Director’s Play Vision

Post has three assignments
1:Discuss your interpretation of the director’s ideas. How does your design advance the director’s vision of the play? How does your design, realistically and metaphorically (must clearly use and identify a metaphor), enhance the audience’s understanding of the play? Include any design ideas that were rejected by director.

Must include sketches/pictures/collages/visual aids. Must provide at least one piece of music (portable stereo/boombox-live music, etc…)

Sound and Lighting.
Presentation must discuss your interpretation of the director’s ideas. How does your design advance the director’s vision of the play? How does your design, realistically and metaphorically (must clearly use and identify a metaphor), enhance the audience’s understanding of the play? Include any design ideas that were rejected by director.

Must include sketches/pictures/collages/visual aids. Must provide at least one piece of music (portable stereo/boombox-live music, etc…)

2:Melodramatic and spectacle-centered Film

What to do: READ THE ASSIGNED TEXT FIRST, WATCH THE FILM AFTERWARDS. The English title of the film is: Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness. This a very different film style from previous ones, it is more melodramatic and spectacle-centered (music, dance, color). So be open to experience a different style.

Introduction: This week’s film is one of the biggest blockbusters of Indian film history and Bollywood (Bombay, the center of Indian film production + Hollywood). With this film you will have an exposure to the three major sites of film and image production in the world: Hollywood, Nollywood, and Bollywood.
The text by Ganti is the introduction to a book on Indian cinema entitled "Producing Bollywood" (16 pages) and centers on its globalization, which is also known as Bollywood cinema.
The text addresses a fact that is hard to see from Hollywood-centered, North-American culture: the importance and strength of Indian film in Asia, which in absolute terms surpasses that of Hollywood and, also, has a wide-world following in other countries such as Russia. Iran, and many Latin American countries. In short Bollywood represents a trans-national circuit that is hard to see and understand from the USA. The English-speaking Indian diaspora in the UK and the USA has further globalized and complicated the reach of Bollywood (and as you will see, this diaspora is represented centrally in the film).
The goal this week is to discuss another area of globalization, centered on the second most populous country after China, India, who is the most influential, culturally speaking, alongside South Korea and ahead of China. Although there are 6 separate film industries in India (which use different languages), the most central is located in Bombay and it is filmed in Hindi, the Indian language with most speakers (its relation with the language Urdu is an ongoing debate). Thus, the Hindi film tradition, is characterized by the production of very long film (sometimes over 4 hours), in which other forms of spectacle are incorporated (mainly music and dance). Therefore, in order to fully understand Bollywood cinema, it is best to approach it as spectacle, rather than film. In other words, Bollywood films are closer to long spectacles such as football or opera than to film, strictly speaking. Bring your friends, make some popcorn, take breaks, discuss the film as you watch it, sing along or dance, etc.
The pace is slower, the spectators take breaks and return to the film, and thus the action-packed 90 minute American film is not a good starting point to approach Hindi cinema. Keep in mind, that globally speaking, such a spectacle is closer to many cultures around the world than its Hollywood counterpart. Also notice that the new genre of Hollywood, the blockbuster film, tends to be longer and slower, and thus it resembles Hindi film.
As with films organized around the idea of the society of spectacle (Debord) and Baroque culture, you will see clear social polarization in the film. Anecdotally, the actor who plays the father in the film, Amitabh Bachchan, is the best known Indian actor and for a while also became the best known actor in the world, ahead of its North American counterparts.
Plot Summary: It is a relatively simple story. Yashvardhan Raichand is a very rich man with many businesses and lives with his family: Nandini, his wife, and Rahul and Rohan, his two sons. Rahul, the protagonist, is adopted. He falls in love with a young woman, Anjali Sharma, who is of a lower social class/extraction and, thus, does not meet the approval of the father. A disagreement follows and the entire family intervenes to make peace between father and son. Warning: very melodramatic. Most men dance in this film.
Availability: Kabhi Khushi, Kabhie Gham (2001, India, Johar). Library: PN1995.9.I47 K323 2013 VideoDVD. Amazon Video, YouTube, ITunes, Google Play. Neflix: DVD only.

Question (answer 1, 2, and 3; do not disconnect the questions, attempt to create logical transitions from 1 to 3 while using different paragraphs; give a conclusion, 4, at the end). Disclaimer: The questions below do reveal part of the plot of the film, although at a very general level.

1- Begins by reviewing the existing literature on the topic (in our case and for lack of time just the weekly article) and isolates the concepts and ideas that might help construct the student’s own analysis.The two most important concepts in the article are: "gentrification" and “condescension and distaste expressed toward popular Hindi cinema [and spectators] by Indian elites and the English- language media.”

2- Focuses on a scene in order to analyze the film, since a complete analysis of the film is impossible with 350 words. Make sure that you give a detailed, concrete analysis, and give the exact time in order to proof that you have watched it. This week, you must focus on the second half of the film.

3- The paper retakes the key concepts/ideas from section 1 and 2, and gives a more general conclusion that situates the film and the analysis in the context of globalization.

It helps to also use the key concepts that we have learnt through the semester: the Other as defining Us/our Identity or Self, Dual Identification/Disavowal, Phases of Globalization, Power, Master/leader, Cultural Hegemony, Imperialism, Biopolitics, Masculinity, Double Consciousness, Hybridity…..

Word Limit: Respond with no less than 325 words and a maximum of 350. Posting: Copy directly the text onto the window of the essay question. Grading criteria: The weekly papers will be graded on: grammar and vocabulary, logic and structure of the papers, originality, and the degree to which the paper responds to the question posted on l2d without digressing.Word Limit: Respond with no less than 325 words and a maximum of 350. Posting: Copy directly the text onto the window of the essay questions.

2:Engineering Design

Analytical Tasks Assignment
Pick one of the top engineering requirements, design components, or design decisions to justify
mathematically the viability of your project. Depending on your project, this could include
computational modeling or analyses. You may have already completed some of this work
(depending on your project and where your team is in your process), but everyone is required to
do this assignment by the due date.
This Progress Report nswer questions such as:
• Ø Why did you make this component long, or short?
• Ø Why is this material used? What strength is required from the material? What
hardness is required?
• Ø Why did you pick this location or resource?
• Ø Why did you choose XYZ?
• Ø What torque and rpm would result for a given power input or load?
• Ø What pressure drops, energy demands, power loads, energy losses, fluxes, etc. are
generated from different designs?
• Ø What is the maximum XYZ that may result, and is it within safety limits?
• Ø What is the expected performance of concept variant X with respect to a given
engineering requirement under extreme conditions (temp., force, time, chemical
environment, high wind, low sun, moisture, etc.)?
• Ø What is the magnitude of a complex engineering requirement for an
existing/baseline or state of the art technology?
[Note: This is not an all-inclusive list. These particular questions may not apply to certain
analytical analysis; they are provided as examples of what direction your analysis may go.]
This Progress Report must include:
Ø An introduction to your design problem and the analysis that you are performing in order to
better evaluate your design ideas.
o Connect how your team’s design problem directly relates to a specific contemporary issue.
State the specific contemporary issue and how your project works towards solving that issue. Be
clear about what and whose needs will be met by your design. Connect your design to the most
immediate stakeholders(direct users of the design) as well as the broader stakeholders (societal
benefits).
• Ø Description of the calculations performed and why they are needed. Be sure all
equations are numbered and symbols are clearly identified. Details of calculations should
be kept to an appendix. Cite the source of any values, data or theory using IEEE style.
• Ø Description of all assumptions made in your analysis
• Ø Details of any physical, computational or numerical modeling, as appropriate
• Ø Models (such as CAD) should have detailed drawings/layouts at the top level of the
design project and attached to memo as a pdf (though more detail, as required, will be
needed by the end of the semester)
• Ø Schematics and/or diagrams of the project/designEquations or flow chart of a
program (don’t show all calcs, please)
o Nothing handwritten will be accepted
Ø The results and how they influenced or informed your design
o Create a way to VISUALLY present your results that is both clear and concise.
Ø Conclusions and how your analysis will benefit your team and your project goals.
The end goal of this Progress Report is that EACH individual team member shows at least
one design issue that the team member individually worked on, from a technical viewpoint.
Note: The assignment that you hand in should be able to convince any mathematically
inclined designer of the validity of your process and any non-technical person can read and
understand your work.
Reports must be formatted as follows:
• – Single spaced
• – 11-point font
• – Include cover page with:
o Name
o Date
o Team number and name
o Individual analysis performed o Section information
• – Reference page for any and all sources used
• – There is no maximum page limit. The minimum is dictated based on how
thorough your analysis goes. If in doubt, go deeper or further into the analysis.
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You must get permission from your instructor for your individual task to make sure that
what you are doing will be adequate for the assignment.
To obtain permission:
– As a team, determine who will be doing what analysis.
– Write a short team memo that states who will be doing what , why each analysis is
important for the success of the project, as well as how the analysis will be completed
(methods or theory you will use)
– Provide at least one paragraph description of each analysis propose.
– Submit the memo via Bb Learn as a team assignment.
– Check graded comments to determine what has bee

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