AICE Media Studies AS- Ballard, S

      Creating the layout for our film was a challenging, yet exciting experience. The learning outcomes can include the development of creative and critical thinking skills, team, time management, planning skills, enhanced writing, and artistic skills (O'brien, 2005). This proved to be correct, as one of the main points of challenge for me was sketching the scenes for our film. Since I am not a very good artist, it proved to be a difficult task. Nevertheless, it was a fun experience to learn how to do that properly.          From the work done through the storyboard, my partner, Grace, and I work more efficiently. There were a few points of trouble in our endeavors though. Storyboarding is flexible. It is comprehensive. . . And it allows a group to generate a lot of ideas. . . Its only major drawback is that it takes a lot of time (Higgins, 1995). The time was not in our favor as we had to throw away a few attempts during the sketches o...

     This week Grace and I pitched our concept refinement idea to the class. We received much feedback, which we used to refine our concept even more. Overall, I think we did a good job presenting, with all of our main points being addressed and different aspects of our project being discussed.       Since we are doing the opening to a movie, attracting the audience is extremely important. We need to make it memorable, dramatic, and flashy. Appreciation seems to be associated with genres such as dramas, sad films, and even documentaries rather than comedies, romances, or thrillers. At the same time, however, Oliver and Bartsch found that individuals often reported both high levels of appreciation and enjoyment for many specific films, pointing to the idea that these responses are not opposite reactions, but rather reflect different dimensions that can co-occur. With this in mind, we can see that a dramatic, sad documentary would be a great way to ...