Cinematography

Topic: Cinematography
EQ: How can a film maker best use image to spark an emotional connection with the film's audience?

Saturday, May 31, 2014

May Blog

Well, I'm still here. At this point it means that I passed my hour presentation. But now I have to worry about the evening trade show. I'm not sure how I will attack it, but I know I'll figure that out soon.

Side note: I left my board leaning up against Piggot's class on Friday. If anybody piked it up or know where it is then please let me know. Thanks guys

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Blog 22: Senior Project Reflection

1. Actually doing a good job on my block presentation as a whole and not needing to do it a second time is what I am most proud of because really I've put a lot of work into my presentation, only to find out that i didn't make time would have crushed me. Putting in more than 200 hours of mentorship hours is what I'm proud of for my senior project simply because I am surprised as to how committed I was for the program. I'm still currently working as the TA for the class even though I'm done with everything.

2a. I'd give myself an AP, maybe a P, on the block presentation simply because I feel like I was cutting it close on time, and when it came to the group activities I might have given them too much time. I noticed of few of them getting off task.

2b. The overall senior project I believe that I deserve a solid P. I've done all the requirements but nothing much was too special.

3. What worked was the type of research that I got for my I Search paper. They were not a lot but they were very reliable and effective.

4. If I had a time machine, I would have worked harder as to picking another topic. Film production was actually my fourth choice. But within the topic, what didn't worked was my ESAs, I just couldn't find any useful statistics.

5. The senior project really taught me how to expand my web of connections through my mentorship. From my mentorship was able to get in touch with other great people from the film industry. If I were to go into the movie industry right away it would actually be not as hard for me because of those connections. I'm going into the Navy, and in the mere future I want to open up my own business. I can apply what I've learned from my mentorship and establish a solid connection with a solid asset then expand my way through with new connections, which will hopefully help me expand my potential business. So, in more basic words, make a lot of useful friends.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Blog 21: Mentorship

Literal. I've logged on my hours of the mentorship I've done, excluding those I did for my Independent Component, on the Right hand column under "Sausage Links" titled "Cisco's Mentorship Log & Hours."

Interpretive. My mentorship as the ROP Film TA helped me out by relearning some film techniques that I might have forgotten and taught be some new techniques, especially in lighting. Taking this knowledge I put it into the test in some of my work to better understand where my answers are coming from.

Applied. I am able to apply this  knowledge to some work I've done and single out what was useful to spark an emotional connection. For example, with newly obtained knowledge of he use of colored gels I was able to use them in a Doritos commercial to help set the vibe that the scene was going to be filled with cheesy goodness.