Tuesday, September 2, 2014

blog 2 genealogy ideas

The genealogy project proves to be as difficult as it sounded.  Coming up with three ideas has been extremely tough and I do not even know if all of them would work for the project.  My first idea starts with the show Duck Dynasty.  I would break down the show and see how influences from previous works were combined to make the show exactly how it is.  One would be the Louisiana background and how there are many shows before it that take place in the Louisiana and Mississippi swamp area. Another is the bearded characters that make up the show.  Idea number two would be the other style of paper, the bottom up approach. The semiotic unit is the alien robot characters across multiple films and shows known as transformers. I would show how they have transformed and evolved from movie to movie as time goes on. One example would be from the original cartoon version of transformers make notes of the characters then move to the newer movies and compare the similarities and differences between the two. I could then follow that up with the series of new transformers movies and show differences between the original and the new ones that come in each movie.  My third idea is kind of broad still. I am not totally sure whether I should go top-down or whether I should go bottom-up again but the main idea is a horror film and how other movies before influenced what is scary in them  or I could go bottom-up and find the signature scary part that multiple movies have in common and show how they are transformed from movie to movie.

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