You presented your group work from last class. The purpose of the assignment was to show how you could achieve the same goal through different genres and exploring the different ways each genre accomplished the goal. However, only one of your ads achieved the goal of teaching the moral lesson of Snow White but at least you know what I was trying to help you accomplish. I hope we'll be more successful in our next attempt at genre transformation.
Introduction to the Unfamiliar Genre Project
We went over the assignment sheet for Project 3 (see Class Documents) and you learned that you will be researching, analyzing, creating and presenting a piece of work in a genre that is unfamiliar to you. The genres range from short story to product descriptions in catalogs to fortunes in fortune cookies (see List of Possible Genres under Class Documents). The possibilities are endless. You should come to class Wednesday with an idea of what genre you would like to do.
Genre Analysis: The Teen Vampire Drama
We watched the beginning of the movie Twilight and the first episode of the TV show The Vampire Diaries. As cheesy as both of these videos were, they fit neatly into a category of television, movies, and books that recently swept the world, the teen vampire drama. I asked you to keep an eye out for the similarities and differences in characters, settings, situations, moods, lighting between the two and to consider the various rhetorical elements of the pieces such as audience, purpose, tone, voice, context, etc. Due to some technical difficulties, we ran out of time and weren't able to discuss what you found in class. We will continue our discussion on Wednesday.
Homework (All Due Wednesday, Nov. 2)
- Think about and come up with some potential ideas for genres you would like to do for Project 3
- Read Frame to Frame: A Beginner's Guide to Comics (See Class Documents)
- Read the excerpts from V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, and Sin City by Frank Miller. (See Class Documents)
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