For this blog post, you need to complete it together as part of your group--this will help get you into the mind-set and rhythm of working in your group. You need decide on a plan of attack, in other words, a detailed plan of action that shows your thinking and understanding of how and when to organize and complete this project. Use this blog post as a time for your group to organize the logistics of the project and to prepare for the work day on Monday. You need to provide an overview of project expectations (as established by the group), project specifics (genre, audience, rhetorical situation), and calendar of events (how/when the work will occur).
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Due: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 by class time.
As a group we have decided to create obituaries that are based on the evolutionary process of the vampire. We plan on using our respective research to direct and inform the causes of death and the type of vampire. The majority of our work will be conducted in class, and individual work will vary depending on the amount of work completed each class. Our project expectations include writing four obituaries total (divided among two people) and having a formatted presentation (the third group member) as our final product. Our audience will include our class and obituary readers, and the rhetorical situation will be death (by vampire, of course).
ReplyDeleteFor our project, we have decided to make a music video to the song "1000 Miles" by Vanessa Carlton. We intend on changing the lyrics in order to fit our research topic on vampires. We are going to check out some cameras and tripods from the library, and then we can edit the video together. Our music video will include a unique perspective of the vampire. We will dress up with black clothes and get white paint to cover our faces. Our genre will be the music and the music video. Our audience will be people, mainly teenagers, who like music and vampires, and the rhetorical situation will be sex, evolution, and desire to be a vampire. These are our research paper topics. On Tuesday, we are going to rewrite the song lyrics and look up the song to use for the music video. We will also work on the write-up in class. We will film the video the next weekend after acquiring the appropriate costumes.
ReplyDeleteWe have decided to do a play for our new genre. Haley and I have similar research in that they both revolve around diseases and how they relate to vampirism. Elizabeth wrote about soul/soulmates of vampires, and Jordan talked about the evolution of the werewolf and vampire together. As you can see, we have slightly differing topics. Since we are doing a play, we decided to make a storyline based off of the different types of research. We are going to incorporate love/love-web into the story, and also have the different characters with the different traits (werewolf, psychotic person, diseased person, and an in love person). We were thinking about making a "love square" that involves all four of us. One of our characters will have an illusion that they are a vampire and believe that the other characters are mythological creatures as well. This is targeted at modern-day 20 year olds who are interested in comedy. We are brainstorming ideas and are trying to find a way to bring our main subjects together. We will meet tomorrow in class, and by the end of class we will have our main storyline figured out, hopefully beginning the blueprint of our script.
ReplyDeleteAli, Billy, and I have decided to do a mock political candidate campaign. The main point of our project will be constructing a campaign video that shows the candidate has evolved past his bloody, dark origins (brining in Billy's project of Bathe and Vlad) and how you should vote for his sexy, reinvented face (brining in Ali's project on vampire sexiness). The video will end with a political candidate trying to "prove" that he should be elected (my prompt on comparing the vampire to politicians) because vampires have evolved far past their dark origins and are completely deserving YOUR vote. We will also be including buttons, posters, and a mock interview if time allows.
ReplyDeleteWe have decided that:
The genre will be satirical.
The audience will be young adults (18-25) voting age.
The rhetorical situation will be a political campaign.
For this project we expect to successfully utilize all three of our research. We also expect to show a drastic difference in what people look for in a political candidate now. We expect that the project will take a fair amount of time, since we must write it, act it, film it, and edit. A full script with video clips we want to use, etc. by next Tuesday and then all filming to be completed by that Thursday so editing can be done by the due date.