ARCHIE!!!!!!!!!!! I was so obsessed as a kid my mom forced me to start trading them with my friends instead of buying new ones because I could read one a day and luckily they have been around long enough to supply that kind of appetite for a while. Occasionally when I’m at the checkout counter at Publix I’ll see one (I only buy the double-digests because they are more cost-effective) I’ll buy one for old times’ sake but they tried to revamp the Archie’s and make them more “realistic” but I thought it just made them look shaper-featured and dirty. . . I’m a bigger fan of the classic!!! I am also still a firm believer that Archie should want Betty more, but Betty deserves better than he has treated her so she should turn him down.

Specifics of the comic strip above:

                The images are more realistic than iconic but not super realistic either. It gives them a relatable effect. They have enough features you feel you could recognize them if they walked down the street but not so featured you feel you are looking at a picture. They are smack in the middle of reality and language.

                The gutter is clearly outlined in most of the panels except the middle one. The transition used is the moment-to – moment one. They are in the same place with the same characters and they are related to each other.

                The images are cool but the text gives context and story to the images otherwise I would be quite lost. The text also adds quite a bit of humor in the comic because of it. It is a little ridiculous because his car has gone to zero for the second time that we know of.

Class Notes 2-6

Why use Stranger Day’s 1995 analogy? all about virtual reality, the wire is transparent immediacy.

Transparent (not aware of the medium at all) Immediacy- experience as with as little interference from the medium, thinking of the actual content not the screen or projector (e.g. realistic movies, paintings with linear perspective, eBooks,

Hypermediacy- not designed to forget about medium, eat to be decorated (medieval manuscripts, desktop, websites, iPod, pop up commentary, abstract/ modern Art)

Remediation- giving a new life to something, repurposing, reforming, media-medium, taking a text from one medium and putting it into another. (books into movie or vice versa, live performance into video, virtual tours, song into music video, essay into speech, Everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen)- Baz Lurhmann, tattoos)

Remix- mixing things up with in the same medium usually thought of with music (Amy Worhall, collages)

Authorship- how does remix and remediation affect our sense of authorship? Directors versus writers: the director is doing something that the original writer couldn’t so it is his work, but the original idea of it is the authors. Nothing is really original anymore.

How does it affect a text’s message?

It affects the message by the delivery, sometimes the method of remediation detracts from the message, other times it can enhance. If a written text could be more memorable by being made into an audio file with a corresponding video, then remediation enhances the message.  However, if a video is remediated into a script to be produced for mass consumption; it has nowhere near the impact that the video has. 

What is meant by remix and Remediation?

Remix and remediation means taking a text and putting into a different form of media. Such as taking a written text and turning it into a video, picture, or PowerPoint etc. Keep in mind, the remix or remediation should correspond to the text’ message. The remediation should enhance the message or at least complement it.

                By remediating a text elements are lost and others added mostly the visual and auditory elements. This can be a good change or bad one.

                Remixing can be defined as: to produce a new version of a text by altering something about it without changing the medium. Usually associated with music and club remixes to give it more of a beat.

Class Note 2-1

Visual Rhetoric- an image that portrays a message (persuasive)

                Relaying- when the text gives you its own message other than what is in the picture (comics), provides an additional message on top of the visual message. (changing the text can completely change the way you look at it.)

(We looked at multiple ads and pictures and discussed what each portrayed)

On Photography Discussion-

                Photography shows you more than you normally would see (but only show a partial truth) it is like the “Allegory of the Cave

(We looked at multiple ads and photos and discussed the partial truth of Photos)