Editorial Report 3

In this blog post, I will compare a section of the rough cut to the fine cut.

Selection from Rough Cut

Lastly the amount of racism that has persisted throughout the comic book industry in it’s history. Even in times where there were many fighting for their rights against racism as well. Specifically, the character of Kitty Pryde has gone about using the n word more than once. Comparing the real struggle that African Americans have gone through in history to the struggle that mutants went through within the comics is completely insensitive and irresponsible. While the context makes sense within fiction, the direct comparison is insulting to the very real struggle that African Americans have had to face, and while mutants are depicted as facing discrimination, the discrimination is still nothing but a work of fiction. Their lack of sensitivity can even be seen affecting the audience as well in recent years, as seen by the casting of Michael B. Jordan as the Human Torch

Re-Edited Selection

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The content drastically changed, I have removed the race element that made up the second half of my rough draft entirely. I decided that in order to give the project more focus, it would be better to focus on either sexism or racism. In order for this to be accomplished, it was best to focus on sexism as I had more examples to work with and it displayed that I had authorial control over what was occurring with this project. It gave my content more focus, and it is now more effectively able to focus on one issue within comics as opposed to trying to juggle two issues at once.

The form for the video did not change too much because of this, as both were going to be focused on clips and images speak for themselves while my narration discussed the general views of what was happening.