Ella Walkers Media Blog

  Critical Reflection Project #2      Moving on, the third Critical Reflection project I did a power point, going into further detail on my points. After I created the Power point I added a voice over of me going through the presentation, as if I was presenting it. The question that I did it on was " How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?". First I will attach my original answer to this post and then my project.      Our movie “Lost” is a coming-of-age movie, with two girl main characters . The story line is about these two girls who are inseparable best friends who have live d their whole li ves together. Until one day they got into a tragic car accident, causing one of the girls, B lair to lose her life. The other character Riley is forced to navigate her life now without her best friend and it follows her th rough that journey. Our film is a very typical coming of age that fol...

 Critical Reflection Project #2           For the second CCR Post My group and I did a podcast. I also will be posting my answer typed out to get  a better idea of my interpretation and answer of the question across better. The question I answered was " How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?" My answer: I feel typical coming of age movies can vary in plot and maturity offering ways to entertain lots of different audiences . Although considering our film I feel that it gravitates towards a more spec i fic group with our characters and plot. I would say that it most closely targets young people, teenage age and thinking more specifically I would think that it target girls mor e than boys. Regarding to the two girl main characters, and girly feel to the film it may not peek boys' interest as much. This film also portrays a very specific lifestyle that may attract an audience becau...

 Final Project      This is the reveal of our final project! It has been a long 8 weeks, and my group and I have learned so much throughout it. This is the end product of "Lost", created by Ella Walker, Hallie Renner, and Kate Kempton.  Project: 

 Critical Reflection Project #1     For my first Critical reflection project I formulated my answer into a Prezi Presentation. I did this project on the question of " How did your production skills develop throughout this project?". First again, I will attach my original answer to the question and then attach my video of my prezi presentation. Answer: Bef or e approaching this project we covered lots of things in preparation for it. At first, we covered lots of vocabulary , shots, angles, and camera work to better understa nd creating a film. Then we analyzed films and went deeper into the produ c tion of a film covering many parts of mise en scene. A nd by the time we started this project we knew a plethora of infor m ation on producing a movie and what goes into it. We also worked with our editing software creating an opening credits montage and a short film. So, with all this background knowledge I had a good foundation to start this project. Although once I...