11/17/16

The article shows the author's journey in trying to uncover the reasons behind defining something. An example she gives is that a rose would still smell as sweet if it was called something else. She also explores why different people use different synonyms when labeling a term and she links it to culture and the way a meaning is shared. It's form does communicate its purpose. The article's background is a rose, which serves as a metaphor for how the words we choose to label a term work. Labeling terms can be established or form organically just like a rose for example.

Secondly, the concepts that I found most compelling from the video clips were how these terms changed with the evolution of technology, hence the emergence of terms like multimodal and new media. Continually, I also paid special attention to the audience oriented section as it relates directly to my project. According to the target audience, one should carefully choose what words to use. Another concept that really stuck to mind, was the contextual. Reading this part answered my question as to why people in the United States for example have different accents and terms for different words. It's dependent on things like geography, education, politics and technology. 

11/14/16

Oral history to me is the telling of past events via word of mouth. In our case, oral history is a co-constructed process of narrative composition because we worked with the community member to tell their story. Trying to map coherence onto the disorder of lived experience was one of our biggest challenges during this project. How were we going to condense all of the information Victor gave us into a story that had a clear structure and message with beginning, middle and end. These questions and watching Erin's project have me thinking about how we can tweak our video to make it better and finding a way to edit his story as to both give details of his life while at the same time staying on message.

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Erin's project exemplifies different modes of multimodal composition from video, in the dio and written test. From the way she did her project, multimodal composition seems to be fluid. I didn't really take away anything that I felt showed how to write for public audiences. I just felt like it was well designed and relatable as it was talking about something we can all relate to; the love of our grandparents. Representing someone's life is a momentous responsibility that has a lot of responsibility. The challenge is always to give as much information as possible in the limited time that is afforded to you. The proper way to communicate authorial meaning while still keeping the authentic voice of the subject is to craft your own authorial meaning based off the story of the subject as the story is about them.

11/10/16

Overall I was happy with the response I got to our video from my classmates. They all thought that the messaging was clear, the message we were trying to convey is what truly came out. And this I am extremely proud of. Continually, even though all the reviews were all positive, the reviewers also did leave some suggestions. Firstly, most of the reviewers thought that the ending was too abrupt and suggested maybe fading out the last shot. They noticed some rapid zooms that need to be fixed which we shall. There was also a suggestion which I thought was a great idea, to start out with a kind of introduction slide instead of jumping right into the questions.

 Outside of class, i showed the video to two of my friends. The enjoyed the video and the message they took away at the end was what we we wanted them to take away from the story, which was was showing that even though Victor is a refugee, he does not simply want to live off welfare but rather is looking for opportunity to build his life like all Americans. The one suggestion they had was to add more information on the struggle of obtaining citizenship or asylum in the United States.

10/24/16

Sound, according to "Out On The Wire" is like a deep vast ocean that supports the story and the characters who are like fragile boats at the mercy of the power of the ocean. In other words, sound can either make or break a story. If used right, it can create suspense, foreshadow upcoming action and in cases of audio content help create a mental picture of the action going on. Sound also serves as a transition device between scenes which is what we might use it for in our community project video. Furthermore, it is useful to evoke particular emotions and create tones. Emmett and I definitely intend to use sound in our video for the functions named above and many more that I haven't mentioned.

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10/13/16

The tips that I found most helpful to me was how to keep the story interesting by using narrative suspense by telling the story in order which makes the audience thirsty to find out what comes next. Secondly, memorable soundbites are good because they can start or end a scene and are good for transitions.

09/26/16

Meeting Sana and Shanda was very educational and inspirational. I marveled at their bravery and perseverance of going through what they went through and still being able to to talk about it and stay strong. Especially Sana. I admired how even after she was abducted by the Assad regime, she still kept on her struggle to liberate her country.

The advice I received was to add more sound effects and trying to speak slower in some parts. These are some of the problems that I realized too and i'll definitely redo it to make a more clearer version.

09/15/16

The challenges I faced while writing this poem were figuring out what to share, looking at myself and seeing my true identity, and trying to make it rhyme. My idea was to describe a normal day at my house because I am very family oriented but there also some things about me that I did not want to share because they were too personal.

 

09/01/2016

My name is Shami Ngarambe, a sophomore at Roger Williams University. I am currently double majoring in Legal studies and International relations with a minor in business.

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