Cameron Babcock's Media TMA 112

IMAGINATION : When I hear the word imagination, what comes to my mind is the beautiful song, "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971). When I talk with little children, I love to hear about creatures or adventures from their imaginations. Playing cops and robbers with little children is pretty easy because they can visualize the bank or runaway car environment like it's reality. Pondering about imagination with this class, I think it's important for kids to be able to imagine new and interesting things. Now one needs to be careful that a child doesn't imagine things 24/7 and understands that there is a reality we have to live in and learn things.  From the short, "Shadow of Blue" (2012) we see the little girl sitting on the bench. She sees real life butterflies soar around her. She takes out a blue piece of paper and imagines what that paper could be. We then see a blue, handmade butterfly that she's holding up in...

Morality Mary Poppins (1964) Children Know Their Nannies The end credits appear on screen of  Mary Poppins  (1964). I think to myself, from this 139 minute film I saw beautiful colors presented in Technicolor, sang to countless musical numbers, and learned how the children should be the one to pick the proper nanny.  Mary Poppins is an engaging children's film that typifies how young children need to be listened too and need to have the proper care. From our class discussion about morality, I ask myself if this film would be appropriate for young children to watch and I definitely think so. There aren't any expletives or even strong words to imply expletives. The violence in the film is mainly Bert hitting himself in the one man band or one could say the other applicant nannies blowing away from the heavy winds. The film can teach children and adults how interacting with each other doesn't need to be "boring" and too headstrong. The father in this story, ...