Student logs and Momento

I've never done anything like the student logs, so I think that its a really cool thing to try. But at the same time, I find myself not know what to write and while I was reading what professor Estevez was looking for on the logs I found it helpful the way she described it and a place to put down thoughts to help further develop them. I'm still not sure if I was or am writing what you're looking for.


In class on Tuesday when we were talking about the basic narrative elements, I missed what the definitions of story and disclosure were, so I was wondering if someone could let me know. Also about the paper, I'm having a hard time writing about the conventions of the film Distant Voices, Still lives, I'm not sure if it's just because I'm over thinking it, but I was wondering if you could just give me an example of one type of convention.



I started reading the information about Memento and I really like the concept of the story. How he wants to solve his wife's murder, but because of his short term memory he has to leave himself notes, and he take pictures, and he even tattoos himself with clues. As I was reading the interview with Chi rs Nolan on the indiewire website I thought it was really funny how he said "Think of Groundhog Day, but with a gun". The concept also reminds me of 50 first date too. I also looked at the website Chris Nolan's brother made and I thought the website was really cool, especially how different words in the newspaper clipping showed you different things from the movie, like the polaroids, and the different things the main character writes down on post-its to remind him of the things he has found. Also while reading the interview they talked about how the story goes backwards I think, and how its a puzzle structure. I'm really looking forward to watching Memento not only to see what they are talking about, but what happens in the movie as well.