It's Not As Easy As It Seems

I recently noticed that my project is not an easy one and that in order to have a successful project I must do many things. The two movies that I want to show are Remember the Titans and two episodes of the HBO miniseries of Band of Brothers. While Remember the Titans is rated PG, according to imbd.com and Yahoo! Movies, the latter film isn't rated, but I assume that since it contain violence, strong language, and mild nudity I would rate the movie R, even though I consider it an awesome film. I,again, plan to show the movies during study hall period from 8- 10 pm, or maybe even earlier, on May 17th and May 18th. The movies will occur only at night. Refreshments would be provided, but also after the movies students will stay an hour and a half earlier to talk or write down their thoughts about the movie. I ,of course, will lead the discussion through a series f questions I will provide to the students. But, before all that I'm going to write a letter to the parents giving consent to the students that they are able to watch the film. Middle school boys probably won't have to, but for high school students, unless no one from 17 years or younger come, they will need to get permission from a parent. It'll be a night of fun, but also something that I believe would be helpful to educate students about. Through war, leadership, courage, all that will be talked about, but I believe it's crucial to show students, particularly the young men's group about the stuff that went on in our history as a country.

Showtime!

Since I want students to choose what movie to see I want to make sure I have the movie I have listed. I currently own the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, but still need to find whether I'm going to have to buy the film Remember the Titans or borrow it. Either way those are the two options, which both talk about leadership, courage and camaraderie. I also decided to choose to show these movies on May 18th, the week before graduation weeks and show my review panel how students responded to the movies on May23rd. I hope all goes well, but so far I'm only working on the questions I'm going to ask to the students who participate in my project.

Progress

As the year goes by more and more effort is put on my project so it can come out to be well-presented. I have started to seek out the means in which I want to show movies on campus, but had a little opposition. It was advised to me that to show the movies wouldn't be a good idea (presumably) since it would be a large and cumbersome process. Instead I should just show clips from the movies and make students ( whomever is interested) go and watch the trailers and then watch the movies themselves at home to talk about the film later. I found this to be a little unsatisfactory, since first of all, how many of the students would actually watch a particular movie? Wouldn't it be better to just have one night where students can enjoy an evening and then talk of write down about their thought on the movie? I believe it'll be best that I show a movie before I actually have to present my senior project to my review panel. I'm most likely show my movie before the second to last week of May. I'll show the movie in the green room inside the gym where the movie would last only to about 2 hours and there would be refreshments. I'm currently working on the questions I'm to ask the students who participate in this and have them talk or write down their ideas or views on the film. I still have to work to see when to show my project to my review panel and send out invitations to them. So far everything is going well.