Stephanie Darke's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow
Reflections
on the Planning and Organisation of the Project.
Firstly we discussed, as a group, which author/poet and literary piece we found interesting and wished to analyse in close detail. We then decided on which approach we would like to take for our critical essay. We also researched, for a considerable amount of time, which critical piece we would choose to make sure it was a creditable essay. We decided upon T.S Elliot and his popular text ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. To accompany this, we looked at Nicolas Meyer’s critical essay ‘Catalysing Prufrock’. We found it particularly interesting as he takes a somewhat psychoanalytic approach with a focus on Eliot’s interest in F.H Bradley.
After this we concentrated on the media options for the project. We eventually decided to include a range of media aspects as we felt we could explore the text from different angles without omitting any ideas we had. We created a website to use as a platform to incorporate all of the different aspects. Our main part of the project would be a seminar type discussion within a podcast where we could analyse the poem and critical essay. As an additional piece to this, we also created an author interview podcast and we felt this gave us an outlet to explore Eliot in more detail that didn’t seem appropriate within the main podcast.
As well as the podcasts, we created a modernism timeline, a modernist glossary and a brief analysis of the poem discussed. This worked well for us as we found that the context of the timeline and the content of the glossary helped us to explore the poem contextually as well as how we perceived it ourselves. As with each section of the website, we collaborated as a group and we felt that this gave us a much clearer understanding of the poem and critical essay.
After getting to know the texts, we then each created two questions and answers for the author interview, these were then recorded with an outside actor playing the part of Eliot, we found this made an interesting change of pace.
At this point we felt confident to come together as a group to discuss the critical piece and this was interesting to see the different, yet not opposing, views on the essay. We created a running script as a group and though we did use this we also found that some aspects could be modified to create a more natural presence in the audio recording.
After the recordings were completed we then researched editing processes, something none of the group had done previously and though it was challenging, we think the overall result is professional and interesting.
We decided to add our podcasts to YouTube and then embed those onto our website, we thought this added not only a more professional result but it was another new challenge to the group and, hopefully, these will not only be enjoyable to us as a group but to others looking at the texts.
- This is just a brief guide of the steps we took to make our project organised as possible.
Firstly we discussed, as a group, which author/poet and literary piece we found interesting and wished to analyse in close detail. We then decided on which approach we would like to take for our critical essay. We also researched, for a considerable amount of time, which critical piece we would choose to make sure it was a creditable essay. We decided upon T.S Elliot and his popular text ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’. To accompany this, we looked at Nicolas Meyer’s critical essay ‘Catalysing Prufrock’. We found it particularly interesting as he takes a somewhat psychoanalytic approach with a focus on Eliot’s interest in F.H Bradley.
After this we concentrated on the media options for the project. We eventually decided to include a range of media aspects as we felt we could explore the text from different angles without omitting any ideas we had. We created a website to use as a platform to incorporate all of the different aspects. Our main part of the project would be a seminar type discussion within a podcast where we could analyse the poem and critical essay. As an additional piece to this, we also created an author interview podcast and we felt this gave us an outlet to explore Eliot in more detail that didn’t seem appropriate within the main podcast.
As well as the podcasts, we created a modernism timeline, a modernist glossary and a brief analysis of the poem discussed. This worked well for us as we found that the context of the timeline and the content of the glossary helped us to explore the poem contextually as well as how we perceived it ourselves. As with each section of the website, we collaborated as a group and we felt that this gave us a much clearer understanding of the poem and critical essay.
After getting to know the texts, we then each created two questions and answers for the author interview, these were then recorded with an outside actor playing the part of Eliot, we found this made an interesting change of pace.
At this point we felt confident to come together as a group to discuss the critical piece and this was interesting to see the different, yet not opposing, views on the essay. We created a running script as a group and though we did use this we also found that some aspects could be modified to create a more natural presence in the audio recording.
After the recordings were completed we then researched editing processes, something none of the group had done previously and though it was challenging, we think the overall result is professional and interesting.
We decided to add our podcasts to YouTube and then embed those onto our website, we thought this added not only a more professional result but it was another new challenge to the group and, hopefully, these will not only be enjoyable to us as a group but to others looking at the texts.
Other Works
Collaborative Works:
dareieatapeach.weebly.com
worldbooknightucd.weebly.com
Individual Works:
postmodernportfolio.weebly.com
postmodernstudies.weebly.com
dareieatapeach.weebly.com
worldbooknightucd.weebly.com
Individual Works:
postmodernportfolio.weebly.com
postmodernstudies.weebly.com