Week 12 Story Lab: TVTropes

The tvtropes website is very interesting in the way it picks out different things that directors do in tv shows to depict different things they want and also things they put in scenes to add effects to the show.

The first one that got me was the Groin Attack, which takes a look at the different ways a director uses a punch to a persons groin as an effect. The one example was shown in the show The Simpsons when Homer is watching a video of a guy getting hit with a football. In that scene it shows how funny most people think watching someone getting hit in the groin is funny. Then there is also the use of groin attack from a female to a male to show a diminishing of the male characters masculinity. This article really just caught me because I would have never even known that directors and writers put these in the shows to add drama for the viewer.

The second thing I read about was the article about the Determinator- which is a character that is good or evil, male or female, young or old, and who never gives up. This was really interesting because the determinator is said to be some character that just will never give up no matter what the odds are. One of the examples they use for describing what a determinator is, is the energizer bunny, where it just keeps going and going and going. Then they also use the Trix rabbit for the cereal commercial. The two commercial examples that they used were interesting to me because I don't think I would have ever matched those two commercials up to having a main theme to their characters.

Energizer Bunny Source: Giphy

Bibliography: TvTropes. Web Source

Story Lab Week 10: Tedx Videos

A New Theory of Human Intelligence 

I found this Tedx video to be really inspiring and also interesting to actually see something like this take place somewhere to see what the results would be. Universities get way to caught up in the stats of year to year and always trying to be the top dog against everyone else in having the highest scores. However, what opportunities are they missing out on and also what opportunities are they taking away from students that want to pursue a college degree. Are there people out there that can't pass the normal standardized tests that would may not look on paper but actually be really good in the real world environment and they are missing out because they don't fit the social norm. I think it will be really interesting to see some results of what Kaufman finds out if and when he does any studies on his new theory. 

Copy Right is Brain Damage 

This was a very interesting way to think about what copyrighting has done to a lot of what people and the creations that they have made. Getting copyrights really does put a damper on the possibilities of what something can become, through the original artist and others that wish to branch off and create their own version. All copyright has done is made it so that the artist is hurt in the long run and the community that they share, all the while the corporations are making money off it and changing it to what they want to attract more people to buy their version. This video also really got me to thinking about how culture is formed and how the idea of copyright has really suppressed the progression of culture through works of art. 

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Tedx Videos Source: Story Lab Creative Mind