Saturday, December 20, 2014
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Music Video
The song that I chose was Just a Sip by Luke Bryan, there wasn't many long scenes. The scene that i found that was the longest was from 2:11 to 2:15, the video is made up of a lot of shots, going from Luke singing then transitioning to the college students. The video has a mixture of close shots, medium shots, and long shots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uir8BylHPpU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uir8BylHPpU
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Annotated Bibliography (Chase, Leon, Alex, Jon)
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
For
our documentary, we will be filming bodybuilders and physique lifters, which
attend the Johnson Center. We will be interviewing the select 5 that our group
has chosen, we will be asking the lifters a series of question to really know
why they train and what the train for. We will also film the bodybuilders and
physique lifters while they are in action lifting, watching there bodies and
mind reach their breaking point.
Chadwell,
Jon Ben. Personal interview October 20, 2014.
Jon
Ben Is a very inspired bodybuilder he is all natural, he puts nothing that is bad
in his body, he has never once supplemented a work out, he goes off the drive
of just being successful; and being as big as he can be while still maintaining
being extremely healthy. That will make his interview just that much better
really finding out how he does it with no help.
Obtained
his contact information: Phone number.
Mohammad,
Ibrahim. Personal Interview October 20, 2014.
Ibrahim
is a foreign exchange student that is looking to be a male physique competitor
so he is constantly in the gym cutting himself up, working his self until he
cant lift anymore. He has a strict clean diet that he complements his
supplements. He is planning to attend the next big competition coming up, and
show everyone what he is working for. His motto is “remember where you
started.”
Obtained
his contact information: Phone Number
Jacobs,
Haylon. Personal interview October 19, 2014.
My
first impressions on Haylon when I first interviewed him was, “wow this guy is
all for the gym.” Almost like Eric Thomas the inspiration speaker. “How bad do
you want to succeed”? Haylon is an all around bodybuilder focusing on all parts
of his body to make him self as strong as his body will let him. Further in the
interview Haylon then said he was going to try to be a walk linebacker for the
football team. Instantly it sparked that this will be a good interview to
really know what it takes to be a football player. And how hard he has to push
him self to the next level.
Obtained
his contact information: Phone number.
Phillips,
Nick. Personal interview October 19, 2014.
Nick
is a senior here at UK, what Nick is trying to accomplish is having a really
big body that is ripped to another level, he is always running trying to burn
off fat, I would consider Nick to be a physique lifter because he is going for
a shredded look. Nick is a engineering major so he is always stacked with
homework, papers to write, and huge exams, but he still finds a way to make it
to the gym 5 to 6 times a week to work on his body.
Obtained
his contact information: Phone Number.
Thompson,
Ryan. Personal interview October 19, 2014.
Ryan...
yes, that’s correct he is my brother. Ryan to me was my inspiration to become a
lifter. He was always trying to get me in the gym. Ryan supplements his body
taking everything that can make him bigger, (not steroids, legal supplements).
Ryan is trying to push his limits so far reaching new levels for only weighing
in at 173 pounds and bench-pressing nearly close to 300. He wants to be a
physique male model and strive his way to be on the front of bodybuilding
magazines. Ryan is one that is never going to give up until he gets what he
wants and where he wants to be.
Obtained
his contact information: Phone Number.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Born into Coal
The video “Born into Coal” is a controversial topic that has been argued back and forth for several years. “Born into Coal”, I think it is both a Standard Narrative and Human Interest Perspective. It is human interest because they are using a couple people’s stories and perspective on coal. It also talks in details about the miner’s life themselves and stories about what they have been through while mining, and there perspectives on what would happen if the coal industry cut all the jobs. The shot I chose really stood out to me because Arianna is standing between two train tracks wearing her dress and her crown from the pageant she just had won. It is a long shot with her standing dead in the center. The shot is a very strong, so simple but it gives off such a hard message that she is not going to change her views on coal mining. During the shot of Arianna, she is doing a voice over, saying she is not just quite ready to move on yet. Now, that I have watched the documentary I can see how small shots like the one above can be so affective and strong, these kinds of shots are what makes documentary’s better and more effective, such as the one my group and I are making. To me, this documentary helped a lot and these shots will cross my mind while we are filming.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Visual Rhetoric on the Death Penalty
The two presentations one being “No
Seconds” and the other being “The Last Meal Project”, both on the death penalty
were both intriguing, and interesting to me. Before reading the presentation I
didn’t know there was 35 states that still used the death penalty. Both
of the presentations use rhetorical statements that also make the arguments
better in a sense. The authors of both of the presentations made clear
statements, but the presentations could both be improved.
In the
presentation "No Seconds" by Henry Hargraves he does a very good job
at the interesting layout that really catches your eye right when you look at
it. Hargraves, makes the presentation short and sweet. He doesn’t talk much
about content or facts about the death penalty like “The Last Meal Project”
does. In return Hargraves makes it seem
as if the inmates were given a better meal before death because his pictures of
the last meals look more appetizing making it look like they are receiving
better treatment putting a huge price tag on the inmates spending limits. This
is a use of visual rhetoric. Hargraves also only explains the facts of the
foods the inmates had chosen and what they had done with the food. Except for
the short introduction at the beginning of the presentation.
In the presentation
“The Last Meal Project” the visual layout is different than “No Seconds” the
old pieces of paper used in “No Seconds” make it look more of a serious matter.
The pictures look way less appetizing as well.
Almost as if they’re thinking “well you’re about to die anyway who
cares?” and give them the food they ask for but a low quality version of it. The author defiantly has more content facts in
this presentation than the other; having a small paragraph every couple slides
about lethal injection, the cost of it, how many states use the death penalty
while also having many more facts.
The authors of
both presentations could have made the arguments of the death penalty listed
through facts of the text instead of many pictures, but to me it was more
interesting to read the text through the pictures. In reviewing both of the presentations
many times I think that “The Last Meal Project” does a better job because of
the text, it explains more about the death penalty while still having visual rhetoric
of the inmates and the food that they had chose. I think that if the authors
put both of their work together the presentation would be more organized, having
the layout, the content and the visuals.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Speech Reflection
While
watching my speech I feel like for as much as I practiced it should have been
much better, I was very nervous which is odd because I have given plenty of
speeches in high school; I even had to give an exit project in front of my
administration and I felt more nervous in front of our WRD 110 class than in
front of the admins at our school. I did do a couple things that were good as well;
I made good eye contact looking at everyone around the room, instead of just
staring at the wall in the back. I also like the way I paced back in forth it wasn’t
to slow or to fast, and I didn’t continually pace constantly I would stop every
so often then pick it back up just so I wasn’t awkwardly walking the whole
time. For the most part I got the point
that I needed to get across about the paintball club, but unfortunately I did
miss points that I needed to say. I need to work on multiple things such pacing
myself as I talk and slow it down making the speech smoother, I think that is
the big reason why I studded when I talk because while having normal
conversations I don’t studded because I’m talking slower. I need to let my
brain work faster then my lips, not my lips work faster then my brain. Lastly
looking at the speech I said a couple of things twice and didn’t realize it and
I sounded stupid. But other than that if for some reason we got another chance
to present these I would defiantly work harder and practice more so I could
knock it out.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
RISE OF THE NBA NERD
In the article "The Rise of the NBA Nerd", talks about the way Wesley Morris states how big named NBA basketball players such as LeBron James and Dwane Wayde, today are starting to dress more nerdy and preppy than before. Wesley thinks that it is odd for the trend that is being taken. Also Wesley points out how over time the way the players are dressing like they are scholaristic wearing a backpack and trying to make it look as if there is homework in the bag. He states that is almost as weird as having a black president. But then again these are the most successful people in the world. People look up to them, they are our role models.Wesley really gets in to how a couple years back in the show The Fresh Prince how Carlton used to dress and we all thought he look like a herb but now in todays society that is normal. The people we used to make fun of when we were young now is what we want to dress like, look like and act like. He wraps up the Article with saying something is different today than basketball used to be something just isn't right. There is no longer a normal. I think it crazy that something so small like the way someone dresses can impact someones life so much. People think that if you grew up in a city or or in the "hood" you're screwed but thats a stereotype, like Wesley said if who you look up too someone who does something differnt your going to embrace them and want to be the next person to dress like them or act like them. Becuase they are successful who doesn't want to be. Its good how they are making a change in wearing "nerdy" or "preppy" clothes because it can really make a positive imapct.
Monday, September 8, 2014
TED's Videos
In my previous years I can say that I have never
been assigned to TED talks before, and I can also say I have never heard about
it as well. There are many interesting topics that there was to chose from but
the one that caught my eye the most was defiantly
“How to grow a tiny forest anywhere” by Shubhendu Sharma. Because at the
beginning he stated that he works for Toyota as a mechanical engineer. My dad
works for Toyota in the plants and is also a mechanical engineer. So I thought
I could maybe get some more insight.
Sharma parted with a Chinese businessman, who discovered that small fast
growing forests hold many great uses for the environment as well as for us. He
said that the main idea was to produce natural harmless fuel for cars that
could be quickly reached. The speaker engaged in the idea and conversed with
many people in the community and big business and said how much small dense
forests can really make an impact.
Sharma said that to plant 300 trees you only 6 average parking spots
because the small forests are so dense. One may not be able to cross through it
that’s how dense they are. To me the presentation was well thought out, made it
short and sweet and said what we wanted to hear he did not drag it on. He
covered many facts about how this is going to make a change and you only have
to do so little. Sharma didn’t seem nervous, he was very prepared and knew how
to get the point across in such little time.
link for the video
http://www.ted.com/talks/shubhendu_sharma_how_to_grow_a_tiny_forest_anywhere
The second one that caught my eye was "Are athletes really getting faster,
better, stronger?" as athletes. Because to me sports were a big part of my
life in high school I ran track, played baseball, and basketball. And I wanted to know what is really
happening, what is changing among us as human beings to make us become better,
faster and stronger. David Epstein starts off the speech strong and confident.
He has very simple diagrams and pictures that show what records are changing
over time, ranging anywhere from 1902 to 2014. He was comparing Jesse Owens to
what is now known as to us Usaine Bolt. (Olympic gold medalist) How the
technology now has changed. They were sprinting on different types of material
with Owens it took more Strength to push off unlike Bolts. He was set up to
have the best take off a human could possibly have. Then he also goes in to how
performance-enhancing supplements have changed rapidly over a short amount of
years. He continues his speech about how the technology of the pool has changed
from the gutters on the side of the pool let the water splash up inside of them
so they can get a better summersault and take off the wall. Then talks about
the swimsuits they now wear from a while ago and how now they are more water
resistance. Then he makes a confident transition to how the big is getting
bigger, the small is getting smaller, and the weird is getting weirder. Epstein
states many facts about why this is happening. The overall speech was
intriguing and well made. His prezi really caught my eye. The only thing that I
didn’t like too much about the speech was he stood in the same spot made the
same hand motions the whole time. If you really weren’t interested in sports it
would bore you because the speech was quite long. But overall like I said I really enjoyed the
speech and the stuff that came along with it.
link for the video http://www.ted.com/talks/david_epstein_are_athletes_really_getting_faster_better_stronger#t-873561
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)