Blog 22: Independent Component 2

LITERAL
(a) Include this statement: 

“I, Isaiah Leon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 34 hours of work.”

(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

I would like to thank my friends for going with me to some of these movies and pointing out things about the theater that I could put in my log. 

Miriam
Jonathan
Carlos
Jose
Omar
Jordan
Chris

And to the wonderful people at Laemmle Claremont and Pasadena for allowing me to watch movies for free, making this project just that much easier.


(c) Update your Independent Component 2 Log (which should be under your Senior Project Hours link)

Independent Component 2 hours log

(d) Explain what you completed.   

I watched a total of 19 movies at 9 different theaters, I went in with the mindset of a critic of film as well as a theater critic. After visiting the theater and watching a movie or two, I proceeded to come home and write about my experience at the theater. Similar to a traditional yelp review. Then I gave the experience a rating out of 10 based on how I felt the theater provided me with a movie viewing experience.

(e) Defend your work and explain the component's significance and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.   

My favorite theater that's near my house

Harkins Chino Hills 18 at night

Cinerama Dome ticket

 

Krikorian Redlands 14 

I don't know who Dave is but Lady and the Tramp was awesome

 

(f)How did the component help you answer your EQ? Please include specific examples to illustrate how it helped. 


I'm going to be totally honest with you, I decided to do this for my independent component because I knew it would be easy and fun. But after writing my yelp reviews for the theaters I went to, It actually helped me with my third answer to my essential question which is to hire helpful and friendly employees. That really makes the experience of going to a theater that much better. And I realized how much I love Harkins Chino Hills. If I had a theater of my own, I would want it to be very similar to that.

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I might just do more mentorship hours because it's easy and I don't have to worry about it. But I was thinking that just going to the movies and writing about my experience, that could be cool and force me to watch more movies. It probably sounds expensive and impractical, but I recently started going to press screenings that are free so I could write about those.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

Write down my experiences when I go to the movies, take pictures, save my tickets.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

'example: I saw a movie at Harkins and saw that they have a daycare there. I could put that in my final presentation because it's innovative and is helping keep the movie theaters alive.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nfF5lsLP-H5KtpBQDF2o8OifMFgt9sT3y4f9_dXWaRY/edit?usp=sharing

Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, Isaiah Leon, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• Bovis, Natalie. "Chapter 1/ Family Business." Laemmle: Not Afraid... 75 Years of Film Exhibiiton in Los Angleles. N.p.: Laemmle Theaters, LLC, 2013. 11-24. Print.
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• done
• (d) Explain what you completed.
• For my independent component I simply did more mentorship hours at Laemmle's Claremont 5. I worked behind concession and cleaned theaters and sold tickets and got to know my co-workers and customers a lot more. 
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  
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• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• Well my topic is starting to center around the preservation of movie theaters. So working at a movie theater is a great way to get first hand experience and lesson points for my final presentation. I honestly think that every time I go to work I learn new things about the way the theater runs and how we can change things up to be able to preserve it for as long as possible. The people who come in to the theater are always my favorite part of working there. They're are so excited and happy to be out watching a movie, this is why I think movie theaters are never going to die, they will always be around in one form or another.