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Weekly Summary

Week one is officially out of the way. I must say I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this course. It was all a bit overwhelming at first and after reading our weekly assignment at least ten times and following some of the guides I finally figured out how to set up WordPress and how to write my blog entries.

So far it has been interesting, I am forced out of my comfort zone and having to learn things I wouldn’t on my own. I watched the movie The Matrix for probably the tenth time in my life. My short review can be viewed here.

Film Review – The Matrix

Overall I am excited to continue this course and I am looking forward to learning more and slowly stumbling my way through this as I eventually get a better grasp of being a digital storyteller.

My goals for this course

When I registered for this class I wasn’t quite sure what exactly I was signing up for. I was looking for an online course because they are a bit easier for me with my current work schedule. Now that the course has started I have a better idea of what this course is about.

I am not a tech savvy person but I am looking forward to this course challenging me in new ways and forcing me out of my comfort zone. So if I have to pick a goal it is to pass the course and learn new skills that I had no intentions to learn a few months ago.

Film Review – The Matrix

The A.I. related movie I choose to watch is the 1999 film The Matrix. At a risk of showing my age I remember when this movie came out and how revolutionary some of the special effects and action sequences were.

The movie follows a man named Thomas Anderson, who goes by the alias “Neo”, who discovers he is living within a simulation, known as The Matrix, created by a sentient machines in order to use humans as a power source. He is able to escape this simulation with the help of Trinity and Morpheus and he assists them in resisting the machines inside the Matrix and the real world.

The movie still holds up well nearly 25 years after its theatrical release. It can just as easily be enjoyed as a mindless action movie as it can be as a deep, dystopian, science fiction movie that explores some of the more frightening possibilities of having machine overlords using humans as batteries.