(October 29th 2018) Evaluating the importance of clarity in language and analyzing the functions of allusions in film

Today in class we focused on

Evaluating the importance of clarity in language

and

analyzing  the functions of allusions in functions

The first thing we touched on was Revision tips: Clarity v. Specificity, this is a review but it is vital when
analyzing film and text.

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Specificity - which details matter

Who?What?When?Where?Why?

A major point in Clarity is you have to try and be efficient. Use the maximum amount of content,
while using the minimum amount of words

In class, we were given 3 sentences and were asked which one had the most clarity

1. The shot shows the man.
2. The shot shows the nervous man.
3. The shot shows the nervous man placed in film.

The second sentence is the best because it has the maximum amount of content with minimal words.

We also watched a video of the office(Season 4, Episode 1) and see Michael Scott and grade him on
whether he was being clear and specific when talking about Meredith's injuries, along with grading him.

Here's what my class came up with.

• Is he being specific? C(Gives details, Excludes key detail(The WHO?))
• Is he being Clear? D (The way he speaks gives you a false idea of what's going on)
• Is he wrong(lying)? B (He avoids the question, but never lies)

We also talked about allusion and if the text/film is alluding to other text or something historical.

This lead to learning about easter eggs in movies and how finding them gave the audience members who
knew satisfaction.

We were given a picture from toy story and asked to find them.

This picture has the clownfish from Nemo and the Jessie doll from Toy Story.

Furthermore, we were given the intro to 2001. The Space Odyssey and were asked its allusion to Wall-E

2001. The Space Odyssey Wall-E

Scene 1 Negative Space Stark Density Non-Diegetic Audio EPIC MASSIVE “Also Sprach Zarathustra” SOLAR ECLIPSE

Scene 2 Space Captain fat joke+Future people HOPE is RESTORED

Putting the easter egg of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” in Wall-E gave the parents or older generations who
watched the film a little surprise (thank you for watching), this was for the subsidiary audience.

Dominate audience(Kids) v. Subsidiary audience(Parents of kids)

This wasn't the only allusion from Wall-E.

Auto(Wall-E:) v. HAL 9000(2001. A Space Odyssey)

These to character were near identical in the two films, Both had a mind of their own when it went to
controlling the ship, and both had the signature glowing red eye.

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