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they of what moviemaking his life one thing we're mentioning Evans of Anderson you didn't the second time because this won't be no I want to jump that into my thoughts about about Wells I was struck by a sort of a pessimistic message that he acted on in both Citizen Kane and magnificent Emerson's and I've put it out in your in your reading the characters all seem to deal with something about the past and but the message isn't isn't the optimistic sort of like life is short like no enjoy it and it's more that the past is no good to us that we can't rekindle the past we can't have it back it's gone it's dead and the movies well at least the initial version of the Magnificent Ambersons didn't have a happy ending and alterations were done that sort of pleased the audience I mean it was happier I get you'll find that out today I haven't seen it yet and the pessimism sort of surprised me so I I guess I spent some time ...

PROFESSOR: They have now been working on the first project, the quarry project, for two weeks. And during that time, there was a pin up. Then we asked them to do a first design at a very small scale, which you see here, of one project, of this outside classroom shelter out of the rain and the sun. You see the scale, the person to the total project. There was a pin up to criticize that project. And then we asked them to blow it up in scale to quarter scale, that you see here, and more detail and revise, at the same time, based on the criticism that they received. And so in addition to the model that you see, we also asked them to make drawings of sections and plans and details of their project. This is a typical one. Now at this point we had a review, where I asked people from offices around Boston, as well as other faculty, to come and criticize them. So this was their very first review of exposing their work to other people. And what you're about to see is a typical ...