https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006 After reading and annotating Greg Smith's article, "'It's Just a Movie': A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes," post 3 words, 2 phrases, and 1 sentence that you feel are significant and/or essential to understanding the article's main point. (Double click anywhere on the screen to create a new post.) Please make sure YOUR NAME is the title of the post, and try to make a UNIQUE post (i.e., different from your classmates' 3-2-1). en-us 2016-06-24 20:05:16 UTC 2025-11-09 23:07:06 UTC hello@padlet.com acauten https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115408393 3 words: 
2 phrases: ". . ." (p. 128); ". . ." (p. 129)
1 sentence: ". . ." (p. 130)]]> 2016-06-24 20:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115408393 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115526642 3 words:  conceptualize,  propagating, interpretation 
2 phrases: "After all, it’s just a movie" (p.132), "Why tinker with the simple pleasure of watching a movie?" (p.133)
1 sentence: "If you let go of the notion that the filmmaker is trying to convey a message, then the activity of viewers is to interpret the film according to their lives, their experiences, their tastes—not the filmmaker’s." (p.130)]]> 2016-06-27 17:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115526642 jhjerrea https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115533630 3 Words: Messages, Ideology, Interpretation

2 Phrases: "A movie isn't a telegram" (p.129)
 "you know that horror films operate according to a set of rules" (p. 131)

1 Sentence:  "Why are we spending so much time finding new meanings in something as insignificant as a movie?" (p. 127)]]> 2016-06-27 20:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115533630 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115534179 3 Words: chance, scrutinized, audience
2 Phrases: "When I put on a shirt in the morning, I do so with very little thought." (p.128)
"Let's make it easy on ourselves." (p.130)
1 Sentence: "Instead of relying purely on our society’s understanding of what artworks are good enough to be taken seriously, we should instead look to the artworks them- selves. " (p.132)]]> 2016-06-27 20:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115534179 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115534586 3 words: mysterious, details, analyzing
2 phrases: . “All right, do you really think that every little thing in the film is there for a reason?”  (p. 128)
  “Come on, do film professionals from editors to set designers really spend all that time scrutinizing such details?” (p. 128)
1 sentence:  "Movies rely on the audience to supply information that is only hinted at in the film, like the shower convention in horror films." (p. 131) ]]> 2016-06-27 20:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115534586 wkklyman https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115535215 3 Words- Imaginable, interpretation, audience
2 Phrases- "Movie rely on audience to supply information..." (p.131)
" Leave nothing to chance."(p.129)
1 Sentence- " Sometimes it seems the surest way to ruin a good book is to read it for class." (p.133)]]> 2016-06-27 20:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115535215 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115535273 3 Words- Meaning, Convention, Audience
2 Phrases- "A Hollywood film is one of the most highly scrutinized, carefully constructed, least random works imaginable"(p.128)."A movie isn't a telegram"(p. 131).
1 Sentence- "Sometimes it seems that the surest way to ruin a good book is to have to read it for a class"(p.133).]]> 2016-06-27 20:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115535273 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115538262 3 words: analysis, conceptualize, consciously
2 phrases: "Filmmakers work hard to exclude the random from their fictional worlds.."(p. 128); “You are the audience. It is your movie, too.." (p. 130
1 sentence "There is a temptation to treat a film in a similar manner, as if everything occurs by chance. Nothing could be further from the truth." (p. 128) ]]> 2016-06-27 21:51:10 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115538262 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115538505 3 words:  
Random, Meanings, Entertainment

2 phrases: 
Random occurrences happen all the time 
(Smith, 128)
Audiences are just reading things into the movie 
(Smith, 130)

1 sentence:  Many believe that the unconscious seeks to express painful things that we have repressed and buried within ourselves. (Smith, 130)]]> 2016-06-27 21:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115538505 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115543825 3 words: meaning, audience, details
2 phrases: a movie isn't a telegram (p.129), leave nothing to chance (p. 129)
1 sentence: You can trust that if something is in a film, it is there for a reason. (p. 129)]]> 2016-06-28 00:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115543825 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115546317 3 words: interpretation, intention, scrutinize 
2 phrases: "interpretation involves 'reading into' a movie" (p. 131)
"complexity of enjoyment" (p. 133)
1 sentence: "At times we all express the beliefs, attitudes, and asumptions of our times without necessarily being conscious of doing so." (p.130)]]> 2016-06-28 00:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115546317 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115601868 3 words: Scrutiny, savvy, interpretation
2 phrases: "it is there for a
reason" (p. 129)
"cinema is a richer form of communication than can be conceptualized as sender-message-receiver." (p. 129)
1 sentence: "A Hollywood film usually asks us to get caught up in the story, in the world that has been created, so that we are not aware of the behind-the-scenes effort." (p. 128)]]> 2016-06-28 15:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115601868 https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115607379 1.  Message, Imaginable, interpretation.
2. "It is your movie, too." (p. 130) "exclude the random" (p. 128)
3. "How do we really know that self-examination is better than the bliss of simple ignorance?" (p.133)]]> 2016-06-28 17:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/acauten/smith_006/wish/115607379