{"id":573898290,"date":"2025-09-25T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573898290"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:46:24","slug":"there-are-many-kinds-of-star-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2025\/09\/25\/there-are-many-kinds-of-star-power\/","title":{"rendered":"There are many kinds of star power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in my Criticism class we watched, and discussed, the Nine for IX documentary, Venus vs. The tennis icon took on a years long fight for equal pay in women&#8217;s tennis. This is a great documentary, a documentary which, itself, was the beginning of a momentary effort by ESPN to correct a gender imbalance. This was the debut of the Nine for IX series. It debuted as ESPN carried their first installment of Wimbledon, and just a few years from the resolution of this long campaign.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jr-8Z_I6ofs?si=8Mwiga51EVUpYX8D\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re keeping score, last week we went from a 1999 doc produced about a 1968 event, the Olympics, to a 2013 doc today which focuses on parts of the early 21st century career of Venus Williams. Next week we&#8217;ll watch a program produced this year. <\/p>\n<p>And, also next week, I think I&#8217;ll take some stills from the Venus vs. program and talk for a moment about shot composition. I&#8217;ve given the class a primer on critiquing techniques and one of the points is about visuals. That documentary, produced and directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1148550\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ana Duvernay<\/a> before she&#8217;d become a huge hit-maker, has some things to say, visually. <\/p>\n<p>In Org Comm today we continued our conversation on branding, which features a lot of sports commercials, and will somehow go into Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>My favorite one of the bunch isn&#8217;t even a real commercial. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0rCyHL9Gbs?si=EU9g01GAWinY5h2n\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And also this one, just because of how Peyton Manning trades on his referent power, and his incredibly philanthropy through the meaning transfer model &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9jZDUquUvI?si=rZY0xLc-0C4WpNwF\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell the students, but all of the star power things we&#8217;ve been talking about this week are on an assignment they&#8217;ll have to conquer on Tuesday. That&#8217;s when we&#8217;ll start to see if I&#8217;m making any sense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in my Criticism class we watched, and discussed, the Nine for IX documentary, Venus vs. The tennis icon took on a years long fight for equal pay in women&#8217;s tennis. This is a great documentary, a documentary which, itself, was the beginning of a momentary effort by ESPN to correct a gender imbalance. 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