very very rough draft

Ariel Knight

Film Evaluation: 2001: A Space Odyssey

12-2-09

2001: A Space Odyssey is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick and was released in the United States on April 6^th, 1968. It had received 10 awards such as the Golden Laurel Award, the KCFCC Award for Best Film and Best Director in 1969, and the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, the David award for Best Foreign Production, the CEC Award for Best Foreign Film and BAFTA Film Award for Best Soundtrack, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction in 1969. It was also nominated for another 6, including some such as the BAFTA Film Award for Best Film and the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. The film, also called just 2001, was written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke and was very controversial for its time.

SUMMARY OF FILM…(not in my point of view)

Critic’s opinion on the film when it first came out…

The overall reviews of the movie are still as they were when it first came out, people either loved the movie, thinking it was the greatest film of all time, or they hated it. After watching the movie for the first time in class, I had already made a mind set that I did not like the movie at all and was not going to give it a second chance. During class we watched roughly the first half hour of the film. My first general reaction to the film was that it was boring and pointless. I had no interest in watching the rest of the movie and as dreading writing a whole paper on it. To me, the music was very repetitive and I was lost within the first ten minutes. There was no conversation and I thought the apes were not convincing. The plot was boring and it was hard to follow the story line when there was finally conversation. I am a huge sci-fi fanatic and I was excited that we were watching a space movie, and was disappointed when I thought the movie was turning out to be a bust. Even with my teacher and my father backing the movie, saying it was one of the greatest movies of all time, I still had my doubts. MY NEW POINT OF VIEW…

Interview with Lynnell Knight, a fan of the movie…

Conclusion…

compiling a prtfolio

Well, to be perfectly honest, I did not really follow this blog entry. This blog is about the reading in the Norton Field Guide chapter 27 "Compiling a Portfolio", pages 224-236. It started out with the basics, what is the purpose? Who is your audience? what genre to do, what is your stance? and what is the media or design going to be? Then it jumped right in to "Writing a Portfolio". I like how it laid it out for us, giving us ideas fo what you might include in your portfolio. Things like outlines, drafts, writing assignments, tests, quizzes and reflections of your work. One of the things that I thought was interesting was the differences between paper portfolios and online portfolios. I personally think that an online portfolio would best fit me. I'm not going to lie, the next part of the hapter was a sample of a self-assessment, and I did my best to read it, but ended up scanning over it. The chapter wraps up with "Reflecting on your literacy portfolio", why is basically self explanatory.

Evaluations

This Blog entry is a summary of what I think about the reading assigned to us, pages 120-126 in the Norton Reading book. This chapter is supposed to prepare us to for a film evaluation that we will be doing over the next few weeks. It starts out with having us read an evaluation written about Dawson's Creek. After reading the evaluation I like how the chapter breaks down the Key Features to an Evaluation. I was pretty intrigued through all of that, but then started to suffer on the next part. Not that it was not good information, it is just early in the morning and I do not want to be reading anything to do with homework right now! haha. The last page was helpful with two graphs to show ways of organizing an evaluation, and I really liked how it had a place where you could go to different, sited, spots in the book if you needed more help. I thought that was very helpful.

all done!

We just got finished posting our blog to youtube and on here. I'm pretty happy with our final product! I think we are going to find it a lot funnier than the people in the class, but still I had fun doing it. Now we have to work what we are going to say before and after the video, which is pretty hard I don't really know why we all have to talk for like a minute...but we will get it done. I liked this project because we got to be independent and work outside of class. I hope we get to do more of these in the future...

almost done...

Our project is due tomorrow and we are almost finished. It went pretty smoothly and I think we all had fun filming it. We chose to do a video because we thought that it would be the most fun to do and watch, and keep the interest of our viewers. We had some problems the first time that we filmed, with the camera, because it kept cutting off the last few seconds of everything. But after we figured out it was doing that we re-did all the filming and it was much better the second time. At first our group didn't really get along but by the end we got along fine! we are finishing up the last touches!

Our Video English Project

We chose this subject because as freshman we wanted to see which restaurant appealed to the upperclassmen around Ball State's campus and why they liked it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbjXPIzPN7U

Yet, another blog

This reflection blog is over The Norton Field Guide, Chapter 30, Analyzing Causes and Effects and Chapter 31, Classifying and Dividing and Chapter 32, Comparing and Contrasting.
Chapter 30 has many was that you can analyze cause and effects. It talks about all the different ways to analyze them like, determining plausible cause and effect, arguing cause and effects, ways to organize cause and effects and considering the rhetorical situation. I felt like after reading this chapter it helped shed some light on different ways of analyzing. For the next chapter, i liked how it was shorter than the other chapter. When I first read "Classifying and Dividing", I really didn't know what to expect. For classifying the chapter suggests that you group similar things together. Dividing is breaking something into different parts. I guess I don't really know how that has anything to do with the writing process, but I'm sure it has to do with something! I did think that "Considering the Rhetorical Situation" on page 265 did bring a few good points to what we are doing in class. Alrighty, I've had about enough of blogging for the night! Till next time...

Reading Strategies

I agree with the statement the book implies by reading, "Different texts require different kinds of efforts. Some texts can be read fairly quickly". There are so many strategies to reading. There are many different ways to read strategically, like sometimes when i read these assigned writings...I skim, other times I focus on my reading and really try to understand what I am reading.
It talks about Considering the Rhetorical Situation which talks about the purpose, audience, genre, stance and media design when reading. Another thing I really liked while i was reading was learning about annotating. When editing someone, or my own paper, I always use annotating. I think it is very helpful to use this when you are reading.
Next in the reading we get to learn about outlining!! What it says, what it does and summarizing; are all steps in the process of outlining.
Analyzing the argument. This part of the reading I found very helpful and interesting since we are doing an analyzing assignment in class. All in all the reading had many helpful points that many of use will hopefully use in our assignment coming up! laterrrr

analyzing texts

This reading was actually pretty long, but had some interesting points. In chapter 7 it talks about the many ways we analyze writings or texts. The way we analyze anything that we read, puts a whole new spin on the writing. Many people have such different views on the way they analyze readings. Something we read and have a very strong opinon against, could be EXACTLY the thoughts of someone else. Analyzing can be very time consuming. Depending on how deep your willing to go and how much time you are wanting to spend on writings or readings, can determine your analyzation of the writing.

Editing and Proofreading

It's imperative to edit and proofread.
No story, book or anything get published without the process of editing and proofreading. I thought the reading was really helpful. I never thought about editing sentences before and when I read that it really made a lot of sense. I think next time I write a paper I'm gonna go through sentence by sentence making sure it flows and it is the way I want it to turn out.
I also like the idea of proofreading every paragraph. Making sure each paragraph has a topic sentence and that the body of the paragraph goes with the topic sentence. I liked today's reading because it was short, sweet and to the point!

Assessing the writing that you do for yourself is a big no no! when your writing in a journal or for pleasure there is really no need to pick it apart and evaluate all the details. Now when you are writing a piece that is for others then there is a need for some assessing. The reading says... "We rarely get to explain to readers why we did what we did and what it means". Which is the case 99% of the time. Like, if what you wrote reached thousands of people across the world, your not gonna be there to explain to every person everything that was written about. So there is this great need for your writing to be very specific and make sure you convey exactly what you want the reader to feel and think. The next part of the reading goes into more details about how we can check ourselves, is our thesis clear, how does the beginning focus on attention on your main point etc.? The second part of the reading focuses on the response of your writing. How you can handle the response, revising the text and rewriting. Sometimes when you get feedback on your writing it can be offensive or even hurt your feelings...but you can not take it personally. The reading had a lot of helpful ways to rewrite. This time the reading wasn't so boring. It actually gave me a lot of ideas that i had not thought of before. Well that's all I've got. peaceee

Narrative and Ideas

Well...the reading took me a long time to get through all of the stories.
All the narrative stories had similarities. When you finished the short stories you knew their significance and stance. They all had captivating details and emotion behind their stories. Even though it took me a while to read them all, it really wasn't that boring. I found that the stories kept my attention and shed light on how a narrative should be written.
"All good writing revolves around ideas". That is so true! But after reading ways to generate ideas i found some that i know i will definitely never use. Clustering, for example, looks just plain confusing. Questioning and letter writing, to me, don't seem like a ways that would be beneficial to me. And even though hose ways don't appeal to me, there were other ways that DID attract me! Listing, outlining, and discovery drafting all seemed like ways that would work for me. Well...I'm out of things to talk about!!

How to: Be a good writer ;]

The very first sentence of Chapter One really got me interested in what I was about to read...which was slowly crushed by the boring article by Paul Krugman. Not to worry though, the chapters dignity was recovered in the end. "Identify your Purpose", in that section of the reading the author talks about when we are writing we need to decide on why we are writing what we're writing! I think that is so important. Take for example this simple writing assignment, I can bet that more than half of the class groans about having to write a few paragraphs on some boring articles that they HAVE to read...I take the opportunity and identify a purpose for the writing and hopefully make it interesting for others and especially for myself.
The rest of the reading goes on to talk about how you need to be hyper aware of your audience and how the are going to receive your writing. Another thing that needs to be considered is the type of genre you choose to write, which ties into the audience factor as well. Stance, media, design, genre and identifying your purpose are all a big part of making your writing reflect you.
Okay, I'm not gonna lie, the next part of our reading didn't really hold my attention for that long. I ended up skimming through most of the stories. Though, in the end i did soak up a few key points. Phrases like; A well-told story, vivid Details and choosing a topic caught my eye. Wrapping up with topics like drafts and proof reading we come to the end of our reading! Till next blog...