reflection

1.       My buddy Blake and I were messing around with his go pro at hockey practice. It turned out that we got about 10 minutes worth of footage. The assignment called for videos and pictures of my own creation. Because I play hockey I have a plethora of my own photos and videos. Then the problem was finding a message. You lead me toward an advertising video.

2.  The difference with this project is that I used previous materials to write. While I do this with some projects, I usually challenge myself to write on new topics. Another difference was that this a/v project was layered with meaning. Lately I have been writing mostly academic papers. They are pretty cut and dry research, write, and then edit. This project was move of research, compose picture, compose text, compose music, compose timing, and then edit. I hopefully can write in layers when I am creative writing. But this project has taught me to think about what I say in my academic projects. I usually don’t think about rhetoric but I can relate rhetoric to the layers of this project.

3.       One of the paths I couldn't take was having actual game footage. The season has not started yet so I felt as if I could capture the crowd and he game interacting together that t would give more of a community feel; hopefully leading to more donations. I also wanted to show more of the hockey culture. The problem with this was that a lot of the things we say on the in the hockey room wouldn't help sell the bobcat hockey brand. I just wish we weren't so vulgar. It’s funny because I didn't notice until this project.

4.       I think I already said this but I will approach my academic writing with more of a layered approach, like movie maker. For example I can lay down my methods, then Ideas, then my writing, then rhetoric and then editing. I have previously had trouble with using rhetoric in my academic writings.

5.     

       I know now how to successfully compose a movie on movie maker. I also know how to properly judge an A/v short based on the viewings we did in class. I think he most important thing that I learned was realizing places to use rhetoric as a whole not specifically toward movies. Even though I learned a lot about rhetoric in movies.