Monday, April 11, 2011
Questions
1. Why is the child looking away in the picture? 2. What is the child looking at in the picture? 3. Why is the mother holding the child in the picture? 4. What is the significance of the word "aftershock" all broken up? 5. How is the color of the poster related to the mothers choice 6. How will the mothers decision affect the whole family? Zac Oswald, Anthony Magazine, Marcus Merritt, Carson Wellman
In Class Assignment
Questions
1)How does the shading of the picture give the audience an overall sense of the mood of the film?
2)Why does the mother seem to be the central character of the film via the text, yet the picture focuses primarily on the boy?
3)What is the relationship between this boy and woman? Are these two people the mother and child?
4)Why is the child looking away from the screen?
5)What is the significance of the mother's hand having the city shaded into it?
6)How does the title of the film foreshadow the events that will occur throughout the film?
Observations
1)The color of the film is revealing of the overall mood of the film.
2)It is strange how the text revolves around the mother, yet the picture revolves around the child.
3)It is interesting that the text leads us to believe the people in the picture are mother and son, when there is no other proof of the existence of this relationship.
4)It is interesting that the boy is looking away from the screen, as if he is looking for hope.
5)It is strange how the woman's hand has the reflection of a city, when in reality a hand cannot reflect images.
6)It is interesting how the word aftershock appears broken and crumbled, because that is the typical visual we assosciate with that word.
Billy Kuhlman
Seth Erwin
Andrew Norwell
Simon Lee
1)How does the shading of the picture give the audience an overall sense of the mood of the film?
2)Why does the mother seem to be the central character of the film via the text, yet the picture focuses primarily on the boy?
3)What is the relationship between this boy and woman? Are these two people the mother and child?
4)Why is the child looking away from the screen?
5)What is the significance of the mother's hand having the city shaded into it?
6)How does the title of the film foreshadow the events that will occur throughout the film?
Observations
1)The color of the film is revealing of the overall mood of the film.
2)It is strange how the text revolves around the mother, yet the picture revolves around the child.
3)It is interesting that the text leads us to believe the people in the picture are mother and son, when there is no other proof of the existence of this relationship.
4)It is interesting that the boy is looking away from the screen, as if he is looking for hope.
5)It is strange how the woman's hand has the reflection of a city, when in reality a hand cannot reflect images.
6)It is interesting how the word aftershock appears broken and crumbled, because that is the typical visual we assosciate with that word.
Billy Kuhlman
Seth Erwin
Andrew Norwell
Simon Lee
Kavya, Chad, Elan, Brooks
Why the city skyline is barely featured in the poster in perspective to the mother and son?
Why only half the mother’s is face visible when the text features her so greatly?
What does it mean that the mother is embracing her son but he is looking away?
What message is the mother’s slight smirk sending to the audience?
How would her choice change her whole family forever?
How does the sepia tone provoke emotion in the viewer?
Why only half the mother’s is face visible when the text features her so greatly?
What does it mean that the mother is embracing her son but he is looking away?
What message is the mother’s slight smirk sending to the audience?
How would her choice change her whole family forever?
How does the sepia tone provoke emotion in the viewer?
6 Questions
lin wang ; xixiao hu; Hongtao Xia; Andrew Krumel
A.
1. How are the mother's hands related to the choice she must make?
2. What was the crisis that caused this situation?
3. How the boy is related to the mom's choice?
4. Why do the boy and the mother seem emotionless despite the ruins shown on the hand?
5. What is the boy looking at if he is not looking at his mother?
6. Why does it appear the mother has saved her child but still had to make a choice that will change their lives forever?
B. 1. Revealing: Pain he experienced based on ruins on mom’s hand
2. Strange: boy not looking at mother even though he looks traumatized or hurt
3. Interesting: Why the poster says change forever, leaves the audience asking questions
4. Revealing: The mom is holding her hand over the boy’s heart means that the two are facing a highly emotional experience
5. Revealing: Yellow tone demonstrates the lack of light or hope of this disaster movie
6. Strange: Emotions of the boy and the mother’s face are emotionless, with no tears
7. Revealing: The clothes that the two are wearing indicate that they are ordinary people who have experienced a traumatic event
8. Strange: The hand of the mother is visible but the face is not even though the movie is about the mother’s choice
9. Strange: No pictures of blood or the dead, only ruins
A.
1. How are the mother's hands related to the choice she must make?
2. What was the crisis that caused this situation?
3. How the boy is related to the mom's choice?
4. Why do the boy and the mother seem emotionless despite the ruins shown on the hand?
5. What is the boy looking at if he is not looking at his mother?
6. Why does it appear the mother has saved her child but still had to make a choice that will change their lives forever?
B. 1. Revealing: Pain he experienced based on ruins on mom’s hand
2. Strange: boy not looking at mother even though he looks traumatized or hurt
3. Interesting: Why the poster says change forever, leaves the audience asking questions
4. Revealing: The mom is holding her hand over the boy’s heart means that the two are facing a highly emotional experience
5. Revealing: Yellow tone demonstrates the lack of light or hope of this disaster movie
6. Strange: Emotions of the boy and the mother’s face are emotionless, with no tears
7. Revealing: The clothes that the two are wearing indicate that they are ordinary people who have experienced a traumatic event
8. Strange: The hand of the mother is visible but the face is not even though the movie is about the mother’s choice
9. Strange: No pictures of blood or the dead, only ruins
Activity B: Sample Primary Source Analysis
Time Magazine cover on Global Warming
In your groups, discuss these questions, providing at least two points for each question:
a. What was effective about this analysis?
b. What analytical tools from WA does this analysis utilize?
c. What can be improved about this analysis?
d. How closely did this Primary Source Analysis assignment adhere to the Assignment prompt?
Take (10 minutes) to discuss and we’ll gather as a class to discuss (10-15 minutes).
In your groups, discuss these questions, providing at least two points for each question:
a. What was effective about this analysis?
b. What analytical tools from WA does this analysis utilize?
c. What can be improved about this analysis?
d. How closely did this Primary Source Analysis assignment adhere to the Assignment prompt?
Take (10 minutes) to discuss and we’ll gather as a class to discuss (10-15 minutes).
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
disaster memory?
This is an interesting blog post that is criticizing Japan for not being more prepared for the nuclear plant problems. The author says that scientists are like a society's elders who should help remember society's disasters that have happened. I think this is interesting and I think Japan needs to learn from this natural disaster. The people were prepared for a disaster but the nuclear plant was not. what are your thoughts?
Sunday, April 3, 2011
New York Times Blog: Taliban Cut Cellphone Service in Helmand
Imagine the city of Columbus losing cell phone connection due to an outside terrorist force for a week or "until further notice".. unimaginable, right? This is exactly what is happening in Helmand, Afghanistan. After a promise of security from President Hamid Karzai, the Taliban threatened death to company officials and the destruction of cellphone towers which negated all previous attempts by the President at creating a secure Helmand. This is not a completely foreign happening as the Taliban have shut down cellphone towers before due to paranoia of "spies" and the tracking of the Mujahadeen by foreigners who then bomb and raid the area causing mass numbers of civilian casualties. This time it is different as it is usually designated to the night but there is no knowing of when it will end. This has been detrimental to the economic pursuits and security of the people in this region.
Here is the link to this article: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/taliban-cuts-cellphone-service-in-helmand/#more-33451
Here is the link to this article: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/taliban-cuts-cellphone-service-in-helmand/#more-33451
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