The Characteristics And Differences Of Anna Wintour And Cynthia's Story

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How does a fashion editor and an immigrant girl connect to each other? That is what I will discuss throughout this paper as I break down these two different story. Even though these two stories may have similarities, I will also analysis what makes them stand on their own. What makes them different? I also will state the advantages and disadvantages of using a film versus a print when it comes to narrative storytelling. When comparing and contrasting the two stories, Anna Wintour and Cynthia’s story share common structures and character development, however, Anna Wintour’s documentary is more credible.
Similarly, Cynthia and Anna Wintour’s character development took similar stages. From the beginning of both stories, two perspectives are shown …show more content…

We see both Cynthia and Anna’s passion for what they want. In Cynthia’s case, she is eager to learn the American way and to be educated. She does not want to relieve her tragedies. Anna’s passion is fashion and to finish the September Issue. My favorite line that she said was when she had to stop herself from working when she became too angry, because we tend to lose our selves in our work. We also see them with staining from saying too much about themselves. We learn about them from different sources. We learn a lot about Cynthia’s experience from Sue Colussy, Grace, or the Mizell family. In the documentary, we learn about Anna through her employees and friends, such as Grace, Tom, and Andre. In addition, there was also some form of humor throughout their stories, but it was shown in two different ways. In Cynthia’s narrative, the humor was shown through the confusion of Cynthia understanding Robert. The situation was funny. On the other hand, the humor in the documentary was shown through Anna when she occasionally laughed and made jokes with her peers and other designers. Again, their silence is one …show more content…

First, Anna’s documentary may not require the audience to be actively involved as much as print. It is less demanding, and require less energy. Documentary also give the viewers visual effects which means that we, as viewer, do not have to assume or guess the emotions or actions that are taken place. To add to the advantages, films, especially if they are documentaries, happen at a slower pace. It can take years to create a film and therefore, more information can be gathered. However some disadvantages is manipulation. Content can be edited, erased, or contrived. It could be a gate keep and only show what it wants the audience to see. When using print, we, as readers, have to be active. We are forced to analysis the story and look in-between the lines. We want to understand the story and identify the resolution, and with that, we have to be interested in the topic. I also think that not having video or film with print is an advantage because it is fun trying to imagine the images. We can create our own perspective of the situation instead of relying on someone else’s perception. Sadly, this can also be a disadvantage because, as viewers, we create our own perception, but it could be the wrong perception. Another disadvantage of print is the pace. New is faster is most of the time have a deadline. I am pretty sure Paige, who wrote Cynthia’ story, had a limited amount of

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