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Life is too important to be taken seriously. --Oscar Wilde


Course Info

Course: ENG 1131
Section: 6259
Room: CBD 110B, Weil 410
Time: T 5-6, R 6 & W E1–E3

Instructor: Nicholas Guest-Jelley
Office: TUR 4415
Office Hours: TR 7 and by appointment
Email: njelley@ufl.edu

ENG 1131: Project 1 Description

Project 1 due Tuesday, Feb. 10

Read/View

* Text Book on representation through narrative
* On your own about your event/TV show
* JFK

Web

At this point, we are concerned with getting the content online. You want to have striking images and well-thought-out text, and you want to be sure that your links are working between the separate web pages.

ASSIGNMENT:

Dramatize a historical event as a character contest or “run-in” from a favorite TV show. To do so, write out a scene for the show’s characters to enact that involves them in the event.  This exercise in representation should take the form of a narrative, with some of Labov’s elements present and others missing, should not be written as a short story, but as a TV script, supplemented with images from the show and event. 

As we will see from Assassination Rhapsody the connection between images and narrative don’t have to be explicit for meaning to emerge between them. Since you are not writing out an entire episode, you may want to include a plot summary of what has happened before the scene begins and, perhaps, how it turns out. Doing the project is entering into a dialogue about the event and media representations of it. As you work on it, you should use your own point of view to evaluate and select your material. 

Ask yourself, how would you like to see the event represented? This allows you to do away with the nagging questions TV execs have to deal with regarding if their shows will make money.

Project Design

Aim for about 5 web pages with both images and dialogue (and stage directions).

The design of the Website is based on an application of the form of your selected TV show to the historical circumstances of your event. The project could be staged in a genre of character confrontation or "run-in" (following the logic of your TV show). Detailed instructions for the project are developed collaboratively in class, in the band presentations and email reports. Ingredients for the design include the following:

Brief example: What if the Fresh Prince of Bel Air did an episode about the 2008 election? 

Project 1 Presentation: