Drafting Ideas

My first and second draft are total different papers with the same concept. In my first paper, it was just a bunch of ideas thrown together. All the information I collected was just piled up together. I was letting all my ideas out without really organizing the paper. But most of my work is really repetitive in my first draft. Leaving me with a lot more work during my second draft to find other information and find out why it is useful. 

During my second draft I recollected all the information I had and the new sources I found. I went through my first draft and organized information together that was closely related. I moved things around and added new information that was more relevant to my topic. I also had to get rid of useless information and repetitive information as well. There was a lot of rewording of the same topic and I had to figure a way to change that so it wasn’t that way. But there is still some work in progress, but I am trying to make my second draft has more ideas than my first, so I can complete it and make it final.

As for my product for my capstone, there are some ideas that are being considered. I would like to create an album – somewhat - of what all the facial expressions looks like and what key signs make them recognizable all over the world. I would gather headshots (pictures) of someone making the faces then use Ekman’s research to help me identify what makes it that face.

Another idea I was considering was making a video; first playing it without sound. I would ask the viewer what their idea of the video was and what they think the person is feeling during that scene. After getting an idea from what they know about facial expressions from my presentation, I would hope they could get an idea of what they are feeling. Then after asking a few questions, I would play the video with sound and see how closely their answer was correct. I could even just do the opposite. I could play a video with just sound (of two different people) and see what the viewer thinks is happening. This could show them how important facial expressions are because they won’t be able to tell the true emotion of someone when they aren’t looking at their face.

Those are only a few ideas that I have come up with so far. Hopefully, I will be able to narrow down my product idea for my presentation soon.