Month: May 2022

For my remix project, I decided to choose the second essay about choosing artwork and focusing on an issue within it. The show I chose was SKY Castle, and the issue of parents putting pressure on kids to be successful and get into the best schools. I think that focusing on that essay would be easier for me to visualize and I feel like it would be more entertaining. I was going to do either a slideshow or a video. I’m leaning more towards the video but I feel like that might be a little hard because there’s a lot I want to include. If that doesn’t work out, my second option is the slideshow.

I plan to make a video that’s similar to the one shown in class, but a little different because I want to include some clips from the show as examples. I have to make the video a little broad because it’s condensing an 8-page paper into a 2-5 min video. So I want to make sure to talk about and include my main points. I have to remember to make the video appealing. I don’t just wanna have texts on the screen and play clips from the show. I should make it so that the audience is both learning and enjoying the video. I’m still thinking about doing a voiceover or not though. Originally, I thought of doing a podcast but I wanted something more visual. I’m planning to use either iMovie or final cut pro. I’m still debating if I should make it somewhat animated, or just put in pictures with a voiceover.

If I decide to do a slideshow, which is my second option, I want to make it stand out and essentially do the same things that I would’ve done in the video.

 

For this Remix Project, I am planning to remix my research paper which was based on a movie called the “La Misma Luna”, solely focusing on immigration. Like, their experience coming to America and the stereotypes they face. As of right now I’m not completely sure what I want to make, but some options I have in mind is either creating a powerpoint presentation/google slides or a video that is able to capture what I focused on in my research paper. The purpose of my project would be to provide a visual representation of why immigrants choose to come to America, their experiences (good or bad) and how “La Misma Luna” was able to resonate with many immigrant people. With this project I will be able to include images and my own voice/thoughts on my topic.

By remaking my work into a multimedia piece, I will be able to freely and creatively put together a different version of my research paper. One that doesn’t strictly focus on the structure of an essay yet still manages to deliver the same purpose I had as my research paper. Although I may not be able to share as much information and data with this project compared to my research paper, I still think a gain of this project is the visual aspect of it which will be able to engage and intrigue my audience.

The biggest challenge would be being able to fit all the points I want to mention and think are important for my presentation. As for what I like best, is that I can have fun when creating this project by approaching it in a creative way. My personal motivation is to create something that is able to share why immigrants seek to come to America and what they face when they do so. I will be able to do this by using the film I chose, “La Misma Luna”, to add onto the purpose of this project.

For my remix project, I haven’t quite decided. I think the general direction is of my research paper, which is about luxury and dissipation. I did mention the book, “The Great Gatsby,” in my paper. The book was made into a movie, so I decided to make a video, which I will probably present as a slideshow and add some video footage. I plan to use text narration to reflect the characters and glamorous scenes to reflect luxury and dissipation. I should use iMovie to edit my video, mainly to show the impact of Luxury and Dissipation on people’s lives and why people would pursue money. Then I will talk about the impact of money on different aspects of our lives and how many people lose themselves in the process of pursuing money.

I am very interested in this project because I think the mix of sound and visuals will be very rich for expressing my thoughts, and then the text explanation is not able to fully express all the feelings, only when expressing some columns, such as when most of the characters will appear in a luxurious party scene, enjoying the fun, etc. I plan to use iMovie to edit my videos. In addition, I will use some filters or special effects to apply to my video, so that the feeling of watching it is not just a single one, but rich in content and scenes.

The biggest challenge for me in this article so far is that it’s hard to find shots that reflect that feeling and show exactly how I see life in this way. And then how to integrate the photos, text, and video together is going to be a huge challenge. I think it would be a lot of fun to turn text into video to make people more impressed and experience something different.

 

I am planning to make a short video using IMovie that will illustrate my argument and texts you analyzed and used for support in my previous project. I’m going to remix my second paper that focused on how Childish Gambino attempted to expose the truth on how America deals with their problems, how their is still racism in society, and how police only protect one race and not the other. I would want to make it more interesting this time though by deep diving into the individual scenes where he is portraying different events that actually have occurred. I had a nice take on these scenes in my essay but I feel that it would bring more interest and eyes if I demonstrate them during my video. In my research paper, I feel that I focused more on everything he was trying to convey with the music video and the message he was trying to send. However, this is a perfect opportunity to actually go deeper with the different dances and scenes that occurred during the video.

What I’m trying to convey is that Gambino put everything in his music video on purpose and everything was used as a tactic . Which is why I will take a deeper dive with the individual scenes while comparing them to the actual events that took place. The rhetorical choices that I will make will include audio , text, photos and video because I will demonstrate to the audience on what Gambino was doing.  Remaking my work into Multimedia will change my project because it allows me to be more creative and demonstrate more then just writing as I did for my previous paper. I don’t think there’s much gone but what I’m gaining is much more freedom to elaborate on what I previous wanted to show to the reader.

I am actually excited to use IMovie for this project because I have done it in the past and it shouldn’t be that hard to complete this. I get to elaborate while showing the scenes that transpired during the Music video so I am also excited for that. The only challenge I see would be the editing part to make sure the Video goes well.

My research paper will be remixed, with a focus on police brutality in America and its history of targeting people of color. My target audience for this presentation is, of course, my classmates, but it also includes everyone in today’s society. Every day, everybody with a smart phone or a television hears about police violence in the United States. Such heinous acts against people of color are a cancer that is rapidly spreading and must be tackled. My goal in giving this presentation is to not only educate people on our broken justice system and police brutality, but also to persuade them to take action against it. In my presentation, I will use a few images that I believe are great for expressing the realism of the situation. People frequently hear about police brutality, but no one looks into the aftermath of such violence and the impact it has on the black community. People can really feel the presence of the police’s deadly power and activity while dealing with black people by using photos and images. I believe I benefited more by giving a presentation on this subject since reading about the bad effects of police violence is different from talking about it. This is a problem that has to be discussed since it affects a large number of people. By redoing my research paper, I will be able to speak to my classmates and others face to face, which will allow me to appeal to their emotions while also allowing them to see how enthusiastic I am about the subject. Changes must be made, and this remix is an excellent approach to raise awareness about police violence.

For my remix proposal, I am planning on making a slideshow for my presentation. I am choosing my research paper for my remix proposal as I feel like it is more suited for a presentation. For the project, the audience would be the hip hop listeners and those who are aware of racism against blacks in society as my research paper was about it. The purpose of the project is to display the story of Kendrick Lamar’s album, To Pimp a Butterfly, and show its message of systematic racism being a key issue within America which is impacting many black people. The genre will be racism and societal issues. The medium for the project will be a slideshow that incorporates images, possibly lyrics and a video. Within this project, I will be conveying the story of Kendrick Lamar’s album and how the story of the transformation from a caterpillar into a butterfly is symbolic of the lives of black people once they become aware and rise from the negativity that exists in society and it will argue that racism is a very prevalent thing in society. I will go about making my argument by going through the key themes present within the album to show that racism is still a prominent thing in America and by going through the journey of black people that Kendrick Lamar states in the album. I will choose the rhetorical forms of images that relate to the album’s themes, possibly some lyrics and maybe a video that includes Kendrick. Remaking my research paper into a multimedia piece will change my project because it will not be as descriptive but it will be persuasive and engaging for the audience instead. The project will lose its descriptiveness and very detailed analysis but will gain a more engaging and intriguing way of displaying my work. The process so far has not been bad because I have a sense of direction when it comes to what I will do for the project but I need to keep the project concise and what I like best is the creativity involved within the project. My personal motivations for tackling this project is showing how racism is still existing in society.

For my remix project, I will remix my first article, which exposes the effects of differential treatment by the government on the different clans of human society during the epidemic. My first idea was to find a lot of images on the internet, as well as some elements of the arguments I gathered, combine them and then I would explain them, but in this case the visual and aural representation would not be very satisfying. I think the pictures are still not enough to fully express my meaning, and inside my article, just reading the text may only get a slice of what happened, but not a more intuitive sense of its impact. So I’m going to make an iMovie, and I might improve some of the ideas in my article a little bit, make it more concise, and add some audio mixes to make it sound more comfortable. The video approach adds a lot of possibilities, using a combination of text and audio to make the content more creative and engaging, and I’ll show different examples in the video that focus on a general direction of the topic, and then make a summary at the end.

The change this will make is that it will make my article more attractive and the content of the article will be slightly overhauled. The content of my article may not be enough to fully show what I want to say, so I will add some extra content to make it look fuller. Nonetheless, it may not be as detailed as described in the article, but in the main it is a straightforward presentation of an important point. I think the video was the hardest part of the production process, and it took a lot of time to think about how to put multiple pieces of content together.

 

For my remix project, I am planning on making a Powerpoint. I plan on remixing my Argumentative Research paper on “Donor Organs.” Currently, I’m gathering more visual statistics to help reinforce what I mentioned throughout my research paper. I feel like graphics will help keep my audience focused. Additionally, the statistics I provide in my presentation will allow them to see it for themselves and decide how they feel about organ donations.

Remaking my work into a multimedia piece will help the people who have not made up their minds about organ donations decide the details I provide in the Powerpoint slides. Additionally, graphs and other images I use can certainly make it more engaging for different groups of audiences that prefer looking at visuals other than text. Overall, this project can make it easier for my audience to look through as it would be looking through different slides and visuals rather than going through the 10-page research paper. I feel that these slides would allow the audience to make their very own conclusions based on my presentation. This project will also allow me to express my research in other ways rather than through text.

I’m currently facing a challenge in deciding the graphics I want to use in my presentation. I feel that in my research, I have come up with many pieces and that I should cut down on how many graphics I use overall. Some of my personal motivations for this project is that I know of someone who has gotten a kidney transplant. However, he had certain advantages as he had access to more money when compared to an ordinary citizen. Additionally, his wealth and connections put him ahead of thousands of individuals that wait for organ transplants.

For my remix project I want to make a PowerPoint and record myself discussing it via zoom or a similar mode. I originally wanted to make a PowerPoint, but was struggling with how to record it. Today’s class was helpful in putting that last puzzle piece together. The intent was to cover the core themes of my paper (white privilege, police brutality, cultural appropriation) through imagery instead of text. A research paper deals with text and wording, which is important, but often it can lose the power of the image. My PowerPoint will feature mainly images with text that I have written that I will record. This way, images are the focal point of the piece. An academic paper is intended for scholars and those who are well-versed in the topics I am discussing. I appreciate having that conversation between people who are experts in the field, but a PowerPoint based on an image is much more accessible. By utilizing images and recording brief discussions, the remix of my paper becomes accessible to students, curious people, and anyone interested in learning. Academic prestige can often block many people from learning because the language and presentation are intimidating. I understand that choosing a PowerPoint based on images means I lose much of the complexity in my paper because I cannot recite seven pages of text. That being said, I am excited to explore what is gained by making my academic paper more visual and accessible.

       Regarding this project, I am still not sure how to present my ideas. I am going to finish this project with the theme of how to be a rule follower and what it means to be a rule follower, because we are able to  consider this idea from many perspectives, and each perspective will have its own persuasive power. My main purpose is to let you know that not all of the time we need to follow the rules that are set, and that often everyone is different or has limited ability to follow the rules. I will probably start with a picture to explain what the rules are, and this picture will be mainly in black and white, because it will make the presentation feel more serious in a way and will make people more involved in the picture. And as my personal understanding, the pictures that are full of black and white are easier to add color on which means that we are able to have our own colors on the pictures. This reply says that we are allowed to change the rule under different circumstances. Then I will use some clips from Curb Your Enthusiasm as an example to explain this idea, and I may need to use iMovie to edit the clips at this point. 

       I felt that having a visual direct connection between my ideas and the film and television work would make my ideas better understood, because on paper the essay was all about reason, some literary message. But on the project, we used examples and explanations directly with things that are easy to understand and we all know. But the disadvantage is that many times we are not strict enough when we talk about the reasoning. 

       The biggest challenge so far is that it’s a little difficult to find relevant footage, because this show has so many episodes, and every single one of them is very classic. The biggest joy of doing this project is that it allows me to revisit the series, allowing me to slowly recall each episode and perhaps come up with different feelings.