Sean Penn Interview

http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2007/09/14/segments/85349

Song a Day

6/1: Aaron Klein, Ryan Gent

6/2: Cynthia Malim

6/3: Xu Yuanzhen

6/4: Zhuangsheng Lin

6/7: Rico Loy

6/8: Nolan Currie

6/9: Nidhi Shah

6/10: Tasia Nielsen

6/11: Yinfei Liu

6/16: Emily Baxter

6/17: Victor Lin

6/18: Josh Lenz

6/21: Moming Ma

6/22: Luke Voseberg

6/23: Kevin Wickham

6/24: Walter Woods

6/25: Jake Knott

7/1: Zitao Yan

7/2: Matthew Taufoou

7/5: Sedrick Johnson

7/6: Erica Miller

Into the Wild Scene Groups

If you were absent today, please comment on this post with your name and the film scene you would like to analyze.


Emory University
Sonia Wu

On the Road
Ryan Gent
Yinfei Liu
Nolan Currie
Nidhi Shah
Tyler Nash

Beach
Walter Woods
Matthew Taufoou
Josh Lenz
Jake Knott
Sedrick Johnson
Emily Baxter

South Dakota
Etienne Blanc
Cynthia Malim
Kevin Wickham

City/Shelter Scene
Victor Lin
Luke Voseberg
Xu Yuanzhen

Magic Bus: Week 7
Zhuangsheng Lin

Mountains
Aaron Klein
Rico Loy
Zitao Yan
Moming Ma
Fahad Asiri

Magic Bus: Week 9
Tasia Nielsen
Tisha Pol

Elements of Visual Analysis

ENG 150: General Visual Elements
-Pattern
-Contrast
-Direction
-Chunking
-Color

(Student Guide 43-45)

Things To Consider When Analyzing a Film Text:
-Layering
-Framing
-Transforming
-Looping


(Student Guide 47-48)


Consider the Big Questions:
-What is being framed?
---What is the director choosing to show or not show? Why?
-Where does the scene fall in the film?
-How does the setting contribute to the film’s overall narrative?

Consider the Following:
-Use of visuals (people, places, objects, etc.)
-Use of audio (narration, music, etc.)
-Pace and Tone of film
-Types of emotional appeals meant to persuade reader
-The way the character interacts with his environment

In Class: Friday 5/21

Write three 50-word "snapshots" (or, brief narratives) from key experiences you've had within an environment/place. These can be prose or poetry.

Creating Your Blog

How To:

http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

Connect your blog to the class page by clicking "Follow."

100-Word Photograph

In American Earth there are two sections of photographs.  Choose one of these photos and write a description of it without using forms of the verb "to be" and without using generic words such as "pretty" and "beautiful."  In other words, write that photograph in words. Print your written photograph and bring it to class on Wednesday. Be sure to note (by page number) which photograph you're writing about.

Map Assignment

Directions: Find a map of a place you've lived or visited. Be aware that there are many ways to map. What aspects of the place does your map capture? What's left out? Why? Would you represent it differently? If so, how? Write a paragraph answering these questions. Bring printed copies of your response and your map to class on Thursday 5/20.

For ideas, listen to This American Life-Five Ways of Mapping: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/Mapping

Song-a-Day Assignment

On the day of your presentation, you must show a youtube video of your song and answer both of the following questions, in writing, thoughtfully.

• How is your song grounded in place or environment?
• Why did you choose this song?

Welcome!

"Don't requite Nature to be Wilderness. Thoreau said, 'In Wildness is the preservation of the World.' Distinguish, as he did, between wildness and wilderness. We hunger for the wild. The wild is everywhere; it cannot be extinguished. The wild centers every seed, enters every garden. Wilderness is myth and gone, and the wild is everywhere. Wilderness is distant; wildness local. Wildness is the urge of life to be--the grass blade in the parking lot, the peregrine in the tower, weeds pioneering a landfill, the patch of brush where kids make forts."
- John Caddy



Johnny Cash- "Five Feet High and Rising"

Course Description:

The American landscape wilderness has long played a role in America literature. This course will explore how writers bother reflect and construct the wilderness in their texts. Students will encounter readings by a diverse group of writers including Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Annie Dillard.

This course will not only require analysis of American environmental literature--it will also push students to use those same analytical skill to examine their own ideas about environment, landscape, and home. Students will working in written, oral, visual, and electronic mediums to synthesize their understanding of "place" in a mulit-modal way. Work will include two formal essays, a visual photo project, a research project/presentation, and regular journal/ blogging.

Texts:

American Earth, edited by Bill McKibben
Blood Dazzler, by Patricia Smith
Student Guide, ISU Foundation Courses
The Brief Penguin Handbook