For Blog Post #5, review the comments on your last blog post.  What are the recurring themes, ideas, questions that your commenters notice?  What do you think about what they’ve said?  List what you want to say back to them.  What does this suggest for the direction of your project?  Describe your concerns, your hopes, your new ideas about your project.  By the end, articulate a couple (2-3) questions that your project is attempting to answer or think through.  [There might not be an answer to these, but rather, your job as a filmmaker is to show us how complicated it would be to answer this question.]

For Blog Post #6, we’d like you to think about first about your indelible moments, and second how you might represent them for an audience.  For the first part, refer back to your partner discussion from this morning.  Pick two of your indelible moments and re-immerse yourself in them (close your eyes and try to put yourself there!).  As you remember the event, focus on the sensory details—what do you see?  Where are you?  what do you smell?  What do you hear?  Who’s or what is with you?  Use this to create a bulleted list of these sensory memories (which will act as a resource list).

For the second part, choose one of the lists above, and describe two ways you might represent this indelible moment.  What would people, objects, sounds, smells, would you focus on?  What kinds of visual images, sounds, etc. could you use?  What sorts of editing techniques?

For Blog Post #7, You’ll engage in some research about your topic, in order to find out something new that YOU didn’t know.  For this purpose, please locate and embed/link to the following:

• two unusual, interesting facts (statistics,
• surprising, non-literal image (e.g., if you’re writing about plumbing, you can’t choose an image of a toilet.)
• a link to a community (blog, YouTube video, online chat, etc.) that is invested in your topic.

After you’ve included all of these, write a paragraph that answers the following: what surprised you?  what new questions emerge?  What are the connections or disjunctions among the information you’ve located?  How might the ideas above inform your project (i.e., describe the relationship between your discoveries and your own experience)?