Monday, September 14, 2009

RCAH FILM SERIES FLYER


Purpose: I’m not 100% sure but 99.999 % sure this flyer was intended for RCAH students and to inform them about movie showings specifically for RCAH Students. But again I cannot be 100% certain because there is always the slight chance this flyer is a trick or experiment of sorts to undermine the student population.

The appearance of this flyer is not necessarily attractive it is quite plain it has a whopping four colors and tones of one of these colors on it. There are a few bold words, such as the title, and is in the typical RCAH flyer color scheme and style. It has the RCAH logo. Nothing pops off the flyer. This normally would not catch my attention, I only noticed it because I was hunting for a flyer because Fraiberg said to.

Basically I discovered this flyer in an exciting way. My friends and I were staying up late working on this project. We were walking around the third floor looking for an empty study room, finally we found one. Anyway, we began and I realized, oh my stars I forgot to grab a flyer for this project. Fortunately “The Lord” provided for me and she (Katie, her nickname is The Lord) had many different flyers and shared one with me.

The only aspect of this flyer that made me want to read it was the topic in the title (Film Series), because as I stated earlier this flyer’s layout was not particularly attractive or unique. The resonating pieces of this flyer can resonate intensely or not. They are the descriptions of the films. The descriptions of the films could either intrigue a reader minutely, majorly, or bore them depending, completely on the reader’s personality. There were two points that I found myself stuck on. One was the Chatauqua themed night, it sounds more like a discussion than a movie night, mostly because it does not mention a movie anywhere in the description. The other point was the RCAH Student films week, this caused me to get stuck in wonderment because it is a tentative event. This is something that needed to be included in the flyer that no matter what the author were to do people would still find themselves stuck in wonderment on it.

These are my exact thoughts while reading this flyer, some are odd I know.
Is this like a movie theatre session like in wells hall or an actual film festival and are these movies by students or Hollywood movies?
Why is this in French
Do I have class at 7-10 on Wednesdays
No I don’t I could go
How did hip hop reach third world African people?
Jackson that is the teacher of the class I haven’t been able to go to yet
I should email him about missing class last week
Another Wednesday why are these both the same time is this a weekly thing?
Chatauqua that’s the thing with the professor with glasses
This one sounds more like a discussion than a movie event why was the movie name not listed. Is there a movie if not why is this being advertised on the film flyer
Now the films are switching to Tuesday nights I guess I was wrong earlier
What are the student films about, this could be interesting
Another Tuesday one
Cautiva what does that mean, oh captive
My Spanish teacher in high school was from Argentina
Why can I not remember the dictator in Argentina’s name, is it Peron I can’t remember if he was a dictator or not
This sounds really good, did Christina’s current parents take her or adopt her?
I might actually want to go see this one
Oh so RCAH FILM SERIES is a student club

6. When reading this text I must say I did read it in its entirety. I started at the RCAH logo and realized this is for the RCAH (what a shock). My eyes naturally moved to the blue letters which were the description of the movies. Because of the size and change in color of the writing I regarded it as something that should be read later so I moved on the bigger words. This sent me reading it in the order the Author intended (I believe, unless again this is a conspiracy or trick), except for the descriptions being of the first words I noticed.

The main points of this flyer are to raise awareness of the RCAH Film Series, and the individual movie nights’ information.

The main question that was raised was involving the Chautauqua night. Is there going to actually be a movie? This question was not answered. I cannot tell you how many nights I have lost sleep over this unanswered question. Not really I am kidding.

I was expecting to learn about movies involving the RCAH and topics that go with the RCAH, I was pleasantly not surprised. I read the title and expected this and then read the rest of the flyer and I was not disappointed.

This article only requires background knowledge of what RCAH is, other than that, it simply tells about a group within the RCAH and the movies they put on.

Who wrote this flyer? There is no given author name. This flyer, because it is for a group, was probably written by a student who is most likely a high ranking member of this group, maybe even president. This mystery person, is interested in films and their impact on culture. They are possibly, artistic, being in the RCAH implies some amount of creativity but not necessarily. The plain layout of the flyer begs to differ and say the Author is not creative or artistic, but maybe they do not like to take risks or felt the flyer needed to be formal. My conclusion would be this person is formal and intrigued by culture and movies.

This is a quite formal flyer, which creates a lot of distance between the Author and the reader. The lack of boldness the flyer has increases the distance between the two people. The author assumes the reader is uninformed about the RCAH film series and gives the reader information about the series and the basic and necessary information.

If this flyer were an epic movie, RCAH FILM SERIES would be the title. The word tentative is used a couple of times making the would be film mysterious in ways, and give the viewer feelings of uncertainty. It zooms in and focuses on the descriptions of the movies and shows the big picture of it all including the relation to the RCAH. This is all the foreground. The background is the information regarding the student committee for the series. This is shown as less important compared to the films themselves.

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