Amalia Reyes- Writer

Final

Here it is (the links to everything are inside)

Name: Amalia Reyes

Deadline:

Type of Review: Movie

Name of Event/Item to be Reviewed: Speed Racer

Date and Time I Will See this Event/Item: Aventura Mall, Saturday

Place where Review Will Occur: Aventura Mall

Some Facts I Know about the Event /Item to be Reviewed Include:

The original was from Japan in the 60’s

The characters and storylines originated in Japan as the manga and anime series Mach GoGoGo, from the anime studio Tatsunoko Productions.

Mach GoGoGo was first created and designed by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida (1932–1977) as a manga series in the 1960s and made the jump to TV as an anime series in 1967. The central character in the anime and manga was a young race car driver named Gō Mifune (Mifune Gō). Yoshida selected the names and symbolism in his creation very carefully. The large red M on the hood of the Mach 5, which in North America was assumed to stand for “Mach 5,” is actually the emblem of Mifune Motors, the family business. That is also the origin of the “M” on Gō’s helmet. This was an homage to Japanese film star Toshiro Mifune. His given name, Gō, is also a Japanese homophone for the number 5 (the number on his race car). This is also represented by the yellow letter G embroidered on his short-sleeve blue shirt.

The name of the series, Mach GoGoGo is actually a triple entendre: as mentioned, it stands for the number 5, i.e. it is the name of the car, the Mach 5; it is the name of the main character; and it contains the English word “go.” Taken together, the program’s title thus translates as, “Mach 5, Gō Mifune, Go!” The names themselves constitute a multi-lingual wordplay of the kind that had started to become part of the Japanese popular culture of the time.

Speed Racer was one of the first truly successful anime franchises in the United States. The pivotal episode in which Racer X reveals his identity to Speed (”The Trick Race”) was selected by TV Guide as one of the most memorable moments in TV history.

Speed Racer is a 2008 film that is a live action film adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series Speed Racer. The film is written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, who also serve as co-producers. The film has been in development since 1992, changing writers and directors until producer Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers collaborated to begin production on Speed Racer as a family film. Actor Emile Hirsch was cast as Speed, the hero of the animated series, and Christina Ricci portrays Speed’s girlfriend, Trixie. Speed Racer was shot between June and November 2007 in Potsdam and Berlin, Germany at an estimated budget of $100,000,000.[2] Speed Racer premiered on May 3, 2008 as the closing film at the Tribeca Film Festival,[3] and was released on May 9, 2008.

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $20,510,200 in 3,606 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking second at the box office between Iron Man (in its second weekend) and What Happens in Vegas…. In its second weekend, the film grossed $7.6 million and ranked #4 at the box office. It may take another beating regarding anticipation for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull .[59] The results were well below studio expectations, given that production costs of Speed Racer are estimated to be well over $100 million USD.[60]. Despite the low box office numbers, Warner Brothers remains optimistic about sales of associated products ranging from toys to tennis shoes. “We’re still going to do very well with Speed Racer,” says Brad Globe, president of Warner Brothers Consumer Products, acknowledging “a giant movie would have made it all a lot bigger.”

Some Expectations, Opinions or ‘Buzz’ I’ve Heard about the Event/Item to be Reviewed Include:

I heard that it was WAY too bright. The last race was unintelligible because of the flashing lights. I also heard that there were too many effects that would have pleased children.

Five Things People Who Will Read My Article Will Want to Know about this Event/Item Include:

Was it good?

Should I see it?

Was it too childish?

What was it about?

Was it like the original? (which SUCKED)

Sorry, the link weren’t working

Reflection

Final Draft

First Draft

Research

Planner

First Sweeney Draft

Thar you go

My printer is being stupid, so I might not have the paper copy tomorrow morning. I’ll put it on a flash drive and see if there is a class that I can print all of these things in. Thank you for the patience.

Here it is (there’s a problem with the uploading)

Reflection

This was a pretty stressful assignment and I’m not completely satisfied with the results. Of course, some, not all, of the blame kind of goes to the treasurer, but you can’t really blame her for having inconvenient hours. It was sort of my fault for not thinking of e-mailing her earlier and not being a bit more independent. I really have to thank Mr.Weiss for being so patient with my constant extensions, which is why I feel horrible for having this in late. I’ll explain the tardiness to you, I had two projects to do, on book to read, and two pages of math homework… so, I won’t lie, I completely forgot (even about the paper copy, I remembered just now). The irony of this is: all of those things were due Friday, not today, and so…yeah. This was a pretty easy piece to write, but it was hard to report. I had a lucky break when both Alessia and Vanessa had some debts to the school, and they had a pretty wide range. I was really shot down when I heard that all of the information was confidential… but I want to kick myself for not figuring that out before. The piece, I feel, came out pretty well considering all of the tough breaks. Although Margaret was absent pretty often, she was extremely helpful when she was in class and she was also very nice and patient. Although her comment about talking to Mr.Weiss and deciding that the end of the article was up to me still confuses me. Hopefully, the second round is less stressful and I can do better when writing about a play I love. I’m sorry that this is such a short reflection, but I have nothing but stress and writing to reflect on… which I just did :>

The Sweeney Todd play is on the 13th in Ft.Lauderdale. That’s the week of Final Drafts

The reflection will up up tonight. it is on my home computer…sorry

student-debts-final1

First Draft

Note and Quotes

Planner

There you go

Name: Amalia Reyes

Story: Senior Financial Obligations

Section: Features

Deadline:

People I need to talk to for quotes / information                              When?

1. Librarian                                                                                                          1. As soon as possible

2. Teachers                                                                                                         2.After the librarian

3. Students with high financial obligations                                             3. When the lists go up

Angle:  What unique information will the reader get from this story that he or she wouldn’t get from a straight news story?

This will cover the students with the highest financial obligations and how they owe that much money to the school, also we would get the interesting stories (if there are any).

Six initial questions I’ll ask:

Who?  Who owes the most money to the library? Whose account is most memorable? What excuses have you heard for lost books? (Librarian)

What?  In what subject do you owe the most money? What happened to make you owe so much money? What interesting stories do you have, if any, about lost books or such? (Student)

When?  When did you amass all of these debts? When are you planning on paying back the debts? (Student) When were there the highest debts that you remember? (librarian)

Why? Why did you let this get so high? (Student)

How? How are you going to pay these debts back? How long will it probably take you to pay all of this back? How much do you owe? How did you get this debt? (Student)

Other questions I’ll need to ask:

Are you able to pay this?

(see title) is in the tacklebox, all nice and crisp for grading, Since the documents are all splattered on different computers, I had no time to look for them all