Author: Julianna

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Visual Analysis Plan

Have I Ever Created A Video Before? 

I have created many videos before, some for class some for leisure. In one of my history classes I created numerous videos about subjects such as the Louis and Clarke expedition. Most videos I create are “home video” style, also known as vlogs, and I use iMovie to edit them.

I have benefit from my previous videos because I feel like it has given me experience with software such as iMovie. Going into this project, I am not worried about using video software. I guess I am just worried about making sure I am doing the assignment right.

What Do I Want My Project to Look Like? 

I would like to use iMovie for this project, and even though I have experience with it I would like to just try some new things with it that I have never done before. I can’t think of specific things that I want to try because I do not think I will know what I’m doing until I am actually doing it.

Will Time Effect My Project?

Yes. I do think that at the end of the day, time will effect this project. Between other classes and obligations, it may be difficult to do a perfectly complex version of what I want to do.

How To Make The Best Analysis I can 

I think my biggest obstacle will be time for this project. I plan on overcoming this by starting early and making a detailed plan and sticking to it. I feel like we have plenty of time to complete the project, and it is a fun assignment so perhaps I will not procrastinate completing it.

 

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How It Should Have Ended

Harry Potter

How Harry Potter Should Have Ended

Summary:

In this video, Dumbledore is very open about all the mythical creatures Hogwarts has. When Voldemort and Harry are in there final face off, Snape comes back from the dead and shoots Voldemort with a hand gun. At the end, Snape takes the time turner and turns it 262,031 times on order to go back to Voldemort’s childhood and kill him.

Analysis:

  • The audience for this video is obviously primarily people who have seen Harry Potter so they can understand the characters and references.
  • I think knowledge of the topic is very important because if a person had never seen the Harry Potter movies or read the books, they would not know how the ending is different from the original.
  • The tone is somewhat comedic because Snape uses a hand gun to kill Voldemort which kind of defeats the whole purpose of having magical powers.
  • The video is animated which I think adds to the comedic aspect of it because they can have ridiculous things happen.

Hunger Games

How Hunger Games Should Have Ended

Summary:

The video starts by showing all the contestants riding out on their chariots, and Katniss and and Peeta are actually on fire, not just their clothes. At the games, when the game makers revoke the rule about having two victors, Katniss and Peeta agree to commit suicide instead of oil each other. At the last second, Katniss admits she does not love Peeta and does not eat the berries. Peeta does eat the berries, and, therefore, he dies.

Analysis:

  • The tone is this video is very sarcastic and literal. Like in the beginning when Katniss and Peeta are literally in fire and screaming for help. In the games, Peeta actually eats the berries and dies unlike the original movie.
  • The visual style, again, was animated which I think makes it even funnier. This one did a good job including details like Caesar Flickerman’s blue hair and Katniss’s famous side braid like it was in the movie.
  • The sound on this added a lot too. When Katniss and Peeta were on fire, the clip switched to Caesar Flickerman and he was laughing, and it sounded exactly like the guy in the movie and it was something that would have happened in the movie.

 

 

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Rhetorical Analysis Reflection

When I started the assignment, I knew that my groups topic was sports. I am a relatively big sports fan, but I did not think I knew enough info to analyze a specific sports article, so I tried to find an article that was related to sports but was not necessarily all about one specific sports event.

I started by simply googling “sports” and clicking on the news category. After skimming several articles, I decided that it would be interesting to find an article about concussions in sports. When I decided this, I made my search more specific and read through about three articles until I found the one I ended up using: ‘Concussion’ doctor says kids shouldn’t play these sports until they’re 18. The reason I  chose the article I did is because I thought it had enough information to make a convincing point, but it did not ramble on wan go off on tangents which I feel medical articles often do.

This article was also desirable because I thought it had clear persuasive strategies that I could comment on. One thing that made the article interesting was the way it was set up. It would state the reporters question and then just give the whole answer the interviewee, Dr. Bennet, stated sort of like Humans of New York style. I liked this tactic because as a reader, I got to see exactly what the source said instead of some watered down version. This was also a negative. Because there was only one source used, there was only one side of the argument represented. The lack of repression from both sides was something I commented on in my rhetorical analysis.

My Outline

I started the paper by making a somewhat detailed outline. I read the article once straight through to get an idea of it and then read it again, but this time I would stop and points to my outline that I could talk about. I read through it a third time in order to find quotes that would support my points.

When I started my draft, I started by writing my thesis and then building my intro around that. The first thesis I wrote was the same one I kept through the entirety of my writing process. The thing I changed the most was my the content in my body paragraphs and where I placed. My intro was the thing that I changed the least.

 

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Homeless Man In D.C. Response

What I Thought

The fact that Eric Sheptock chooses to live a homeless lifestyle in order to be an advocate is equally admirable and ridiculous to me. If it were me, I would try to escape homeless as soon as possible; however, he chooses to stay because  he is a role model to many other homeless people.

I can’t truly say If I agree or disagree.  Like I said, I think anyone who is homeless should seek any job possible to work their way back up to a steady income. Though I feel this way, I of think it is interesting that Sheptock does choose to be a social media advocate. It certainly shows the power of social media.

I think the set up of the article is fairly easy to read; however, I would have rather read his background story earlier in the article. Other than that, it was easy to read and understand what the author was trying to say.

Analysis

Pathos is used to play with the reader emotions. In the article, Homeless Man In D.C. Uses Facebook, Social Media To Advocate For Others Like Him, the author, Nathan Rott uses pathos to make readers feel sorry for the lack of homeless representation. The article is specifically about Eric Sheptock, a homeless nam and advocate in D.C.

Rott forces people to sympathize Sheptock. Rott says that even if Sheptock was offered a job, he would choose to keep his position as a digital influencer.

“He wouldn’t move out of the downtown D.C. shelter where he has slept for the past two years if it would make him a less effective voice for change,” (Rott).

Sheptock gives up the luxury of a steady income because he believes that his part as a role-model in the homeless community is too important which makes the reader root for him and his cause.

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Analysis Pre-Assesment

Before, this assignment I do not think I have done some work with analysis. Most of my experience is with in class discussions verbally analyzing a reading; however, I also did an analysis paper in composition I. It was a process analysis, so we had to take an event–my group chose participating in the school musical–and simply analyze the process. This was somewhat of a fun paper in that class, so I have not one a formal analysis technically.

From what I have read, I learned that there are a plethora of different areas to analyze when reading something. It is easy to read something and initially think it is “good” or “bad,” but it is not until after you go back through and look through all the different components that you can truly depict weather the reading was good or bad.

I think this assignment will be different than the summary because summary did not involve opinion. In the analysis, it’s all about opinion. The summary assignment is relatable to this because in order to complete an accurate analysis, you have to be able to summarize the main points of the reading. Once you get a grasp on what the reading says, you can make an informed analysis.

When planning my analysis, I am going to pick a longer article. After I choose an article, I will obviously read it and get my initial reaction. I plan to make an outline about what topics I want to touch on, based on what the article did and did not do well. Hopefully, I will give myself plenty of time to read the article multiple times and cultivate an accurate analysis.

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Summary Reflection

The summary was somewhat difficult for me to write. When I write, I typically over write and add too much extra “fluff”; therefore, when I was writing the summary, I had to be more concise. Because I was trying to be more to the point in my writing, I felt that it was too choppy when I read it out loud. After some revisions, I felt that it was not too choppy, but still concise.

When my peers read my summary, they gave me helpful feedback regarding grammar and vocabulary. I tend to overuse commas, and they helped me fix that. They also aided me in changing some weak vocabulary words that may have been too casual for the assignment.

The hardest part of the assignment was making sure I accurately summarized the article without basically reciting exactly what it said. I also struggled with deciding which style to write the summary in. Since I am a journalism major, I will primarily use AP style; however I felt that I did not have enough knowledge on how to write in AP, so I chose MLA instead because I had prior experience with it.

I think in future papers, I need to follow an actual process more. With this summary,  I just wrote, read it aloud, and then revised in the same doc. Next time I think it would be better to create a new document for revisions so I can see what I changed. With how user friendly Google Docs is, I think I could be quite organized with my writing process.

In my final product, I felt confident that I accurately describes the events from a baseball game to someone who may have never seen a baseball game before. I think I used an appropriate mixture of quotes and summarization. Obviously, as this assignment was a summary, I did not use as many quotes as I did my own summarization.

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My First Post

Currently, at the beginning of the semester, my ePortfolio is very basic. As the class goes on I hope to adjust the site to make it fit my personality more. Obviously, by the end of the semester there will be more work on here, as opposed to right now when I have none.

I have used WordPress before, but have never gone much past the surface level.  This time, especially since this is my own personal ePortfolio, I hope to utilize all the aspects of WordPress to make my site as appealing as possible. I feel like WordPress is good at giving its users the opportunity to customize their site in a plethora of ways, yet still make it user friendly.

Even though I have used WordPress before, there is still so much I do not know. So when I think about what I want to do to change the site to make it my own, the options are somewhat limitless. I hope to keep it updated with all my writings and other various works. Also, I hope it reflects my personality. That will consist of floral patterns and a minimalistic look.

By the end of the semester, I hope that I look back to the start of the semester and laugh thinking about how clueless I was about WordPress, and I do not my website will be completely different because of how much I have learned.