Saturday, November 27, 2010

Champlain in 60 Seconds: Champlain from the Rooftops

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1) My main contribution to the video was the editing. I spent a good chunk of time compiling the shots and syncing the music and voice overs.

2) On an A to F scale, I feel I've earned a solid A. I feel like I spent the most time working on the project in general. That isn't to say that my group mates didn't spend a lot of time on the project but the editing was just a long process.

3) The hardest aspect of the video was the sound. I ran into a lot of trouble with the music going under the voice overs and getting the timing right with the specific shot. 

4)The most rewarding aspect of the video was shooting it. It was a lot of fun going out onto the rooftop of Bader and shooting. Some of the shots of the lake and mountains that we got from the library were really unique with the sunset. It was also pretty funny explaining to people what we were doing up there. 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

"The New Yorker?!" All nuts and bolts there"- The Devil Wears Prada - 5 minute Presentation

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Thesis : The New Yorker is a published magazine that services highly educated class citizens with interests in politics, opinion , theater, movies and books.


Five Facts:
1) The New Yorker publishes out of Iowa.
2) It contains “talk of the town” which is an opinion column.
3) The New Yorker reviews movies books and the theater.
4) The New Yorker writers are called “contributors”.
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5) The New Yorker has caption contests and features drawings.
Brain: The New Yorker stimulates the Neocortex with the use of words. The limbic brain is used with its talks of music, it’s art, and its drawings..
 
Shifts : Epistemological shift- The New Yorker utilizes art along with drawings to go along with its written word.
Cultural shift: The New Yorker focuses on many aspect of what could be dying culture such as books and theater.

Principals:
 
Value Messages- Because it is a lot of opinion and criticisms, the New Yorker has a lot of value messages hidden in the opinion.
Ownership- The New Yorker is influenced by an highly educated consumer judging by its content.
 
Emotional Transfer- The different pieces of art or the plot of a book or play can invoke different emotions in the readers.
Techniques :
Testimonial - There is a page in the New Yorker that lists all credentials of their contributors.
Nostalgia - It reviews things that were more popular a while ago like the theater.
Repetition - The exact same sections are in the New Yorker every issue.