DIVERSION OF CONNECTIVITY
Published by Anthony noto
9/8/16
In Frasers article on the "Public Sphere" she posts the main concern that this is a key fragment to the contemporary critical theory, which is this idea of the 'public sphere as its own character. Fraser emphasizes the point that the 'public sphere' or better yet, a committee that discusses the realistic views of society that would better our society and applies a democratic government; so not only high ranking officials are making decisions. Fraser then puts the reader in the eyes of a liberalist, and a postmodernist. Does this better our country as a whole? Should we only allow male enforcement? What do we do when the government gains too much power, and there is no balance of power breaking down the public spheres democratic power? All questions pop into our minds as we are continuing to read the article deliberately aimed at making the elitists look bad, women have as much strength, and power to be an elite figure in society. Having a balance of power is key to a countries democratic success.
Workspace
9/12/16
The four takeaways I grasped from the introduction of the book "Out on the Wire", dealt with the ideas of interviewing, and how to set up a story. The primary method I was able to understand was the use of having a sequence of events begginning with a little story known as an anecdote. Another key element to setting up a good story ishow detailed you write allowing the reader to visualize, and feel the senses you are portraying through text. From the interviewing perspective that I would like to focus on is generally how you ask questions. To be able to ask open ended questions, then narrowing down directly on certain elements to enhance the situation and get visual imagery. The last point I would like to focus on are the uses of the equipment for the audio text. The microphone placement, the location, the equipment itself, and the noise that is taking place in the room.
9/15/16
Telling a story about myself was hard in the sense that I did not know how descriptive to get with each line of my poem. The minor details that had a huge influence in my life, were either too descriptive, or contained detail that had no relativety to the listeners. The influences in my life were how I perceived them, not as any other person perceived them, leading for it to be hard to understand by the listener or reader themself. The poem made me reflect on the good times, and the bad times of my life growing up. I have had so many great moments to live and talk about through my life, but this was not the only thought process going through my mind, not leaving out the bad ones. Smiling, and typing was a good feeling and an exciting to me, because who does smile and do homework? I was comfortable sharing the life I had lived, not the very personal experiences, but choices that influenced my character growing up in life, were the great choices.
9/19/16
-What were the biggest difficulties in your transition from culture to culture?
-What were the biggest surprises in your transformation?
-What questions do you belive I should really touch on from a happy perspective?
-Where would I get the most detail and experience out of the refugee I will be interviewing?
-How do we connect with our study and continue elaboration throughout the whole interview?
How can I open myself up to connect with our study?
9/26/16
When speaking with Sana and Chanda I took away a lot of practices, values, and background information to apply to my interview. When listening to their stories about the Kmher Rouge genocide, emotions started to run wild, and I did not know how to handle the situation. I did not know whether to show that I was upset, or to be strong for the speaker (Sana) because it was a traumatic experience that she had overcome. Later on, when we were asking Sana, and Chanda our questions, we brought this point up. Their answer was simple, give the interviewee a quiet moment, and don't ask them any questions. The interviewee is going to get emotional, because of the tragic experience, and we cannot pressure them when they are in this emotional state. Another important observation I had made at the meeting was to follow up on background information to get a sense of what the refugee is talking about. To be able to ask questions and connect to the refugee, allows for an open conversation as if you were already acquainted, and you feel comfortable. Applying these two major takeaways to ny interview will not only make it stronger, and educational, but it will allow for a comfortable conversation, instead of being a nervous wreck.
10/13/16
In chapter 4 they mainly discuss the idea of telling multiple stories of one culture/civilization. They discuss the idea of not creating just one broad overview of a specific culture and to keep open to different ideas, values, and cultural differences that many other people possess. Touching on the most dramatic, emotional, or exciting stories of any interview, is not where the heart of the story lies of the speaker. Yes, many of the speakers had horrific lives, but not only focusing on the grueling, and malicious areas of the stories is what we are there for.
10/24/16
Sound is metaphorized as the "Deep sea" due to the different ranges that can be used, the muffling of sounds, the ideas that they hold and the emotion that each ripple of sound does cause. Sound plays a huge role in the making of a great audio piece, not in the way that the sound entertains the viewer, but helps by keeping a solid flow to a great piece not only containing knowledgable facts and statements. Sound is conveyed in a radio story to help entertain the viewer as well as giving an image, or an idea without actually speaking or writing what wants to be said. In radio there is no visual content, but when noises are put into the piece such as music, or everyday sounds, maybe even crazy boings, all creates an image rather than the words themselves. In our video stories noise such as music would be helpful to use, but sound effects are not going to help much.
11/3/16
The primary purpose of the edit is to come together have a group critique the piece and then move forward with the "editing" process from there. Introducing the edit segment they make sure there is a known and distinct difference between the edit and the editing segments of your ugly baby. You may not want to make so many changes but when put into a critique and then put to rest for a few days will help with really finding, and then making the correct editing procedures to fix that mistake.
Framing and signposting are two terms in the chapter that are used to make the story you are trying to tell more compelling. Framing the story is where you can make edits, and the focus of your actual story keeping the reader in mind while telling your story. Framing a story around a specific idea and making the viewer wait and cause suspense within the story. Signposting are hints, clues, sounds, words, or symbols that can be used to further give away the ending, and give the stance that the author has that he/she is writing about. Further signposting gives away the stance of the author, as well as the main points and structure of the argument being made.
11/10/16
1.When receiving feedback on our first draft of the interview, we mainly got questioned on the structure of our video. Peers thought that our video jumped around from point to point, and not having a sequence. When we were up for pier review they also pressured us on the transitions in our video from slide to slide. They cut out in some places and others were jumpy. The second draft critique I was not here for because of an injury but I wish I could've heard the difference in the critique itself. We can address the issue by adding in more sound components to help the viewer enjoy the transitions, and we can audio edit the video so it has more of a fluent story.
2.The outside viewer I used was my roommate and he found the second draft 10 times better than the first draft. He did have some trouble with a muffled voice in some instances, but nothing to the point where he couldn't make out what Chanravy was saying. He also pointed out that we need more of an intro to really set the scene and catch the viewers attention. Starting the interview with dialogue was not very appealing to him and he did not know too much about what he was watching, or what was going on. I believe if we were to set the scene either by using one of us to vocally explain, or if we used writing, such as slides to depict important content for the viewer to pick up.
11/14/16
PART 1
The background reading that we had listened to following the video on "The Olive Project" visited the area known as oral history. Oral history is a documentation of a certain focus letting pictures, video, and sounds do the story telling for themselves. Oral history is aligned with creating a video based of the real life occurrences, or moments in which defined the person, object, or idea for what it truly is. Next, oral history is seen as being "a co-constructed process of narrative composition" due to the fact that something tells a factual story with ideas, emotions, and solutions, then the film maker interpreting the story into a visual, and audio text in a pattern that could most impact, and influence the viewer or listener of the film and audio.
PART 2
The Olive Project helps me think about multimodal composition through the enhancement of the first person narrative and the emotion that continues along with the revisited memories in life. I "The Olive Project" I believe that the project helped me think about writing for public audiences in a way that I will let each viewer interpret the story as they please, and not make a set path for their thoughts to take them. The author really nailed the idea of the emotional appeal to an audience in "The Olive Project" with a sweet woman, really giving descriptive, happy, heart-warming images to help completely lay out what shaped her as a human.
This project deals with the representation of another individuals life, and to not harm, cross, or twist the subjects words. When representing someone's life it is not about depicting what you believe that they say is important. Anything your subject has to say is important to the story of which you are trying to tell, and that is their story. "The Olive Project" uses only the voice of the 78 year old woman and none other than that, to fully explain the live she lived and the family experiences that she shared primarily about her father.
11/17/16
1) The purpose of the article is to show that you cannot put a name or definition on any term in which gives the term its meaning. The purpose of the analogy of the rose in Shakespeare, is to depict the bigger meaning behind any “thing” in the universe instead of keeping it confined to that one ambiguous definition it is given. This form of argument is supposed to place multimodal writing on a bigger scale not only in a Collegiate scene as expressed by Cynthia Selfe in her piece “Tactical, situated, local” based on the Ohio State University curriculum. Keeping multimodal writing limited by giving it that definition is the argument behind the author, or collection of authors as put by Claire Lauer.
2) In the second segment of the reading/listening, the three concepts that I found most compelling were the ideas of context, relativity, and precision while writing in this academic scene, and what gives Multimodal Writing that ‘bigger meaning’. First, in an audio piece on the concept of context Kress explains the idea that there is a heavy influence of political meaning behind many writers views in society, dealing with words used, emotion given to portray their argument, or maybe even mishaps of ideas and communication. Next, in relativity, this is where Cynthia Selfe gets into the meaning of Multimodal writing compared to written english at OSU, displaying that use of comparing a term to other terms to really show the difference between the different terms in one class.
11/21/16
1/3)working on this project I did a number of tasks to help lead to the success of our final video. In the end I had done multiple things, first, recording the interview itself. I had to figure out the steps in order to set up the camera, capture good images, while also being able to hold a high audio definition so we could hear Chanravy clearly. Next, we had met to cut video clips, lay out the plan for the sequence of our video, and the key points that we wanted to really touch on in our video. I had also found the music in which we used throughout our clip for the drafts. Next, I had worked with the subtitles writing out the first four to five minutes, then found a key button on youtube after all that work which did the transcription for us. I am happy with the contribution I had made, but could not do much editing on the video itself due to uploading problems with my computer. Technical problems were an extreme difficulty.
2) The content of our video most pleases me along with the fluency of our video. I feel that our video went well with telling the specific story that Chanravy was trying to really get across. The influential side of that refugee activists in the United States today, and the lives of the first generation refugees.
12/5/16
Section B:
1)In the final reflections that I reviewed today I really liked Paige's use of the flipper dashboard to be able to tell her story. I was not able to find a design in that sort but it would fit well with the project that I am forming my design around. Julia's project was a lot more organized and informative in a knowledgable sense in a scholarly way. Not too much background going on giving most focus and attention to the content of her reflection. I would like to find the dashboard as Paige found to set up my project in a more creative sense, but I would like my project to impact the reader in a more influential sense as Julia applied to her reflection.
2)My website needs a lot of work after seeing the reflections today in class. It might just be personal criticism, but I feel that I did my reflection wrong, and focused on too much work outside the refugee project. I need to sit down, structure my site, and create it more in a scholarly way using the refugee project.