{"id":73,"date":"2017-11-16T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/?p=73"},"modified":"2017-11-16T08:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T16:07:08","slug":"73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/2017\/11\/16\/73\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealism Collage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1863\/2017\/11\/Dystopian-Collage-Mckune-396x544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1863\/2017\/11\/Dystopian-Collage-Mckune-396x544.jpg 396w, https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1863\/2017\/11\/Dystopian-Collage-Mckune-768x1056.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1863\/2017\/11\/Dystopian-Collage-Mckune-792x1089.jpg 792w, https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/1863\/2017\/11\/Dystopian-Collage-Mckune.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the time-based text is to analyze the genre conventions of a type of text and explain to the viewers how the different elements make up this genre. \u00a0For my topic, I chose to examine the elements of coming-of-age romance dramas. \u00a0Some of my favorite movies like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Juno all share a commonality among them, which is they share similar genre conventions. These young adult dramas infuse comedy, romance and strong themes of life with young characters in their late teens or young twenties typically. \u00a0It confronts topics that are relatable to a young audience, such as dating, school, and teenage pregnancies. \u00a0As a student in college, I\u2019m the primary audience of these movies and can connect to the storylines on a personal level. \u00a0They have a nostalgic quality, due to being the memories of watching them with friends during high school when the themes were especially relevant to my life experiences.<i> \u00a0<\/i>The audience of my time-based text is mainly targeted towards anyone who is a fan of teenage dramas or who wants a better understanding of this genre. \u00a0I evaluated these conventions in the context of a video that utilized visual and aural modes. \u00a0With a focus on design elements, such as a spoken explanation and short scenes from the movie, I attempted to create a video that effectively described the concepts found in the genre. \u00a0The order I placed the visual elements was a central design concept I utilized. \u00a0The three key design elements in the movies can be seen in the film posters, the title sequences and the characters, which is part of the thesis I used to organize the visuals of my video by organizing the poster pictures near the beginning and videos with a focus on characters at the end. <i>\u00a0<\/i>I focused on the use of the voiceover to explain the conventions of the genre, aligning the images and video clips to my words to emphasize the specific points I made about these types of movies. The balance in the contrast between comedic and fun with the raw emotions from the story conflicts creates a movie that is both entertaining and relatable. \u00a0The purpose is to entertain through romantic and comedic plot lines that connect to the viewers on a personal level. This genre sets up an experience that is humorous and emotional through its unique and quirky stylistic choices, young characters, and storylines that reflect the ups and downs of life. \u00a0In order to show this important part of the plotline, I found a wide variety of clips to display the different aspects of the films from comedy moments and romantic ones to the emotional struggles of growing up, as seen in a clip from Perks of Being a Wallflower. \u00a0Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is an example of a movie within this genre that utilizes strong editing methods, using several types of multimodal texts throughout, such as visual or aural. \u00a0Movies like this one rely heavily on the editing of graphics from on-screen, animated or drawn title sequences, underscored with a broad musical soundtrack, seeped in alternative and indie sounds. \u00a0The movie Juno incorporates these conventions with a sketch-style animated sequence at the beginning of the movie. \u00a0It depicts drawn elements from the plotline in a quirky way that matches the tone and style of the film, using vibrant colors and fun sketches. \u00a0My goal was to emulate the visual-heavy facets by relying on the video clips and images of posters to paint a picture of the strong and graphic design elements utilized in the films. \u00a0Sounds in this genre are important from music to the noises of moving components. \u00a0I tried to utilize the music and tones from the films to emphasize these specific sounds by adding tidbits from the clips into my text, instead of having a music overlay to play as a backdrop to my voiceover. \u00a0I think the design concepts that I used were successful in portraying the conventions of this genre, however, I would have added more elements to further my points. \u00a0For example, these movies use creative transitions between scenes and utilize text through fun typefaces on the posters and on the screen. \u00a0To further stress the conventions, I would have added text to my video with similar typefaces and would have used more unique transitions to switch between the images and the clips. \u00a0In putting together this time-based text, I\u2019ve learned more about genre conventions, how to utilize design concepts to further explain a point, and how to better use video editing software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of the time-based text is to analyze the genre conventions of a type of text and explain to the viewers how the different elements make up this genre. \u00a0For my topic, I chose to examine the elements of coming-of-age romance dramas. \u00a0Some of my favorite movies like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/2017\/11\/16\/73\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surrealism Collage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_category":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_category?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimsonpages.org\/alexa-mckune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}