Skills Video Tutorial

 

 

 

This is my video tutorial for the create a skills video assignment. I used screen-o-matic to record a video of a video.  This is a tutorial on how to complete the skills video assignment as well as how to use screen-o-matic when you are in a pinch

Full Metal Jacket

For this assignment you create a misleading T.V. guide synopsis of a movie or show that uses actual facts to distort the story.  I chose the film Full Metal Jacket and make it sound almost patriotic or noble in its portrayal of Marine life.  I think Stanley Kubrick had different intentions.

 

Full Metal Jacket

“Darwinian study of Marine Corp life during Vietnam.  Portrays the efficiency and splendor of Marine life and follows the struggle of one undisciplined Marine as he eventually overcomes his shortcomings and finds his purpose as a long-distanced rifleman.”

Atomic Apocalypse

 

 

 

For this assignment you were supposed to create a visual of your biggest fear outside your window. I am not actually really that afraid of an atomic winter, but typically rather than look at actual (internal) fears, people like to find some external to attach their fear to i.e. terrorism, communism, Muslims, Armageddon. This picture is more in the spirit of what Jung calls the Collective Shadow. If it were an actual fear of mine it would be hard to capture as an image outside a window since most of my fears are intangible: failure/success, being alone/being committed etc.

C.K. Williams

I completed the over-dramatic reading assignment for the audio category. I chose C.K. Williams’s poem “The Method” for my reading. This poem is highly analytic, academic, and discursive.  On the page it reads more like a dry pseudo-philosophical discourse than a poem. For my reading I tried to alter the meaning by adding inflection and emotion to the reading.  It was a  strange almost subversive feeling to perform a humorous reading.  I don’t know if Williams would laugh or not, but maybe it would be good for him if he did.  Unfortunately, the reading completely altered the meaning of the poem for me. At first, I was extremely taken by this poem and now it seems really esoteric and self-indulgent.

C.K. Williams

I completed the over-dramatic reading assignment for the audio category. I chose C.K. Williams’s poem “The Method” for my reading. This poem is highly analytic, academic, and discursive.  On the page it reads more like a dry pseudo-philosophical discourse than a poem. For my reading I tried to alter the meaning by adding inflection and emotion to the reading.  It was a  strange almost subversive feeling to perform a humorous reading.  I don’t know if Williams would laugh or not, but maybe it would be good for him if he did.  Unfortunately, the reading completely altered the meaning of the poem for me. At first, I was extremely taken by this poem and now it seems really esoteric and self-indulgent.