Monday, February 13, 2017

Section 5: Reflection on Exhibits

1. What exhibits stood out to you most, and why?
2. What did you learn about key words from the course?
3. What did you learn about composing?

13 comments:

  1. 1. I was partial to the project on Design that was based on Fixer Upper, one of my all time favorite shows. I really enjoyed the blueprints and explanations provided that gave me a better understanding of design. I also really enjoyed the project on exigence. That term was still a little unclear to me, but the brochure really cleared everything up.
    2. Most poignantly, I learned about exigence. The term was still really fuzzy on how it called people to action, but now I understand more fully on how the process is undergone and how it effects an audience.
    3. The compositions created in this class really impressed me, particularly the project that was made in a basket and welcomed an alien to Earth. That was so cool and unique. There are so many different forms of composition outside of just a written essay, so much more than I could've ever realized. The creativity and technicality is astonishing and I really enjoyed looking at all the projects and what I learned about key terms through the different mediums.

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  2. 1. Sara Demetree's exhibit on Audience stood out to me the most because the black box not only resembled a black box theatre but a movie theatre as well. She added visual elements that were simple yet beautifully designed. Taylor's exigence exhibit also was well laid out and had a great sense of humor which intrigued me.
    2. I saw a lot of people did audience, and because that was my word I got different approaches that I wouldn't have thought of before this project. I liked Desiree's project on circulation because it showed one common artifact in three different manifestations and how all three circulated differently, somethingI would not have thought of.
    3. I learned that putting the time in to create a visually pleasing project is worth it, the hand-written projects were the most interesting to read because of the work put in. Composition in any form is difficult because of the thought power it takes to make something original, but when an entire project is done by hand there is just something special about it.

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  3. 1. I loved the exhibits that were "interactive." My favorite ones were the 9/11 scrap book, the Kanye West album interpretation, and the Romeo and Juliet interpretation. I thought all of these projects did a good job of reaching the audience so we can grasp the concept in a concrete manner.
    2. Because I chose audience, it was really neat to see what different people did with the term audience. I liked how the 9/11 scrap book viewed audience throughout time, and how a single event can still influence an audience throughout time. I liked the "design" project, because design was a word that I thought was unique and the project made it easy to expound upon the word.
    3. Through the exhibits, I was able to further explore how important and well-rounded composition is. It is not a singular term, but rather a bunch of little things brought together to form something bigger (much like the definition of genre). My biggest take-away was, that if you want to better your composing skills, and if you want to perfect your composition, you cannot ignore the different facets of it. You must attend to all of them.

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  4. 1. The exhibits that stood out to me the most were the poster board with the record player, the extraterrestrial exhibit, and what it looked like to be a newspaper headline. The record player exhibit caught my eye because it was an original idea and was very creative. The extraterrestrial exhibit was also interesting because it was a unique idea and a cool perspective to learn more about its key term. I liked the newspaper headline exhibit because it was easy to read & connected the artifacts nicely.

    2. I learned that people can take a key word and look at it in a completely different way than I would've looked at it. I learned that lots of people have a different interpretation of audience as well as what part of audience they focused on and found to be most important.

    3. What I learned about composing is there are lots of approaches to it. There aren't specific materials you have to use to compose something, and really its just a physical/virtual compilation that is made up from a creative idea.

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  5. 1. The exhibits that stood out to me the most were the ones that included multimodal examples. The exhibit about "Music through the ages" really caught my eye because it had music playing, as well as physical examples of the changing modes of music it talks about. I liked how you could see it first hand and even touch it. Ones that also used a display format that was not stagnant paper stood out to me. The 9/11 scrape book looked like an actual museum display with physical artifacts and descriptions.
    2. A lot of people focused on how different mediums related to the same idea reached different audiences. That an interesting topic to explore in. I never really thought about how something like medium could change the message completely in order to fit a different audience.
    3. Composing can take shape in many different forms for different people. We were all given the same criteria for this project yet there were so many different types of displays with different artifacts within them. It's always interesting to reflect on how the same idea varies from person to person.

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  6. The exhibits that stood out the most to me include the exhibit on design about Chip and Joanna and the exhibit on circulation about the Beatles. Both projects were detailed and very creative. I learned more about design, and how not only does your own taste of design matter but the composer or writer really has to make a design that caters to the medium and the audience. I also learned about the key word circulation, and how much circulation has progressed, also a huge influence with medium. I learned about composing that aside from consisting of writing and words, someone can compose and express something with just pictures, artifacts, and even music.

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  7. The two exhibits that stood out to me most include the one about circulation with music through the ages, and the one about design in relation to Fixer Upper. They were both represented well visually, and I could tell a lot of effort was put into both of them. Both of those projects were explained very well too. I learned that there really are several different key terms that can relate to this course. I never really thought about the concept of design relating to this course, so it was interesting to read about that. Aside from just writing, I understood, from this project, that composing involves more than just words. We composed these projects, which included physical objects and pictures. Composing takes writing and then extends it to more.

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  8. 1. The exhibit that stood out to me the most was the booklet about audience. I liked the idea and when looking through the text, it was very informational and the color scheme was very pleasing.
    2. Even though some words in the course have tough definitions that are hard to define (rhetoric), it was interesting to see how other people defined them in their own words. Because of this it gave me a better understanding of some of the key terms in the course.
    3. While visiting people's exhibits, I found a lot of creativity. There are many different types of exhibits that I would have never come up with. I really enjoyed seeing how many different exhibits there were and seeing how different the composer's minds are in this class.

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  9. The exhibits that stood out to me the most were the ones that looked neat and presented the information well. I specifically liked the scrapbook on 911 and the billboard and record player about the Beetles. They said enough information and kept with the idea of their key word and a print project.

    I learned a lot of information about how people portray the idea of audience, it was interesting to see how the same key term could be used in so many different scenarios and fit different ideas. Circulation was also an interesting key term used. It showed how both circulation and ecology and technology have influenced the way we write and the audience we target.

    I learned a great deal about composing. One thing I learned was to proof read your work and to try to make sure projects are clean, organized, and well thought out. I noticed projects that seemed to have no effort put into them, and others that seemed to have taken a long time to create and the difference was astounding.

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  10. The project that stood out to me the most was the Abbey Road - Music display because I felt that it was the most immersive. It had music playing and plenty of artifacts to look at and read through. I learned that our key words for this course can be explained and presented in many ways while still keeping the same definition, and that was fun to see. What I learned about composing is that there are many ways to go about creating something and that the best way is the way that allows you to express yourself and your creativity the most.

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  11. The "Music Through the Ages" exhibit stood out to me the most for several reasons. I love music so I was intrigued by it. I thought the fact that they had a record player in their exhibit was very interesting. the other exhibit that I really liked was the one about explaining life on Earth to someone in another universe. This was a unique way of creating the project and I thought it did a good job of getting it's point across.

    The two key terms that I think I learned the most from after looking at all the exhibits were design and discourse. One of the the design brochures had an oil painting as one of the artifacts and then a landscaping blueprint for another artifact. I normally wouldn't but these two items in the same category, but after viewing the project on design I learned how similar two different items like these could be.

    I learned that everyone chooses to compose their works in different ways. Generally people try to make the best presentation possible. We had numerous different types of presentations in this class and I think that is because each of our brains works differently. Because of this we were able to see the same project composed in various different ways!

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  12. The exhibits that had stood out to me the most had been the Welcome to Earth basket and the New York Times exigence spread. The basket stood out to me just because it went about the keyword of audience I think differently from others because it went into this complete outside perspective and this exhibit had encourage you to pick up, touch, and interact the artifacts. The exigence news spread I think stood out to me because the format of it was easy to navigate and the bold title made me want to stop and look. From this exigence exhibit I think that what I learned was that an exigence doesn't have to be a huge, drastic call to action; it can be something as simple as giving someone a thank you card when they give you a gift. In my head a call to action had to be bigger than that, like I was thinking of it in a big impact way. What I learned about composing from observing all of these projects is that everyone has a different abstract idea of what exactly they think composing is and everyone demonstrates this in different ways. No one composed the same exact project format wise and I think that's where the differences in composition are visible. Composing is very much the action of creating not just sticking inside of specific boundaries.

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  13. The exhibit that stood out to me the most would definitely be the audio/display with the record player. I thought this exhibit was laid out neatly and consisted of many cool artifacts. I like that I was able to see real life visuals as well as listening to the music play, It made me feel like I was in an actual museum exhibit. I learned that keywords can make or break your assignment if you don't know how to contribute certain ideas of it into your own work. I understand the importance of how to use audience, circulation and material to incorporate your own ideas of Rhetoric and composition. With composing, I learned that there aren't any limits when it comes to creative writing and how to approach your audience. I can use the key terms that I defined in this course for future writing courses and to better improve my writing skills.

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