Cléo from 5 to 7 is a French film set in the 1960’s that follows a beautiful singer who is waiting for a medical test diagnosis that might confirm she has cancer. It shows the two hours between 5 and 7 and we follow Cléo navigate her life including questioning her own existence and mortality….
Author: Laily
In The Mood For Love: Mise én Scene
In The Mood for Love is an incredibly stylized, aesthetically beautiful movie. This scene is one of the many scenes that showcase this stylization. In this scene, Mrs. Chan goes to the nearby noodle place and fills her thermos with noodles for dinner. She then goes back to her house and passes by her neighbor…
My Personal Cyberinfrastructure
This week I took a look at different plug-ins for my website. I was trying to find plug-ins to enhance my website’s aesthetic or add accessibility. I looked through the class’s recommendations for plug-ins and found a few to integrate. These are some of the few I used and played around with. I ended up…
Imagined Audience
Film blogs are a fantastic resource for movie lovers, providing insightful analysis, reviews, and coverage of the latest releases and timeless classics. The audience for these blogs is vast and diverse, ranging from casual movie fans to film students. One group of film blog readers is casual movie fans who enjoy going to the movie…
Working on my blog
Process Post #4 This week, I spent a lot of time making my website look better and trying out different themes. I realized that I really had a hard time trying to figure out how to use the “block Editor”, so I decided to find a theme that DID NOT use that kind of editing…
My Top 5 Films
Her (Spike Jonze, 2013) Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman, 2004) A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Peer Review #1
My peer review partner today was Veronika and their blog wrappedinablanket.com ! First look impressions: The blog is really beautiful, the fonts, logo and pictures all go together beautifully. Not just with the themes but also with their content of having a personal blog. The way the main page scrolls and flows makes sense with…
Site Navigation
Process Post #3
Setting up
Process Post #2 The installation of this blog was fairly easy at first. I went to an “online” high school where they gave us our own WordPress sites to use and customize so I was fairly familiar with using it. However, there are lots of new functions that I still need some time to get…
Stranger Encounter
Process Post #1 Today I was tasked with talking to a stranger I decided to have a long (and deeply personal) conversation with a customer. I work at a dispensary, and this means we have some interesting customers most of the time. I love hearing stories of older people who have been smoking for 20…
