Reflection/evaluation:

I came into Creative Media a few weeks into the term. I had never done film making and I didn’t know any of the film elements or what a dolly was or what a DP is. I quickly learned that I needed to know this for the assignment. I found the sheets on blackboard very helpful as they cut the essay into little parts that you could work on at a time. I also had to do some extra research to understand the elements of film making better. There was 2 parts to the assignment and I couldn’t complete some parts of part A as I wasn’t there at the time, this was a problem. By completing analytical essay and learning the film-terminology I am now finding out that while watching films I sub-consciously analyze them. During the essay I discovered that a topic sentence is very important to catch the reader’s attention. I had known what I topic sentence was before the essay but I hadn’t known it’s important. By doing extra research on the film terminology I got a better understanding of it and I think I was able to complete an ‘ok’ analytical essay. I was quite happy with my essay, I tried hard and I think I filled out all of the criteria and I wouldn’t change it as it was my first assignment from being in Creative Media. If I was to start again I might have possibly chosen a different genre and scene to do for the essay.