Ok, click on this link, save and unzip the whole file, then open up the file named Presentation1.ppt., and hopefully it will work. (keep your fingers crossed!)Enjoy!
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Darren Evans
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This photo was taken during a very serious ping-pong tournament in my garage. We were having one last team cheer before our final match. Esteban (in back) missed out of the last team cheer that evening (more than likely morning), jinxing us in our efforts to win. Esteban had been distracted some of the ladies playing against us all evening, and his playing was quite poor. It was this distraction that led him to miss the final team cheer before taking on our rivals in our losing effort to become the ping-pong champs.
I will discuss Bruner’s canonicity and breach, as it pertains to the movie Spiderman (2001).
Brief Synopsis of the movie Spiderman:
Spiderman is a live-action adaptation of the popular Marvel comic book story. The movie has spawned two sequels. The first Spiderman movie tells the story of how the main character, Peter Parker, becomes the superhero, Spiderman. The movie begins with Parker, an awkward/nerdy New York City public high school student attending a field trip to the Science Department of Columbia University, where they were creating a super species of spider. Parker of course is accidentally bitten by one of the freak ‘super’ spiders and is fundamentally changed into the superhero, Spiderman. The story progresses with Parker/Spiderman struggling to conceal his alter identities, all while he is between jobs, school, and protecting New York from all sorts of ne’re-do-wells. The antagonist in the movie is the ‘Green Goblin’, who is the father of his best friend, Harry. The movie concludes with Spiderman saving the day and the Goblin unwittingly killing himself.
Analysis:
Canonicity refers to what in a story represents the normal and conventional. Canon represents everything in a story that the reader would expect to see and hear that does not necessarily need to be explained in the story. In this writers opinion a breach in the canonicity represents an event in the narrative that does not conform with what would perceived as normal in the context of the story or canon. The breach in canonicity allows the story to skew away from the normal and conventional while maintaining it’s believability.
In the film Spiderman, the normal world and the characters in the movie would represent canonicity. For the case of this movie, the location is New York City, and the main character is a somewhat normal teen aged boy. In the beginning of the movie, the main character, Peter Parker, lives and goes to school in the present day with all the normal constructs that are based in reality.
In this writer’s opinion, the events that define breach in this movie take place with the two separate events that lead to both the antagonist and protagonist obtaining their super-human abilities.
For Peter/Spiderman, the breach occurs when a genetically manipulated ‘super spider’ bites him on his hand, imparting all of its genetic goodness into the teenaged Parker. After being bitten, Parker transforms overnight, from a nerdy student, into a strapping superhero. In the case of the antagonist, his transformation takes place in the form of an side effect of an experimental performance enhancer that gives him super strength, and unfortunately, alters his personality, creating an alter ego that is ruthless and evil. After both breach events take place in the story, the viewer is taken from the normal world, into the almost unbelievable world of battling superheroes and supervillans.
Here is Pass #1.
For my transmedia short story assignments I have chosen to write a story about two people of differing age groups (one man in his twenties and the other man in his seventies), and the relationship they share. This will be a fictional account that takes place in the real world in the present time period. This story will attempt to describe the relationships between the two dissimilar characters, and will take place while the two are playing a round of golf. I will be continuing the same story throughout all four passes of the assignments.
The purpose of my story will be to entertain an audience of adult or early adult readers. I have chosen this story because I am personally intrigued by how people interact with each other in differing social settings (especially on a golf course). I think this type of story will allow me to be creative while at the same time draw on my own emotions and past experiences more adequately than any other particular genre of story.
For the first pass I plan on utilizing external focalization in chronological succession to tell this story; however, on each subsequent pass I do see myself needing to rethink the temporal arrangement and how the story is being told so that the story makes the most sense to the audience. Here is how I foresee each pass might progress:
Pass 2: Text and Image
In this pass I will be adding images to my story, and I do not believe that there will be a need to change the focalization, temporal arrangement, or rhetorical effects to adapt to this new media.
Pass 3: Text, Image, and Audio/Video
In this pass I will be adding audio and video to the story. I do believe that some changes need to be made in order to maintain the consistency of the story; this may mean a change in temporal arrangement or a change in the delivery of the information in the story.
Pass 4: Text, Image, Video, and Interactivity
This pass will most likely need a change in the way it is delivered to accommodate for interactivity. I may also need to alter the temporal arrangement so that the story makes sense.
I do foresee myself having problems adapting the story for each pass. I believe that it will be difficult deciding what information is vital to the continuity and flow of the story, not to mention finding and making use of the various other forms of media that are required for the assignment. I plan on dealing with these problems by being flexible when writing/producing the story, not becoming locked into a certain idea or way of representing characters or setting.
Hello, My name is Darren. I am in my second year as an Instructional Technology (Systems Track) Graduate student at UCF. I work as an Educational Technology Facilitator at Eastbrook Elementary in Seminole County. I am a certified teacher with the State of Florida, and have previously worked as both an elementary and high school teachers.
I have never been a big recreational reader; however, I do enjoy reading from time to time. I would have to put myself in the avid movie watcher/video game player category. I am probably the only person you will come to know that would rather read an instruction manual for a home theater system over a book for entertainment purposes. I am interested narrative and storytelling and what motivates readers. I am intrigued by what makes information from some stories ‘stick’ with the reader more than information from other stories or media.
My interests fall towards electronic media; I am a geek at heart. I am a somewhat experienced Internet user, and I work with technology on a daily basis, so I would say that I am quite comfortable working with and around computers. I would also say that I am an avid video gamer, and currently enjoy playing shooter and sports simulation games like of Call of Duty 3 (online multiplayer) and Tiger Woods PGA Tour.
