Documentary or Talkumentary?
In response to the readings in Making Documentary Films and Video by Barry Hampe, I feel much more prepared when creating my own documentary for this class. I am passionate about storytelling and believe that documentary film making is the ultimate form of storytelling since it utilizes every dynamic medium: audio, visuals, interviews, information, music,…
Openness Leads to Diversity in Collaborative Writing
I found these class readings Chapter 1: “Open Politics” and Chapter 2: “Sorting Collaboration Out” from Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness and Richard Beach’s “Co-Constructing Knowledge through Collaborative Writing” from Understanding and Creating Digital Texts the most interesting throughout this semester for a number of reasons. One being that I had yet to learn…
The Art of Aurality
In response to the two class readings, “The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing” by Cynthia Selfe and “Composing for Sound: Sonic Rhetoric as Resonance,” by Mary Hocks and Michelle Comstock, I argue that the main and similar point both writings declare is that aurality, multimodal composing, and sound are diverse…
English 315 Portfolio: Reflections and Ruminations
The English 315 Digital Writing class of my fall semester 2019 proved to be very impactful in my CSUN undergraduate education. As an aspiring producer and creator of multimedia content, this class was vital in developing my digital production skills. The audio pieces I produced which were my digital narrative project and audio movie review…
Connection and Innovation in this Digital Decade
I found reading Paul V. Anderson’s “Creating Reader-Centered Websites” and Richard Beach’s “Composing Multimodal Texts Through Use of Images, Audio and Video,” from Understanding and Creating Digital Texts to be very relatable to both the trends of our current generation as well as my personal project. The trends of our current generation are completely…
Openness and Collaboration in Writing
I did not come to realize that writing is a group effort until I read the two selections “Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness” by Nathaniel Tkacz and “Collaboration and Concepts of Authorship” by Thomas Inge. Writing requires more than just the author but also the editor, publisher, promoter, and even the audience itself. Depending…
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