Sunday, January 24, 2010
Final blogs
Alright guys...we're done! I've really enjoyed your posts and feedback here all semester long!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Podcast- Kris
hey, this will probable be my last post of this class, and im very sad about it. So i choose to review a fun podcast, that i laughed all the way htrought. Kris Webers. now im probable the 5 person on this blog to post on his podcast, but it was so funny and amusing that i couldn't help myself.
J. K Rowling
I laughed so hard at the beginning of this podcast. The HaveADay productions beginning.
I liked your use of visuals when he is talking about JK’s history. The writers she looked up to as a child and her writing’s in their styles.
The legend of how JK Rowling came up with the idea for harry potter is famous.
One of my favourite parts of this podcast is how he was able to merge the videos of previous interviews with JK Rowling with the questions he wanted to ask himself. I thought this was creative and interesting because it made this podcast so interesting because the listeners were able to hear the author’s actual response to questions. I thought this was a very effective method of attraction the reader’s interest.
I thought you did a good job at identifying what her style of writing is and how she used it to so much success in her series.
In conclusion, i thought this was a great podcast, it was interesting, mesmerizing, the video clips keep the listeners attention and able to maintain it thought out the entire piece.
J. K Rowling
I laughed so hard at the beginning of this podcast. The HaveADay productions beginning.
I liked your use of visuals when he is talking about JK’s history. The writers she looked up to as a child and her writing’s in their styles.
The legend of how JK Rowling came up with the idea for harry potter is famous.
One of my favourite parts of this podcast is how he was able to merge the videos of previous interviews with JK Rowling with the questions he wanted to ask himself. I thought this was creative and interesting because it made this podcast so interesting because the listeners were able to hear the author’s actual response to questions. I thought this was a very effective method of attraction the reader’s interest.
I thought you did a good job at identifying what her style of writing is and how she used it to so much success in her series.
In conclusion, i thought this was a great podcast, it was interesting, mesmerizing, the video clips keep the listeners attention and able to maintain it thought out the entire piece.
Podcast- Shak
This was an interesting podcast. With a mixture of interesting audio and neat tech tricks, Shak was able to create a truly unique experience for his listeners.
The influence you mentioned were very interesting, how you talked about the effect of not having a mother figure in his life, and the effect of the "evil" stepmother.
I liked how you mentioned how he would to take aspect from real life and turn them into something creative. I thought this was an important aspect that continues throughout his life.
I liked your analysis of his style of writing. His mechanics of only using a single quotation marks and the constant use of comma reminded me of ee cummings, and the way he uses mechanics in interesting ways to make a point.
Talking about the use of a first person narrative, and how he does it for the purpose of his audience being able to see the world he has created from the protagonist’s perspective.
Good use of visuals in this piece, as well it was kind of creepy how you were able to make the lips of the pictures move, this was interesting yet distracting to the listeners because we were so creped out.
Overall I enjoyed listening to our podcast, i thought you touched on some very interesting piece of his writing style, and how his past affected his style of writing.
Good job, it was quite interesting.
The influence you mentioned were very interesting, how you talked about the effect of not having a mother figure in his life, and the effect of the "evil" stepmother.
I liked how you mentioned how he would to take aspect from real life and turn them into something creative. I thought this was an important aspect that continues throughout his life.
I liked your analysis of his style of writing. His mechanics of only using a single quotation marks and the constant use of comma reminded me of ee cummings, and the way he uses mechanics in interesting ways to make a point.
Talking about the use of a first person narrative, and how he does it for the purpose of his audience being able to see the world he has created from the protagonist’s perspective.
Good use of visuals in this piece, as well it was kind of creepy how you were able to make the lips of the pictures move, this was interesting yet distracting to the listeners because we were so creped out.
Overall I enjoyed listening to our podcast, i thought you touched on some very interesting piece of his writing style, and how his past affected his style of writing.
Good job, it was quite interesting.
Tamara | Dr. Seuss
I POSTED THIS I CLASS BUT FOR SOME REASON IT DID NOT DISPLAY SO I AM POSTING AGAIN NOW :O
Well this pod cast could be summarized by one simple word: Cute. Tamara did a great job at capturing the light playfulness of Dr.Seuss while giving some awesome insight on the author as a individual and his influences, everything we wanted to see in these pod casts! Her original piece was creativity, and her drawings really brought it to life, and seemed very ‘Seuss-like’. Her tone was soft and consistent throughout. I found her pod cast to be very informative, and found myself intrigued throughout. I enjoyed Dr.Seuss’ biography and I think it did his history justice. I also really liked the length of this pod cast, it didn’t drag on but was rather to the point and that let what she was telling us sink in better. The only thing I didn’t like was the random change in quality of sound quality when her original piece started. Other than that, I was very pleased with this pod cast, and overall have been with each one I watched. Great job Tamara, loved it!
Well this pod cast could be summarized by one simple word: Cute. Tamara did a great job at capturing the light playfulness of Dr.Seuss while giving some awesome insight on the author as a individual and his influences, everything we wanted to see in these pod casts! Her original piece was creativity, and her drawings really brought it to life, and seemed very ‘Seuss-like’. Her tone was soft and consistent throughout. I found her pod cast to be very informative, and found myself intrigued throughout. I enjoyed Dr.Seuss’ biography and I think it did his history justice. I also really liked the length of this pod cast, it didn’t drag on but was rather to the point and that let what she was telling us sink in better. The only thing I didn’t like was the random change in quality of sound quality when her original piece started. Other than that, I was very pleased with this pod cast, and overall have been with each one I watched. Great job Tamara, loved it!
Dylan | Steven King
POSTED IN CLASS BUT FOR SOME REASON DID NOT DISPLAY
I'm going to start off by saying I've seen this podcast several times as Dylan kept pestering me to watch it, so I sort of feel obligated to review his podcast now. I think Dylan did a great job by using that eerie voice. As soon as he mentioned Steven King's name, the tone was set wonderfully, and he did a great job at keeping it up throughout his video. The video had good pacing and wasn’t too long. I think what really brought out his video was his use of music, his soundtrack selection helped the pacing wonderfully, I found it to do wonders to his pod cast. I really enjoyed his use of pictures of Steven King himself as opposed to random photos of his life, it may seem odd, but I enjoyed looking at Steven King hehe…
Dylan’s biography of King was good, it covered what needed to be covered and his influences did a good job at uncovering his past some more as well. Content wise, it seemed great. I really enjoyed his original piece, I’d love to read it as whole novel, although that won’t happen any time soon. The presentation was great, very creativity, and I could tell he put a considerable amount of effort into it.
Overall I felt it was great, and I enjoyed it….even if I did watch 13 times….or some ish like that.
I'm going to start off by saying I've seen this podcast several times as Dylan kept pestering me to watch it, so I sort of feel obligated to review his podcast now. I think Dylan did a great job by using that eerie voice. As soon as he mentioned Steven King's name, the tone was set wonderfully, and he did a great job at keeping it up throughout his video. The video had good pacing and wasn’t too long. I think what really brought out his video was his use of music, his soundtrack selection helped the pacing wonderfully, I found it to do wonders to his pod cast. I really enjoyed his use of pictures of Steven King himself as opposed to random photos of his life, it may seem odd, but I enjoyed looking at Steven King hehe…
Dylan’s biography of King was good, it covered what needed to be covered and his influences did a good job at uncovering his past some more as well. Content wise, it seemed great. I really enjoyed his original piece, I’d love to read it as whole novel, although that won’t happen any time soon. The presentation was great, very creativity, and I could tell he put a considerable amount of effort into it.
Overall I felt it was great, and I enjoyed it….even if I did watch 13 times….or some ish like that.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Patti's Podcast!
The first thing I want to give huge credit to Patti on, is her clear and extensive knowledge of her author. As I watched Patti's podcast, I did not feel like it was a research project of any sort, as some may have seemed. Instead, it came off as something similar to a blog because it seemed more like her expressing her interest in the author and why they should be appreciated and recognized as a great author.
As soon as I began watching the podcast, the animated voice stuck out to me because it was something I had not seen in the other podcasts I had watched. It was an interesting element, that I found to be a nice change from expecting the voice of one of our classmates. The animation of this voice was very fitting to the theme of your podcast.
The balance between audio and music was used very effectively which made for a smooth transition between topics and gave the podcast a nice flow to it. The only thing that I found could have been slightly altered was the timing of your clips with text on them. Sometimes the text was long, but not enough time was given to read them. That is my only criticism! Great variety and balance as well as creativity. Well done Patti!
As soon as I began watching the podcast, the animated voice stuck out to me because it was something I had not seen in the other podcasts I had watched. It was an interesting element, that I found to be a nice change from expecting the voice of one of our classmates. The animation of this voice was very fitting to the theme of your podcast.
The balance between audio and music was used very effectively which made for a smooth transition between topics and gave the podcast a nice flow to it. The only thing that I found could have been slightly altered was the timing of your clips with text on them. Sometimes the text was long, but not enough time was given to read them. That is my only criticism! Great variety and balance as well as creativity. Well done Patti!
Richard!
Richard's podcast on Lewis Carroll included the element of different perspectives, which added a lot of realistic, but humorous effectiveness to his podcast. Richard's choice to narrate and demonstrate his author's style or writing was unique and very authentic. It is difficult to make your podcast interesting with the same voice over for 15 minutes, but because Richard used multiple characters for the different segments within his podcast, it was alwasy interesting and never felt like it was dull or being dragged on.
Richard's variety of music and dialogue was very well balanced and all together worked to make his podcast complex, but not chaotic or confusing. He found a great median between having enough different elements, but careful not to overload and become distracting.
I did not know very much about Lewis Carrol, infact simply hearing the name, I would not have even been able to tell you he was the author of Alice in Wonderland. Richard's podcast amde it very clear of his interest in Lewis Carroll's writing style, and I found myself learning many new things for exmaple, that there were multiple books based on the theme of Alice in Wonderland.
The ending was a great, fun way to conclude your author and the video was a nice change from the narration and pictures. Really well done Richard!
Richard's variety of music and dialogue was very well balanced and all together worked to make his podcast complex, but not chaotic or confusing. He found a great median between having enough different elements, but careful not to overload and become distracting.
I did not know very much about Lewis Carrol, infact simply hearing the name, I would not have even been able to tell you he was the author of Alice in Wonderland. Richard's podcast amde it very clear of his interest in Lewis Carroll's writing style, and I found myself learning many new things for exmaple, that there were multiple books based on the theme of Alice in Wonderland.
The ending was a great, fun way to conclude your author and the video was a nice change from the narration and pictures. Really well done Richard!
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