Jason Sherman's Final Project Blog

I have begun to work on my Creative Critical Reflection. As mentioned previously I wanted to focus on a video essay style. With this approach I feel like I'm best able to engage with the audience as best as possible. Showing my face and going through my own way of presenting. Just like it would be as if everyone were in person. Through this approach I hope to achieve an egaging performance that keep people listening and attentive. I still have a few things I'm trying to work out but I will make sure to tie up the loose ends in the coming days.   

 Catch me if you can is one of my favorite movies, while quite simple it was unique and creative take on crime. This movie plays into the animation and drawing title scenes. In my own presentation we almost created a whole quick movie into just 2 minutes. It was very crammed and felt rushed. This nice portralial of visuals acclimated well with the theme of the movie. I feel like in our production we layed a lot of focus on creating more a cinematic experience which took away from the whole focus of the titles. Catch me if you can does a great job at keeping the focus on what is important and keeping the audience intertained. This take compared to se7en is creative because its not real life. Its drawn/animated images which is a different take and it worked at really well. 

     Se7en was in line with the genre of my own production. The genre was crime and it had some very notable title sequences and a different approach to the matter than my team and I. For example I'll reelaberate on what exactly happened in our own production. Partly due to us and myself included not exactly understanding the task at hand was to put our main focus on these title scenes is we didn't put enough emphasis around it. I feel like in our production we layed a lot of focus on creating more a cinematic experience which took away from the whole focus of the titles. Se7en did a really good job. I took away from the visual experience as a whole to create focus around the text that was appearing on the screen. Se7en does a good job as setting the standard and something that I can look up to and work to improve on.

CCR Script Blog Post ________________________________________________________________ This would cover the Interview. How do your products use or challenge conventions and how do they represent social groups or issues?      My product didnt exactly challenge conventions. I feel like to be in the best position to challenge a convention you should first be expericed with the materical itself. In this case i decied to go along with the conventions to give my self guide rails and figure out where I needed to go. I wanted to follow crime conventions and stick to what attributes contribute to making them unique. How do your products engage with the audience and how would they be distributed as real media products?      My project engaged with audience but making relatablity its prime focus. I always felt that something you could connect with on a personal level is the best way to connect and build that bridge between the media and the audicence. Giving someone so...

 

THE VIDEO I REVIEWED I think that this video was collectively well put together and you can you tell the effort that was put in. For starters the creative layout of scenes, not only did you have a variety on new scenes but you well decorated them. For the opening scene the papers all over the wall are a great example of that creative touch. The title scenes and or text layovers were great to, it wasn't some crazy font or color it was seamless and fit well into the video. A huge compliment I'd like to give was the transition from the actor's face into the missing poster, it just made sense and was well implemented. A great video comes from not doing anything way over the top and sticking to what your strong at doing and I think you were able to accomplish that. The genre is quite clear from the audio in the beginning and the use of dark scenes. Overall great job. Constructive criticism is hard to give especially when the only type of media we consume on a daily basis is tha...