I keep seeing what I think of as “young” themes of childlike elements recurring in episodes of “The Wire”. Maybe it’s child-like innocence? Maybe it’s an innocence that’s lost, or wistfully hoped for but never attained in our view into inner city Baltimore. My vision for an audio project is …
I have very little knowledge about audio prior to this class. I mostly think of audio as the volume at which its heard and whether its diegetic or non-diegetic. So I found that listening to the interview with Jennifer Ralston very informative and enlightening. Listening to scenes from The Wire …
It is really interesting to see someone working behind the scenes. When you watch a show or movie, you don’t necessarily think about what you hear, but it is so important. It is nice to hear someone like Jennifer Ralston talking about how this job started just as an interest …
I know it’s a bit early in the week, okay really early to be making any statements like I understand how audio works, but I’m already sitting on an idea that might be able to turn into a cool thing for the radio show, so I thought, why not type …
A lot of what was discussed in “Web 2.0 Storytelling” reminded me of what I learned about and implemented in Professor Whalen’s Transmedia Fiction class last fall. However, the discussion of these web-based formats for story telling in this reading seems more like the building blocks for transmedia or an …
The spectrum Vonnegut creates is so simple yet so applicable to so many different stories. The curve spectrum is a newer and simpler version of the story plot we learn in grade school (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion), but the curve somehow easily represents an entire story in …
