Multimedia Brainstorm

For our multimedia project, our group is going to make a video. The argument that we are making in our video is that the freshman housing dorms are not worth the money that we pay for them. We are going to make a scary movie to illustrate our argument. In the movie we will show all the scary stuff that actually happens in the Byrnes dorm that people on the outside don't know bout. Within our video clip we will conduct interviews and give the results of the surveys that we have handed out. When our project is finished it will show a good representation of how the freshman housing is overpriced.

Instructor Conference

The conference that we had with our instructor went well. We showed her the parts of our video that we had recorded so far. She told us what we have to do to the film to make it better. She also said that we had a good start so far for our project. She also said it was a good idea for an argument. Overall, our instructor conference was positive and helped us find out what we still had to do.

Page 174 At a Glance

When revising my rough draft, I used some of the strategies that were given on page 174. Most of the strategies that I tried helped and made my final draft much better. I tried reading my rough draft aloud, but it didn't really help because i didn't find many mistakes this way. One thing that did work was putting my essay for a while then going back over it at a later time. I finished writing my rough draft, then instead of going over it when i was finished, I looked at it the next day and found that I could have gone a different way with some paragraphs. I then revised these paragraphs when it came time to write my final draft. We then did a peer review in class which helped out a lot. It allowed me to see what revisions I could make to my essay. Most of these revisions I would not have come up with by myself. I tried one more strategy, but it didn't help out at all. I tried revising my paragraphs out of order, but it was just messing up the flow of the whole essay. I tried several of these strategies on page 174, some of these proved to be beneficial, while some did not.

Page 440 Three Examples of Remixing Culure

It is very easy to see something these days that is a new creation that is based something in the past. It is very common to see this in the entertainment industry over the past decade. Just over the past few years, it has been a popular idea to make a movie based off of an old television show. Most of these shows have been based off of action shows during the 1970's for some strange reason. Some examples of these movies are The Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky and Hutch, Miami Vice, and also Get Smart. Most of these movies did not do well in the box office. Just recently the automobile industry has been "remixing" styles of older automobiles. Just this year Chevrolet has brought back the Camaro, and Dodge has brought back the Challenger. Both of these cars have not been produced in a while by their manufacturers. The new models are styled to look like how they were in the 1970's. Another form of remixing is mashups. Mashups are when someoun, usually a dj, combines two or more songs together to make a new song. An example of this is Dj Dangermouse's album, "The Grey Album." It combines songs from a Beetles album with songs from a Jay-Z album. Many things have been "remixed" as of lately. You can see that this doesn't always work for the better, in the case of the movies based off old t.v. shows.

Rough Draft Peer Review

The peer review that we did during class was quite beneficial for me. The person that looked over my essay found many mistakes in my essay that I overlooked when I was writing it. He also gave me some helpful information and some useful tips that I can implement in my final draft. One of the things mentioned was that I needed to improve the framework in my rough draft. He also said it might help if there were some quotes from George Bush in the section talking about why Bush decided to go to war and his plans once we invaded Iraq. He also said that there was a lot of information on public opinion. When I wrote my final draft, i took this into consideration and i shortened the paragraphs about the public opinion. There were many more suggestions that my grader made that helped me out when i revised my rough draft. All in all i believe this helped out a lot and my final draft was much better than my rough draft.

Strategies for Drafting

Before i start to write my research paper, I must make a rough draft. There are several ways in which i can approach this rough draft. My first objective will be to gather all of the information that I need to type this research paper. This would include any book sources, websites, magazines, and also any encyclopedia sources. Once I have found all of the sources that I need for this paper, I will gather information from the sources and start to organize the information. I will organize all of my information by using an outline. In the outline, I will organize my data in chronological order. Finally I will use my outline to write my rough draft.