Maelee Scaglione's Final Project Blog

  Me and my classmate Ava were given the task of choosing a prompt , and then planning, shooting, and editing a photograph to portray this prompt. The prompt we chose was “ y ou are struggling to keep up in dance class.” To respond to this prompt, we planned to take a photo of me doing a dance move poorly , with my dance classmates behind me doing it perfectly . We developed this sketc h :   Then, we put this planning into effect and took our photo:   Edited/Final version:       There was a lot of preparation that went into taking these photos in terms of design and composition:     DESIGN:   -Lighting:   When taking the photo, we made sure there was enough light to be able to see everybody’s facial expressions and other important details . We had a bit of trial and error when taking the photo and had to chang e where in the studio we took it depending on where lighting was best. After the photo was taken, we   used editing...

        Now that I have been in this course for a little over a month, I am able to reflect on my learning thus far, and how it has affected my relationship with media . Before taking this course, movies and TV shows were primarily just entertainment to me. I would occasionally analyze certain scenes to truly understand their depth and artistic themes , but this analysis was nowhere near as detailed as the study of films required in this class.            This course has introduced me to many new ideas and features of films that I had never taken into account before. The first concept of the ye ar that stood out to me was cinematic language. I learned that this term refers to the techniques and concepts that connect us to the story while hiding how they do so . Th e process of unpacking a movie to see how filmmakers were hiding certain unrealistic aspects of filmmaking , known as cinematic invisibility,   was ve...