I havent really had time to do anything on my project. I had to return my books to the library too so i will need to get some more. I watched some movies but didn't really critique them. I will be watching Bleak House (based on the book by Charles Dickens... BBC production) for the second time sometime soon maybe and i plan to critique that.

Continued my research. I watched some movies but im not really ready to critique them yet. But i have some general comments. I watched the last part of the seventh harry potter movie and it was horrible! I mean, it was really fun to make fun of but it was not very well made at all! The whole movie was wayyy too high-strung, which i kind of get because its the last movie so they have to make it really dramatic, but still. It was like watching a two hour climax! They didnt inculde any low intensity moments in the movie at all so when it got to the "exciting part" it wasn't contrasted at all with the rest of the movie because the whole movie was like that. The music was always really dramatic too. There were some cool special effects though.

Goal Update

I haven't watched any movies yet but i have taken some more notes and will continue my research. My parents have limited me to no more than two movies per week which should be about right because even the Hollywood movie critics only write reviews for one movie a week.

A Discovery

Okay so my project has turned out to be more complicated than I thought! Over the weekend, i was watching this movie and i tried to write a review for it. I found out that i know absolutely nothing about writing reviews for movies! So this has actually turned into a kind of research project. I went to the Bucknell Library and checked out a ton of books on film studies and now im reading them and taking notes on them. I also decided that when i write reviews it would be a good thing to do some research on the movie and find out stuff about its production, the actors in it, and the director. So im not going to be watching as many movies as i thought!

Decided

I have decided to watch movies for my goal and write reviews for them. I will post these reviews on my blog so that everyone can look at them. I don't know if anyone will want to watch the movies that i watch because i love old movies but maybe someone will. So that is my goal for this year. I will probably do this for the first semester but if i am enjoying it then i will do it for the whole year.

Undecided

i don't know what i'm going to do for my project yet but i'm kind of hooked on doing something movie related. I don't want to make a movie, this would be more in the watching movies field. i will try to come up with something for next time.

Update

My sister has started the second generation of plants and I will try to post what the results are, but I'm pretty much done with the whole biology project goal thing since I will be participating in the stock market game during my enrichment periods instead.

Goal Update

Okay, so my sister has started the cross-pollinating with the bee sticks. We are doing this experiment to try and figure out which dominent traits will prevail after the cross-pollination. Ex: leaf shape, stem color, etc.

Goal Update

My sister planted her fast plants and pretty soon we will be cross-pollinating them. This will be achieved by using bee sticks- dead bees (they came with the kit) on toothpicks. I'm not sure exactly what we're supposed to be experimenting with or what the finish ed product is supposed to be, but I'll find out.