“Nameless Monster” Podcast Rationale After reading Shipka and Mckee’s article, the first thing that came to my mind was audio children story books. This kind of children story book has a speaker right at the front bottom of the book. It senses every page you flip and play the audio pre-recorded according to the content […]

Things to consider when making documentary: -a great opening that helps audience to understand the whole film -use visual rather than textual and aural to help audience understand -documentary should use more visual elements to present the topic -obey to the ground rules of documentary: made to communicate that only can be described with nouns and action […]

Long long ago, there was a nameless monster. After realizing everyone on the earth has a name, the monster wants a name, too. One day, he decided to get on the journey of name finding. The monster split into two, one of them goes toward west while the other one goes toward east. The monster […]

Throughout the whole podcast, sound was used as a tool for transition, emotional trigger, and visual trigger (in mind). Sound really adds atmosphere to the content. In the introduction when the host talks without a background, we can tell that he is going to start a discussion of something without even paying attention to the […]

Shipka stated that there is no one formula for good writing and talked about how the multimodal theory of composing might work better. While I questioned the necessity of linear, thesis driven and argumentative type of writing, I also doubt whether multimodal theory of composing can ultimately replaces the that. Would it be better to let student master on […]

Often when we hear a moment of silence when watching movie and listening to music, we tend to wonder whether big things is going to happen. According to McKee, silence can be one type of sound. What will happen if there is no silence presence through out the whole movie? Mckee say that it is […]

I picked lyric from the song “I believe I can fly” because the lyric really look like poem. It has many repeated sentence that emphasize the same idea. Therefore I decided to make these repeated words special and different compare to the rest of the texts. I also used a larger font size for the […]

As noted in the reading , photographer can design what kind of photo they want to make by utilizing different tools, can we still recognized a photo that design for webpage usage when it is placed in a print medium?   According to Wysocki, people should be able to recognize whether a section of text […]