Once Upon a Story: Narrative as Rhetoric |  |
Learning Objectives1.You should be able to identify and discuss the three powers of "Once . . .". |
2.You should be able to identify and discuss the difference between storyg and storyc. |
3.You should be able to explain how diegetic narrative elements in storyg help audience members construct a diegesis. |
4.You should be able to identify and discuss how non-diegetic elements can contribute to a narrative message. |
5.You should be able to identify and discuss the difference between, and among, screen time, storyg time and storyc time. |
6.You should be able to identify and discuss the difference between storyg space and storyc space. |
7.You should be able to identify and explain how motion can be depicted along the X-axis, Y-axis, or Z-axis. |
8.You should be able to identify and explain how motion can be created using subject motion, camera motion, or cyber motion. |
9.You should be able to identify and discuss how various elements of mise en scene contribute to storyg material. |
10.You should be able to define in medias res and the function it serves in creating a story. |
11.You should be able to identify and explain how wild sound, diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound, spoken dialog, music, sounds, ADR, and foley sound are used to manipulate the audio track in a movie. |
12.You should be able to identify and discuss the difference between narrative cohesion and narrative fidelity. |
13.You should be able to identify and discuss the difference between, and among, a preferred reading, a negotiated reading, and an oppositional reading of a narrative. |
14.You should be able to identify and discuss the ways that the director of Places in the Heart used specific rhetorical strategies to create an "open" text or movie message. |
15.You should begin to use knowledge, insights, and perspectives found in this (and other) rhetorical analysis research to build awareness about message creation you can later use as a professional. |
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