Poem Drawing Interpitation

Hey Folks so this week is a bit different, I'll just have a drawing interpretation of a poem. The part of the poem that stood out to me the most was the description of the eyes an the sounds that the boy was hearing. As well as the overall tone of the piece. Please tell me what you guys think of the interpretation.

A Hard Rain's A-­‐Gonna Fall 
by Bob Dylan

And what did you hear, my blue-­‐eyed  son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of  a  thunder  that roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-­‐blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'"

Things to Remember

What is a documentary film but the search for a truth or a representation of reality, past and present? In this pursuit, a director can take any number of approaches—using experimental techniques, archival footage and photographs, interviews with historians, vérité camerawork, animation and more.

The history of documentaries as a film genre is a history of addressing the question of what constitutes the representation of social reality. The narrative film, however, is an attempt to create an imaginative conception of what is called reality. The blurring of these forms—documentary and fictional narrative—is a creative and interpretive challenge that filmmakers have been concerned with since the inception of cinema in the late 19th century.

So after reading “Redefining the Documentary: Experimental Forms Explore New Territory

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Links to an external site.by Peter Biesterfeld. My teacher asked me to answer the following question about Ryan Garrett's Things to Remember. The questions themselves put things into perspective for me about some things after reading the article by Mark, and Peter. So here were the questions and I just answered them based on what I felt. Let me know if you guys feel the same in the comments below!

1. Considering the articles you've read for class today, which documentary mode or modes does the film borrow from? Please explain specific elements from the film to support your observations.

2. Why do you think the filmmaker chose to automate the voice of the narrator? What does it add or detract from the film?

The automate voice narrator is very distracting. It feels like a person decided to type a narration and allowed a computer to do the talking and pacing of everything. Since the narrator was automate it felt like it added to the fact that this is a work of fiction.

3. What were some of the more experimental aspects of the film in terms of image and storytelling?

The story telling and the pictures that was presented does not match up. Normally when people describe things for documentaries the video matches it. Over all in my opinion I believe that even though this was supposed to show a bit of “history” it can almost be taken as a joke because of how the information is given.

4. Does the film come across as a work of fact or fiction? Why?

The work comes across as a work of fiction. The reason I believe that it’s a work of Fiction is because of how the document is presented. There’s barely any human contact and the recording of this “documentary” doesn’t line up with how a documentary is normally presented.

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Illustration + Storytelling

So now I want to kind of bring attention to Narrative Design with the use of good Illustration + Story telling.  One topic I want to discuss is some of the more compelling ways that “Asterios Polyp” by David Mazzucchelli demonstrates storytelling through illustration. Before words are even given you feel this since of darkness or foreshadowing because of the use of the panels, as well as what each panel has to offer. The thunder and lighting, the messy room, even him laying on the bed in the beginning all sets to mood to be a bit darker giving us our introduction. Moving on to the middle of our story. We start to see how the character became the way that he was in the beginning of the story. His life was given new meaning or new style of life, sense the woman that he’s now with adds more of a rougher non “structured form of life. And towards the end they so of mesh together and have a happier ending through all of the struggles and darkness that was in the beginning. Over all it was a wonderful story to get into.

Story telling is a huge part of most peoples daily lives and not many are aware of that. As a Motion Designer our main goal is to tell some type of story whether it’s big or small. We give viewer’s a new perspective to what can become a story through abstract images and even objects. A Story doesn’t always have to be based on a human subject, because someone can make a flower travel through time and space and the story behind that is everything has a beginning and end.

So tell me what you think, is Story important or not?

Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph

 by David Eggers

The woman is a young woman. She wants to make a living as a photographer, but at the moment she is temping at a company that publishes books about wetlands preservation. On her days off she takes pictures, and today she is sitting in her car, across the street from a small grocery store called The Go-Getters Market. The store is located in a very poor neighborhood: the windows are barred and at night a roll-down steel door covers the storefront. The woman thus finds the name Go-Getters an interesting one, because it is clear that the customers of the market are anything but. They are drunkards and prostitutes and transients, and the young photographer thinks that if she can get the right picture of some of these people entering the store, she will make a picture that would be considered trenchant, or even poignant - either way the product of a sharp and observant eye. So she sits in her Toyota Camry, which her parents gave her because it was four years old and they wanted something new, and she waits for the right poor person to enter or leave the store. She has her window closed, but will open it when the right person appears, and then shoot that person under the sign that says Go-Getters. This, for the viewer of her photograph when it is displayed - first in a gallery, then in the hallway of a collector, and later in a museum when she has her retrospective - will prove that she, the photographer, has a good eye for the inequities and injustices of life, for hypocrisy and the exploitation of the underclass.

Questions and Answers

1. What is the time frame of this vignette? The time frame for this vignette could be anywhere between the late 90's and late 2000's based off the mentioning of the Toyota Camry in the short story.

2. What does the text imply about photography and about photographers? The text implies that in a sort of mocking way that photographers have it easy or a lazy sort of life style. It also implies that photography that in itself is easy to get away with and the author is almost criticizing the medium.

3. What is the writer’s attitude toward the woman? What words and phrases suggest that attitude? The attitude towards the woman is a bit negative because of how describes the surrounding settings: "The woman thus finds the name Go-Getters an interesting one, because it is clear that the customers of the market are anything but. They are drunkards and prostitutes and transients, and the young photographer thinks that if she can get the right picture of some of these people entering the store, she will make a picture that would be considered trenchant, or even poignant - either way the product of a sharp and observant eye." So he's criticizing her choice of environment and her choice in selecting the people for her mediums based off and interesting store called "Go-Getters".

4. How does the writer’s repetition of the term “Go-Getters” function in the text? The repetition of the term literally is used in a mocking way. He says it to emphasize his point on the fact that theses people like the woman are anything but "Go-Getters"

5. How does the final sentence build on observed details? It brings more of a negative feeling because he's being hypocritical judging the photographer the way she's judging the people she trying to take a photo of. Mocking the fact that maybe she will do well with her efforts enough to be recognized by society.

6. What new idea or surprise emerges in the final sentence? The tone in the last sentence surprises me because it comes off very sarcastic, almost menacing just to prove how much he doesn't like the young woman.