ENG 1131: Writing Through Media

Project Descriptions:

Final:

Revise and combine the projects you've completed throughout the semester. With what you've learned throughout semester in mind, you should revise the projects to make a full transformation of the various materials you've used both from pop culture and your event. The completed project should reflect a point of view, or your state of mind, about the event. You'll want to include new material if needed to help round out your thinking about the event. Included in each project will be a "review" of what you learned in tackling the material a second time and how you think the projects improved through your revisions.

Project Part 1: Narrative:

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.

Project Part 2: Argument:

Create a website that makes a metaphorical commentary on your event. Either start from a "dead" metaphor and make it a "living" one or come up with a new metaphorical comparison. Use the comedy sketches or routines we've discussed to help you structure the site to create expectation and surprise.

Project Part 3: Image: "Music Video" Textual Transformation

We'll be looking at various art works for this project, from Andy Warhol's images of Jackie (taken from a photo spread in Life magazine) to less direct examples such as Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q and the textual transformations in Text Book. The idea here is to select some particularly expressive objects that can be placed in a new context or juxtaposed according to the "image" of favorite band/singer.