Sarah Koenig’s podcast "Serial" utilizes numerous narrative techniques such as foreshadowing, suspense, and the use of "cliffhangers" to further develop the connection between the narrator and the audience and keep the listeners coming back. Sarah Koenig frequently uses cues throughout the podcast to foreshadow information that will be released to the audience later on in the podcast. The narrator uses this narrative technique in the beginning of the podcast, where she plays gloomy music to indicate that something sad will happen. Later in the podcast, the listener comes to the realization that Hae Min Lee has been killed. Another instance of Koenig using foreshadowing in her podcast is when she states that there was no physical evidence, which
I walked into my house the door wide open and a damn sword stuck the ceiling; I could see the back yard with a crapload of holes in it again. This is the last time I am going to let my roommate bring his crazy gofer friends over again. The last party they had the gofers brought over some woodchuck prostitutes and they chewed off all my legs to the table, who know what they did with them. This GSCA group gets way out of hand. That is Gofers Society for Creative Anachronism.
Neil Diamond 's documentary “Reel Injun” depicts the historical portrayal of the treatment of the First Nations in America. It brings awareness to the truth behind not only First Nations, but other stereotyped groups. For example, that many people often mistake all members of the Muslim community as Extremists who commit inhumane acts of terrorism. Small percentages of the population who fit the stereotyped criteria may often unintentionally represent their background negatively and as a whole. These are then misinterpreted by society ultimately having a biased view on groups of people.
“The Running Man”, written by Michael Gerard Bauer, is a narrative that focuses on themes such as judgement, dealing with the past and fear of the unknown. “The Running Man” is about a shy boy named Joseph who meets Tom Leyton; a man who’s past has come to define him. Both characters carry baggage; so do The Running Man and Mrs Mossop. These characters carry around baggage of guilt, regret, scarred memories and loss to the point of it affecting how they are as people. Tom Leyton has let his past become who he is because he doesn’t think he is worthy of anyone or their trust.
The movie the sapphires use racism as a struggle that the girls must get through in the movie and I have chosen two scenes in the movie where it is most dominant. The scenes that I have chosen include the opening scene where the government consisting of all white men try to take the children of the aboriginal community. My second scene that I have chosen is the when Gail and Cynthia go to get Kay from the white people where you notice the different between how the white people live rather than the aboriginal live. In the opening scene, we see the four-girl singing traditional aboriginal songs in front of a large aboriginal crowd because it is someone’s birthday.
The instruments used in the song are an electric guitar and bass, mandolin, and keyboard. The electric guitar and bass are used to play background for the song and keep the beat going. The piano plays the rhythm of the song and leads the other instruments. The mandolin plays when the moments are sad. It represents people that would be crying or upset over Jesse Taylor’s actions.
Meet my Jazz band. This is a picture of us in New Orleans my junior year during spring break to play Jazz. I decided upon this picture because this band has had such a profound impact on how I frame my future. My connection with music through the piano has been fostered ever since I could reach those shiny black and white collection of keys. Starting at the age of four, playing the classical music of Mozart and Bach was what my musical background was founded upon, with tangible medals and accomplishments as achievements.
In my opinion, I think that the main point of the words and lyrics in the “Bad Blood” is the betrayal and how it changed the relationship. As what she was mentioned more than once, “You made a really deep cut, and now we got a bad blood” (Taylor Swift). As a result, there were many violent seconds in the video which is related to this theme and proves the change in the relationship. This happens, for instance, when she is wearing black and having the knife because she suffered from something, and this color refers to violence and hate. Based on that, I can say that the music video complements the song in a direct way.
The word genre comes from the French word for 'class ', (Chandler, 1997). Film genre refers to a specific style or subject matter. A movie may have several different components that may make up a specific genre. Genres makes it easier for the audience, as the categorization of genres lets the audience pick what sort of movie they would like to watch. Film genres give the audience information into the type movie it may be, this in turn helps them to decide whether the movie is suitable for them or not.
Music is the most significant of symbols in Oates short story to the point that it is dedicated to Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan was a popular singer of the 1960’s and many of his songs spoke out in favor of the civil rights movement and anti-war movement, perhaps Oates felt inspired by his work when she created this story. Considered a window to the soul, music plays a large role as the backdrop of the story. Throughout the entire story, the type of music and the songs playing are listed such as at the dinner and Bobby King’s radio station playing in Arnold Friend’s car. These types of music are conflicting as the music in the dinner is described as “background music like music at a church service” and the station in Arnold’s car is “hard, fast, shrieking songs” (pg 1056-1058).
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson explores in many ways how “not giving a fuck,” or not trying, can lead to a better life. Mark Manson provides many topics on how not giving a fuck will help you throughout your life. One of those examples, which is mentioned numerous times throughout the book, is ignoring or denying our problems. When we ignore and deny our problems, obviously it creates more problems overall. Mark Manson created a book that relates to the topic “thinking and rethinking” for numerous reasons, but all that would lead us to a better life.
Drifters by Bruce Dawe “Why have hope?”, is the question raised in the poem “Drifters” by Bruce Dawe. Bruce Dawe’s poem explores how change can damage a family 's relationship and cause them to drift apart. This poem has underlying and straight forward themes depicted about change. Straight forward depiction is the physical movement of the family from place to place and not everyone is in favour of this change. The very first line of the poem, “One day soon he’ll tell her it’s time to start packing”, supports the inevitable change that no one else has a say in except the man.
This song shows a young girl who is portrayed as having a dorky nerdy look. Also, it shows a girl that is opposite of her, who is a pretty brunette known by the highschool kids. The “nerdy” girl is in love with a football player, who she believes will never have a chance with, because he is with another girl. “Taylor swift” has a crush on a boy who is blind to see that she really loved her and not the girl he is with who is portrayed as a “popular” Brunette. This is an important aspect to Taylor Swift because she is known to sing love stories that she hears about or experience herself.
Some times we just want to start over again and the song perfectly portrays that. Also it saids “… screams but no one hears a thing” Guy Montag was trying to tell his wife about books but as much as he tried she wouldn 't listen to him like the song. In the story theres a lot of conflict that had happen but like the song saids that after a hurricane theres a rainbow. When all the bad stuff that is happening in his life its like the hurricane and the rainbow can be when he found the hobos that weren 't just hobos. Set fire to the rain by Adele expresses the feelings that Guy Montag could have been feeling.
As I look back on the past week, it has been a long journey! Throughout the course of Creative Arts II, there were many group works compared to Creative arts I. I really loved the idea of having various small and big group works and performances because it allowed us to get together and gather ideas to create a piece of art. For the final group performance, as a group, we gathered lots of ideas and discussed how the performance should be carried out. One of our ideas for the final performance was dance where we choreograph our own dance piece to a theme of life cycle and love of music.