What is Style? part 2

I have learned in this class that style is a broader concept than I gave it credit for.  Before I saw style as something like how someone dresses, or an author's own writing style.  I have definitely expanded my definition to include things we talked about in class, like comics and even movies from this latest collaborative movie project.  If you look closely enough, anything and everything can have style.  It's not just physical appearance; style can be seen or unseen.  It can be concrete in nature, something black or white, or it can be in between.  

It's difficult, because I've learned so much in this class that I don't have enough room to write about it.  As far as writing is concerned, style isn't just how someone writes; it can include what they put in the writing, like what stylistic rules they subscribe to.  Background and experiences can change style, such as word choice or things of that nature.  This may sound confusing, but I don't know how else to word it.  Style exists within style.  Multimedia is a concept/style for movies and websites, and they have their own style within that.  I'm sorry if this doesn't completely make sense, but I'm extremely tired right now:)

Peer review recap part 4

This is going to be a slightly different post, because we all decided in my group that we were going to finish the peer review over the weekend.  Everyone is in the weeds with all of the work we have to do, and we wanted to make sure that we had the time to give good comments on everyone's papers.  

As far as the whole peer review process goes over the whole semester, I think I liked the format on Google Docs the best.  Sharing them on the EMU-Online site is also simple, but I didn't like the wiki as much.  It was ok for the rules, but it was hard to edit papers on there.  Maybe it's just because many of the tools weren't compatible with Safari.  Anyway, I had a relatively good experience with editing.  I mean, a lot of the time we didn't get our papers posted on time, but it all worked out.  

I think that peer review online was much more beneficial than in person, because (at least for me) I found that I was able to give more constructive criticism if I didn't have to say it directly to the person.  It seemed like others were able to do that as well, because I got more helpful comments than I usually do in a face-to-face environment.  I wish we did peer review this way in more of my classes:)

YouTube/ Low-bridge videos

Sorry this is late, I somehow missed that we had a blog post due last week. Anyway, I'm going to start by saying that I don't think comparing writing to video-making is at all unreasonable.  If you are thinking about it in the literal sense, movies are not really writing.  They can feature writing, and they start as writing, but the actual movie isn't writing, it's acting.  

The script is the biggest piece of writing involved in movie-making, because the whole movie really starts on paper.  Without the script, there would be nothing to say (unless it was improv), so there would be no movie at all.   

The movie-making process itself went really well.  I was not involved in writing the script, but I was in charge of filming.  I saw firsthand how small changes in the script can change the movie entirely, for better or worse.  It took a bit of trial and error, but we got to a point where we all agreed on it.  Now I'm just looking ahead to when the paper is due- writing in the most conventional sense!

Looking back on past readings, looking forward to the essay

I'm going to have to make this a fairly quick post because I have 4 papers to do between now and Tuesday, including this essay on the movie making process.  I can especially see where the Writing as a Technology section fits in here.  This combines real technology with writing.  I mean, I guess the actual movie isn't writing, unless you add those text notes in it during editing.  More writing occurs when making the script.  The visual rhetoric section could be applied here as well, though not in the comic sense.  It is something visual, anyway, though that could be a stretch.  I think Plato would be happy about this, because the actual movie is spoken word:)  I guess what I'm going to talk about in the paper is the relationships from texts to parts of the movie-making process, such as what I mentioned before about the script, and also thinking more outside the box.  Hopefully I will be able to get all of this work done!