The Institution of Late Night Talk
While collecting references for my annotated bibliography I came across a thesis entitled The Evolution of Mediatized Stand-Up Comedy: Investigating Para-Performances on Television, Film, and YouTube by Mirali Almaula. The thesis explores Stand Up Comedy performances and the effects that new…
Workshop 8: Elements of Sound in Podcasts
In this week’s workshop, we listened to an episode of radio lab that explored the basic question: why do we sleep? I personally had a hard time maintaining focus while listening to this episode. I found it slow in pace,…
The Institution of PBS and Sesame Street
As I began to think about my topic for project 4 ‘Institutions’ I decided I would start by simply reading some current news articles that focus on institutions and the challenges some may be facing. I came across ‘There Goes…
No(n) Narratives.
With the past couple weeks having focused around storytelling, protagonists, character development, and non-narrative I thought I would take a moment to explore pieces of media that break the rules of storytelling and narratives. Clerks is a perfect example of…
Non-Narrative Forms
In last week’s reading, we were exposed to the different forms of non-narrative storytelling. Non- Narrative being, in my opinion, the absence of character growth focused around ideas rather than having a tried and true plot. This is most commonly…
Group Genius + Flow
We briefly discussed group flow and the reading Group Genius: The creative power of collaboration by Keith Sawyer in this past week’s workshop. Since then I have actually done the reading (whoops, but better late than never). After I finished I immediately…
What Makes Me a ‘Creative’
In this past workshops class, we discussed what characteristics make a someone a creative. After this discussion, I started thinking about what the traits within me that make me want to create/ continue to drive me to create/ or simply lend…
Collaborative Work & My Experience
As we are beginning our first group project this semester I thought it would be a great idea to write a bit about my past experiences working with groups. Based on having read some of my peer’s post about this…
PB3 Screening + Feedback
In the workshop yesterday, we showed each other our PB3’s. In these moments, I remember how I constantly felt in high school – shaking with anxiety for almost no reason at all. Anxious over having to show my peers my…
Individual SWOT Analysis
In preparation for PB4, where we will be collaborating, I am doing a ‘swot analysis’. SWOT analysis stands for Strengths; Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Strengths: The biggest strength I bring to the knowledge of ‘institutions’ as the concept of institutions is…
