GARY PAOLUCCI

10/24

Sound being labeled as the "Deep Sea" in Chapter 4 is a great metaphor. I think what the author is trying to convey to the reader is that sound adds a further depth to the story. Between music and spoken dialogue, it creates a product that is not going to be the same as if you were to just read the person's dialogue. It could also have further meaning in the sense of not being dry. The sea is obviosuly wet, full of life, detail, and mystery. We already know what we are going to find on dry land, as it has already been explored by humans. Creating multimodal videos with different effects can unroot other meanings and emotions. 

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11/3/16

1. The primary purpose of the edit is not what is commonly thought of. It doesn't just mean chopping up your work, but it is the entire process of reading it out loud, hearing feedback from other people, and making according changes. These steps can be repeated multiple times, to however many edits you need to create a finished product of your liking. 

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2. When framing the story, you are setting the stage for the narrative/further purpose of the story. Signposting refers to cues and clues that are scattered throughout the piece that ultimately companion the framework. These can be things such as words or anecdotes that are used as complementary pieces to which readers can recognize the framework.   

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11/10/16

1. The primary feedback we received from our colleagues mainly was about making sure we shorten the length of it along with developing a theme. Carolina talked about a lot of stuff that happened in her life in the interview, and we need to centralize parts of what she said to an underlying theme. They said it was nicely paced, but when cutting it down, we ultimately need more smoother transitions. Since we are a little behind, we will eventually address these problems. Just finishing up our draft 2, we cut down the length and decided to centralize the video around "fear". 

2. Unfortunately, we did not get to section 2, since we have been catching up with the video drafts. Now that we are all caught up on draft 2, we will have some outside party look at the video hopefully at some point this week. 

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11/14/16

Part 1:

Oral history is the telling of a story through various audio clips put together. Oral history, thinking of it as "a co-constructed process of narrative composition", again makes me think of it as a story rather than factual history. The author tells a story through various audio (and video) clips that once put together create a narrative for the reader to try and understand. Though in essence history is seen as "factual", a narrative is created through oral history; you wouldn't receive that narrative aspect from a history textbook. Relating this to our Quest for Refugee Project, it is important that we do not leave out that narrative piece, because without it, the project wouldn't have much meaning. 

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Part 2:

I really enjoyed the interactive portion of this project. It let me decide what parts of her life that I wanted to listen to, being able to choose from a few options based off single/multi-word hyperlinks. This is a great example of a multimodal composition, and I wish we did something like this in the Quest for Refugee Project. Something that from the eye initially having no interest in, the multimodal interactiveness of the Olive Project made it more accessible to public audiences, making it more appealing through giving the audience choices. The minimalist aspect of the sole audio clips along with an accompanying image added a mysterious element to it as well. The author of the Olive Project did much more justice to her grandmothers life by setting it up in this sort of format rather than in say an essay format. The multimodal element of this made it much more enjoyable and accessible to people who do not know about her grandmother. This project helped communicate her life in a respectful and enjoyable manner for the listener. Though it may seem informal compared to say a lengthy essay format, the loose structure ultimately makes it more personal for the audience to connect with the author and the grandmothers life.  

11/17/16

1.) The purpose of this article was to put into perspective how much more work that goes into a multimodal piece rather than your standard essay. It is becoming accustomed to the technology, preparing audio clips, choosing the relevant images, all along with trying to present a narrative, to which a multimodal piece encompasses. The author kind of has to go out of there comfort zone, and put together an entire project rather than a standard written essay. The author emphasizes that even though this is a long process, the journey you take on helps build the narrative of the process along with the actual story being told. A multimodal text can lay out purpose in multiple different formats, while in the general written essay it can be harder for everyone to universally identify the purpose the author is trying to convey. There are more angles for the audience to take when trying to derive the purpose from a multimodal piece of work. 

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2.) Out of the seven ideas, I found a few that were more interesting than the others. Historically-situated stood out to me, being that I never really thought of it in the sense of no term, idea, or whatever it may be is never going to be really separated from whatever it's meaning was in the past. I find this relevant in the sense that this is an overarching theme of life, being that though actions may be forgiven, they truly never will be erased, and that will stick with you forever to someone, whether that be a handful of your peers or yourself (your mind). Another idea that I found interesting is the term of "relative". The reading really broke down the definitions into what I thought were much simpler than they actually are. To what is to what is not, when speaking in relative terms, it's always about comparisons. (Time ran out) 

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11/21/16

1.) Regarding this video project, I was the videographer, worked on the subtitles, and chose the music used. I also went to Providence to re-film the interview with Carolina. I feel my effort put into this project is notable, and along with my group mates, it was an all around collective effort. We all contributed pretty equally and all of us pulled our own weight.

2.) What displeases me most about the video is the camera angle taken. I should have told Carolina to look directly into the camera rather than have her being viewed from the side when responding to Jamie's questions. I also wish we had our first video because there were certain moments that we were unable to recreate in the second video take.

3.) If we had the opportunity to do the project again I would sharpen up on my video taking skills. I feel if we had more education and time to work with camera techniques than a better final product would have been produced. The majority of us are amateurs with using the camera, so some more training on how to use the equipment would have been ideal.