Desserts
Slimes, Squishes & Other Tactile Toys
Stranger Things
Music
Movie Magic
100

This dessert is made from frozen milkfat and comes in flavours such as neopolitan, rocky road, and mint chocolate chip

Ice Cream

100

This common household item is the basis for all slime

Glue

100

This character played by Millie Bobby Brown possesses superhuman powers

Eleven

100

Pharrell Williams’ Happy uses a fast, high-pitched major key and a bright, staccato melody to convey this emotion

Happiness/Joy

100

There are 2 main types of special effects—practical effects, performed onset and recorded by the camera or this type, added in post using computer programs

Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)

200

These popular individually portioned sweets often include chocolate chips, peanut butter, or raisins and might be packed in a lunch or stored in an ornate jar on the counter

Cookies

200

Slimes, squishies and other tactile toys help soothe this part of the body when a person is distressed

The Brain

200

The Duffer brothers focused much of their story around this fantasy role-playing game known for its multisided dice

Dungeons & Dragons

200

This is the emotion conveyed by slow, low-pitched minor keys and melodies that flow without breaks exemplified in class by Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U

Sadness

200

For special effects like flying or suddenly appearing in an unlikely place, actors will be filmed in front of this colourfully named screen and the background will be added in post-production

Green Screen

300

Varieties of this dessert include German Chocolate with nut and coconut topping or carrot with cream cheese frosting, but any of them could be served on a birthday with candles

Cake

300

These toys may resemble memory foam and either bounce back quickly or slowly (with slow return to original shape being preferable to most who play with them)

Squishies/Squishy Toys

300

The character of Henry Creel, also known as “One” turns out to be this telekinetic mastermind villain

Vecna

300

This emotion is conveyed by loud, fast, dissonant, harsh, intense, and jarring rhythms which we saw in the video clip of Smashing Pumpkin’s Bullet with Butterfly Wings, featuring the clean shiny band and several mud-caked filthy day players acting as miners

Anger

300

Some films like A Nightmare Before Christmas might be completely filmed using this special effect form, while other films might only use this effect for short specific sequences like the opening credits of Beetlejuice.

Miniatures

400

Varieties of this dessert in a baked crust include apple, pecan, and lemon meringue

Pie

400

This rather unusual component of slime is what gives it cohesion, making it stick together and may be added a few teaspoons at a time until the correct consistency is created

Contact Solution

400

This mythical monster has no face, just petal-like flaps of skin lined with rows of sharp teeth

Demogorgon

400

In “mirroring” the brain treats musical syntax like language, often mimicking the acoustic characteristics of an emotional _____

Voice

400

For realistic computer-generated character work, actors will perform in lycra suits covered in evenly spaced ping-pong balls to capture every detail of what they are doing

Motion Capture

500

This dessert might be a jiggly baked dessert or a fluffy no-bake version but either way, it is comprised of a cream cheese mixture on a graham cracker crust and often includes fruity toppings like strawberry or cherry

Cheesecake

500

At the end of our class on slimes and squishes, we checked out a video on another viral science experiment that causes large quantities of expanding foam to be produced—This stuff is named for a large grey mammal

Elephant Toothpaste

500

Although Stranger Things takes viewers to LA, the Nevada desert, and Siberia, it begins in this fictional town in Indiana

Hawkins

500

One way in which music creates a biological impact is by stimulating the Limbic system or the emotion and memory processing centre in this part of the body.

The Brain

500

This term is a long, fancy word for created flames or explosions used in film

Pyrotechnics