Michaella Malone 3/28/13

       Class began with Ms. Lang instructing us to reread our final drafts of Paper 2 and make any corrections we found. She had our class use the rubric to score our own papers individually before they were turned in for her to grade. She also wanted us to answer the following questions like What worked well? What needed more work? What did we like about the project? What did we not like? After spending approximately 15-20 minutes reviewing our papers for the last time, we turned them in to our yellow folders and proceeded on with our class lecture.

~PINE POINTE~

www.thesociologicalcinema.com

      Pine Pointe became our main topic of discussion. After Ms. Lang played just a few minutes of the multi-media website in class, students immediately became interested in sharing their opinions about the project. Ms. Lang seemed curious in what we thought this documentary was about. Pine Pointe was a mining town in Canada that vanished. Some students felt the was viewed as "perfect" by the residents who grew up there because their memories there will forever be preserved in their minds. Since they can never go back to what was originally there, the residents of Pine Pointe never had to experience what it was like to see your favorite restaurant turn into a bank. Therefore, the people raised in Pine Pointe savor the memories of their childhood in a more positive light than most people would.
     Ms. Lang asked the class, "What role does nostalgia play?" Many students felt the idea of reminiscing is what drove the whole force behind the project. The use of a yearbook style to show three individuals reflecting on their experience at Pine Pointe also brings a sense of nostalgia. Next Ms. Lang asked the class to name all the media that they encountered while viewing Pine Pointe.

List of media:
-music videos
-photo album
-music
-badge-moving
-text
-clicking
-government documents
-interviews

www.lifetimecollective.com

         Overall, some of the students simply "hated it" and found it to be broad/overwhelming, while others enjoyed the collaboration of all the media used, especially the music because it set the mood of the whole project. After discussing the mystery of Pine Pointe, Ms. Lang shows us the similarity of Pine Pointe to our next class assignment, Project 3. Ms. Lang read to us the what the project entails and the due dates, which all this information can be found on the class website. We must 1) choose a community 2) have a purpose/argument 3) find the audience. For instance, Ms. Lang suggested creating a coloring book as your project if your projected audience was little kids. Since we ran out of time, we will continue to talk about brainstorming and our portfolios during our next class!

REMEMBER: HW IS CRITICAL RESPONSE 8