My inspiration for creating this video definitely stems from my experience in this class. Throughout the semester, we have been focusing on how technology has changed society. We started off with writing and then expanded into other facets. Throughout my blog as a whole, I have researched, examined, and shared my own opinion on the effects of this revolution. What fascinated me the most was seeing how technology has, in many cases, completely reshaped the way we do anything and everything. For my third portfolio, I wasn't sure at first what to use as my medium or genre. All I knew was that I wanted to entertain the viewer to the best of my ability. This is when I started to think of the entertainment industry and how it too has been transformed by technology. And it doesn't just affect how we watch movies and television. Technology also affects how we make them. What I was interested in most was the storytelling aspect of this. Movies used to be about horses and carriages. Today, they are about robots; which is ironic because technically robots help create movies. At the end of the day, my argument throughout the blog has been that technology has basically sent society into metamorphosis. For better or worse, it has changed everything we do. I wanted to create a visual representation of this change which is how I arrived at this decision. Planet Earth, the documentary that I talked about in one of my recent blog posts, was another inspiration of mine for choosing to make this video. It showed me that a visual argument is much more powerful than something with purely text. I tried to line up the clips with the background music to the best of my ability to make it as pleasing to the eye as possible.
Narrative between my projected audience and I:
Ryan: Technology has truly changed society (shortened pitch) blah blah blah
Dr. Palfai: (no response)
Hopefully, when Dr. Palfai sees this project, he will respond. In my video, I tried to make it as nostalgic as possible to evoke more of a sense of time. I did this in order to deepen the meaning of my message behind it. Technology has already changed things this fast, what is next? And more importantly, should we be worried? The clips that I used were from movies and TV shows made within the same thirty or so years. However, the technology depicted looks light years different.
Comment:
I really liked how this almost sounded like you were having a conversation with the reader. You could hear your voice actually coming out too, like when you mentioned "season 1, season 2 is a pile of shit." This writing style make your reflection easy to read.
I chose this comment because it was actually the only one that commented on my writing style. I tried to write in an entertaining/conversational style as much as possible because I know how grueling it is to read something that is written like a 9th grade persuasive essay. Especially since it is a blog, I thought it was appropriate. One place where this comment influenced my writing was in my Planet Earth review where my first sentence was "When our professor told us to watch a documentary in class the other day, I just so happened to be drifting off, with visions of waterfalls appearing in my mind as I daydreamed." Writing in a slightly satirical manner made creating a blog much more enjoyable than an essay or paper.
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