Week 10 Activity 1

Element #1: Take a look at the two examples and see if you can identify the purpose behind each story. What is the point of view in each? Whose voice do you hear?

#1 The purpose is to show how to make salt. The viewpoint is from a worker.  Throughout the video, you hear the workers voice. 

#2 The voices you hear is singing and a narrator describing some scenes.  I see the viewpoint as being an audience watching a slideshow.

Element #2: See if you can find a dramatic question in the examples for this section. Is the question resolved in each movie or are you left without a resolution?

#1 “Are we making Guam ugly?”  I feel I am left without a resolution. 

#2 “What is the Seward Legend” I feel they resolve this by telling the legend.

Element #3: See if you can identify the emotional paradigms behind these stories.

#1 Depression leading to suicide attempts.

#2 Family history and not taking advantage of our loved ones who know the roots of your family.

#3 “Don’t talk to strangers!” Strangers just fit in and at any moment can so something negative like abduct someone. 

Element #4: What impact that the voice plays on the overall effect of the story.

#1 I think the voice adds validity to the story.

#2 The voices help connect the images and make the story flow together. 

Element #5: What impact does the music have on the emotional content or purpose of the story?

#1 The music helps engage the viewer.  It helps add the effect to the lifestyle of this group of people.

Element #6: Look at the examples in this section and consider the decisions the authors made about length of clips, types of transitions and sequence of events. Are you able (as a viewer) to fill in the missing pieces? Give an example?

#1 Seems to make flow quickly keeping pace.

#2 The narrator seemed to address the pictures well, especially when she said Tara was sitting in the basement. 

#3 Seemed choppy and not flowing.  I feel there were too many different images and did not create a single story.  I felt it was hard to follow a plot, other than “Dreams.”

Element #7: How does the narrator use their voice to pace the story? Give a specific example.

#1 The narrator uses the voice to explain the movie as it goes along.  I think a good point is when they give the example of an earthquake happening in 1995

#2 Honestly I thought of “Great things come in small packages.” The lack of voice is great because I was able to get the hints of subtle humor within the video.