Final Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvyFMi8xlo

Above is my final project link.

Had I more time/resources, I would have spent more time on details in my film. In details, I mean adding different sound effects and things like that to make my project a little more "cute." I also wish that our project could have been a little bit longer. Going off my original script, my video was soooo long. But I mean, I guess that's good because I had a lot of information. However, I had to cut out a lot of information, but I still did my best in conveying my trip and museum trips. The other problem I ran into was that we couldn't take pictures in some of the museums, so it was difficult when I tried to talk about some of the things but had no pictures or videos from them.

Anywho, I hope you like my final video! I am actually kinda impressed that I managed to figure out iMovie, considering I had noooooo idea how it worked two weeks ago. (Please also keep in mind that film making is not my strong suit by any means, so I hope you look more at the content than you do my actual video editing skills, because they're very poor!!!)

Coming Of Age As A Global Citizen

Our travels in London have come to a close. *cue tears*
Throughout our time here, I have been to so many museums and seen so many amazing things that have taught me soooooo much. During our final week, we discussed The Buddha of Suburbia, and visited museums that supported our theme for this week, which is "Coming of age as a global citizen." To begin, we traveled to the Museum of London, Victoria and Albert Museum, and lastly to the famous London Eye.

Taken at the Museum of London, I decided to add this picture of an airplane because it represents the beginning of the migration of people of other races and background to London. Karim's father, for instance, was originally from India. While his father, or "God" may have arrived in Europe through different means of transportation, the beginning of commercial travel also acted as the beginning of London's multiculturalism.

Taken at the Museum of London, this informative picture shows the end of World War II in 1945. As our prompt had us discuss, we analyzed all of the many events and changes that took place following WWII in London. Many of those changes related to young people and multiculturalism.

This photograph of Vivien Leigh in the V&A Museum directly relates to Karim in The Buddha of Suburbia. While the two actors have many similarities, the biggest one I noticed was their heritage. Vivien was born in India, and educated in England, just like Karim.

I made a point of snapping a picture of this caption because it made me think of Karim and all of his crazy costumes. In particular, his Mowgli costume for his role in The Jungle Book. Karim was painted in black mud, and forced to wear itty-bitty bottoms. But as they say... That's show business!

I captured this photo because it talks about how many actors were stereotyped in their careers. Karim, for instance, had to speak in an Indian accent and be painted in brown mud. In The Producers, the showgirls were dressed as sausages, beer and pretzels- All of which are stereotypes of German culture. 

I couldn't think of a better way to end our 5 week journey through London!!! Being my first time in London, it was obviously my first time on the London Eye. It was such a neat experience, and awesome way to see the city. 

Coming Of Age As A Writer

In this painting, located in the Florence Nightingale Museum, is Florence and older sister Parthenope. While the two had slightly different personalities, they were extremely close. Florence and Parthenope remind me of Briony and Cecilia, except for the fact that Parthenope's lover isn't sent away to prison for a crime he didn't commit..... 

One of my favorite museums thus far: The Imperial War Museum. Being able to see many of the artifacts from war was amazing, and really is mind blowing seeing it all in person. Atonement was set during World War II, so I was able to make a lot of connections between the novel and this museum. 

Taken at the Florence Nightingale Museum, here lies Florence's best selling book: Notes On Nursing. Similar to Briony, Florence herself (obviously) wrote Atonement, and it too is a best selling book. Florence and Briony are extremely similar in many ways. They both are the youngest, very organized, grow up to become nurses, and as shown above, have some seriously rad writing skills. 

As we discussed in our prompt on the day we attended the Imperial War Museum, many of the children were forced to grow up at a young age. And as we can all clearly see in the painting above, it was a really, really, really young age for some. The 1942 painting, done by Elsie Harwood depicts children getting ready for nursery school. They appear to be taking off their own clothes and putting on their uniform for another busy day. As written under the painting, "Total war changed the lives of even the youngest members of society." 

And one last picture of my favorite area of London, because I love this city and will miss it oh so dearly. We walked over to this area overlooking Parliament and Big Ben, and were able to score some great views and pictures along the way. Inside the Florence Nightingale Museum, I remember seeing actual photographs of men in their hospital beds, with this exact view in their background. 

                                                          Coming of Age As A Traveler

Ahh, the London Eye. My personal favorite spot in London. I manage to make a walk here everyday, and enjoy the beautiful view while I am here!

London From Greenwhich Park

In this painting, the main focus is nature. In this high painting, the grass and sky adage to take up most of it. Lucy also greatly appreciates nature. 

Venus and Mars, Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) 

In this painting of Venus and Mars, they have just been intimate. In the painting, Mars was "vanquished" by Venus, and in the novel, George is "vanquished" by Lucy when she is very stand offish following their kiss. 

Rome from the Vatican 

The focal point of this painting is the artist selling his work. Similar to Lucy, Turner too has the same views on seeing the world. This painting claims that it was painted on the way home, so everything that we see in tis painting is just in "hindsight."

Venus and Mars, by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)

Although this is the same painting, I am taking a different approach at it. Venus is the God of love and beauty, while Mars is the God of war. In the painting, Venus is covered, whereas Mars is (almost) in the nude. Similarly, Lucy has not quite exposed her femininity and can somewhat be thought of as "covered" or "sheltered."

Coming of Age as a Thinker and Skeptic

This stunningly beautiful stained glass window at Eltham Palace represents Catholicism, as stained glass something that one would find in most Catholic churches, and being a Catholic myself- I can vouch for that. This stained glass represents the same stained glass in the novel Brideshead Revisited, and symbolizes Lady Marchmain's (and inevitably her family's) unbreakable Catholic faith. 

Besides being my favorite "visit" this week, this fountain at Oxford is also a representation of the fountain at Brideshead, that played many roles in the novel. It represents many things; Holy-ness and rebirth playing as two very important connections made to the fountain. 

This chapel at Eltham Palace represents the same chapel at Brideshead. Similar to Eltham Palace, the Marchmain's also had a chapel connected to their home- one that was frequently used.

This picture is meant to represent the stunning "baroque" architecture at Hampton Court Palace. While Hampton Court Palace had both baroque and tudor architecture, this picture in particular represents a more baroque part. As we learned during class, baroque, in England, more so represents Catholicism "cleaning up it's act." Baroque architecture is very easy to point out, especially because it typically is very clean and symmetric.

Oxford campus was absolutely stunning... This picture- although only being one angle of the campus- doesn't even do it justice. I sincerely enjoyed our tour, and really felt like I learned a lot from our tour guide, and just being able to walk around and explore on our own. Our tour guide showed us many different areas of Oxford, and I remember one area in particular where she said that the students will typically hang out. I also remember her pointing out an area (as shown in the picture above) that she said students are not permitted to be in, as it is only for staff. I could picture Sebastian and Charles hanging out in an area like that, just because they always seemed to be breaking rules and causing mischief, (especially Sebastian... ;)

                              Coming of Age As A Worker 

This BREATHTAKING image was taken in the garden just outside of the Geffrye Museum.

A photo of a woman speaking to orphan children, taken at the Foundling Museum. 

The individual tokens, each belonging to a different child. Taken at the Foundling Museum.

This colorful art piece was planted in the center of the Tate Britain Museum.

As shown in the description, The Court Room was a place where meetings were held in the Foundling Hospital. 

Greetings from Dallas, Texas! This place I call home will soon be thousands of miles away as I take a big leap over the pond, all the way to London, England. 

Within these short nineteen years of my life, I've been able to travel to some pretty amazing places; A trend that I most definitely want to continue. 

Some favorite destinations being...

Los Angeles, CA

Miami, FL

Cologne, Germany 

San Francisco, CA

Normandy, France

Chicago, IL

And most importantly, my favorite place in the entire world, and the place I hope to soon call home, New York City. 

Traveling is such an important part of my life, and something that I sincerely hope that I'm able to do a lot of in the future.

I'd say I've had a pretty normal life thus far. I grew up in a family of 5

                                                             Graduated high school,

And now attend a pretty freaking awesome University

I have extremely high hopes for this trip to London. Having just come back from a May-mester through TCU that I now claim as being the best trip I've ever been on, I am so unbelievably excited for this trip to London and hope to have just as much fun, make as many lifelong friends, and go on SO many adventures. 

Definitely one of the better nights of my life... This is some of the class. On a rooftop. In New York City. With the most incredible people you'll ever meet. 

Because of my intense love for fashion, naturally I had to pose at the MET with all the couture books... Right?

Can we just talk about this?!?! The only thing that would make this better is if I actually worked there.... #goals

In just 19 short days, I'll finally be in London!!!!! I can't express how excited I am for this new adventure, and can't wait to see everybody there!