In this episode of South Park:
Frame 1: A new cult dedicated to worshiping David Blaine acquires more members by sending out his missionaries.
Frame 2: Many members of the South Park community join the cult, including Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny.
Frame 3: Stan, having realized that Blainetologists are a cult, escapes and goes toward the only person he thinks can impress people even more than David Blaine - Jesus.
Frame 4: Jesus decides that he needs the help of the Super Best Friends. They are the founders of the world's main religions and are best friends because they all believe in the power of good over evil.
Frame 5: David Blaine has convinced his followers to commit suicide so that Blainetology can get tax-exempt status and thus become an official religion.
Frame 6: The Super Best Friends defeat the monster that David Blaine has created - a giant statute of Abraham Lincoln. They create a giant statute of John Wilkes Booth to shoot giante Abe Lincoln. Thus the Super Best Friends save the day and free South Park from Blainetologists.
Trying to fit the whole story into six frames was difficult. I had to cut out frames that I thought were important to the story, but then I decided that they were not necessary to narrate the gist of the story, and most importantly, the message it was trying to send across. This too will happen in our oral arguments, so I think it was a good exercise that helps put things into perspective.
7 comments:
I think you did select the essential frames. On their own they are not enough to tell the story, but following your narration, they flow well, and recall all the main points - just like a good oral argument aid.
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Nice job! I too am having technological issues uploading frames and pics to my blog, but hopefully I will resolve them soon. South Park! Fun choice for the narrative. I agree with Tim ... the frames by themselves didn't tell the whole story, but your description of each frame made the narrative flow well. The pictures became a nice complement to your story.
i tried to figure out what was going on before reading the narrative... I did recognize jesus however Lincoln and Booth... not so much. Great story!
I love South Park. The images were really effective when paired with your narrative.
Yay South Park. I was trying to come up with something from South Park that was remotely politically correct and gave up. I'm glad you went with this one. It's pretty cool that our choices for this assignment force us to work with different parameters and we come away with a different idea about how to compare the process to oral arguments. Your conclusion is totally different from mine so it's nice to see.
Congratulations! You nailed it at every level
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