🌟HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL🌟

I. About the Movie

High School Musical is an Emmy Award-winning American television film, and the first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20,2006, it became the most successful movie that Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and the feature film High School Musical 3: Senior Year released theatrically in October 2008. It is the first Disney Channel Original Movie to have a theatrical sequel.

A fourth installment, High School Musical 4, was been announced to be in the writing stages and the script is complete.

High School Musical was Disney Channel's most watched movie at its time, with 7.7 million viewers in its premiere broadcast in the US.[citation needed] In the UK, it received 789,000 viewers for its premiere (and 1.2 million viewers overall during the first week), making it the 2nd most watched program for the Disney Channel (UK) of 2006. It was also the first ever Disney Channel Original Movie to be broadcast on the BBC on December 29, 2006.

The film's soundtrack was the best-selling album in the United States for 2006. With a plot described by the author and numerous critics as a modern adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, High School Musical is a story about two high school juniors from rival cliques – Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), a beautiful and shy transfer student who excels in math and science. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their high school musical, and as a result, divide the school. Despite other students' attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella resist peer pressure and rivalry, inspiring others along the way not to "stick to the status quo".

High School Musical was filmed at East High School located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the auditorium of Murray High School, and Downtown Salt Lake City. Murray High School was also the set of: Take Down (1978), Read It and Weep(2006), Minutemen (2008) and High School Musical: Get in the Picture (2008).

Works Cited （参考文献）

"High School Musical." Wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 July 2016. <http://high-school-musical.wikia.com/wiki/High_School_Musical>.

II. About the Lead Actor

1.Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa was born in Salinas, California. Her family moved to San Diego whilst she was still a toddler. She has a younger sister, Stella Hudgens, who is also an actress. Her mother, Gina (Guangco), an officer worker, is from the Philippines. Her father, Gregory Hudgens, a firefighter, has Irish and Native American ancestry.

Vanessa was interested in acting and singing at a young age, inspired by her grandparents who were musicians. At the age of 8, she started appearing in musical theatre. She briefly attended Orange County High School of the Arts. She began auditioning and was successfully cast in a TV commercial. This prompted her family to move to Los Angeles. She started homeschooling so she missed out on the high school experience, until she landed her breakthrough role in High School Musical (2006).

2.Zac Efron

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California. He is the son of Starla Baskett, a former secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. His surname, "Efron", is a Biblical place name, and comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal grandfather. The rest of Zac's recent ancestry is English, German, and Scottish. Zac was raised in Arroyo Grande, CA. He took his first step toward acting at the age of eleven, after his parents noticed his singing ability. Singing and acting lessons soon led to an appearance in a production of "Gypsy" that ran 90 performances, and he was hooked. He graduated from Arroyo Grande High School in June 2006.

 As part of the all-star cast he shared a Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble, the 2007 Hollywood Film Festival Award for Ensemble of the Year, and was honored with a Screen Actors Guild Award® nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture Cast. In addition, he won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance.

Efron's favorite sports include golf, skiing, rock climbing, and snowboarding. He added surfing after spending days on the beach for "Summerland." He played the piano at home. He has also fixed up two cars in his spare time, a Delorean and '65 Mustang convertible, both treasured hand-me-downs from his even-more-treasured grandfather.

Works Cited （参考文献）

1."Biography." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 20 July 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1227814/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm>.

2."Biography." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 20 July 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1374980/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm>.

III. Music Video of This Movie

 ☆Something New

☆Breaking Free

☆We're all in this together

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - setting

The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs 

Time:Main character⇒High school students
Place:①Party venue ②High school of musical

Setting of this movie is various stage. This movie try to tell mainly about the youth and love of students.

B. Reaction Point - film director

the person who directs the making of a film

Kenny Ortega was born on April 18, 1950 in Palo Alto, California, USA as Kenneth John Ortega. He is known for his work on This Is It (2009), High School Musical (2006) andHocus Pocus (1993).

Has worked with Madonna, Cher, Gloria Estefan and Elton John.

◎His work

Descendants 2 (TV Movie) (pre-production) 

 2016A Change of Heart (completed) 

 2016The Rocky Horror Picture Show (TV Movie) (post-production) 

 Dirty Dancing (announced) 

 2016Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (TV Series) (1 episode)

- I'm Going to the Beach with Josh and His Friends! (2016)

 2015Descendants (TV Movie) 

 2012Bunheads (TV Series) (1 episode)

- Inherit the Wind (2012)

 2011The Playboy Club (TV Series) (1 episode)

- The Dream House and How to Avoid It

 2010Legally Mad (TV Movie) 

 2010Dome Project (Video short) 

 2009This Is It (Documentary) 

 2009Michael Jackson Memorial (TV Movie documentary) (creative director) 

 2008High School Musical 3: Senior Year 

 2007High School Musical 2 (TV Movie) 

 2002-2006Gilmore Girls (TV Series) (12 episodes)

- Knit, People, Knit! (2006)

- Friday Night's Alright for Fighting (2006) ... (as Kenneth Ortega)

- He's Slippin' 'Em Bread... Dig? (2005) ... (as Kenneth Ortega)

- Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out (2005) ... (as Kenneth Ortega)

- Come Home (2005)

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 2006The Cheetah Girls 2 (TV Movie) 

 2006High School Musical (TV Movie) 

 2005Billy Squier: Video Hits (Video short) (segment "Rock Me Tonight") 

 2001-2002Ally My Love (TV Series) (3 episodes)

- Another One Bites the Dust (2002)

- The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2001)

- Reach Out and Touch (2001)

 2002XIX Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony (TV Movie) 

 2001Grounded for Life (TV Series) (1 episode)

- Mrs. Finnerty, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (2001)

 2000Resurrection Blvd. (TV Series) (1 episode)

- Mascaras (2000)

 1998-1999Chicago Hope (TV Series) (2 episodes)

- Playing Through (1999)

- Liver, Hold the Mushrooms (1998)

 1999Wasteland (TV Series) (1 episode)

- Truth or Consequences (1999)

 1997Fame L.A. (TV Series) 

 1996Second Noah (TV Series) (1 episode)

- The Good Samaritan (1996)

 1994Hocus Pocus: Begin the Magic (TV Movie documentary) 

 1993Hocus Pocus 

 1992Newsies 

 1990Hull High (TV Series) (3 episodes)

- Episode #1.5 (1990)

- Episode #1.2 (1990)

- Episode #1.1 (1990)

 1988Dirty Dancing (TV Series) (2 episodes)

- Book of Love (1988)

- Walk Like a Man (1988)

 1984


Sexy Shorts (Video) (segment "Breakin' Together") 

"Kenny Ortega." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 22 July 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0650905/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm>.

C. Reaction Point - soundtrack

voice, music and sound effects

This movie is used many soundtrack, because this movie is written about the school life of musical.

1. START OF SOMETHING NEW
2. GET'CHA HEAD IN THE GAME
3. WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR
4. WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR (REPRISE)
5. STICK TO THE STATUS QUO
6. WHEN THERE WAS ME AND YOU
7. BOP TO THE TOP
8. BREAKING FREE
9. WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

N.p., n.d. Web. 22 July 2016. <http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/2745368.html>.


D. My General Opinion

I love this movie and I love Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron too. I watched this movie many time, and I have the DVD of this movie. I want everyone to watch this movie. I think that if you watch this movie, you love this movie and songs of this movie. This movie has many series. I was impressed and excited when I watched this movie. It is the movie which I want to recommend very much!!!!

ZARA

I. About the Clothing Brand

　Zara opened its first store in the coastal town of A Coruña in the northwest of Spain in 1975. Zara has over 2,100 stores strategically located in leading cities across 88 countries. Zara's designers and  customers are inextricably linked. Specialist teams receive constant feedback on the decisions its customers are making at every Zara store. This feedback inspires Zara's creative team which is made up of over 200 professionals.

Zara is always striving to meet  the needs of its customers at the same time as helping to inform their ideas, trends and tastes. The idea is to share responsible passion for fashion across a broad spectrum of people, cultures and ages.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Grupo Inditex." INDITEX. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 July 2016. <http://www.inditex.com/brands/zara>.

II. About the Founder

○Age---80

○Source of Wealth---Zara, Self Made

○Residence---La Coruna, Spain

○Citizenship---Spain

○Marital Status---Married

○Children---3

Zara founder Amancio Oretga is the richest man in Europe and the wealthiest retailer in the world. He started manufacturing textiles through a small family company in 1963 before cofounding Zara with his ex-wife Rosalía Mera (d. 2013) in 1975. By the mid-1980s, Ortega had expanded throughout Spain, and he opened his first store in America in 1989. As he expanded his empire, which today includes Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull&Bear, he caught the retail establishment by surprise, limiting advertising, expanding aggressively, and controlling much of his own supply chain. Louis Vuitton fashion director Daniel Piette once called Inditex "possibly the most innovative and devastating retailer in the world." Ortega powered through his country's financial crisis, personally gaining $45 billion from 2009 to 2014 as shares of Inditex defied the rest of the Spanish stock market. He stepped down as chairman of Inditex in 2011 but still hauls in more than $400 million in dividends annually. He has been plowing his spare cash into real estate investments all over the world, including Madrid, Barcelona, London, Chicago, Miami and New York, amassing a portfolio worth more than $8 billion. 

Works Cited （参考文献）

Forbes. Forbes Media, 2016. Web. 11 July 2016. <http://www.forbes.com/profile/amancio-ortega/>.

III. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - fashion design

Fashion design means the atmosphere of brands and impression of brands which we feel. 

EX:Fashion design of this brand is cool, cute.

Fashion design of ZARA is very simple. Most of clothes are single color. Women who want to wear cool or simple fashion buy clothes at ZARA.

B. Reaction Point - coiffure

Coiffure means the way in which a person's hair is arranged { especially a woman's hair }.

EX: hair long hair, short hair, straight hair

All women who appear this show have long straight hair, but color of hair is different. I think that women who have long straight hair look like more beautiful ladies, so all women who appear this show match fashion of ZARA. 

C. Reaction Point - fabric texture

Fabric texture means the way a surface, substance or piece of cloth feels when you touch it, for example rough, smooth, or soft.

 EX: Fabric texture is very thick, flimsy.

Fabric of tops looks like flexible, and fabric of bottoms looks like flexible too. We can find originality of ZARA by these characteristics.

D. My General Opinion
ZARA is my favorite fashion brand because I like simple fashion, and fashion of ZARA is simple and cool. I think these things is good points of ZARA, so ZARA is loved by many people. I have never watch movies of ZARA. I want to buy items of ZARA after I watched this movie.

The Most Beautiful Thing(２０１２)

I. About the Film

　The film involves a teenager who thinks that a girl he likes a school is ignoring his attempts to talk to her, only to find out later that she is deaf. After this the begin communicating by writing in their own special notepad whenever they see each other. As they grow closer together the films main character encourages his girlfriend to talk for the first time in public. 

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    The film is intended to be an uplifting story about how two people can put their differences to one side put their love first.

    The short film is a romance and is kept very simple so nothing is distracting from the film's two main characters. 

Works Cited （参考文献）

Rivett, Jordan. "The Most Beautiful Thing - By Cameron Covell." Prezi. Prezi, n.d. Web. 22 June 2016. <https://prezi.com/ck7dn4py2o3a/the-most-beautiful-thing-by-cameron-covell/>.

II. Versions of the Film

Works Cited （参考文献）

Camdude777. "The Most Beautiful Thing (Short Film)." YouTube. YouTube, 15 May 2012. Web. 22 June 2016. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8psM4LWXk>.

III. About the Lead Actor｛Analisa Gutierrez｝

    Analisa Gutierrez fell in love with the arts at age five after seeing the musical Beauty and the Beast. Acknowledging her interest in the arts, Analisa’s parents enrolled her in the Los Angeles Music and Art School’s musical theatre program where she performed as Gabriella in High School Musical; and as featured roles in Aladdin and Guys and Dolls. 
    She continued as a piano and dance student until the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts granted her admission.  Analisa thrived at LACHSA where she received various awards from the Theatre Department such as “Most Outstanding Theatre Student” for 3 consecutive years and
Best Actress at LACHSA’s annual Moon Dance Film Festival. During her final year at LACHSA, she applied to the National YoungArts Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships, performance opportunities and master classes led by professionals in their field.
     Analisa was chosen to be part of this select group of emerging artists for YoungArts and through that received the prestigious title of 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholar and YoungArts Silver Award Finalist.  She studied in Miami under the direction of top actors such as Marisa Tomei and Andrew Rannells and perfomed at the acclaimed Kennedy Center in  Washington D.C where she was honored along with the other U.S. Presidential Scholars.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Alumni: Analisa Gutierrez." LAMusArt. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 June 2016. <http://lamusart.org/alumni-analisa-gutierrez/>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character

Character is very important in stories, movies and so on. Character has a role each other. If it were not for characters, we cannot make stories. 
   

Main characters in this story is one boy an one girl. They fall in love.
 ○Boy
 He is very shy. He doesn't have girl friends to accompany to the prom. Then, he meet one  girl. 
 ○Girl
 She is a deaf person. She cannot communicate well before she meet one boy.

B. Reaction Point - message
Message is what a director want to say for many guests through his{her} production.

The director of this movie want to say that the most important thing is to communicate each other and understand the feeling of other person.

C. Reaction Point - dialogue
Dialogue is that a person have a conversation with other person or more. We cannot have a dialogue unless there are listener and speaker.

A girl is deaf so they use notebook to communicate each other. Moreover, a boy study sign language and they communicate in sign language too.

D. My General Opinion
I watch this movie for the first time . Then, I thought that this movie is very nice. I was sad when one boy mistook and felt hurt each other, but I was happy because they got back together after that. I want everyone to watch this movie. It is my recommend movie.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

I. About the Novel

    This story is about the adventures of Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the submarine, Nautilus. One day ships start sinking, particularly ones dealing with war. Survivors think it is a big whale. A harpoon ship goes out to kill it, but finds out that the whale is actually the Nautilus. The most interesting part of this book was probably the Nautilus itself. It is shaped to look like a fish, with a large metal fin on top used to ram and sink the ships. The camouflage of the boat being shaped like a whale works, up until the part where the Nautilus takes on a few passengers from one of the sinking ships. Another intriguing part of this book was Captain Nemo. He is the kind of character that you neither like nor dislike. I say this, because of some of Nemo’s actions. Captain Nemo hates war, and throughout the book, he uses his submarine to destroy all kinds of war related ships. You would like him for trying to put an end to war, but dislike his method (destroying ships and killing innocent lives).
       This is the story of an Underwater Tour of the World and is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after he, his servant Conseil, and Canadian whaler Ned Land wash up on their ship. On the Nautilus, the three embark on a journey which has them going all around the world. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, theMagasin d’Éducation et de Récréation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. The book was highly acclaimed when released and still is now; it is regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The description of Nemo's ship, the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. Thus, the book has been able to age well because of its scientific theories, unlike some other of Verne's works, like Journey to the Center of the Earth, which are not scientifically accurate and serve more simply as adventure novels.--Submitted by Sana.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Seas." THE LITERATURE NETWORK. Jalic, 2000-2015. Web. 1 June 2016. http://www.online-literature.com/verne/leaguesunder/.

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

      

     ①"20.000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954) Trailer

 

      ②20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [DIC Entertainment]

Works Cited （参考文献）

①Bttfportugal. ""20.000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954) Trailer."YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 7 June 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhyuey4xU3Q>.

②Http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC75AOHMFP5Nk6FDY0XM6ltw. "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea [DIC Entertainment]." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 7 June 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCJyGAWvBIs.

III. About the Author

      The French novelist Jules Verne was the first authentic writer of modern science fiction. The best of his works, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, are characterized by his intelligent foresight into the technical achievements that are within man's grasp.
        Verne's personality was complex. Though capable of bouts of extreme liveliness and given to joking and playing practical jokes, he was basically a shy man, happiest when alone in his study or when sailing the English Channel in a converted fishing boat.

         In 1886 Verne was the victim of a shooting accident, which left him disabled. The man that shot him proved to be a nephew who was suffering from mental instability. This incident served to reinforce Verne's natural tendency toward depression. Although he served on the city council of Amiens two years later, he spent his old age in retirement. In 1902 he became partially blind and he died on March 24, 1905 in Amiens.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Jules Verne Biography." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Advameg, n.d. Web. 1 June 2016. http://www.notablebiographies.com/Tu-We/Verne-Jules.html.

 

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - character

In this story, we can divide characters into two types(major character and minor character).  Major character is the most important in this story, but minor characters are important in this story too!!   

1.Major Characters                                                                                                                         

     Dr. Pierre Aronnax → He is a narrator and he is forty years old. He is a former medical doctor turned scientist and lecturer at the Museum of Paris.

    Conseil → Aronnax’s domestic servant. He is thirty years old. He never complains.

   Ned Land → A Canadian traveling on the Abraham Lincoln. He is revered as the king of harpooners. He is forty years old.

                                                 

    Captain Nemo → The commander of the Nautilus. He is a mysterious man. He is a brilliant man who was formerly an engineer.                                                                   

2.Minor Characters   

   Captain Anderson → The captain of the Scotia.

   Captain Farragut → The captain of the Abraham Lincoln. His name is taken from Union Civil War admiral, David G. Farragut.

   Sir Samuel Cunard → The name of the well-known Canadian ship-owner of a prestigious British and                                         North American Line.

("20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: SETTING / CHARACTER LIST / CONFLICT / PROTAGONIST / ANTAGONIST / CLIMAX by Jules Verne." The Best Notes. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 June 2016. <http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/20000_Leagues_Verne/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_The_Sea_Study_Guide02.html>.)

B. Reaction Point - setting
This mean a background or a place or a time in this story.

 TIME :
   This story is about the second half of 1980.  

 PLACE:　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　This story has many backgrounds. For example, the bottom of the sea , on the ship and island.                         　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

C. Reaction Point - denouement

This means the end of this story. Through the whole this story, this plays a role to settle. This has various kinds including a sad denouement, a nice denouement.

     Dr. Pierre Aronnax and Conseil and Ned Land came back to the house of a Norwegian seaman. Various questions remain for this story, but we cannot answer these questions. However, this seems to be the powerful charm of this story.

D. My General Opinion
This story was written by French author. It is not American!! 
I read this story for the first time and I haven't read stories like this story of Japanese. I was very surprised that the origin of the name which is the attraction of Tokyo Disney Sea "Kaitei Nimann mairu" is from this story. I was very happy, because I like stories about an adventure and I could read this story(about an adventure). 
I want everyone to read this story. I think that everyone like this story.