I definitely found it difficult in this unit to write up the scene analysis’ because truthfully they were a bit boring but mainly the way we had to explain it. It was hard for me to condense my writing and frustrating because I knew when things were wrong but I didn’t know how to fix them. I think though that I definitely became much better at it by the end of the unit.
The activities helped me understand film elements by explaining the reasons behind shots, before I did this unit I just thought it was to make it less boring and show the beautiful scenery etc, but now I know so much more about it and I understand it, the downside to this is the fact that it makes it hard now to watch even my favorite movies without pointing out different elements and things that I just notice randomly, that isn’t a good thing because it makes it less believable.
I like the technique I discovered of using cuts and sound to make scenes go much faster it was actually really interesting learning about that, also the huge changes that can be made in films and scenes by simply changing the colours. Colour reflects mood more than anything and by looking at the same shot in different colours it was surprising the different elements that were noticed and the affects it had on the mood and the possible storyline.
My planning and research helped me write my essay by preparing me for the style of writing that was needed. My very first research task, on the elements of a particular genre, ended up sounding really rather horrible because I had no idea how to write. After doing a few more exercises and reading a few examples it was much easier and I think my essay sounded pretty ok.
Condensing the information I had when writing the scene analysis was rather hard at first, I didn’t really understand how to write it so I basically wrote a whole shot-by-shot of the Aviator film, it wasn’t until later that I realized we were just supposed to use particular bits and talk in detail about them, not the whole entire film. Another problem was the horror story method we had to write, that one I really had trouble with, I’ve only ever seen one horror film and I don’t plan on watching any more, so I wasn’t very keen and I didn’t make my horror story the way it should have been, as in, it sounded more like a mystery.
I am pretty happy about my essay, at first I felt like I’d written it a bit oddly or I’d gotten something wrong because even as I listened to all the tips I asked for they just confused me a bit more and I was very worried about the way I wrote it and when I read it back to myself I thought it sounded weird. When I think about it now though it know that was just because I’d never written this type of essay before an it was actually not to bad, I do think that I worked hard on it for the most part.
There isn’t much I would like to change I just feel that my conclusion was too short and it sounded really bad and repetitive, my opening sentences also sounded pretty much the same with a few different words.
I would just be fine with the actually re-writing of it, because that is the part I feel needs to be redone, I would probably also just check over the scenes I used, I don’t think the Van Helsing scene really depicted the fantasy genre very well and it was a bit too short.
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