Apr 10, 2014
Parallel Encounters: The Do Over
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Parallel Encounters: The Do Over
MPC225: A Hub of Many Stories
Waiting in Line at an Amusement Park
Story 1: "May I see your stamp, please?" "Please stay behind the line." "Please do not sit on the railings." "Enjoy your ride." It's a regular day at Canada's Wonderland. Busy, busy, busy. It's full of crowds lining up for rides. This is where I work, nothing fancy just a part time job where I can earn some extra cash. I work 5 days a week at the same ride, Thunder Run. It gets a little dull telling visitors to continuously to get off the rail, to show their stamps and to stay behind the line. It definitely strains my voice. Everyday I stand around, counting the minutes until the end of my shift. Now there's an hour until it ends, why is time so slow today. Story 2: "Thunder Run?" "Mommy, can we go on that?" "Mommy, mommy! I want to go on that, please?" "Daddy, lets go, lets go, please?" Today is the first time I'm at Canada's Wonderland, I'm so excited! I want to ride all the rides here then again! Too bad I'm too short to ride some of the super, duper big rides. My mommy and daddy said when I grow up I'll be able to ride those rides. It's so much fun, but the lines are always so, so long. This will be my first roller coaster, ever! I can't wait, we're next in line! The amusement park worker doesn't look like he's having much fun. When I grow up I want to work at an amusement park, I'll have much more fun than him! I wish I could just stay here forever and ever with my mommy and daddy. Story 3: "Why do we always have to ride Thunder Run?" "Stop staring at him, you're drooling." "Argh, the line is always full of little kids" "Fine, I'll wait just for you." Another day at Canada's Wonderland with my best friend. This is my 3rd time getting the seasons pass and I've been on Thunder Run like 100 times already. I want to ride Behemoth or Leviathan, anything but Thunder Run. My best friend has the biggest crush on one of the workers at Thunder Run and can't stop gawking at him. I've told her 100 times to just talk to him, I mean there's no harm in trying. That way I won't have to ride Thunder Run 1000 times this summer. Maybe today, I can convince her to talk to him.
MPC225: Fairytale News Remix Story
New Article: Two arrested for money laundering, gold smuggling (link)
Fairytale: The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs
A couple arrested for money laundering and smuggling gold into Florida, United States. Their business was reported to be ~$6 million worth of gold but after wire transfers the prosecutor determined it to be ~$24 million worth of gold. The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs is about a couple who finds a goose that laid golden eggs. The couple believed that inside the goose there must have been a lump of gold. They killed the goose only to find that the goose was normal on the inside. This fairytale relates to this news article through the same theme of greed. The couple caught for money laundering and smuggling gold were greedy and wanted more money but ended up arrested due to their greed.
Persona Proposal
Flora Fung is an only child raised by her father at the age of two. Her mother passed away due to breast cancer just before she turned three.
Every year on her birthday, Flora receives hand-made birthday cards from her father and each time, she is given a card, her father reminds her that it was made by her mother during her time in the hospital.
She is to receive a new card each year until her 18th birthday. There will be no more after that. These cards will consists of birthday wishes and quotes from the mother.
She develops a tradition in which at the stroke of midnight, she would open the card and read through it, while thinking about her mother. She would also spend this time to talk to her mother in the heavens about her year.
In present time, Flora will soon be turning 19. She knows that this year, there would be no cards and feels a sense of absence. In order to cure this feeling, she brings out her box of cards that she's recieved throughout the years and re-reads them.
She then finds out that her father has been pretty absent-minded lately. She also realizes that he's been very forgetful too. As time passes, she discovers that her father has Alzheimer's.
She feels a mix of emotions and doesn't know how to help her father. Although she knows that he is still in the early stages of the disease, she knows that one day he might not remember who she is. She then seeks help from her mother.
Flora then comes up with the idea of writing letters to her father in hopes that one day, if he does happen to forget her, he could still remember her through the letters.
Show and Tell: Conflict
Jenny is a third year theatre production student, focusing on backstage sound. Ever since freshman year, she volunteered and took part in a lot of backstage production. She gained experience working backstage with others in second and third year. In school, she works with technicians, and stage directors. Most of the people taking part in preparing the shows are also students, therefore a lot of people are in the process of learning the basics while some, lacking in experience.
Jenny works with other sound students and is constant contact with the director of the show. All Jenny wants is for the show to run smoothly. However, when working in a group with other sound people, there will be some that lack knowledge or simply don’t understand proper procedures or timing of the scenes. In Jenny’s group, 2 out of the 3, are never prepared for the meetings or rehearsals, and because of them, Jenny is always left to complete and figure out how to fix things in their place during rehearsals. Because of this, certain sounds were switched with others, leading to some confusion on stage with the actors.
In the end, Jenny is always seen responsible for anything that happens with sound, either good or bad. She doesn’t feel that it is fair when the director blames everything on her just because her group mates are not doing what they are expected to do. Jenny is not the type of person to point figures at someone when she is getting yelled at for someone else’s wrong-doings, but this isn’t the first time its happened and Jenny is not sure how to speak up.
Guest Lecture
The guess speaker that came in today took part in the production of xbox and other many other projects. Most of the projects he took part in, involved a large group of interactive participates in an ultimate reality game. It was a very inspirational lecture, where a successful person, in our field, came in to talk about his past ups and downs, combined to his success. He talked a lot about thinking outside the box. Getting the audience to discover little clues to a side story that is part of the final conclusion. Some of the tips he suggested were to always have a backup with another backup. He mentions how the unexpected could happen especially when it involves the public. Overall, the lecture definitely provided insight towards the possibilities that I could not have imagined before.
MPC225: Guest Speaker Elan Lee
It was an honour to be able to meet Elan Lee, Chief Design Officer at XBOX Entertainment. He was very inspiring with all his past stories of his failures and the choices he had to make. It's amazed me that he started the genre Alternate Reality Games. I loved when he said fail fast, take risks because we know we're going to fail so why not get that out of the way. I hope to have more amazing guest speakers like this in the future!
MPC225: Internet Persona Ideas
Cosplayer who wants to travel the world to different conventions