Week Ten:Reading the Multimodal Narrative

The art style in the comic is so nice and simple. 

Each character is just made up pf simple shapes that doesn't really break the silhouette much ,but the artist does a really nice job of finding ways around that and still making the images interesting. 

I like the limited amount of colors that is being used. Lots of dull purples with bright blues. A big use of just geometric shapes in the scenes that keep it really simple. 

There are also different fonts for each person, which seems to further push the illusion of each character having their own voice. 

Week Eleven Long Form Television: The AO

UNFORTUNEATELY I wasted more time on this show then I intended to, but it seemed really good all the way up until the end...

This had a great mystery set up with a cool story that really grabbed the viewer. This great mystery about how this lady was captured for so many years and etc. etc. THEN she just turns out to be crazy and they learn this dumb dance, which was a huge mystery for me. I thought it was leading up to something really cool. Turns out a school shooter was attacking the lunch room and they all glance at each other and start dancing to distract him. This series is awful don't waste your time.

That being said. 

-I really enjoyed the mystery and the flashbacks. It grabbed my attention and kept me watching.

-The place that the prisoners was being kept was really well laid out. The mood and lighting was really good.

- I didn't care for some of the characters. They were acting too hard (if that makes sense.)

In Class Questions on a Short Story

What was your reaction to the text you just read? 
I was a little confused at first. It could be from exhaustion, but the different aspects of his life seemed jump around and not line up. It started out with him being in a parking lot and then beating up some guy and doing drugs to being fine and having a family. The wife was suspicious about a mysterious crime that seemed to come out of no where.

What connections did you make with the piece? Discuss the elements of the work with which you were able to connect.
I think because I don't fully understand the text that I really connect with it at all. Maybe with the wife, because I know how it feels to be suspicious and not confident.

What changes would you make to adapt this story into another medium?
What medium would you use?
I think this story would make a great short film.
With the drastic changes from good to bad, it would be easier to keep up with, because the audience would visually see what is going on.
I would help the viewer follow the story by clearly marking when the separate events happen.

Week Twelve Games as a Medium: Amnesia, The Dark Descent

This week for class we're discussing games as a medium and are suppose to write about our favorite games. Although I wouldn't say this is my favorite game I will say this fits this subject probably the best. 

I've chose to discuss Amnesia, The Dark Descent. Which is a survival horror video game by Frictional Games, released in 2010.

This is a game about immersion and being frightened. Every book I've ever actually liked has been immersive and I think thats every books real goal and Games, especially this one, does that for the most part. Putting the player in an actual world were they themselves live the story instead of reading it. The freedom to make different choices and see the consequence first hand.

I chose to write about this game, because it is extremely good at making the player feel like they are in actual danger. I couldn't play for very long before I became nervous and extremely jumpy and had to take a break. This game is extremely immersive and does very well at setting the mood with low music and a dark castle that you must figure out how to pretty much do everything.You play as Daniel, who is a young man from London and he awakens in the dark empty halls of a Brennenburg Castle with almost no memory about himself or his past. He can remember his name, and that something is hunting him. He has a note written to himself, which tells him that he deliberately erased his own memory and is being hunted by a shadow, the note tells him to descend into the inner sanctum of the castle and kill its baron name Alexander.

Week Thirteen Curate yourself: The Adventure Zone

Like dungeons and dragons? What about tacos? 

If so, wow do I have a podcast for you.

For this week I'm going to be discussing The Adventure Zone, which is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast that is lead by 3 brothers and their dad. If you're a Dungeons and Dragons fan this podcast is a must. I've never really liked most forms of media such as T.V. and podcast, but the moment I began listening to this one I was intrigued by it.This podcast is inspirational and can show you how elaborate a simple game can become with a little bit of imagination and planning. 

This show creates an extremely well seeded story that quickly draws the listener in. Over a span of the now 60 episodes and, however many more they plan to make, you listen to Magnus Merle and Taako take on incredible enemies and save the world. 

The Adventure Zone First Episode!

Comparing Movies directed by Jim Jarmusch

We watched three movies Mystery Train, Dead Man, Dawn by Law.

All three of the movies were very strange to begin with, not really seeming to make sense at first but slowly we begin to understand whats going on.

 All three movies have characters that either begin or end up in places they are not familiar in and seem to stumble around.

During all the movies our characters are traveling to start over it seems like. Trying to get away from their past maybe.

The settings of these movies are all very sparse. All settings are seemingly in a small town with very rude inhabitants.

Each movie we experience the point of view from more than one person usually being two or three people.

Screen Play: Goose Father

Order of Things to happen:

• Views of newspaper talking about goose-fathers, Gilho’s daily life, eating junk food because wife/kids were in America, but he was better off with money and planning his life/fortunes. Scene of him hugging dirty baseball mit. Next would be putting out ad for tenant, to help with his lonely feeling.
• Show meeting Wuseong and introduce goose at doorstep.
• Show balcony scene of confrontation between Gilho and goose. Gilho was checking on plants.
• Show scene with pancake and then develop into montage where they start more separate but get a lot friendlier and close with one another.
• Show night going out to drink and do stuff, close moment, show Gilho slapping Wuseong, Wuseong disappears for a day or so. Show empty apartment, then show him getting visas, calling in sick, etc.
• Passage of time, show him drinking with other guys, show him bringing other dude home.
• Show them coming back and Wuseong comes back and he’s sitting on the balcony with the goose.
• Drunk guy tries grabbing goose feathers, gets bit, Gilho has another confrontation with the goose, eventually lets goose go after Wuseong talks to him.
• Gilho wakes up, new moon, sees Wuseong standing on balcony with goose-corpse-mom scene.
• Show visual representation of Gilho coming to terms with loving Wuseong with goose wings enveloping the both of them in a hug for end. To show the end of Gilho’s internal struggle with feelings.

Visual Important things:

• Bright colors for when Wuseong and Gilho are around each other
• Desaturated for when they aren’t around each other
• Normal Actors (Not an Animated Feature)
• Importance of Goose-mom scene, heavy visuals on this scene to imply importance of it.
• Lots of focus shifting for scenes
• Sharp cuts for most scenes; Fuzzy/soft cuts for passages of time.

Visuals (Locations and Theme?):

• Korean based still like original story
• More focused on the romance; less on weird goose corpse mom?
• Show even amounts of the backstory between Gilho and Wuseong since we’re learning about both of them.
• Definitely keep goose.
• Modern time (2016-17); It still keeps economic issues and also common theme of families staying apart and people staying, etc.