Blog Post Reflection

Reflection for "Eat Drink Man Woman Voiceover"  http://mashaenglish.blogspot.com/2016/10/eat-drink-man-woman-voiceover-revision.html

In my blog post “Eat Drink Man Woman Voiceover” I think I did a pretty good job of making a voiceover for the movie clip we were given. The targeted audience of this post was viewers of a cooking or travel talk show. An example of a show that this could be a voiceover for is “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmerman.” The genre of this writing is a script for a travel show or talk show on food.

I think I did a fairly good job of keeping the reader, or viewer, engaged. For example, I used phrases that could relate to the viewer, such as saying “my favorite!”. Saying that a certain preparation of a dish is my personal favorite is relatable for the viewer, because it makes them realize that they can also relate to what they are watching and compare the way the chef is making the food to how they like to make the food. Additionally, I added an extra layer to descriptions by saying how excited I am to try the dish, and by commenting on the quality of the food. For example, I didn’t just say that the vegetables looked fresh, I said “look at the crispness [of the vegetables]”.

          However, one thing that I would add to my voice over would be more detail. For example, I say that the “chef knows the best way to marinate chicken with the wide array of spices”, but I do not say which spices he uses. I could also try to use more descriptive and 

Proust reading

More often than not, memories are encoded through your senses: taste, smell, touch, hearing, and sight. A memory is usually formed by a stimulus that triggers at least one of your senses. Your senses are what make you remember the memory in future. For example, in Remembrance of Things Past by Proust, Proust was served tea with a Madeline cookie one afternoon. Proust remembered that he had encountered that cookie before, as his mind started racing and he tried to place where he had tried it before. After an internal struggle, Proust suddenly remembers where he had tasted the cookie before. He writes:

The taste was that of the little piece of madeleine which on Sunday mornings at Combray (because on those mornings I did not go out before mass), when I went to say good morning to her in her bedroom , my aunt Léonie used to give me, dipping it first in her own cup of tea or tisane. The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it; perhaps because I had so often seen such things in the meantime, without tasting them, on the trays in pastry-cooks' windows, that their image had dissociated itself from those Combray days to take its place among others more recent; perhaps because of those memories, so long abandoned and put out of mind, nothing now survived, everything was scattered; the shapes of things, including that of the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds, were either obliterated or had been so long dormant as to have lost the power of expansion which would have allowed them to resume their place in my consciousness.

Proust’s memory of the cookie was encoded by his senses of tasting, viewing, and smelling the cookie before. He even goes on later and adds that the “scattered, taste and smell […] remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest,” meaning that memories last forever because of the vivid taste and smell that was present during the time that the memory was made.

            This idea relates to almost everyones life. Memories are incomplete without how one feels at the time of the event. For example, each time I drink hot tea now, I think of the time when I was eight years old and lost my voice, and my grandmother suggested that I drink hot tea with milk and honey.

Anxious for Class Registration Pie

If I were to make a pie based on my feelings it would be called “The Anxious for Class Registration Pie”. The pie would be thin crusted, with hints of bittersweet chocolate dispersed in the piecrust. The bittersweet chocolate notions the idea that it is bitter-sweet that classes this semester are ending and that next semester, I will be taking classes with new professors and will make new friends in my classes. Inside the pie, there will be a fluffy cream filling with swirls of very sweet milk chocolate, and very bitter dark chocolate. The Milk chocolate signifies the sweetness of how I could potentially be able to register for my top choices of classes. However, there is always that chance that those classes fill up, and I will have to think on my feet and take a less desired class, which is portrayed by the dark chocolate. In addition, Swedish Fish gummies and cinnamon-flavored Fireballs will be randomly dispersed through-out the pie. When the restaurant-goer eats it, each bite will be surprising, as the eater will not know if they are about to bite into a very sweet Swedish fish, or a cinnamon fire ball which would burn their tongue. This represent how class registration is a hit-or-miss, I will not know if I can get into the classes I want, such as photography and sociology, until my registration time.

Blog posts peer review reflection

Both of the revisions were somewhat helpful. Neither of them really gave me many comments on what to add, but they fixed some grammatical and sentence structure issues, which is very helpful! One comment on my article about General Muir was to include more on how the food tasted, so I will definitely do this not only for my article on General Muir, but also my posts for the other restaurants that I will review.