This video kind of reminded me of the Hampe article; the whole idea of silent movies. This was funny two bc its star wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mBDQXWflbM

questions on the reading

1) How does having an author's name entitled on a book affect its sales?

2) If you were given a book to read without an author(s) name included, would it prevent you from purchasing that book? Why or why not? What if you were given a book review that rated the book a 9/10, would it change your actions or thoughts? Would you be able to tell how many authors of the book? If so, how?

3). In the reading the authors depict that scientists are likely to fail if they fail to argue or squabble when they do research. Wouldn't scientists support their meaning/experiment/results/etc. based on their research? So why would they have to argue? Would you trust a scientist and his experiment if he squabbled?

1) What are the qualities or characteristics/moments required for a silent movie/documentary? Is there any difference between a movie without sound and a documentary?

2) How does the emotions being portrayed in a silent movie affect you oppose to a movie with sound?

3). In a regular movie with sound expressing your emotions seems to be very easy for the actors/actresses and effective with the audience. If no sound is added in a movie how hard would it be for the actor/actresses to depict that emotion and have the audience share their affect to it?

Audio Project

OMG! Yes I am starting my reflection paper off with a urban slang. The audio project for Info 390 was not what I expected what so ever. When we began reading about how audio and its usage today from the class readings, it was interesting. I was actually looking forward to the class project to go along with the topic and usage of audio. All of that change as soon as it became time to start on the project. After the instructor announced the assignment publicly, I began to question my topic and the route that I wanted to take. There was not specific topic given to create your audio project, so right then and there I was puzzled. Having no topic or guidelines to a specific topic made this project very hard for me. I found it very difficult to narrow my choices down.
First, I just knew that I was going to do a short story about my life. I was going to talk about my high school years and one particular experience about my leadership of my school. I thought that it was too boring and that no one would be interested in hearing about how much of a leader I was in high school. So, I changed my topic to a night out on the town. It was about how a few girls getting together on a Friday night after having exams. They were partying to relieve their stress from studying. They do ave a nice time out until they went to this one bar that a friend of a friend told them about. The lines outside the bar were filled with normal people just like them but once they arrived inside the bar, there was not a normal person beside them. There were clowns, animals, and things that they never knew existed partying. The girls become scared and fight their way out causing them to party anymore while at college.
Meanwhile, this story was too long and it involved to much work. I had at least three voices in the story line. Also, the audio for this story line was long and consisted of more than one track and I am no technician. Then, I decided to do a more laid back topic about a very important day of my life but just wasn't working. I did not like my tone of voice plus I did not feel that it was conversational what so ever. Finally after hours worth of sleep, I knew the topic of my story. The story is titled, “A lesson to love.” In this story is two people named Ryan and Nicole along with their puppy Bosko. It starts off with a bit of history of Ryan and Nicole's relationship; how they met, high school years, etc. Then it continues with their relationship in college and how they become a family with adding Bosko to the picture. Lastly, the story helps Ryan and Nicole to discover how someone you love so much could be taken away from you at any moment through Bosko's sudden death. This experience caused them to live their lives to the fullest by Ryan asking Nicole's hand in marriage. They never forget to tell each other how much they love one another each and every day. This story came natural for me. I did not have to force myself to talk about a topic that did not interest me. I was able to tell this story without reading from a paper. I was also capable of adding on while recording.
Moving along, the project was a hard task for me but it was an interesting one that kept me determined. I enjoyed being a narrator of my own story and displaying whatever came to mind. It was not hard recording myself because this is my element. I want to become a sports commentator so having a microphone at my mouth is not a scare or uncomfortable situation. If I was given the opportunity to re do, I would not change my decision but I rather not go through the process again.

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In response to Nicole's Question

In response to question 2) would you consider 'reality tv' a form of documentary?

I would not consider reality tv a form of documentary because reality tv is not reality for one. It is for advertising and ratings. The things and actions which take place on reality shows are not ordinary. Also, the actions that are performed on the reality shows are pre-hesitated and already planed to cause a certain reaction or effect. While, a documentary is usually about real life problems or life styles and they are usually filmed as that action takes place. The audience and the director are usually on the same page of anticipation of what is going to happen next. Also, the quality of the two are very different and that has a huge effect of how people receive the show or message.

Questions on the readings

1). After reading the article that Hamper wrote it kind of reminded me of how unpopular documentaries are in today's time. It was dry and kind of uninteresting and repetitive in a sense. Why do you feel that they are, if you feel so?

2). If you had the chance to create your own movie or film, how would you shoot it and why? Would documentary be an option?

3). Do you feel that there has to be a certain topic and story line in order to shoot a documentary?

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Response to Nicole's Question

1. what is the difference between 'soundly engineered' and digital?

The difference between soundly engineered and digital, in my own opinion and experience, is the basic who, what, and where. With soundly engineered there is great and a lo t of experience involved with the person whom is creating this piece. A real studio is involved with real engineer's who have experience and can create great uality in your music. With digital it is more of a normal person experimenting on creating a rack with a computer using podcast. 

Questioning's on McKee and Shipka

1). "While it is possible to examine the usual separate from the aural," which was stated in the reading by McKee. Is this referring to the fact that you can combine many elements of sound with having them all stand as individuals? For example, the movie shrek, is this an example of what she is stating?

2.)If the music in a movie was omitted after you have watched it, do you think it would have a different meaning? Do you believe that music is key to emotion and reaction?

3). Does vocal delivery with your professor effect your understanding and attention span in the class?

1). After  reading the article by Shipka, it persuaded me to see text in a different way and it brought about ways that we demonstrate and learn text. So, how did you feel after reading this piece? Were you persuaded at all?

2.) Video games is an example that I used as a reference to what Shipka was stating in the piece. Do you think that video games will become the new way of learning text and the basics of life in the near future?

3). Do you think all video games are bad examples of bad decisions and life styles? Why or Why not?