Monday, May 16, 2011

Indep novel update

You should be reading your novels(You should almost be finished your novel by now) and you should have developed your thesis for class on Tues.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

my glogster

http://eng11mike.glogster.com/eng11-4276/



I gave my glog a red background to represent blood, this is because when you see blood it usually reminds people of pain and I really wanted to get the feeling across when you first look at my glog. I then made the main word look unpleasant because no one really likes pain that much. I did that by putting it on a brick wall because usually when you see a brick wall now days it is run down and falling apart, so when you see a sight like that it does not make things very pleasant. Also I put the word in a dingy orange color, which gives the impression that it is old and faded.
            Next for the denotation of the word I decided to put t in a speech bubble coming out from the word because it is the literal meaning so its like that it is being said.  The speech bubble also represents pain being there because it is actually physically there.  I also gave it a not so nice color because no one really likes the feel of pain so I decided that the color should match as well. I then put a picture of someone feeling physical pain. For the connotation I put some examples in a thought bubble because it’s more in your head then actually there. That is also why I kept the bubble white because it’s all in your head.  I then also put a picture of someone who is suffering from emotional pain.

I then added the video in the top right, which gives you a strong representation of what it was probably like for the shoulder in the trenches.  You can see both the mental and physical pain of what they had to go through every single day just to stay alive themselves.

Finally I added “Mad World” by Gary Jules because if you listen to the lyrics you can imagine just what kind of conditions they had to deal with. Also on lines 1-4 you can imagine that like every morning you wake up with the same people, in the same destructed environment, and you can never tell if you will be going to sleep with the same people at night.I gave my glog a red background to represent blood, this is because when you see blood it usually reminds people of pain and I really wanted to get the feeling across when you first look at my glog. I then made the main word look unpleasant because no one really likes pain that much. I did that by putting it on a brick wall because usually when you see a brick wall now days it is run down and falling apart, so when you see a sight like that it does not make things very pleasant. Also I put the word in a dingy orange color, which gives the impression that it is old and faded.
            Next for the denotation of the word I decided to put in a speech bubble coming out from the word because it is the literal meaning so its like that it is being said.  The speech bubble also represents pain being there because it is actually physically there.  I also gave it a not so nice color because no one really likes the feel of pain so I decided that the color should match as well. I then put a picture of someone feeling physical pain. For the connotation I put some examples in a thought bubble because it’s more in your head then actually there. That is also why I kept the bubble white because it’s all in your head.  I then also put a picture of someone who is suffering from emotional pain.

I then added the video in the top right, which gives you a strong representation of what it was probably like for the shoulder in the trenches.  You can see both the mental and physical pain of what they had to go through every single day just to stay alive themselves.

Finally I added “Mad World” by Gary Jules because if you listen to the lyrics you can imagine just what kind of conditions they had to deal with. Also on lines 1-4 you can imagine that like every morning you wake up with the same people, in the same destructed environment, and you can never tell if you will be going to sleep with the same people at night.