2/14/17 Devin Gozdenovich

Happy Valentine's Day! Since today was a holiday, Mr. Rivers decided to structure our lesson around Valentine's Day. And, since it is a film class, we looked at the genre romantic comedies, and discussed the aesthetics of different things. We started off by evaluating the "Google Doodle" that pops on Google when you first open it. We discussed why there was an animated cartoon heart on the doodle instead of an actual picture of a heart. We decided that the animated heart was more aesthetically pleasing, and the real heart was just plain gross. Then, we started talking romantic comedies. We took a look at a few different movie posters/covers. We discussed what they all had in common, which was a strong female lead with a man almost always next to her. They were both very attractive white people. The traditional rom-com almost always includes a white male and a white female that fall in love at the end of the movie, and act solely based on emotion and not logically. Then we moved on to analyzing the song "City of Stars" from La La Land. We first read through the lyrics, then listened to it, and then watched the scene. For each part, we discussed what made it romantic and sensitive.