Hi, my name is Rafael, and I’m a proud student of Mast Academy. Being enrolled in AS Media Studies, I will be learning how to create and analyze the multi-layered factors involved with the study and creation of media in its many forms. Within this blog, I’ll be detailing the certain aspects of media and film that I learn in class. Hopefully, I’ll be able to pick up filming and analysis techniques that will improve my ability to create and understand media, and to critique and evaluate the quality of a film. Maybe I might become as good as Quentin Tarantino!
My set task is to create a two minute film opening that:
>Follows the institutionalized conventions of commercial cinema. >Produce an original work with sound, music, and visual cues. >Work as a group to develop a complex project with the involvement of all members.
With the completion of this project, I will be able to reflect off of what I have done to create said media. Using said reflection and following the list of compulsory questions to reach an improved understanding of how to create a film.
Critical Reflection Question
- How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
- How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
- How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
- How did you integrate technologies- software, hardware, and online- in this project?
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