however a sentence like 'his hanging face' can be alliteration. The writer does use a lot of similes. 'Obscene as cancer', 'bitter as the cud', 'like a devil's sick of sin', and these are only a few examples. I think he uses these to exaggerate a little.


I think the poem is very inspiring. It's sad and when you read it it feels like you experience it yourself. I find it hard to analyse the poem because to me it's just a description of a battle, but I found some similes and a rhyme scheme so that's good I guess.

Advertisements: target audience?

 




































Heineken commercials are obviously targeted to men (age 16 - 70). Although I don't agree because beer is not a drink only men drink.

McDonalds advertisements are targeted to children but also for grown-ups who like fastfood I think. I also think this ad is a little more targeted to grown up people and teenagers than little kids. There's nothing in the ad little kids would like except the colours and the big M.

I really like this ad personally. It's very obvious what it's about: a very sharp knife. Probably targeted to housewives/men and people who cook.

This advertisement is about snickers, a type of candy. There's 50 % more in a snicker bar now. Target audience: teenagers, grown-ups. There's a young guy with a really funny head and he's very happy with the 50% extra.

This guy has been trying to fix a rubix cube for a very long time now. The ad is very funny. For all sorts of people except very small kids because they won't understand it but everyone knows a rubix cube so they'll find it funny.

Source: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/70-creative-advertisements-that-makes-you-look-twice/2/