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

The purpose of my new sound script is basically to make Cher sound smarter, less priveleged, and less of a Valley girl, to connect more with the original story, and see what the effect is. The audience is everyone, really, but mostly my 121 peers and Jentery. I am going to retain a female speaker, probably myself, and try to speak in a more intelligent manner.

States your research question (from Response Paper 1.4).

My question for my research paper is going to be “How is Cher’s personality conveyed through the visuals versus the narration in Clueless?”

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

 I believe that although the visuals show that she is rich, pretty, popular, and likes to shop, it shows little about her actual personality. Her voice brings her real character to life, especially with the insights into her thoughts we are given through the voice over. Her voice very distinctly tells us she is rich, white, priveleged, self absorbed, and not terribly bright, but sweet and compassionate.My claim is risky, because it implies that Cher’s personality is far more dependent on her voice than her appearance– that to change her voice would be to change who she is, but is also reasonable because I have evidence that Cher’s voice was more researched than her appearance, and thus meant to be more important.

Explains the stakes of your argument and why your claim and new sound-script are both important/Articulates how your new sound-script serves to augment, critique, or complicate your chosen film or TV show/ Provides one artifact (e.g., a journal article, academic text, or selection from the course material) that you will be using in support of your new sound-script.

For my new sound script, I’m going to make her sound more mature, intelligent, and aware, through better vocabulary, removing the whine in her voice, and removing its inherent tone of privelege and stereotypical Valley girl. Of course, in this sound script, I run the risk of making Cher into a less lovable character, which would not make the audience happy, but may get the message of do-gooding across more easily. As Koslov says “voice over narration has been a major element of narration since the thirties; so very common that it actually passes the average moviegoer unnoticed”. This is a very valid point, particularly when the voice over is very… expected? is that the word? Like it is in Clueless. I want the audience to notice the voice over, for it tells more of what kind of person Cher is, disregarding the Valley girl and all that, I mean that she really does want to do good, and genueinely cares about people, instead of passing over her and disregarding her acts as misguided and/or selfish.

Raises any specific questions you have about your claim, your analysis, or your research. Of course, your questions can be about any nervousness or frustration you are having. Remember: both nervousness and frustration are a part of the writing process

I’m kind of sketchy on what my social issue really is… something to do with privelege, but what specifically? I also don’t really know how to make my paper as complex as it needs to be… I think part of my paper could tie into privelege and service, as that is what the movie is about, Cher trying to provide others with service, but… I just don’t know.