John Wright & Sam Casillas What Does it take to become a Superhero?

Digital Narrative Timeline

For my digital narrative, I have begun the story boarding process, which evidently is a bit more time consuming than one would think. Once I am done story boarding, which will most likely be in the next couple of days, I have allotted time for a couple excursions on which I plan on filming, which will hopefully take place late this week and this weekend. The final step once I am done filming, which will be early next week, is going to be editing and constructing my voice over for the video. I am working on arranging a good time to meet with Dave Underwood during the editing process so he can offer his advice and critique my work.

Digital Timeline

For my project, I will draw from stock footage found on youtube and create a sort of nature documentary covering the 3 different animals discussed in my essay. I have already found many clips that I can cut up and use as footage, but I plan to have a script written by next Wednesday to model the clips off of. I easily have enough footage to create about a 5 minute video, but I think the biggest challenge will be making the script concise enough to fit within this time constraint. That is, I will need to find the right balance between describing the what is occurring within the context of the clips and also providing the audience with an understanding of why this is important for science, and ultimately, humanity.

Time Line

My timeline for this assignment is as follows;

- April 15th 5:45-6:00pm work with Sam on story board
- April 19th have a working copy of a script, based off of our essays, worked out to be corroborated  with Sam
- April 20th have a completed final draft, fully corroborated with Sam

further details will be corroborated with Sam and his schedule.

I personally would like to be done with this assignment no later then April 26th

The highly anticipated trailer for our video will be released on April 28th

Digital Timeline

By using our essay we will read through and highlight the main points. 

Once we have the main points we will then create the slide show presentation with the proper progression. 

Make sure everything fits and has natural flow

Once we have good outline for slides we will then go back and add design, pics, and sounds

Start making script and story 

Annotated Bibliography

Tait-Jamieson, Tim. The Hunter and the Wolf: Environmental Ethics in Switzerland (n.d.): n. pag. University of Fribourg, Department of Geosciences, Geography Unit. University of Fribourg, May 2012. Web.

In many modern western industrial societies, recreational hunting or hunting for sport is recognized as a contested and controversial issue. This stems from tensions over contrasting moral view of how humans relate or rather should relate with the natural world. In this scholarly thesis article the author goes into great depth in examining historical research, supportive collected data sampling, and moral as well as environmental ethics and values. He supports his research extensively though does not offer any of his own credentials, background, or qualifications which makes it somewhat difficult to determine credibility. 

I found this article to be extremely pertinent to the moral and environmental values and ethics I hope to examine in my research. As I hope to do, the author does a great job in offering abstract, contemporary, traditional, and first hand perspectives of the matter, ideas similarly centered around the social construction of nature. The context is relative in time as well as target audience and informative structure of purpose, offering a great example of a well structured research article.

Annotated Bibliography

Johnson, Burges. The Lost Art of Profanity. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1948. Print.

This book takes a comprehensive look at the use, history, and psychology of profanity at a time when many of the country’s young men were returning from war.  The book’s main purpose is to inform the reader about how expletives had come to be what they were in the late 1940s, but there is an underlying tone of the author wanting people to critically think when using cuss words as well.

This book was written by a Dr. Burges Johnson of Union College in 1948.  This seems to be a scholarly book where historical research was done as well as current observations.  There is no bibliography in the book, though I wonder if that was as common a practice in the 1940s.  We are also not told what the author’s background is at all.  Despite that, this is a published book, giving credence to the work.

My initial thought was to try to research catch phrases and why they are catchy.  I stumbled across this book and thought it might actually lead my paper in a slightly different direction.  It has the element of history that I wanted to address in my paper, and what’s more catchy than a good swear word/phrase? This book may be a good foundation for my paper, providing information itself as well as posing questions that I may then try to broaden or research further myself.

Jenean Roberts