1. Briefly explains your new sound-script (e.g., its purpose, audience, and narrative style).

Well, my new sound-script has the purpose of making the opening scene of Simon Birch actually seem like a scary movie.  In other words, when I watched the movie with just visuals or just sounds, it does seem like a scary horror flick so I am going to make my new sound-script into a horror script.  The audience that I am trying to please would be my 121 classmates and of course Jentery, to bearer of good grades.  I want to use the narrative style of someone that is a little spooky.  Not so much cliched, sitting around a campfire at night telling ghost stories type voice but a legitimate, creepy person (possibly someone from the Ave. ?) 

2. States your research question

“How does the narrator’s casual, reminiscent tone conflict with the words that he is actually saying in the movie Simon Birch?” 

3. Expresses the main claim of your first major paper and why you believe the claim is reasonable and risky.

My main claim is that tone is one of the most important aspects of creating a compelling sound-script.  Tone embodies a person and can change the way that ideas and words are perceived.  I am hoping that in my new sound-script I will have a narrator with a tone that will go along with the creepy opening scenes and create a horror atmosphere that the viewer can get completely immersed in.  It’s sort of like that point that I believe Cruz was trying to make saying that sounds give you a full body experience while visuals do not.

4. Explains the stakes of your argument and why your claim and new sound-script are both important.

I don’t really understand what you mean by stakes.  Like what is at stake for making this arguement? But anyways, my new sound-script and claim are important because they expand on why sonic culture is important.  The sound-script is important because its new representation will show how a little change, like tone of voice of the narrartor, can completely change the tone and feeling of the film.

5. Articulates how – through sonic analysis – your new sound-script serves to augment, critique, or complicate your chosen multimedia composition.

By multimedia composition, do you mean movie?  My new sound-script will aument Simon Birch because it will show how the introductory scene can be perceived in many different ways.  And that the audience expects something by seeing the opening scene of the movie, like something family oriented and wholesome, but when you change the tone of voice you can get something completely new and differnt.

6. One artifact that I will be using.

I’m going to definetly have to throw in some of those Schafer terms like keynote and signal sounds.  And probably something a little spicy from the first reading, was his name Cruz?

7. Nervousness, frustrations or questions.

Well, I’m not thinking of any off the top of my head.  But I know that the questions will come during the conference.