This American Life Response

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/178/superpowers

Written Reflection on the Video Joke Assignment --**Videos are posted further down**

For our video joke, we chose the joke involving the Economist, Mathematician, & Accountant. I directed the video with humans (not the one with the stuffed animals). In that video joke, we utilized movement to convey the meanings we wanted to get across because we were to voice-over the dialogue. How we did this was by having the characters in the video show emotion with their hand gestures, the way they walked, sat, and acted with their body language. We also utilized line in this video with the eye contact that was presented between the characters, and by the character's directionality of where they were sitting and facing as this line showed who had the dominating power over the other character.
In the 2nd video, we decided to use Kramer's script involving stuffed animals. With this video, we had to utilize shape because we were using the stuffed animals. Our reasons were because we thought the shape of each animals body would help present the animals position of power. For example, the pig was a circular shape, which helps show power, and the pig's character was powerful as he was the economist that gets the job. Meanwhile, the duck's shape was more triangular, and we chose that character for the duck because the triangle shape presents a less dominant character. We also had to utilize rhythm for this video because, as the animals do not have real movement, we had to create rhythm to the movements so that they seem realistic and catch the audience's attention.

As I discussed the contrasting elements between the two videos, there was some affinity. This occurred with the tension and release created by the scripts' joke: the audience tensed for the beginning, wondering if this businesswoman/businessbear will find a person for the job. Then the economist comes in and gets the job, and the audience is released.

My Hero and Animation - The Janitor

Video Jokes

6B - Audio commentary critiquing video game imagery

I chose Nazi Zombies from Call of Duty: World at War for my video game:

5B - Audio Commentary critiquing my favorite scene

My favorite scene is from the movie 300:

5A - Re-imagining Visual Framing

Painting by Helen Frankenthaler

Painting re-sized by me

I chose this painting by Helen Frankenthaler. The reason I chose the image in the first place was because I really like the depth of color she created with the blue, which I feel allows the image's picture to come out. I then chose to zoom into the image where I did because this is the specific depth of color that I was most drawn to. When you contrast the two images, the pictures interpretation be viewed with affinity. When You look at the regular image (which is a medium shot) , the lines that create the color borders present a very difficult-to-interpret shape of the colors. But when you view the zoomed-in image (which I made a close up), the line perceptions are easy to distinguish. I see a coast off the ocean, with space of the ocean's depth shown in the color blue's saturation. The zoomed-in one helps creates a better picture plane, and turned out to be the image of the ocean's coast subconsciously; however, I believe that Helen painted this consciously with more space because she wanted more interpretations to be possible. Also, when looked at from the zoomed-out perspective, image can be received as a flower by the rigid rhythm of the lines at the top of the painting which, in my mind, gives me the rhythm of flower pedals. However, the color brown does not fit this profile.