Lessons on How to Read a Movie by Ebert
The article covered by Ebert entitled, “How to Read A Movie,” was extremely insightful and informative. I have always been a movie buff and am pretty big on imagery and hidden meanings inside of films. Ebert points out that the visual …
For my second inspire post this week I chose Wafflestomper’s (great name) post on the Downton Abbey/Wire mashup- Downton Shabby. It was totally hilarious and as I watch both shows, I understood it. The juxtaposition of high class British society with the Wire’s broken down Baltimore was too perfect. This …
For my second inspire post this week I chose Wafflestomper’s (great name) post on the Downton Abbey/Wire mashup- Downton Shabby. It was totally hilarious and as I watch both shows, I understood it. The juxtaposition of high class British society with the Wire’s broken down Baltimore was too perfect. This …
I really like the idea of making a film or show stop action in order to look more closely at certain aspects. Bringing up Hitchcock is the best example ever for this because there is so much in Hitchcock’s works. He makes a story with only black and white that …
I love when voices are heard before anything plays and I have to say, this was definitely a scary first few seconds. The one girl in the middle turning and pointing her finger at each child in turn while saying in a mechanical voice that someone will chop them up …
I was looking at the Reading Movies unit and the fact that 100 hours of YouTube videos are added every minute was crazy to me. The Ken Burns video started on an interesting note, with him talking about 1 and 1 equaling three. His idea about the sum of the …
This week we were encouraged by the Professors to go back and go through some of the DS106 work and to figure out how we can become inspired.
Inspire #1
The first inspirational piece of work that I recommended was Imran’s Dedication to His Mom mom. I can’t emphasize enough …
Earlier this week we were instructed to check out our fellow classmates radio shows and live tweet along with them. The radio show which I choose was The Wire Buyers radio show which aired on October 22. This show for starters was pretty good for several reasons.
TEAMS & THEMES: …
Season 3, Episodes 5, 6, 7 “I want to learn the ways of The Force and become a Jedi like my father.” – Luke Skywalker to Obi Wan Kenobi “Straight and True” I noticed several characters looking for role models to emulate, and mentors to follow. It reminded me of …
I think Imran did such an awesome job on the bumpers for our radio show and his ending bumper was so wonderfully funny. It inspired me to do better bumpers, or at least try to, and I applaud him for making a bumper so good out of such little content. …
