One Word Film Project

 In the one word film project every group was assigned a word and we had to make a film project using the editing skills, shots, and angles we learned about in class that expressed the word we were given. 

Me and my groups word was pessimistic. We decided that we were going to show the word "pessimistic" by creating a story about a girl in school who gets a call from her mom. She then freaks out thinking that her mom is calling for a bad reason. She nervously walks outside after class as she then sees that her mom just wanted to show her what she made for breakfast and she was freaking out for no reason. 

During the brainstorming process I tried to think of how to use as many different shots as possible. I wanted every shot I used to have meaning. I also tried to think of the best way to express the word I was given. 

My storyboard helped me pre-visualize my project by helping me see exactly where I wanted each shot to be. It also helped me a lot already knowing what I wanted each shot to look like before I started filming. 

The editing source that I used was Adobe Express.

What was done well was using specific types of shots to mean different things. My group also worked very well together and we all evenly did the same amount of work. We all shared ideas and all put our input in editing the final product of our project. Next time I would like to improve by trying to use more advanced editing techniques. 

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Media Text Essay Review

 Sample 1 -

One thing that is done well in the essay is that it names the types of composition and movement with the correct terms.

Another thing that is well done is the introduction it just has the name of the excerpt and the purpose and is very clear and doesn't have extra unneeded information. 

Something else that is done well is the explanations of why the specific shots are being used.

One thing that can be improved in the essay is trying to make it flow instead of it looking like a list of different shots. 

Something that should be improved is to not add information that is not given clearly in the extract for example when it says that the woman was throwing out her bank statements but it never clearly clarified that in the excerpt. 

Another thing that should be improved is to not use abbreviations in an essay, for example it says "following her w the camera" instead of "with."

Sample 2:

3 phrases that represent macro analysis:

"Everyday life continues"

"Documenting the history of our lives"

"This death is one in the sea of many"

The extract begins with introducing a woman who is sitting at her desk. It cuts to a close up shot of numbers on a paper that the woman is writing. The close up illustrates the importance of what the woman is writing on the paper. The scene cuts back to a medium shot of the woman which illustrates her emotions as she looks around the room thinking what to do with the paper. The paper gets ripped and then in a close up shot of the toilet it shows the papers being flushed. This shows how important it is to the woman that these papers are gone and nobody can see what was written on them. 

The approach I took to rewrite my first body paragraph was to make sure to include every detail and message that the excerpt was showing. I felt as in my first time writing it I missed some key details of the extract.