We did a Star Wars unit in class this term and it was fascinating…ly weird. The course work was oddly disjointed from everything else we did and while what we learned was interesting I don’t really see a point. Most of the stuff I do I see a point to why I’m doing them but I don’t see how learning this helped me at all. 

F*** iMovie, that app is stupid, I deleted the photos and interview from my iPad because I had it saved in iMovie and so I would hand that in… AND THEN IMOVIE DELETED IT. Apparently it doesn’t actually save, it just remembers what to source from your iPad, so I open in and it’s just three minutes and twenty eight seconds of blackness. In the end, I don’t really think I learned anything spectacularly new in this curriculum except that Apple sucks, and I hate iMovie.
So our two projects we worked on in the curriculum were a synthesis essay about one characters costume change throughout one of the trilogies, and a project where we explored anything we wanted. In the essay, I used Luke Skywalkers transition from light to dark.

  
   

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And here it is :

 Have you ever noticed that characters costumes represent their personality and feelings? For example, how the red guys in “Star Trek” are almost always unimportant and die quickly, or how you can always tell whether a dog is good or evil in a movie? Well, a less noticeable but arguably more important change is when characters change costume. Imagine if Captain Kirk started wearing red and died, or what if Darth Vader suddenly started wearing a white robot suit and turned good? Well such a costume change happened to Luke Skywalker from episodes four to six in the original starwars trilogy, his outfit went from good to troubled quickly and it’s interesting once you see how the change signifies the battle to stay young and the sadness of growing up.
  To start with Luke’s costume in “episode four”, it just embodies the light side of the force. It’s pure white and beige, and that just signifies light, purity, and untroubled, it is totally unblemished and looks perfect, essentially how a kid should be. Furthermore, it fits loosely, and shows that he is carefree and can do anything, it shows that he is largely untroubled as well as showing that he is a kind and childlike soul. Lastly, the neck goes low into his chest showing that he is trusting and doesn’t need much protection. His first costume is pure, light, and with a white shirt and coat, a beige pair of pants, boots, and belt it shows he is as unblemished as a kid should be. It shows all the idiosyncrasies you would expect from a main character but also shows many characteristics of a kid-like spirit.
     For contrast, in episode 6 his costume is almost entirely black, which is definitely a signal that he’s become more troubled, that he aligns somewhat with the dark side of the force now. The fit is much tighter and makes you assume he’s not the free range turkey he once was, he’s now closer to a dirty old steroid turkey that you get for two dollars at Costco, he’s become uptight and questions everything. The neck is a tight circle now, not a v-neck and that shows he’s become less trusting and more closed off to other people. His new costume shows that he is becoming an adult, a much more troubled person than before who trusts less and is less happy, he is farther towards the dark side of the force than ever before. His last costume is the equivalent of a business suit, after we’ve all given up on our dreams and sold out to corporate life this is what we get, an all black suit that makes you look uptight and sad. 
 To conclude, Luke Skywalker’s costume change shows his transition from a bright shining uninhibited kid to a troubled adult with too much to think about and not enough fun. It really signifies the whole battle of life, that you always want to stay young and uninhibited and happy but at some point turn into a boring, sad, troubled adult, sound a little scary? It is, because it’s far too familiar for our own liking. Luke Skywalker in Star Wars is every kid’s nightmare, turning into an adult.

And our other project was wide open, so I chose to do aerodynamics, specifically making the poorly designed TIE fighters better. 
   

That’s a dumb plane design, so I gave it some lift and airfoil and voila, it was a great aircraft. And if iMovie hadn’t sucked so much I would be able to show you a creation of it, but it was essentially a modern plane but with flaps at the back for lift, that retract when it’s out of gravity, so it doesn’t fall out of the sky, you see the TIE in TIE fighter stands for Twin Ion Engines, which is very effective in space, but if you’ve seen the force awakens, you see them in an atmosphere, and they’re not falling out of the sky like dead birds like they should be. So I built a new TIE fighter so it could fly. I’m very sorry iMovie is the worst. 
To conclude, I enjoyed the whole experience and actually learned more than I expected, but I don’t really see it being applicable to my life. Thanks if you read all of this, and if you do send me an email at joelh@seycove.ca saying boogalaboogalaboo. Mostly because I don’t think anybody reads these, anyway peace, Joel out!