Looking Back at Past Readings

Throughout the semester we have read several different articles, books, ect. that have discussed the realtionship of words, speech, images and movies. Going back to one of the first, by Ong, compares to what we are exploring now. That is, that writing is a technonlgy. It came after speech and is learned. I'm not sure which way Ong would go with the movie making process. One one hand we are using technonlgy much furhter advanced than writing, but we took out a lot of writing and constructed our video on mainly speech. So a comtemporary Ong may think it's wonderful to use the video to express a grammar rule or function vocally, but a more archaic Ong may still be aganist the technonlgy of it all. Baron may shed a slightly different light on it because we didn't actually so any typing. We wrote out all the words or sentences that we used in the video. So we really only used the computer for music and film. I think that McCloud would have the most to say about the film because he wrote about th erealtionship between images and words. The biggest example of this is when we made th eword "wordy" with lincoln logs and then shoved them off the table. It gave a word, a visual and gave a meaning about being wordy to the author. After thinking about all this in regards to my essay, I find it very interesting the twists and turns that this class has taken in regards to writing. It started with articles that preferred speech, which was used in the video, over the written word (also in the video) to learning about the grammar rules and styles of this written form (topic of movie) to the use of visuals and words (helpful for making a movie). It seems like the class moved with the evolution of writing or ways to deliver a message. speech-writing-how to write-pictures-movie. wow, good one krause!