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Eventing Team Bibliography: Kaelyn, Shelbie, Najwa, Ben

The documentary will open up with the 2001: Space Odyssey Theme. For each single beat, there will be a still, close up shot establishing horseback riding. For example, hooves on a horse, riding boots, an empty saddle, the horse’s head. For the elongated note, the long shot will be of the horse and rider standing still. For the drumbeats, we will insert a tracking and panning shot of the horse and rider trotting to the beat (this will need to be edited to fit the beat). From here there will a montage follow a transition to the voice over with the question, “What does eventing mean to you?”

After, we are going to show short clips of interviews, we are planning to interview three people, a freshman, a junior and the professor. The interviews will be dispersed throughout the documentary.

We are then going to show some of the training videos with a voice over explaining what is happening. Afterwards, we are going to try to attach a Go-Pro to one of the rider’s helmet and film them riding a cross-country course.

We are then going to end the documentary with a long shot with the rider and the horse walking away from the camera and most likely a fade out.

Music Video

The music video I chose was Bella Ferraro's 'Set Me On Fire'.

The beginning of the video shows a pan shot of her playing the piano, then directly changes to a close up of her hands playing the piano. Most of the shots go from a medium shot of Bella playing the piano, to a close up of her singing, to long shots of her walking through the woods then to extreme close ups of the nature. The shot that had the longest time was a close up of her singing which lasted about 6-8 seconds.

Born Into Coal

     This short documentary, Born Into Coal, leans more towards human-interest than narrative. It talks about how coal mining is such a big part of some of the family’s lives in West Virginia. It also speaks of the coal queen pageant and how it represents the pride of coal-mining families. The documentary is a human-interest documentary because it follows the families into their home and expresses their feelings about the coal mining industry.

     These two shots really stood out for me because they show just how incorporated 

their job in coal mining is aligned with other aspects of their life. In the first photo, the coal miner is watching his daughter in the pageant and his fingers are stained with the coal dust from where he works.No matter where he goes or what he does, he can not escape from what he does for a living. 

     In the second photo, it reemphasizes the theme of working in coal being included in other aspects of life, it also speaks to how a strong sense of family is reinforced in coal-miners home lives. The apparent normalcy of the scene in which the shot is taken is slightly disturbing; it appears that the family does not find the fact that the father is covered with coal from head-to-toe in coal dust at dinner the least bit odd. In regards to recreating the first shot, I could recreate it without much difficulty, however, recreating the second shot, while not impossible, would definitely be difficult to do.

The Last Meal

I found that the presentation of “The Last Meal Project” was more compelling than “No Seconds” because it provided more visual rhetoric. In the last meal project it provided more information about the convict: his/her name, their last meal, the reason they were convicted, the state they lived and the time and day that they were executed. What I mostly liked about The Last Meal Project was the font the author used on the text, the color red as a font, and they way the paper was presented: ripped and crumbly. With all the information given and all the photos presented, it made me feel like I was there, like I was the one giving the convict his last meal, it made me feel like I was watching everything in person rather than seeing it all online. In No Seconds, I liked the way in which he portrayed the pictures; he was showing how each meal was presented before it was given to the convict, but it did not really feel like it was the meal of a convict; it was more luxurious and fancy. The one similarity I have seen in both was the font used to explain the meals; the two made me feel like I was reading the actual paper that was used. However, the author of The Last Meal Project used more visual rhetoric than the author of No Seconds.

I believe that the author of The Last Meal Project did a better job in describing the meals than the author of No Seconds; he succeeded in representing the information of the convicts and he used more visual presentation and he was able to connect with the readers through these visual presentations.