1. How is the actor playing Gus costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Gus?

He is costumed in a way where people would think he is poor and doesn’t have much.

1. How is the actor playing Flora costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Flora?

The actor playing Flora is costumed beautifully like a fairy. This tells us that we should see her as a calm lady. She reminds me of a flower

1. How is lighting used to make Gus seem menacing?

Pretty frightening and has a dark contrast. This tells us that we should have negative feelings towards him.

1. How is the lighting used to make Flora seem innocent?

Flora’s lightening is pretty bright and colorful.

1. How does the actor walk and what types of actions does he perform as he follows Flora? How does this tell us he’s–for lack of a better term–a predator?

The way the actor walks is as if he is following Flora’s whereabouts. The way he is described climbing.

1. What actions and interactions do we see Flora engaged in while she’s being followed by Gus that tells us Flora is childlike?

Flora takes a little walk to go get some water. They seem to show and describe her actions of those of a little fairy with wings just wandering.

1. How is the music associated with Gus different than the music associated with Flora?

The music is the complete opposite when it comes to the 2 characters. It has a nice tune with Flora and a scary one with Gus.

1. How does cross-cut editing between the Flora-Gus chase scene with Ben, Flora’s older brother, communicate to us the danger that Flora is in?

Flora doesn’t want to get married to Gus. Gus does want to get married to Flora. This part gets pretty intense.

1. Thinking back and using the theories of discourse and multiliteracies, how would you say the work of writers like John Tyler Morgan and Frederick Hoffman shaped a viewing public that would accept this sequence with few to no reservations?

When it comes to discourse communities, what goes on with Flora and Gus is actually a perfect thing.

YALE FILM STUDIES:

Basic Terms-

Auteur= French for “author”. Used by critics writing for Cahiers du cinema and other journals to indicate the figure, usually the director, who stamped a film with his/her own “personality”.

Diegesis =The diegesis includes objects, events, spaces and the characters that inhabit them, including things, actions, and attitudes not explicitly presented in the film but inferred by the audience.

Focus- refers to the degree to which light rays coming from any particular part of an object pass through the lens and reconverge at the same point on a frame of the film negative, creating sharp outlines and distinct textures that match the original object.

Genres= Types of film recognized by audiences and/or producers, sometimes retrospectively.

Mise en scene= All the things that are “put in the scene”: the setting, the decor, the lighting, the costumes, the performance etc

Story/Plot= audience infers about the events that occur in the diegesis on the basis of what they are shown by the plot — the events that are directly presented in the film.

Scene= A scene is a segment of a narrative film that usually takes place in a single time and place, often with the same characters.

Shot= A single stream of images, uninterrupted by editing. 

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Applying the work of Swales and Mirabelli, how do you think the discourse communities of law and science shaped the multi-literacies, thinking, and imaginations of audiences watching Birth of a Nation?

Apply the concepts of iris, typage, decor, and costume to the two scenes above. Then, develop an answer about what Griffith wants a viewer to feel about the characters Silas Lynch and Lydia, and therefore biracial Americans, in these scenes.

Camerons- Represent the South

Stonemans- Represent the North

Civil War- Reconstruction…. A revisionist history that’s not accurate.

Evil sources that are the main cause of conflicts are the Black Americans. Black Americans who are of mixed privilege.

Warrant- Unspoken values the writers chooses to use and to share with his readers.

-These warrants are steeped and come out of the discourse of their specific discourse community.

Argument Style (evidence, reason, format, genre) comes from the discourse community.

Knowledge is made through discourse and creates multi-literacies for individual members to use.

Writer- W.E.B Dubois

Issue- Strivings of the Negro People, Lack of opportunity and such white supremacy.

Readers- White Americans and wealthy Black Americans.

Gap- The work it takes to get basic dignity, opportunities. or treatment by the law. Far reaching social practices that make it difficult for Black Americans.

Claim-

Evidence-

Reasoning-

Rhetorical appeals that are relevant in his writings would be Ethos (trustworthiness) and Pathos (sharing his emotions).

What’s your initial reaction to the film? As you process your reaction, try to use the vocabulary and language I discussed in the PowerPoint slide deck (discourse, discourse community, warrants, multi-literacies, and white supremacy). Write a short response in a blog entry and then publish that entry, titling it CL 3/12

Camerons- Represent the South

Stonemans- Represent the North

Civil War- Reconstruction…. A revisionist history that’s not accurate.

Evil sources that are the main cause of conflicts are the Black Americans. Black Americans who are of mixed privilege.

There are consequences for race interbreeding. Different races being together is inferior and it will cause the offspring to be unintelligent.

Blacks were inferior. Removing slavery created more issues. Also that he claims whites were superior and this causes fights. 

Frederick Hoffman’s ‘Race Amalgamation’ emphasizes that he is writing about the segregation issues between whites and blacks down south. Hoffman wants the readers to feel if what he says about having babies with women of other races is horrifying because that is what he led me to believe. Hoffman continues to explain to readers that blacks and whites shall not be together interracially because there are going to be aftermaths. 

According to the book on page 80 it states, “And it may be said, only with emphasis, that the cross- breed of white men and colored women is, as a rule, a product inferior to both parents, physically and morally.” Also the measures he uses to an extent. The unstated beliefs would be if he(Hoffman)  had witnessed something like what he says and why he’s sooo….. on the downside of interbreeding.

In the Strivings of the Negro People, W.E.B Dubois draws readers’ attention by his use of Ethos(credibility) and Pathos( Emotions). This writing was to show that at the time there was lack of opportunity and such white supremacy.

Claim- Blacks were inferior. Removing slavery created more issues. Also that he claims whites were superior and this causes fights.

Reason- Fighting between races

Evidence- The history of races from all over the world. 18th protects the status quo.

Warrant- none

CounterArgument- none

Rebuttal- none

W.E.B Dubois- Strivings of the Negro people

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Reason-

Evidence-

The Discussion covenant is great as is. Everything that should be addressed is all there already. Professor Bailie keeps up with every student and makes sure we are all where need to be.

Claim- There are consequences for race interbreeding.

Reason- Interbreeding causes less….A reason the writer provides that his thesis is ethical or valid is the way he classifies as 2 different races being together is inferior and it will cause the offspring to be unintelligent.

Evidence-

Warrant-

Discourse communities influence warrants by

Rhetorical Analysis- Emotional fear in the reader.

Writer-

Issue- Drug race question in the United States.

Reader-

Gap- Morgan