Monday, July 6, 2015

Blog 7


1.     What modes does your text make use of?
1) Video, Dialogue, music, angle of camera, text, and, special effects
2) The audience is for young people who use smartphone. The author uses “We” a lot to emphasize that he is also a part of this community showing that he is not the perfect example of it. Using “We” and giving real world examples showing daily life there is a connection with the audience. Showing what he have experiences may have happened to you too. The phrase “looking in their eyes or the name on the screen” showed my that the audience must use technology.
2.     Authorial Identity:
A) The author uses examples of his life to assemble with the reader showing that he knows what it is going on to convince the reader that he has a point saying “Look up”.
B) He does not use I nor me, but he uses my. I think that he is showing his point of view.
3.     Purpose:
A) The author want to the world about the social issue given the modern technology, He wants us to think more carefully our behavior of over using it.
B) “I have 420 friends, yet I am lonely.” It is the first sentence of the video or text
C)  “Look up for your phone, shut down the display. Stop watching this video, live the life in the real way.” In the last sentence where he gives a summary of what is the video talking about.

4.     Does the author make use of outside research or secondary sources? If so, how and where?
                   No
5.     Organization:
A) First, the author shows his situation in front of the problem. Showing his struggling about the meaning of social and how the technology is affecting him. Then, in the video shows example of what are we losing by using the technology. In addition, he keeps talking about the problem and make the reader reflect about the problem.
B) He does not use exactly words to connect his idea. It is more a story telling, and using some of rhymes between the phrase to make the connection.
6.     Genre:
A) To persuade, convince people
B) Phone, computer, people talking, bus station with people, and social networking.

7.     Music and Sound:
A) It is a repeated music, with three simple tones. It give a impression of repeating over and over the problem.
B) Help you to pay attention on what he is talking and to catch the reader’s attention.
8.     Video:
A) It goes from the author talking to example of real life and back to the author. It is like the author bringing the problem and showing with the next video.
B) He uses a front angle and dark light when he is speaking. To show how lonely he is and he is surround by darkness.
C) He uses many disappear effects showing people that uses cellphone or any kind of technology are losing people or friends.
D) The effects show how impressive is the real world and what could be happening to us.


Instructions for the article for college students
-       Ingredients

Title
Heading
Date
Image
Outside sources


Steps
-       Decide which type of article I will be writing
-       Know the audience for the text
-       Find outside sources proving your statements
-       Find images that are related to the topic to reinforce the idea
-       Decided where to publish the article (how to attract your audience)
-       Organize the text the design



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