Band Assignment

1) I would call this story "Inside the black box", because then, the audience will wonder what is really inside the black box, and start reading.
2) I thought that Mr. Hutchinson was going to be exiled, because in the story, it seemed Mr. Hutchinson was not really happy when his name was drawned out of the black box.
3) I felt curious about the ending, and really wanted to read on, to find out the ending.
4) Because it was mysterious paper, i thought that the paper holds the ending of the story. I didn't follow the instruction, because i was so curious to read the ending.
5) I didn't feel anything special, because the black box made me think "oh, so they are now trying to follow the story..". When there was a black dot on the mysterious paper, i thought that was just a printing mistake.
6) I felt disappointing because the ending was not i expected. Also, I didn't understand the ending.
7) My prediction was not correct, so i didn't feel happy, but I was not sad. Again, I don't get the ending.
8) To help to make me better prediction, it would be great if someone helped me to understand the story more cleary, because in our group, there was lack of time, so we just skipped last 2 pages.
9) The author leave these voids in the story, to create tension and make the reader curious, eager to read on.
10) a- Made me wonder why there's no title, but I was not curious about the author at all
b- No ending made me really curious to read on.
c- Made me question 'why'... ex: Why did the boys pile up the stones?
d- Mysterious paper made me wonder and imagine what would written on the paper.
e- Delayed ending allowed me to think whatever I think.
f- nothing

BAND BLOG POSTING!!

1. Copy ISKL’s mission Statement into your blog.
2. Insert the word (silence) in the statement in the place that you think would create the most tension.
3. Explain in one paragraph why you think your VOID would create tension for the listener.

The International School of Kuala Lumpur provides an exceptional education that challenges each student to develop the (SILENCE) attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to become a highly successful, spirited, socially responsible global citizen.

I've put the silence after 'the' and before 'attitude', because it makes the audience ask question and take more attention to the sentence. Before the 'silence', is about ISKL providing education that develops... when the sentence end like this, the audience will think 'develop what??' If there's a question, there is usually a answer. The answer to the audience's question, is 'attitude, skills...', explaining what ISKL's education can make a student develop.

4. Describe one way composers can create tension (question) and release (answer) in their music.

One way composers creates tension and release in their music, is to create a void in the middle of the piece. Normally, if something unexpected happened to people, people usually pay attention to the unexpected thing. It works the same with music. By creating a void, people ask question,(which creates tension) and after the void, continues the music, (which is release).