That Zooming Out Story

This was actually a very interesting exercise. Although it seemed rather simple when we first saw the pictures, I never realized how much the little details could change a whole story. It was extremely difficult to figure out WHY the story didn't zoom in, but rather, zoomed out. If I tried to do it on my own, there is no way that I would have been able to figure it out. Maybe I'm just naturally unobservant, but I think the environment the people in my generation have grown up in has just changed us. With internet and television, everything is just shoved in our faces without us having to do much work. For example, when I'm looking for a specific word on a page, all I need to do now is press Ctrl and F then type in the word. Before computers, I would have had to go to the library, look for the book, look it up in the index, then search for the word on the page. There's a huge possibility that I'm just making up excuses by now. The exercise did open my eyes to how intricate everything is and that if I only look at the surface, there are so many things that I could be missing. Creating a story to go along with the pictures was pretty hard, too. Right now, the only thing I can think of to go with the pictures, is that one of Voldemort's Horcruxes was the chicken. Somehow, it developed its own sense of feelings and realized what was going on. By traveling through the toy town, the advertisement of a cruise, the television, and the stamp, it finally discovered real people that it could take over. After transferring itself from the postman to the tribe's chief, it finally settled for the pilot so it could fly back to England and resurrect Voldemort. I just reread the whole Harry Potter spin-off I just wrote. It doesn't make much sense but it still doesn't change the fact that the story the pictures told and the specific direction it had to go in was pretty awesome.

Julie Taymor

On December 15, 1952, Julie Taymor was born. Her talent in theatre and performing arts was revealed at an early age when she began to put on shows with her sister in the backyard. She joined the Boston Children's Theatre Company at the age of 10 and went to Paris to study at a mime school. Although she knew she was headed for a career in theatre, she earned a degree in folklore and mythology rather than following a conventional theatre curriculum. However, she also studied with Joseph Chaikin's Open Theatre in New York City. In 1974, she traveled to Japan and Indonesia to study the forms of foreign theatre. She believes that an ancient ceremony performed by male elders of a village in Bali has informed and inspired all of her work. Fast forward past dazzling productions of The Tempest, The King Stag, Juan Darien, a Carnival Mass, Titus Andronicus, and The Green Bird to 1997 when her greatest success appeared in the form od Disney's Lion King. Since the Disney officials could not figure out a way to costume and act out their greatest animated triumph because the characters were all animals, they turned to Julie Taymor who, by then, was known for her out-of-the-box thinking. She directed the production, designed the costumes, co-designed the masks and puppets, and rewrote many of the film's scenes and songs. Elephants were played by four people, the actors playing giraffes were on stilts, and there were over 100 puppets representing over 25 different animal species. The Lion King is still running on Broadway now, while Julie Taymor has gone on to create films as well as more productions and musicals.