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Done grading!
1. It makes me sad that among Wolfram Alpha's easter eggs is not "how old Cary Grant?" Google, by contrast, gets the answer right off.
2. Rewatching Serenity, I noticed three instances where extradiegetic titles turned into diegetic images--the Universal logo/Earth-that-Was, the movie title/the side of Serenity, and Haven/the entrance to Haven. I'm used to extradiegetic music moving into (or out of) the diegesis, but is it common for images to do this? This made me think about the extent to which, as one of the articles I recently read argues, the fact that we can now treat film pretty much the way we treat sound in terms of mixing, manipulation, etc. is affecting editors' and directors' sense of possibility for images.
3. Fellow parents! You know how in Dora the Explorer there’s always that creepy moment where Dora turns to the screen and waits unblinkingly for the audience to answer her question “What did you like best?” (My kids never answer; does anyone?) Z. suggests it would be engagingly disturbing to edit together ten or twelve of those moments, and I heartily agree. Maybe with the following quotes integrated in:
What Lily of the Valley says in a dream
Herr K said with a jewelry box.
What one says with flowers
Papa said with pearls
What Dora did not say
the doctor said with smoke.
--Hélène Cixous
James Newton Poling, Deliver Us From Evil
Dora seems to have resisted in silence for many years. In spite of Freud's attempt to manipulate her into revealing her own desires .... Dora was silent about her plans to terminate therapy after only three months. Freud could not complete his analysis because she resisted him through silence.
2. Rewatching Serenity, I noticed three instances where extradiegetic titles turned into diegetic images--the Universal logo/Earth-that-Was, the movie title/the side of Serenity, and Haven/the entrance to Haven. I'm used to extradiegetic music moving into (or out of) the diegesis, but is it common for images to do this? This made me think about the extent to which, as one of the articles I recently read argues, the fact that we can now treat film pretty much the way we treat sound in terms of mixing, manipulation, etc. is affecting editors' and directors' sense of possibility for images.
3. Fellow parents! You know how in Dora the Explorer there’s always that creepy moment where Dora turns to the screen and waits unblinkingly for the audience to answer her question “What did you like best?” (My kids never answer; does anyone?) Z. suggests it would be engagingly disturbing to edit together ten or twelve of those moments, and I heartily agree. Maybe with the following quotes integrated in:
What Lily of the Valley says in a dream
Herr K said with a jewelry box.
What one says with flowers
Papa said with pearls
What Dora did not say
the doctor said with smoke.
--Hélène Cixous
James Newton Poling, Deliver Us From Evil
Dora seems to have resisted in silence for many years. In spite of Freud's attempt to manipulate her into revealing her own desires .... Dora was silent about her plans to terminate therapy after only three months. Freud could not complete his analysis because she resisted him through silence.
Re: The ship's engine makes noise, MF!
My boys love Swiper too--he's totally a trickster figure (he's not a fox, he's a coyote).
What's scarier is that my almost-eight-year-old likes to watch those Disney series now--like "Hannah Montana" and "Drake and Josh"...I mean, people write slash about that stuff! *she says hypocritically while sticking fingers in her ears and singing lalalala*