Synthesis is making something new through combination
Topic sentences for The Office and No Country For Old men:
The Office’s “Threat Level Midnight” and the coin toss scene in No Country for Old Men convey different tones but through using similar techniques such as non diegetic audio fitting, over the shoulder dialogue cuts, and subsidiary focuses within a scene.
-Subsidiary features in The Office: golden curtains, Abraham Lincoln painting, statues of eagle all help to create the ironic tone
-Subsidiary features in No Country For Old Men: the tractor, bands looking like nooses, smiley face sticker all create a unsettling tone
-Lighting in both scenes: creates suspense in no country for old men he lighting creates a sincere suspenseful tone while in the office the dark lighting creates a ironic form of suspense
-Humming in No Country and loud dramatic action music both stops at the reveal of the coin flip in order to emphasize the result of the flip
-No country and The office both feature an over the shoulder shot to show dominance
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CLAIM CLAIM CLAIM CLAIM> INTRODUCE EVIDENCE > ANALYZE BY CONNECTING EVIDENCE TO CLAIM> TRANSITION TO INTRODUCING OTHER EVIDENCE> ANALYZE EVIDENCE TO CLAIM> TRANSITION OUT OF PARAGRAPH INTO NEW ONE.
How to citations:
No Country For Old Men. Dir. Ethan Cohen Joel Cohen. Netflix, Paramount, 2007
Mr. Rivers showed us a Scienfeild scene "these pretzels are making me thirsty" in order to show how an actor says the line it could change the tone.
Synthesis is a helpful skill students can use on every essay they may have to write. Outside of school using synthesis can help us create new things, for example someone developing a video game can take aspects of a first person shooter game and a mystery dungeon rpg game in order to create an ides for a new video game that is unique but still familiar. When trying to write a unique story combining aspects such as music, literature, outfits and cars from an older time period such as the 80s and synthesize in newer aspects such as cell phones and modern computers in order to create a story or movie with a unique feel that isn't cliche.
Great post here! Good use of images and I like that you pulled in specific examples from our class discussion and Classroom page. Extension is awesome and I love the idea of synthesis in video games. The last sentence seems to identify some RPO. Very interested to hear whether you think the book uses cliche (or, if it does, whether or not that detracts from the value of the story). Clear title too!
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