Student’s Portfolio STML Lingua e Traduzione Inglese, Laurea Trienniale III anno Page 1 of 5
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Summary of Activity
(Attach a selection of examples of your work in a separate portfolio)
Date / Hours / Activity03 Oct. 2017 / 30 mins / Film localisation and translation presented in class. (Infantryman Sierra, University Volunteer).
09 Oct. 2017 / 30 mins / Composing sentences with fixed words on random sentences
10 Oct. 2017 / 1h / Description of someone I dislike and providing reasons.
Well she’s the kind of person who believes that knows-it-all. She doesn’t care about the opinion of others, and if you try to correct her in any way, she’ll complain. It is obvious that she doesn’t know how to admit or accept a judgment, everything she does seems perfectly done for her. Her lack of modesty and humility builds the person she is. At the beginning you may find her nice, but the more you get along with her, the worst the relationship develops.
14 Oct. 2017 / 1h / Clustering exercise with random words at home to acquire writing skills when composing.
17 Oct. 2017 / 30’ / Composition of poetry work applied to current socio-cultural lifestyle.
Let me be your charged smartphone.
Which cannot be died out.
Let me be your Instagram account.
I will never stalk (out?).
If you like your make-up.
Let me be your powder-face.
You apply all the cosmetics
I wanna be (yours).
Let me be your WiFi signal.
For those Sunday lazy days.
Let me be your ticket plane.
When you wanna fly away.
Let me be your passport.
So I can be anywhere with you.
19 Oct. 2017 / 1h / Writing practice. Composing a film script (which would be using CELTx software) in an indoor place with two characters.
Meeting a stranger at a party
Interior, party, evening. Two characters A & B.
A: Hello, John.
B: Hey, have we met before?
A: Not, yet.
B: How do you know my name?
A: You have it on your badge.
A: One coke for me and one gin tonic with a lemon slice and two ice cubes for him.
C: Alright, enough like this?
A: Can we have some olives instead of peanuts to grab a bite? He’s allergic to peanuts.
C: Sure.
B: Who are you? Gin tonic with a lemon slice and two ice cubes? Allergic to peanuts?
A: No questions needed right now. Tomorrow is 11th of September. Do not go to work in the morning come what may. You will have time to thank me ten years later.
B: Hey! Don’t leave now!
24 Oct. 2017 / 1,5h / Description of an indoor location with the purpose of transmitting feelings on eventual readers.
Sounds.If you close your eyes, you can hear music from the other side of the wall. It is not a loud one, but just some listening to One Direction on its free time. On the opposite side of the room sound from engines in cars can driving down the road and the rain drops hitting the windows can be noticed.
Textures. The blanket is warm and soft, it reminds me of home. On the floor the covering, like a carpet is warm as feet don’t seem to get colder walking without slippers. It is not soft, but coarse.
Smells. Well, obviously I’m not at home, this smell is personally strange, not the one of mind from the air freshener my mom uses at home. This smell is kind of similar to humid wood, but is not disgusting at all.
Flavours. Over the table there are some candies in a small bag and a served glass of coke, but no the regular one, this one tastes as the cherry flavour one. I cannot get this one at my country home.
28 Oct. 2017 / 2h / Audio-visual practice: Watching Horror film Theatre if Blood.
31 Oct. 2017 / 1h / Composition of a random film-plot from a particular love story: John and Kathy. The plot is described and settled in different parts: introduction, event 1, climax of the story, event 2, ending.
John meets Kathy at a business international event, and they fall in love.
Kathy back in Paris, Paris is declared under terrorist attack and the ministry of Culture, place of work for Kathy, is set on fire.
France is on alert and barriers are closed to external communication. Meanwhile John has already taken the first shift arriving to France.
The plane is diverted to Brussels. John arrives to Belgium and takes a train to Paris.
02 Nov. 2017 / 1h / Writing practice: describing frames from a comic drawing.
In the first frame, a train on the background of the picture can be recognized. There are three people: two passengers and the servant from the on-board restaurant. One of the passengers seems lazy and tired, the other seems inpatient and wanting for something.
In the second frame, the servant places the food on the back-seat of one of the passengers to eat the other from behind.
In the third frame, the lazy passenger tries to do something with his seat, seeking for comfort, while the other is looking starving at his food with a happy face.
In the fourth frame, the lazy passenger presses the button to release the seat to the fatted position and throws the food of the other passenger away.
09 Nov. 2017 / 1h / Writing practice: describing a past memory involving perception of senses.
Back in Christmas time, I was with my family in the small detached house of the north of Taranto. My mum was cooking some chestnuts for dinner and the smell of wood burning in the store and the warm atmosphere in the room reminded me of previous autumns collecting wood and chestnuts in the forest.
13 Nov. 2017 / 1h / Writing practice: Features describing someone I know well. Writing hypothesis with opposite features.
He’s 23. Masters student in Material Engineering. Dark hair. Smaller than me. Lives 20 kilometres away from here.
If he wouldn’t live 20 kilometres away from here, maybe I wouldn’t have ever met him, so he wouldn’t be my friend.
If he wouldn’t study Masters in Material Engineering, maybe he could have already graduated.
16 Nov. 2017 / 1’5h / Research practice: Seeking information about the significant news in the South of Italy; the murderer of Sarah Scazzi.
The cousin of 15-year-old Sarah Scazzi, whose strangled, decomposing body was found in a well in southern Italy, has been arrested. The arrest on Monday of Scazzi's 22-year-old cousin, Sabrina Misseri, followed her father's arrest earlier this month after investigators accused him of murder.
The coroner said it was possible that Scazzi was strangled by her older cousin, although her father Michele Misseri claims that Sabrina lured Sarah down to the family's garage where he strangled her while his daughter pinned her arms.
After a 15-hour police interrogation, Michele Misseri initially confessed to strangling Sarah after she rejected his sexual advances. He claimed he then raped the girl's dead body before throwing it in a well in the countryside near Avetrana, in the southern Puglia region, where the Scazzi and Misseri families live.
Sabrina Misseri denies any involvement in her cousin's murder. Her younger sister Valentina Misseri and her mother Cosima Serrano, also claim she is innocent and say they fear they could also be arrested.
Serrano, who claims she was having an afternoon nap at the time her niece disappeared, was on Monday questioned by police in the southern city of Taranto, near Avetrana.
Sabrina Misseri was arrested after forensic examination of Scazzi's mobile phone and "discrepancies" in her version of events the day her cousin disappeared, that of her father and those of other witnesses, including a friend who was due to collect the two cousins and drive them to the beach in her car.
Sabrina Misseri led the hunt for her cousin, whose body was found over five weeks after she disappeared and gave tearful TV interviews at first imploring people to come forward with information over her cousin's disappearance and after her father's arrest saying: "he must pay for what he's done."
Before the murder, Scazzi, who liked the same local youth as she did, had reportedly complained to her cousin she was being molested by Misseri.
23 Nov. 2017 / 1h / Writing practice. Composing a hypothetical plot in which Sarah Scazzi’s story would have changed with an external character. I have chosen a dog.
Sarah has a dog. He is a puppy German Shepherd which gets nervous every time Sarah screams or is under danger. On the 26th of August Sarah wen to have a walk with him around 14.00 after lunch, before she leaves with her cousin to go to the seacoast. In the middle of the street Sarah comes across with her aunt’s car, and Sabrina firmly gazes at her. Her aunt gets out of the car and grabs Sarah’s arm with energy. The dog gets nervous since he clearly feels Sarah’s fear and bites the aunt leaving a huge wound on the left leg.
24 Nov. 2017 / 1h / Writing practice. Composing a film script (which would be using CELTx software) following three main ideas: couple in a car running out of gas.
Exterior car night
A car is speeding along a narrow road in the countryside. Barren landscape. Fields framed with a dread.
Interior car night
Couple in view. Man driving, woman in passenger seat.
Marie looks at speedometer. It shows 140 km/h.
Marie: You’re making me nervous.
Mark looks towards her but doesn’t reply or comply. Turns radio on.
Marie turns radio off. She glances at him.
Marks foot presses down on the accelerator.
Marie: Would you please … slow … down?
He just stares ahead.
Marie: Come one … What’s wrong?
26 Nov. 2017 / 1’5h / Writing practice. Developing a script and a scene for the previous mentioned hypothetical plot in Sarah Scazzi’s story with an external character.
CHARACTER
Sarah has a dog. He is a puppy German shepherd which gets nervous every time Sarah screams or is under danger. On the 26th of August, Sarah went to have a walk with him around 14:00, just after lunch, before she leaves with her cousin to go to the beach. In the middle of the street, Sarah comes across with her aunt’s car, and sees Sabrina gazing at her. “Hey, don’t have we met by 14:30? I’m not ready yet” –says Sarah. Her aunt gets out of the car and grabs Sarah’s arm with energy. While she pushes Sarah into the car, the dog feels Sarah’s fear and bites the left leg of her aunt, leaving a huge wound.
SCENE
Minutes before Sarah arrives from school, around lunch time, the dog leaves the house and jumps over the fence and waits next to the fence. The school-bus arrives and Sarah gets off. The dog starts jumping and moving the tail as it’s happy to see Sarah. Sarah comes inside and the dog follows her. Sarah goes to her bedroom to leave her stuff, to the bathroom to wash her face and hands up to have lunch, and to the dining room afterwards. While all this demonstration, the dog follows her until she sits to eat. Sarah gives a meat stick to him and the dog chews it, moving his tail.
Another day on school, and Sarah’s lesson ends a bit late. She takes the bus home late, and arrives behind time to have lunch. Even her arrival was not scheduled as other days, the dog does the same procedure five minutes before Sarah arrives; jumps over the fence and waits for her outside. A strong connection between Sarah and the dog is shown on the scene, leaving the observer the thought as if the dog could smell Sarah kilometres away before getting home.
28 Nov. 2017 / 1h / Writing and imagination practice. Composing three different short-stories following three provided ideas so others guess the idea reading the story: He felt tired, She loved him and Grandmother came home drunk.
He felt tired: He finished typing on the computer his dissertation, laid back on the chair, fixed his eyes at the ceiling and released a sigh.
She loved him: She was looking at old photos and memories they shared together last summer, alone in her bedroom, and while she passes the last page of the album, she burst into tears.
Grandmother came home drunk: After the Christmas dinner, grandma wanted to go to sleep as she was feeling dizzy and sleepy. Grandpa took and helped her until to get to the bedroom as she couldn’t walk by her own properly.