The topic I chose was Jack Johnson. The following link is to an article about Johnson's soundtrack for the film "Curious George": http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1514464/20051123/johnson_jack.jhtml
The title of the article is "Jack Johnson A Bit Wary of George's Curiosity". The article is essentially about Johnson familiarizing himself with George's theme, as well as taking caution when writing his songs because the target audience of the movie was very young. Johnson also comments in an interview that when one of his darker songs called "Wrong Turn" was coupled with the film, the song took on different meaning than it did without the imagery. The graphic layout of the article is attractive due to a picture of Johnson in the top right hand corner of the page, allowing the reader to see Johnson's face and give them an idea of what kind of person he is. The reliability of the article seems quite accurate due to the interview used and his answers seem authentic, however there is no works cited provided at the bottom of the page. As I mentioned before, a song can take on a different meaning when paired with a film, as it did in the the movie. Filmmakers can achieve different themes when songs are introduced into a film and are extremely important when trying to convey a message to their audience. Some audiences are often visual learners and words alone cannot fully relay the message on its own. With that being said, words have a quality that images can never achieve, and that is the use of imagination. With words, a reader is able to formulate their own version of how they think the story and setting would look, images and film provide only the perspective of the director unfortunately. This is why sometimes movies have a tough task of living up to the hype of books because someone is always disappointed the director did not see it their way. Now, words can also misguide the theme of an article through the use of titles. As an example, the title of above would lead one to believe that Jack Johnson was becoming uninterested in the Curious George movie because of the use of the word "wary". Almost everyday newspapers titles misinform the reader about what the article is about.
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Response to Barren:
I agree that text or words in books allow us to use more imagination. When you look at a picture you can literally see what is going on in the picture and you get a certain feeling from it. When reading text your mind makes up what you think you are reading, or at least mine does. For example, when i read "Harry Potter" before the movies came out, my mind painted a picture of what the characters looked like, what Hogwarts looked like, what everything looked like in the book. But when the movies came out and i saw what Hogwarts looked like, i was shocked. It was totally different than what my mind had made up. The only thing that was the same, was what the characters looked like. I thought the movies hit that right on the head. I agree with you that titles on songs, newspapers and so on can be misleading sometimes, just like you mentioned Johnson using the word "wary." That to me does seem like he is confused or uncertain.
Barron, you make a very astute observation: "words have a quality that images can never achieve." I really enjoyed your insights.
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