Gyms Formalism

In chapter five, “Facility Design and Planning”, the text talks about the design and planning of an athletic training room and how the best ones are those that have undergone comprehensive planning before its development. Spacing, lighting, accessibility, and traffic flow are key elements that should be considered in the planning of an athletic training room. The process will also include collaboration with internal and external stakeholder and contractors.

Today’s society is based off an image seen on a magazine cover, body building TV shows, and social media post. Men and women have this misconception on how we should look a certain way when really we should just try and impress ourselves. They say “practice makes perfect” which just shows it doesn’t come over night, so in order to be better we have to work at what we want.

When you listen to Erik Satie’s Gymnopedie No. 1 you are struck with a sullen, dreamy chord progression striking the root on the one of the measure and the 3rd, 5th, and 7th of the chord on the 2nd and 3nd of the measure with its waltz like ¾ timing. You hear this song and it almost immediately hits you with a feeling of sadness but there is a sort of beauty to it. But why? Why is it that this song makes you feel sad? Many people who are untrained in music will have a simple explanation such as “it’s because it’s slow” or “because it’s in a minor key”. While yes it is at a slow 78 bpm but anybody with a trained ear can tell that it’s in the key of D Major. So there must be more to it than just its tempo or what key it’s in. As you move further along in this endeavour of understanding music you learn that instead of it being just one or two things that make a song happy or sad it’s a combination of many different attributes. Such as key signature, tempo, meter, chord extensions, intervals, and etc.Music in it many forms makes us all feel different emotions. Music can evoke so many different types of emotions some will make you want to dance and some will make you want to cry. Some will make you remember the best times of your life and some will remind you of the worst. To

How the director achieved their purpose was through all of the elements of film combined in this movie. For example, the lighting in a few scenes reflected the mood. In one scene it was dim, monochrome, and dull. I feel the sense of the lighting really gave the feeling of what the director was trying to pursue. Another example is camera angles and techniques during the sports scenes. Sports scenes are difficult to film because of the constant movement and the scenes incorporating sports were done perfectly. The acting, writing, and music was genuinely beautiful. The acting really made me feel like that it was in the 1940s by the way they talked and the writing was excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed it and how it was written. There wasn’t much music in this movie but when there was it related to the scene and was beautiful. As an example, during those intense sports scene, intense music would play. There are many strengths to this movie including the acting, directing, and honestly the overall performance, in my opinion. One weakness though was the language (cursing) used throughout the movie. Even though it was historically accurate for the way they talked, I feel like the movie could’ve been just as successful without it. My overall response to this movie is that it was intriguing to watch. I say this because I found the storyline and how that it was about Jackie Robinson and what he went through interesting,

Dodgeball helps teach students around the world that it is OK to lose at a game every now and then, it happens to everyone. Rick Reilly, the author of the article Weak Shall Inherit the Gym stated that “Then those kids’ parents will send them out into the world to realise that, Yes there are winners and losers.” Bringing this statement into the argument helps show that if adults do not show those noncompetitive children that it is possible to lose, they will not act like an adult when they do lose they will never learn. Kids just have to learn to deal with it and learn from their mistakes so they will not lose next time. Children have to deal with losing like a Mature adult or they will have a rough life later on.

The camerawork emphasizes the sense of detachment between the characters, and Billy’s inability with connecting with others. In addition, the film has a contrasty, bleak look to it, like a faded photograph. Gallo shot the movie on reversal film stock to capture that contrast and grain, in attempt to reproduce the same look of football games from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

In this movie, different filmic techniques are used, however, in my opinion, they are not very effective and thus it fails to improve or contribute to the success of the movie, which I believe it should. The filming techniques used in

In the early 1970s two school from Alexandria, Virginia integrate forming T.C Williams High school. Head coach of the Titans was replaced by an African Coach form North Carolina. Tensions arise when the players from the different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of the tensions eased during the two week training camp in Gettysburg. When the players returned to Alexandria finding the city in turmoil due to the forced desegregation of the high school. As the season progresses the team success caused the community to accept the changes. During the film many camera shots, high angle shots was effective because it showed the Titans as a tight, cohesive team. The empty space in the gym reinforces the idea that they have come

Ebert, Robert.2005. Movie Review: Coach Carter. Retrieved November 23, 2011 from the World Wide Web: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050113/REVIEWS/41228004/1001

A wallet was stolen from the Campus Town gym sometime between 5:30 p.m. and 6:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, according to Campus Police. The student placed her wallet on the elliptical machine she was using and accidentally left it there when she left and went back to her dorm. When she realized she had left it at the gym, she went back and looked around for it, but could not find it. The wallet and its contents were valued at $120, including $40 in cash, police said.

Gym Mayhem uses fictional characters to teach young kids about astronomy and fractions. In order to make learning more appealing to kids, this book uses a unique story-line, in which the kids encounter many problems on their journey to save the world. The kids must learn how to use fractions properly in order to solve the problems presented to them, teaching children the purpose of fractions and how they work.

These extra features along with the combination of full shots and long shots help to demonstrate the relationship between Alan and his fellow code-breakers, while at the same time establishing setting and scene. The close-ups in this movie define the character’s emotion allowing us to feel empathy for them. Camera Techniques demonstrate the different aspects in a film and for this, what better way to tell a complex story without simplicity.

A novel choice of shots and angles added to the films value. In the scene where Rocket was stuck in the middle of the gang and the police, it was interesting to see how they chose to use a wide shot to capture the gang’s strength in numbers but a long wide shot was used when show how few police there were. The gang looked so

I like the principle of the coaches in this film, some of them were a really series coach and some of them were like plain coach. If I were a music student and I have to choose ones of the coaches I would had chose a series coach forever, because I know that the series coach when I make a mistake and he anger to me around my classmate I directly know he never means make me funny in class, he did that because he wants me find a way to how I con not make a mistake again. The other thing is he could anger to me in just in class, he would not get anger to me around so many people in the theater. He wants me imagine myself every time when I get in class until I get out that I am in the theater right now, and I shouldn’t make a mistake, just trying

In the movie, Coach Carter is consistent in his statements about what his intentions are as the new basketball coach and what his goals/expectations are of the young athletes. Chapter 11 of our text book, Anshell discribes the Ten Commandments of Communication. The Ten