Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 1 and 2

1. On the day Gordon Parks was born, how did the doctor save Gordon's life?                                 He cut his umbilical cord   
2. Where was Gordon born? (what state?)                                                                                           Fort Scott, Kansas
3. What did Gordon's class adviser, Ms. McClintock, tell him about college?                                          That he probably wouldn't be able to go there because he was black.      
4. How old was Gordon when his mother died?                                                                                      14    
5. Where did Gordon move after his mother died?                                                                                  Minnesota
6. Did Gordon graduate from college?                                                                                                     No
7. How did Gordon begin his fashion photography career?                                                                      He got a job at St. Pauls       
8. What is a "double exposure?"                                                                                                                The repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images     
9. Who was boxer Joe Louis?                                                                                                                     World Heavyweight Champion 1937-1949     
10. What instrument did Gordon play?                                                                                                         Piano   
11. What was the purpose of the Farm Security Administration?                                                                To combat poverty during the Great Depression
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, what was Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington, D.C.?                                                                                                                                To photograph day-to-day life of people  
13. Who was Ella Watson?                                                                                                                           A female outlaw or rebel who was a photography subject of Gordon Parks
14. What was the inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic?                                                             The Great Depression    
15. What did Gordon learn from Stryker about photography?                                                                      Realism

Elements of Art(Form)

This photo has form because the tree has a definite outline against the background and is separate from the foreground

Mission San Jose High School

Camera Raw Edits:

Brightness +15

Clarity -5

Elements of Art(Shape)

This photo demonstrates shape because the palm fronds have a distinct fan shape that give the plant its unique characteristics

Mission San Jose High School

Camera Raw Edits:

Brightness +20

Saturation +5

Clarity +25

Elements of Art(Line)

This photo has line because the trunk of the palm tree goes directly up into the sky in a straight line

Mission San Jose High School

Camera Raw Edits:

Clarity +28

Saturation -2

Elements of Art(Space)

This photo demonstrates space by juxtaposing the tree with the wooden beam, and also showing it off against the sky

Mission San Jose High School

Camera Raw Edits:

Clarity +30

Saturation -4

Elements of Art(Texture)

This picture demonstrates texture because you can see all of the individual patterns of the leaves which create an overlapping texture

Mission San Jose High School

Camera Raw Edits:

Clarity +14

Blackness +5

Elements of Art(Color)

This photo demonstrates color because of the contrast between the bright magenta flower and the surrounding green/red leaves

Mission San Jose High School

Camera Raw Edits:

 +23 Vibrance

+11 Saturation

Movie Monday Half Past Autumn Part 3 and 4

1. What is your definition of successful?                                                                               Contentment
2. What have you given up to become successful?                                                             Stress
3. What did Parks give up to become successful?                                                               Family life, happiness
4. Who was Genevieve Young's father?                                                                               Gordon Parks
5. How much was Parks advanced to write his first book (and eventual best-selling autobiography)?                                                                                                               A lot
6. How much money did Elijah Muhammad offer Parks to do a story on The Nation of Islam?                                                                                                                             A lot
7. Why did Parks refuse the money?                                                                                   It would hurt his career
8. What was significant about the movie The Learning Tree?                                             It was his first movie
9. What was significant about the character Shaft?                                                             He was an African American hero
10. What was Gordon Parks' choice of weapons?                                                                 Fists
11. What reason did Genevieve Young give for the divorce?                                                 He was always gone
12. In 1984, Parks directed Solomon Northrup's Odyssey. What recent feature film told the same story?                                                                                                                       Selma
13. Who was Gordon Parks, jr?                                                                                             Gordon Parks Sr's oldest son
14. What is your favorite Gordon Parks photo?                                                                     Gloria Vanderbilt
15. What will you remember about Gordon Parks in ten years?                                             His affairs with white women