Vampire Love Stories

In class, we have been discussing vampire love stories. We are looking into who the audience would be, what the purpose of the story is, what the appeal is, and what elements are used to appeal to the purpose of the story. After thinking it through, I decided for myself that the audience would be teenage girls and romantics, due to the love stories involved in nearly all vampire love stories now-a-days such as "Twilight" and "The Vampire Diaries". I then thought about the purpose, and I decided that it was to tell a story about "true love" and show romance to teenage kids looking for a romantic situation. The appeal is the beautiful people that they put in the story to attract the audience to the show, because people would rather see attractive people fall in love than ugly ones. Elements that were used include suspense to keep the audience interested. Suspense is used during the stories when the directors leave us hanging mid-plot when something is about to happen between episodes or movies. This is something that drives many audiences crazy and keeps them coming back for more, which is a very good marketing technique. Vampire love stories that are made today are made to entertain teenage kids and introduce a romantic story that will be suspenseful and keep the audience coming back for more.

Fairy Tales

In english 1050 recently, we had to write our own fairy tale for homework. This fairy tale had to include a few different elements in it, such as a villain and a hero that triumphs over that villain, magic, and some sort of creature that sets the story away from reality. That is what makes a good fairy tale. I struggled with something to come up with, but I thought back to all of the fairy tales that I was ever read as a young child for ideas. Eventually, I was able to come up with the story of a young gnome that triumphs over a specific problem/villain and teaches the audience a lesson at the same time. It took a lot of thought and changing of ideas along the way, but eventually I was able to come up with a fairy tale that could possibly intrigue a small child and teach them a lesson as well.

Running

I have never been a big fan of running. When I was younger, I weighed a lot for my age, so running was a difficult task. As I grew older, I began to jog around the block in order to get in shape for the upcoming soccer season. I had a specific time that I had to run my mile in so that I could reserve myself a spot on the team. This was no easy task, but eventually I was able to decrease my time and say that I was a decent runner. Throughout my years of high school sports, I ran a substantial amount every day with my team. Coaches would have us running all the time in order to get in better shape to beat out the other team. I worked as hard as I could through the majority of my high school career with running and other sports goals, and it felt good. Now that I have graduated high school, I don't run as often because I am busy doing other things. I still exercise, but running is something that I have always found tedious and now i don't do is at often as I used to. It is my goal to start running a little bit every day and hopefully I will eventually get back into it for my health.