Baraka and Multi-Genre Writing

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Baraka: a blessing; the thread that weaves life together.

When you create your multi-genre project, you will piece various writing styles together tell a story that maintains a theme/topic of your choosing.  I showed you the film "Baraka" to serve as a metaphor for your future multi-genre project - the piecing together of unlikely elements in order to evoke emotion in readers.

The images in the film were fragmented, and watching each piece as it stood alone could have been inspiring, comical, intriguing, or horrifying to you.  However, these images (much like the various styles in a multi-genre piece) were pasted together in a particular fashion to evoke emotion in viewers.  A message was sent, but what message was that?  The beauty of this film is that each person who watches it sees it through their own eyes, gaining something completely different from the images than the person sitting beside them.  My hope is that your multi-genre piece will do exactly what this film does: piece together the unlikely, and yet emotionally move your readers.

For your blog this week, I want you to think about the message this film sent to you.  Use one of the genres on the handout I have given you to come up with an original and interesting way to explain (through writing) what you gained by watching this film.  There are no right and wrong viewpoints here, and I look forward to reading about what you thought of "Baraka" and the message it gifted to you. 

This is your last grade for the quarter, so please take it seriously!  Rather than being due next Monday, this post will be due this Friday (March 16th) at 4 pm!