Previsualization: Mapping Out Your Project

Images of the typical suburban American landscape represent widely varying attitudes about American culture during the 1950s and 1960s • Define your thesis or argument • Create a media “wish list” Where Do I Begin? • Create a flow chart . Organize the chart based on your outline • Create an outline that breaks the central argument into central themes/topics and supporting examples

• Define your thesis or argument

• Create an outline that breaks the central argument into central themes/topics and supporting examples

Site / Image / Object Argument Other media that support your argument

Flow Chart Site

Flow Chart Old Chinatown/ Union Station

Flow Chart The 1930s redevelopment of old Chinatown was widely applauded as a move to modernize Los Angeles. But the motives behind the project were intimately tied to a history of problematic race relations between LA’s Chinese community and the growing city.

Flow Chart Hisoticial contextualization / how Chinatown was chosen as the site for redevelopment How was the Union Station Project depicted as progress? How did Chinatown change when it was relocated?

Hisoticial contextualization / how Chinatown was

chosen as the site for redevelopment

How was the Union Station Project depicted

as progress?

How did Chinatown change when it was relocated?

Individual Old Chinatown/ Union Station History Chinatown Emergence of a community Race riot, 1879 Exclusion Acts 1910 Family history / immigration Family involvement in riot Story of relocation

Old Chinatown/ Union Station Narrative of Progress Popular discourses Architecture Newspapers Magazines Style How it was discussed “ the last great rail station” Local government Promotional materials

Old Chinatown/ Union Station New Chinatown Built by Los Angeles, opens 1938 City project (contrasted with Chinatown’s roots) Architecture Tourist destination Tourist literature Shops and restaurants

Old Chinatown/ Union Station History Narratives of progress New Chinatown Popular discourses Old Chinatown Personal Architecture Where? Race riot, 1879 Exclusion Acts, 1910 Newspapers Magazines Family history/ immigration? Story of riot style How it was discussed “ the last great Rail station” Story of relocation Built by City, Opens 1938 City project (contrasted with Chinatown’s roots) Architecture Tourist destination Tourist literature Shops / restaurants Flow Chart Local government Promotional materials

• LINEAR sequencing of still pictures to present the argument, themes and ideas, and media you are using for your project • Acts as a preview and as a visual script for your research project. Storyboard

• Allows you to better organize your ideas • Gives you an overall sense of your project’s strengths and weaknesses • Allows you to construct a linear argument in a non-linear way. Storyboard Goals • Helps to structure continuity

• Allows you to better organize your ideas

• Gives you an overall sense of your project’s strengths and weaknesses

Analog Production Storyboard • The Analog Storyboard: This example is done in comic strip style with hand drawn pictures and captions.

• The Analog Storyboard:

This example is done in comic strip style with hand drawn pictures and captions.

A good storyboard breaks down the project into its central elements: What Should I Include? • Central Argument • Themes/Topics • Examples (media and research sources)

• Central Argument

• Themes/Topics

• Analyze and think through your supporting points and media examples • Flesh out the draft. • What changes need to be made? What Next?

• Analyze and think through your supporting points and media examples

• Flesh out the draft.