Of Mice and Men: Project Checkpoint.

In class, we are starting our project for the unit of reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. We have a choice of either creating a Power Point slideshow, or a movie trailer. I do not like Power Points and I like to make random videos with my friends at home anyway, so I thought filming a trailer would be really fun. My group will include Ellie and Christina and me, obviously. I'm not gonna lie, that's probably one of the only two things we definitely know about this project. We've also decided who's going to play which character. Ellie doesn't really want to act, but she wants to direct, and we're thinking of her playing some of the workers on the farm anyway such as Candy, Crooks, Carlson, Curley, and Curley's wife. Christina is going to play George, and I guess I'll play Lennie.

Even though our group hasn't discussed much, I have some ideas for the trailer. Scenes I think we should include are George and Lennie walking down to their new job from Weed, and discussing how Lennie shouldn't talk unless authorized by George. I also think we should include them meeting some of the other characters, showing some foreshadowing so viewers may have an idea of what will come when they go see the "actual movie". I am a little worried that we haven't talked too much about filming, and hopefully we can get it done next week before the time we post it. My schedule is a little hectic after school, especially on Monday and Wednesday... and Thursday. So this is one of my concerns, other than uploading the video. I have had some trouble in the past uploading projects like this, and I wouldn't want to see it fail and be disappointed. But I think it will turn out great! These are just some common problems..

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Sorry! I haven't had access to a computer until now!