Talk:Wayne Boyer

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 January 2020 and 5 May 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Hds415, Jieunny. Peer reviewers: Lecyborg87, Watiekilliams.

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Review
Make sure to format your bibliography according to Wikipedia's guidelines (author, title, date, etc), see WP:CS. Make sure to find, read, and reference the books you are finding during your searches. Reading your sources will provide you with additional search terms and background information (e.g., the books "Alternative Spaces," "American Independent Cinema," "They All Fall Down," "Architecture on Screen," etc).AmyDeer (talk) 11:57, 28 February 2018 (UTC) In your lead section, give an overview of Boyer's entire career, rather than just his involvement with Goldsholl Design Associates and high school filmmaking. See WP:LEAD. AmyDeer (talk) 12:01, 28 February 2018 (UTC) Incorporate the information you include in your "Annotated Bibliography" into your article proper and include this bibliographic information in your citations. AmyDeer (talk) 12:06, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Review by Jillian
"while experimenting with is fathers video camera." spelling and punctuation errors. (father's: possesive)

"Invited to Hollywood to at first hand film cartoon techniques used in commercial production" - errors

"The design of this city was inspired by Buckminster Fuller and Steve Baer and located in Trinidad, Colorado" - Maybe "Filmed in Trinidad, Colorado" or "and was filmed in..."

"fell from the building and passed away." - find a new way to say this... "died after he fell..." or "was killed"

"Boyer was also instrumental in the founding of the Center Cinema Coop, “an important film distribution collective operating out of chicago from the years 1968 to 1978”" - don't quote that last part. Put it into your own words. Quotes should be used for more "opinion" statements or statements involving more personal feelings only.

Watch your punctuation. Don't forget to use possesives. Periods and commas should go BEFORE the superscripted hyperlink to reference materials. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sickcakez (talk • contribs) 17:06, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

remember to add hyperlinks to other Wiki articles for important institutions, places, people, films, etc. Sickcakez (talk) 17:19, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review
Your structure is very nice. The opening is clear and leading through your article you provide chronological information that is easy to follow. Besides a few punctuation and grammar errors, I think you have a really great start! A few areas could use some more information (ex. personal life) but I know on some of the subjects it is hard to track down information. I would just recommend reading through your article to fix any minor grammatical errors, as well as making sure areas in which you can provide a link to other pages are good to go! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hstieb (talk • contribs) 17:59, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Review by Laura
Your lead sentence is a run-on and can be broken into two parts or said more concisely. You provide a good overview of his life but I'd really like to see a more research on his career and accomplishments. Where did Boyer exhibit and what awards did he recieve. Can you expand on what the Morton Goldsholl Design Firm was or link a wikipedia page if one exists? Which films were the defining points in his career? Which artists influenced Boyer when he first began making films? Were there specific professors at ID that encouraged him to pursue film?

Review by Tia
Overall, this is a fair overview of Wayne Boyer. In the lede paragraph, be conservative about adding so many other artist's names. Are they relevant to the introduction and summary of Wayne Boyer himself? For example, mentioning Janiak and Stiegler right away distracts from the introduction of Boyer,

In the early life paragraph, it is okay to mention Janiak, but make sure it is focused on Boyer and through the perspective of Boyer. How does Boyer know Janiak, are they class mates or friends, should I guess? Phrases like "It was at one of these conferences" is very awkward and much like a story or speech. If you don't know, taking it out is the best. Or is it so important that you need to keep it? If not, then "This is where they met..." or the like is suffice.

In the early work paragraph, which could be a good idea, re-introducing Janiak is unnecessary. There isn't much in this section for early work besides one isolated event involving Disney so the section doesn't work well. Adding more to the early work or restructuring early life and early work could help.

The films section is good idea but its not chronological. So, is it being done by notability of each film? If so, state that or else it is just non-sensical. Some film descriptions are so sparse and others have whole paragraphs, try to balance that and find out what the films are about or explain notability of the ones that are given so much attention and word count.

The later career section does not flow very well, it doesn't go chronologically and a random but possibly really important fact that he helped found "Center Cinema COOP" is tossed in at the end. Perhaps, a this page could benefit with a professional or career section.

Lecyborg87 (talk) 14:44, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Review by Katie
Overall a solid entry about Boyer but can definitely use more information and some grammatical editing.

GRAMMAR: In lead paragraph, should read "now teaches filmmaking" rather than "now teaching filmmaking."

In later career, would make more sense to read "was instrumental in founding" rather than "was instrumental in the founding of"

INFORMATION: Early life is basically the same as the lead paragraph with some additional information about his father's camera. Have you been able to dig anything up about his family? His thoughts on school? Any more info on projects he made with friends in high school? How did he meet his high school collaborators?

Early work is solid, but is mostly quotations. I know Wikipedia wants us to work more in our own words. I would suggest trying to paraphrase and cite instead of just using quotes. The same note can be said for Later Career. Have you found anything about his early style and what he first attempted?

Also in Later Career, is there any way we can learn more about the co-op? Does it have a Wikipedia page you can link to? Or perhaps you can give just a bit more information there? This section seems really weak and I wish there was a bit more info especially about the co-op.

In terms of the listing of films, I am confused about their order. As Tia said, it is not chronological. But the first listed film doesn't have a description, so it can't be the most known? I would suggest changing the order to be chronological, and highlighting the most influential pieces. Of course, if there can be descriptions in general that would be really great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Watiekilliams (talk • contribs) 22:14, 9 March 2020 (UTC)