Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
What makes something funny.
Comedy is something that goes opposite of the way the world sees it. Comedy is more of an art than a science. Because of this, comedy is subjective. What one person finds funny others might cringe at it.
Something is funny because it captures the moment, it contains elements of the truth that we have known for ever and are bringing it forward for the first time.
There are various types of comedy including ; slapstick, parody, spoof, satire, irony, sarcasm, farce, black comedy, and surrealism. Our project is using farce comedy. This is where comedy is achieved through exaggeration and extreme characters in preposterous circumstances that seem to spiral out of control and become ever more ludicrous. In our project a freshman is coming to ISU. He is overwhelmed with the amount of food that is available to him. He abandons working out and sleeps all day. He gains the freshman 15 and more.
The freshman 15 is something that does exist and is a problem for some people, but in the project the way the freshman gains his weight is in an extreme manner.
http://www.thinctanc.co.uk/words/comedy.html
Something is funny because it captures the moment, it contains elements of the truth that we have known for ever and are bringing it forward for the first time.
There are various types of comedy including ; slapstick, parody, spoof, satire, irony, sarcasm, farce, black comedy, and surrealism. Our project is using farce comedy. This is where comedy is achieved through exaggeration and extreme characters in preposterous circumstances that seem to spiral out of control and become ever more ludicrous. In our project a freshman is coming to ISU. He is overwhelmed with the amount of food that is available to him. He abandons working out and sleeps all day. He gains the freshman 15 and more.
The freshman 15 is something that does exist and is a problem for some people, but in the project the way the freshman gains his weight is in an extreme manner.
http://www.thinctanc.co.uk/words/comedy.html
Friday, October 7, 2011
In this article, J.K. Rowling is accused of many authors for stealing their ideas. i dont believe this is right. Many authors are just jealous of her success, so they think that they can try and sue her to get money.One author thinks that J.K. Rowling took his idea and made it into her book Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. I think that this is stupid and a waste of time. People are just jealous of her success.
There have no been any consequence
So far there have not been any lawsuits that have hurt J.k. Rowling. But many authors are trying to sue her, so one might eventually happen.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Outline of final project
Our project is going to be a picture movie. Therefore, we will have photos describing our story. First, we have a picture of a freshman coming to ISU for his first day of college. This is to establish the setting of our story. The second photo is of a student walking into Watterson Dining Center and being shocked by all the food available. This shows that the student has a choice to eat as much food as he wants. The next picture is of the student eating at a booth with many plates in front of him full of different foods. This shows that the student chose to eat as much food as he could, which we can all relate happening at least sometime here. After this, we show the student passed out on the table from a "food coma". This is exaggerating how much food he ate to show that he consumed way too many calories than needed, eventually turning into fat. The next picture is the student at a party. This shows the social life of the student, which in turn he gains even more "empty calories". He goes into another deep sleep until late the next morning. The next picture is taken at the gym. Everyone is working out and the student is on a bench eating chips. This is basically saying some people go to the gym but don't put in the effort to get a good sweat in. The final picture is taken of the student walking through a door to go to class, and he can't fit. The student is stuck and was late to class. This exaggeration is just showing that you will gain weight if you live this lifestyle. I think people might be offended or they might laugh at the extremities of the drawings. Either way I think it is funny and shows the truth about college lifestyles.
Jk rowling plagiarism
Case study
This is believable because this is from the New York Times magazine. This is a very big news magazine in New York. This seems reliable because many people read this magazine everyday, and it always seems credible. Also, this article has quotes from the important people involved in the case. These factors make this article/story very believable. The topic of the article is the accusation that J.K. Rowling stole ideas from other authors. These ideas involve wizard schools and magic. These accusations create many lawsuits against Rowling, always leaving her under pressure from the press and putting her in courtrooms multiple times.
This is believable because this is from the New York Times magazine. This is a very big news magazine in New York. This seems reliable because many people read this magazine everyday, and it always seems credible. Also, this article has quotes from the important people involved in the case. These factors make this article/story very believable. The topic of the article is the accusation that J.K. Rowling stole ideas from other authors. These ideas involve wizard schools and magic. These accusations create many lawsuits against Rowling, always leaving her under pressure from the press and putting her in courtrooms multiple times.
What happened?
The case is the deceased author Adrian Jacobs claims that Rowling borrowed ideas from Jacobs book Willy the Wizard -No1 Livid land. It says that Rowling stole Jacob's ideas of having Wizards travel on trains and part taking in Wizardry contest.
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