The Road Not Taken by Rober Frost

This time we chose the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost as our final project because we think this poem shows the situation we are facing now. As a third grade student we are going to graduate in the next year, that makes us feel the time is not enough ,we still have a lot of things want to do, and also when making choices toward the future career, it's always struggling for us... cause most of us are not sure what to do in the future. Though this poem is talking about different choices to choose, one is less people to walk by ,the other is trodden by people and the author chose the one which less people walked by... well, in this poem two roads are fair. And we thought we don't want to interprete about the author's choice or the road,we wanted to put more emphasis on whenever you stand in front of the diverged road in a yellow wood to make choices toward the roads, just like when you are making the choices actually every choices for us are fair because we never know what will happen and the difficulties for us to make choices we believe that is because we are scared of the uncertainty of the future and be afraid of to get rid of the comfort ozone that's why we decided to use the other way to interpret to show our poem in a different way.
At first we decided to narrow down the choices toward the choices of future job, and the idea of the way we wanted to present just pop out in our minds. We use the three roads as different choices metaphor and we drew lots to decided who be the main character and luckily Regina got the lots that's why she is the main character of the poem( and she really did a great job :) ) Then we discussed to have the main character stand in the diverged road confusing about making choices to the road, a metaphor of feeling confused about making choices toward the future job. And then we discussed three different jobs as the choices,a business woman, a teacher and a singer. We chose to use bussiness woman and the singer is because that the two jobs are the jobs we alll probably to do in the future and about the last one, singer, we believe that this job is an example of the road the author mentioned in the poem the one that less people choose to walk, less people choose to do. And about the jobs are all fair for Regina to choose is becasue every choices we make may have a variety of results and we will never know what will happen until you make the choices then you experiences it, you will know. And as long as you make the choices , you can't turn back the only things you can do is just keep walking, you can never come back to choose the other one. So we use a easiest way to present the different job we just specify it has two different results one is good result the other is bad result as an example because actually as we know the results of the choices are not just as easy or bad,sometimes it's a more complicated feeling:)
Then the difficulties we met this time is that we couldn't make our time. I mean cause it's near the final exam every member of our group is busy and we all have part time jobs need to do. That make it become more difficult for us to get together to make our video. What's more, we only have three people so we needed to find others to pretend students when we took the scene of being a teacher, and people to pretend the fans when we took the scene of singers. Actually, this time, the process of making this video is much easier than the other times, this time we chose to use movie maker to do it, and it's really easy for us to use so that we didn't meet the problems we met before.
And in the end of the video we use the same secen as the beginning but the main character's mood is different from the original scence, you can see in the video she is not as confused as before and turn his head back to give a smile. We use this to metaphor that the main character already knows the answer of the choices but we didn't show which choices she choose to let the audiences have the imagine space. We show this scene is becasue we want to tell everyone that though making choices is difficult, and when making choices may have many diffent thoughts or voices in your mind, or when making choices many people may give you advices, but to remember, the only one who can make the decision is only yourself, and only you know the answer when making the choices toward your life. Every choices is just like adventures that also makes us think about there is one proverbs in the movie Life is a box of chocolate, you never know what you are gonna get.


Our video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgcaK11nYiw
the music we use in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftyio5fgQno

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

I leaned a lot in this class, Aiden thanks for your teaching, I like the way you teach to let us deliver what we thought to develop our critic thinking, I really enjoy a lot during your class. Although sometimes the project is a little bit difficult, those are good triaings for us. This semester my computer skill seems improved a lot all because those projects :), although our group only has three people, the loading is heavier than the other groups, we still make it and survive.hahahaha~~

Again, thanks for your teaching, btw, teacher you are so beautiful XD
wish you have a great, fantastic, wonderful vacation!!!

by Petty.