I really loved the poem Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros. I really loved the idea that this woman will say what she wants to say and will not care. This is what I drew from one portion of the poem.

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1.The documentary is a form of expository because it wants the viewer to remember the most important events in history and give a sense of empathy, which from the title of this piece it clearly doesn’t want us to forget any of this. It includes interviews from people who have experienced the bombing first hand as well as people who were there when making the bomb. It educates us but doesn’t really explain as much because we should already know what it is he is talking about, he is just going more in detail of what we could have missed and what others may say about it. This film also shows a poetic mode according to the images and videos that are shown it seems to be random but gives a sense of purpose as a whole. The editing is very abstract and just is all over the place, not knowing what was going to be shown next though it fits the piece and gives the viewer what could be seen when the narrator is talking.

2. I think that the filmmaker chose to automate the voice of the narrator in order to give more interest in this film. It’s standard to have a normal voice and viewers are expecting that, so I think the filmmaker wanted to get out of the traditional making of a documentary, and he succeeds in making the film more interesting when adding a twist to what you were expected of seeing.

3. The experimental aspects of the film had to be in the images and the way it went with storytelling. When the narrator was talking about a specific subject, the images didn’t always correlate with the story though it set a mood and a tone overall. Also what was experimented was the voice of the narrator, it breaks away from traditional documentaries and gives this more interest.

4. To me this film comes across as fact, but I can see why it could be fiction. The articles and interviews from people during WWII give me the reason why it could be a true piece though the way filmmaker set up the overall look of the documentary could seem fiction and made up. The images are not always in sync to what the narrator is talking about but when it does it looks to be true. This piece could be either or for me but I am leaning towards true because, of course I learned about this in history but this story is telling us the views towards people who were there and what they saw and experienced, so it goes more into the viewer rather than the actual facts.

Storytelling In Art

In Asterios Polp the illustration adds more to the story and gives the reader a chance to visually see the story rather than imagine the environment and characters. The beginning of the comic starts off with the viewer seeing the layout and the environment of the main character, it gives us the setting of the overall tone of the story without even bringing in words. With the color it shows us the overall tone and mood of the story, the range of blues and purples in the beginning gives off a hopeless and despair feeling that already gives the viewer a look of what is coming throughout the story. The use of illustration shows more of an impact with storytelling because it expresses more than what words can convey. A lot can be said with just an image.

Storytelling is what I believe to be an important part of any work especially my own. Without a story you just have a pretty animation or a pretty image, but if you include one you have a masterpiece, you have a better quality of animation. Within my major of motion design, we have to be creative in the way we tell a story, because we don’t use the conventional use of characters. In animation and film they use people to tell a story and convey emotion, but motion designers use shapes and lines to create a story so we have to be very productive and have everything in order to story tell­. It’s really important to have a good story in order to have a great animation.

Woman Waiting to Take a Photograph

    1.   It seems to me that the time she is waiting is about two hours or so because she is waiting for the right person to be her muse and for them unknowingly to take their picture, though at the end it seems that she has taken one and it made her grow in fame so the time frame could be 5 years or even more after taking her money shot. Seems early 90s or late 2000s. Snapshot of a photographer trying to take a snapshot.

2. The text implies that photographers will do anything for a perfect shot, and will be patient in order to get it, photography in the text is giving me the idea that photographers don’t really know what their capturing or don’t really understand the meaning of the photograph only what they will gain. Writer was judging photographer and giving a description of what a photographer does.

3. The writer’s attitude towards the woman seems to be a disapproval of what she is doing, when writing looking for “the right poor person” it shows that she’s looking for someone who is incapable of having a nice life, and downgrading the person even more, she’s using the person’s sad life to captivate and enrich her own. She’s essentially using that right person to get her to become the opposite of them. Exploiting them. The tone seems to be judgmental and unhappy with the woman. Knows more about her, implies that he’s familiar with her and may be in the same class as her. Her car being a hand down even though it’s only 4 years old shows that she’s privileged. She not respecting the area that she’s in.

4. Repeating the term “Go-Getter’s” the writer is emphasizing that the people who shop there is anything but and repeatedly reminding the reader that. Also it’s a term that describes the woman she’s waiting for the shot and is willing get it, she has a goal and she’s doing what’s necessary to get it. It perfectly describes the woman while it’s the opposite for the customers. Showing the irony between them.

5. In the final sentence, the writer is making a joke of what she could get. The tone of this sentence shows she’s creating a distance of what she’s actually taking a shot of, like taking a picture of animals. 

 6. The writer is mocking and judging the woman he’s describing, but he himself is doing the same thing. He’s observing this women exploiting people in an unfortunate situation and exploiting her to create this story.