Create a WIX (Wix.com) website about yourself.  The website should indicate familiarity with the program.  Please post a URL to your blog.

Blog assignment for Monday April 2

For monday examine the main series of shots in the video that you worked with for your last blog assignment and discuss the way that movement functions to tell a story and to reveal or highlight aspects of the film images.

Use this article: http://fagerjord.no/downloads/polyphony_preprint.pdf
Namely, pages 5-8. For ideas regarding how to discuss your video, like we went over in class.

See you all on Monday!

Blog assignment for Friday March 30

Pick a movie trailer (30 seconds or longer) and record the different shots that happen for thirty throughout the duration of the trailer.  You may use any movie traile that you like so long as it is appropriate for class.  If your movie trailer is longer than 30 seconds use any thirty seconds of the film that you like.

Here is an example.  I advise that you watch the video and examine how I recorded each shot.

Shot Sheet

The Hunger Games Movie Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBASTjUGKt8

Close up- Two young girls talking

Close up of Jewelry- One girl gives another an item of jewelry

Close up- the two girls talking

Close up- One girl closes the other girls hand around the item of jewelry

Close up- the girls talk

Fade to black

Mid range- camera follows one of the girls running

Close up- girl runs toward camera we see her face

Mid range- group of coal miners walks towards camera

Mid range- Running girl goes under fence

Close up-  Girl draws a bow- we just see the bow being drawn and then it draws back to her face

Mid range shot- we see what she sees down the bow (a deer)

Mid range- Cut to girl laughing with guy

Close up- guy smiling camera moves to show girl smiling

Fade to black

Mid range- Different guy throws bread

Mid range- Camera shows where bread was thrown

Close up- Girl sitting by tree

Close up- Boy who threw bread

Fade to black

Long range- soldiers walk toward camera

Mid range- Mother helps boy get dressed

Close up- two kids peaking through underside of house

Blog Post for Monday

Find Three Credible Sources

Format them according to MLA Style

Include an annotated Bibliography of 4-5 sentences (Circa 50-60 words is fine also).

Blog 5

What topic are you interested in researching:

In 300 words or so free-write about your topic with the goal of moving towards argumentation.

Blog4

Post three research topics!

Blog 3

Select an image that you would like to use for your visual rhetoric paper.  Based on this image write a thesis.  - The idea behind this is that you make an argument and support the argument using rhetorical analysis (ethos, logos, pathos).

Due Friday, January 27

Blog Post 2

Select three possible images for your visual rhetoric assignment paper.  For each image right a thesis statement.

Blog Post 1

Discuss things that you see around you on a day to day basis.  How are these rhetorical? How do these images impact you

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