I found the readings this week to be really interesting and approach storytelling and the analysis of storytelling from some different angles.
A big thing that I took away from the things we watched and read was that manipulation is a huge part of storytelling. Editing clips together and using …
I chose to analyze the scene from season 3, episode 9 of The Wire where Carver and Colvin are discussing what to do about it being apparent that the body was dragged.
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The shots opens with the yellow police tape running across the middle of the screen. We then …
For today’s daily create, we had to draw a washing line. I did the usual things you would put on a clothes line except for one.
For my second inspire, I chose Meredith’s trailer for The Office.
I really love how she edited clips from a comedy show into a very dramatic trailer for what could be an action movie. In some ways, it was even more humorous because it was presented in that …
For my first inspire, I chose Jessica’s video of the Emperor’s New Groove in 5 Seconds.
Most things are hard to summarize in 5 seconds, but she managed to pick the right clips so that anyone can get the gist of the movie, whether or not they’ve actually …
This week I was inspired Brittany to do the “This is my Story”. I didn’t know what I was going to do for my Video Assignments but I looked at what a few people did and Brittany’s assignment really inspired me. The one thing that I liked about her “This …
Module 2 Reflection
Our goals for the Wikipedia module were to learn about Wikipedia’s history, learn about Wikipedia’s processes for adding/editing information, determine the cause of the 91% male editing dominance on Wikipedia, and to create our own Wikipedia page with information. Jessica and Emily had the great idea to …
For my third assignment of the week, I decided to do the Play it Backwards assignment, worth 2 stars. I decided to do a scene from The Wire, and I wanted to take a sad scene and make it happy. I used the shootout scene from season 2 episode 9, …
One of the things that caught my attention in episode eight of the third season of The Wire was how far Pryzbylewski has come from season one. It seems as if him being the butt of everyone’s jokes in the first season just made him want to work harder and …
