I thought it was very interesting to hear other presentations of their infographics because they were all very creative with their design. I am surprised to see the effort that went into modifying templates to make something truly original. For me personally I didn’t really like any of the templates because they just weren’t what I was looking for, so I decided to start from scratch, and I think that to a degree its present. I found it a challenge to organize my elements in the vertical format in a way that could encapsulate the amount of information that I wanted to include. If I had a better sense of the app, I would have loved to go up to the slasher movie craze of the 1980’s, but for the sake of using cinema as a technology of communication I wanted to lean into the earlier stages of the medium. I actually found quite some difficulty locating scholarly articles for this project, but the ones that I did find were a blessing. Thanks to my research I learned a lot about early cinema and even watched some of these iconic films with my little sister who thought they were weird, But overall, this was a fun project and I can’t wait to see what else we can do in the second half of the semester.
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Musser, Charles, and Gaudreault, André. “When Did Cinema Become Cinema?: Technology, History, and the Moving Pictures.” In Technology and Film Scholarship: Experience, Study, Theory, edited by Santiago Hidalgo, 33–50. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zqrmrh.6.
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