User:Han2218/Evaluate an Article

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Blancanieves

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(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

This film was released in 2012, but it is an homage to black and white silent films made in the 20th century. There seems to be a presence of nostalgia of old technologies within recent years. The nostalgia is shown through the modern recreation of older technologies. For example disposable cameras have become popular as of late, but they are available in more modern designs, and there are new and improved methods of developing film. People are interested in these nostalgic forms of photography despite the existence of cameras with immensely better quality and efficiency as accessible as a lens on phones. The production of this film falls into the same category of nostalgic recreations. Blancanieves was created with the intentions appearing as an old black and white silent film. However, the techniques and film quality is much more modern, resulting in a mix of old and new technologies regarding film.

In many of the readings we have done in class the authors have noted the evolution of technologies. New technologies are usually a modified and reworked execution of older technologies, rather than a completely new individual invention. Because of the evolution of technologies, when a film is made using modern technologies, but tries to recreate a product made by older technologies, the difference between the results are often noticeable, even if unintentional.

The article does cover the basics of this film, however it does not have many categories that cover the intricacies of the production. Many wikipedia pages that cover films have sections regarding aspects such as pre-production, filming, cast/character explanations, etc. These categories are either lacking in content or completely missing on this page. However, the inclusion of information on these categories would allow for more descriptive depictions of the films use of new technologies mixed with old technologies. These are not only necessary details for the wikipedia page as an individual article, but they also relate back to concepts we have studied and discussed in class.

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(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section:


 * The introduction is rather well put together.
 * It is concise and does not go into too much detail.

Content:


 * Content is relevant, but a lot of information is missing.
 * It deals with the equity gap, as it is about a foreign film.
 * There may be more info written in Spanish articles, which could reveal even more information than English studies.
 * There is a note in the article that there could be more information added.

Tone and Balance:


 * The article is unbiased and straightforward.
 * There are a decent amount of representation between information and where it is coming from.

Sources and References:


 * There are probably more more advanced articles that could be used.
 * They could be written in Spanish, which may provide more culturally specific information.
 * More sources could be used within the article in general (with the addition of more in-depth information).
 * The sources are rather up to date.

Organization and Writing Quality:


 * Needs some work with organization.
 * There are many places where information and completely new sections could be added.
 * The information present is separated via rather random categories.

Images and Media:


 * There is one image of the film cover.
 * It has a description underneath it and is cited.


 * They utilized a chart of the award nominations and winnings.

Talk Page Discussion:


 * There were corrections and adjustments made based off the collaboration of editors.
 * They adjusted the genre because though it is based on fairytales, it is not considered fantasy since all the occurrences are plausible and possible. The correction was removing that it was a "Fantasy film".
 * It seems that there are bilingual people working on it which could mean there is good representation throughout the writers.
 * This is just an assumption based on context clues considering the use of occasional Spanish words and user names written in Spanish.
 * There is not a large amount of conversation in the talk page.

Overall Evaluation:


 * Rated Start-Class
 * It has good information on the basics of the film and the accomplishments they have made (awards, nominations, etc.)
 * There are many film techniques about the film that could be addressed. The film is a representation of 20th century silent black and white films, but use the technologies from the 2010s, resulting in a much more dynamic and modern version of a media from a century ago.
 * At the moment, the current information is correct, however it is lacking in a lot of categories. There are many content gaps that could be addressed and fixed.
 * Many wikipedia pages for films have information about how it was filmed, plot, info about actors, directors, producers, cinematographers, etc., but this article either does not have those, or has limited information provided.
 * There were many technical uses within that film that are not addressed in the wikipedia page.
 * Because of all these points, I would rate it the document as informational, but underdeveloped.