Thank you all for your posts thus far. If you haven't posted yet, your post is due by the end of the day. A couple of general comments… Please do not write about your production experiences. We can certainly discuss these at some point and reflect, but the intent of the blog is to produce critically analytical writing that we can all read and think about. That said, let's try to avoid writing what are essentially informal movie recommendations, the "I saw this movie and really liked it" structure. This is not productive. As production students you should all have so much more to about production techniques involved in the shows/films you are watching.
For future posts, I think the best approach is to focus on a particular scene in a film and perform a close analysis. You may also focus on a particular motif that is present throughout a particular film, or even compare/contrast an idea that is presented in two films/shows.What technical tools are being employed and how do they affect the story or the character's arcs? Be specific. Read film related articles that aren't mere gossip and/or reviews. We have some good resources in the library.
A good text is "Film Art" by Bordwell and Thompson. I am going to have the library order this and put on reserve for this class, but if you would like a copy in the meantime please ask me and I will lend you mine. You may also want to look at "Film Theory and Criticism" (available in library), which is a bit more dense but may help you think about film/tv differently.
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