Getting to know more about the process of writing, week one's articles by Moon demonstrated different aspects of reflective writing. The article explains this process step-by-step and gives realistic examples of why this writing style is so important - to be able to draw a self-critical review upon one owns learning progress by writing. The personal and academical purpose it explains to me as a student gives me guidelines of what to write and how to do it by reflection.
Here's one example 'What have i learnt about shot construction in week 2?'
Rethinking my progress of shot construction in week 2, some mistakes were made but also learned upon. Seen beyond what is discussed about scriptwriting, using Final Cut Pro for the Lenny Project did not turn out to be a bit more complicated than iMovie.
As I was with cutting and making a rough cut of the Lenny Project my major problem was to figure out ‘why after 10 mins of marking the part of the shot I want to cut goes wrong every time and deletes the entire shot’. Fancing and glazing over this amazing high tech developed film editing program ‘Final Cut Pro’ I see something photoshop look-alike toolbar that can have something to do with this. The razorblade. Of course! I then realize that the software we are using is based upon a principle of simplicity and the old names of ‘bin’, ‘cut’, and so on.
Why had it gone wrong though? Because there are two windows to look at during editing; the canvas is my projecting of the shot and the viewer vindow belongs to the original shot.
By writing this way the Moon article's examples raises awareness of writing reflectively about something I have to do or have done. This is the favorite part of this reading because for my learning progress, I have to use 'I' and use first person. This quality for me means that when I reflect upon assignments, performance and presentation I can go into the details that went wrong and learn of the mistakes I did. In this way the room for self-improvement will take me as a writer not just to another higher level of university performance but also in real life work.
Narratives is fun and creating them is even better. Branston and Stafford goes in details of the importance of the narrative by going in-depth upon construction, forms, sharing cultural features and a mediums way to tell a story. The part where it discusses the work of Syd Field (also in this week's lecture upon the three-part-structure of set-up, confrontation and resolution) together with feedback from friends made me change the story line of my synopsis (see next blog). And also raied my awareness of religion and cultural aspects within stories.
When it came to the part of Propp and examinating the possibilites of grouping characters and actions, this made me rethink my own story and I shifted the story into a more 'heroic' story of David the plumber killing the horror possum for the beautiful foreign baby sitting Ina in a back yard. The 'good' and 'evil' is seen in David's eyes.
I think the best part with this article how they describe narration and its importance for selecting materials and arrange this in an order to achieve effects with the audience. This is remarkable in clown train where the story is told via the body language of both the protagonist and the antagonist and the good example of Norman's mental condition in Psycho.
The description of how to use narratives in different mediums is helpful and so is the broadcasting and soaps where the article talks about that the differences are to do with institutional and industrial demands. Further on in the last part of the article, it is up to date with describing open and closed narratives, and the trends of the computer.
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