End of The Year Reflection

One thing I learned a lot from this year was the research script. I learned a lot about film analysis and overall history. I think my strengths are in film analysis during the script component. I have found that I am good at finding similarities between movies and exploring the themes of films. I found that I was good at describing symbolism and motif in both the films I researched. I definitely need more training when it comes to film history and technique. I do not know much about genre differentiations and terms and that caused me to struggle a little bit. I wished i could've learned more about cinematic technique and the vocabulary that that entails. I wish we could cover more of this in class and i feel like that would have helped me better get a grip on what we were learning.

I also felt that the Oral project helped me a lot and taught me new things I didn't previously know. As with the research script i felt that i had strengths in analyzing scenes and events from a storyline perspective. I was able to dive into the plot of the film and take what i found and use it to my advantage. I felt that it was easy for me to analyze symbols that were used in the film and apply them to the Oral. I  was also able to tie in the historical context to the Oral and I felt that those blog posts that we did helped me gain that knowledge and background information. As with the research script, I wish I knew more about the specific film techniques and genre styles. I'm sure we covered them in class; it must have gone over my head/ i might have been spacing out. I wish I had payed more attention to when these techniques and terms were introduced.

I learned a lot about production this semester. I was once again reminded how bad it is to wait until the last minute to get work done for your project. I need to work on my procrastinating and get started on things earlier. I learned more this semester about camera work and filmed a few more of the shots on this project then on the previous one. I usually take the role of director and i wished that i had branched out and tried different roles rather than stick to one. I did learn and practice more editing this semester as well and was able to put the rough cut of our film together. I don't think there is anything anyone else could do to help me with this it was just a personal choice i made throughout the year. Overall, I had a great year and learned many new things about film and cinematography that i didn't previously know.