My final project proposal is a page dedicated to the Godfather Trilogy of movies. The trilogy consists of, you guessed it, 3 movies. All 3 are considered some of the most influential and famous works of American film ever produced. Despite the first 2 films being made in the 1970s and the third in the early 1990s, their relevance today is as vast and visible as ever.
Techniques I plan on using that we have learned in class include word clouds, word trees and timelines to document relationships between characters, word themes and order of events throughout the movies. By using these tools I can show the relevance between classic film and today's digital humanities. Using pictures and sound boards on the site would create a more interactive setting and because of the extreme popularity of the movies, sub topics could constantly be added to cover new material and insights.
Adam,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great topic, but I'm worried that you might not be able to perform text analysis and data visualization unless you have access to the scripts of the movies. Do you think you might narrow your scope to the first movie? Otherwise I'm worried your project might be too unwieldy. In your project management sheet you say that you will be "scanning images"; what images are you planning on scanning, specifically, and how will they relate to your project?