Blog Post Assignment

Emily Meadow

Project number two is very different from project one. It allows the groups to be more creative and think open-mindedly. For my project, my group is focusing on comedy and the “freshman 15”. Comedy as a genre has a big affect on our generation, mainly because we make fun of what others take seriously. Our project will be a movie trailer for a comedy about the freshman fifteen. Our lay out, or storyboard, for our project starts off with a freshman coming to college. We want to be informative yet make fun of the fact on how many freshman approach college. Many of them are taken aback by the amounts of food there are, and decide to try everything in one sitting; We want to emphasize that by elaborating on it and making it funny. Adding to that, we want to show how freshman are not only taken aback by all the food, but by all the free time and independence they have. A big part of gaining the freshman fifteen is due to the consumption of alcohol in large quantities. Along with that there is sleeping a lot, and playing video games, and not exercising. We want to elaborate on all of these main factors that contribute to the freshman fifteen.

Although we want to make the audience laugh, because it is suppose to be a comedy, we also want to inform them. I would say our targeted audience is incoming college freshman and parents. Our comedy you can say is similar to the comedies that make fun of other movies, for example Vampires Sucks. We want to make it funny but also make freshman feel stupid in a way. The freshman fifteen is not something that all freshman gain, they gain it by not making smart decisions. Overall, we want our comedy to be funny of course, but informative as well.

These blog posts have helped me grow as a writer in several ways. The first project helped me by introducing me to BlogSpot. I have never had a blog before so it was a new experience for me. The first project also made me write paragraphs based off of research and links that I had found. Unlike the first project, project two is not about research, but about creativity. Instead of choosing a serious topic, we can choose a fun one and decide how we are going to display it. I definitely have seen a change in my writing from the last two projects, which is a good thing. I’m learning how I can vary my writing my using different writing style. ENG 101 in a way is similar to my high school creative writing class. It shows me different styles of writing and when I should use each style. I can’t wait to see how project two is going to turn out, and what doors project three, if there is a project three, is going to open for my writing. Overall I have learned a lot of different techniques from these projects.