Category Archives: Saying Things

Aggressive Progress – Radio Show Week 2

This week, my group finished development and produced our final radio show! I would like to take this moment to issue a formal apology to Feli, who edited our show together. It was a really busy week and I was not as punctual as I should have been about recording my part. Thank you to my group for being patient.

Our final product is really fun. Our radio show leans into the cultishness of Aggressive Technologies, as well as Georgia and Andrea’s unwavering support of said cultishness. Our product is very entertaining and I hope you enjoy!

Developing Aggression – Radio Show Progress

This week my group worked on developing our show, Aggressive Testimonials. The involved characters are Georgia Finch (me), Andrea Grant, and Düşünür. The original pitch was, “A tell-all about this company’s intrusive tech, feauturing 2 “neutral” employees.” The idea came from the fact that Andrea and Georgia both work at and agree with Aggressive Technologies. When Düşünür was added, this idea changed slightly. Düşünür is a writer who Aggressive Technologies has been trying to hire. He does not like the company, which changes the tone of the radio show significantly from what we had originally planned.

The current thought is that Aggressive Testimonials will still be a “tell-all,” now hosted by Düşünür who is trying to get Andrea and Georgia to slip up and say something bad about Aggressive Technologies. I think this idea has the potential to be very funny and I am excited to see where we go next.

Get Aggressively Organized – Georgia’s AI Program Pitch

Staying organized is a constant struggle for many people. BeforeSunset is an organizational program that combines a to-do list, calendar, and day organizer all in one. With its user-friendly interface and helpful AI technology, BeforeSunset is the perfect tool for anyone looking to streamline their daily routine.

The free version of BeforeSunset allows users to upload tasks with due dates, expected time to complete, and organizational tags. With just a click of a button, the AI helps organize your daily schedule to ensure every task is completed efficiently. 

While BeforeSunset is an incredibly useful tool, there are minor issues that can be addressed with the help of Aggressive Technologies. For instance, the program may show tasks overlapping with calendar events. Aggressive Technologies can quickly resolve this issue with minimal effort, making BeforeSunset an even more efficient and productive tool for businesses.

By investing in BeforeSunset, Aggressive Technologies can expand its reach into the lifestyle industry. BeforeSunset has the potential to revolutionize the way employees organize their daily tasks, and with Aggressive Technologies’ support, it can become a leading organizational tool.

In conclusion, Aggressive Technologies should invest in BeforeSunset. Let’s help the world get aggressively organized.

https://www.beforesunset.ai/

What Would Georgia Do? – Character reaction to propaganda

I will be using the propaganda poster below by Greta Hammen to respond to. Georgia is, in general, a fan of using AI as a tool. She drank the Aggressive Technologies cool-aid a while ago. She agrees that AT’s AI is there to help, especially since she helped develop it. Georgia may be low in the ranks of developers, but she is still on the team and feels immense pride in being a part of the project. Since she is so proud of it, seeing a promotion makes her happy.

Propaganda & Debunking Misinformation📷:

Bless Her Heart – developing my course character

Now that everyone is involved with Aggressive Technologies, it’s time to develop Georgia Finch’s job there. In my original post, I mentioned that she is an assistant software developer at Aggressive Technologies. However, that wasn’t her initial goal. 

Out of college, she applied to an internship program at AT. After completing the internship, AT hires a few interns in jobs than most introductory positions. After Andrea Grant sabotaged Georgia’s internship, Georgia applied for a regular position. She got the job. Now Georgia and Andrea are constantly competing. Georgia may have an official job at the company, but Andrea could get promoted ahead of her.

Since she was in middle school, Georgia wanted to work in coding and technology. Her school offered an after-school program, which her parents signed her up because she was always bored at home. It turned out that Georgia had a natural talent for programming. Ever since then, she has been pushing herself as far as possible.

Georgia works every day to prove she’s the best programmer there. She’s not, but soon, she may be. Stay tuned.

Do I Call It A Film or A Movie? – I read about film analysis

As someone who has watched a good amount of movies and is very opinionated, film analysis and critique is something I enjoy a lot. That being said, I get frustrated with how subjective movies can be. It is hard to separate how we felt about a movie from the movie’s technical aspects, especially because a lot of movies are made to be experienced emotionally and not analytically. These articles showed me what to focus on when trying to make an objective comment on a movie. Sorry, a film.

The main takeaway I had from the reading and watching this week is the different types of film analysis. Here is my brief understanding of them:

  • Iconic: This method focuses on how pictorial/visual elements of a film convey its meaning. It is especially useful for older movies where the image was the main aspect of a film and modern narrative films that try to disguise the technical visual choices.
  • Semiotic analysis: this focuses on the meaning of the story by interpreting symbols, signs, and other themes. It is heavy on analogy, metaphor, and symbolism, especially when it comes to visuals.
  • Psychoanalytical: this method emphasizes a film’s aesthetic and the meanings and effects of that aesthetic on the story and how it relates to the audience.
  • Shot by shot or Mise-en-scéne: this is a technical look at the given sequence of shots in a film, using techniques to break down each image.
  • Narrative: this method focuses on the story of a film, including analysis of the narrative structure, characters, and plot.
  • Cultural/historical: this method places a film in a broader historical context. It looks at how a film fits into history, comments on its time, or otherwise represents the culture in which it was made.

Each of these methods is a unique lens that can be applied to a movie. But to get a full view and understanding, all of them are needed. Some may be more valuable than others depending on the film, especially since the movie itself may focus more heavily on one aspect than the other, but all of them interact to create the final product. They do not exist in a vacuum.

I am ready to take these techniques into the world and start overthinking every movie I watch – which isn’t all that different from what I already do, but this time I will at least have evidence to back me up.