Class Reflection 1/28/20

One thing I learned so far in this class that really stood out to me was how interlaced scanning works. I find it very interesting that an image is organized by odd and even-numbered lines and how, once it’s together, our human perception fuses the lines together. I also found it very interesting that movies are just still images being played, with it first being discovered in a bet by the Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University. For the first week, we watched a lot of YouTube videos about how film projectors and digital TVs work. For the second week, we watched a Star Wars fan film that a former Saint X student had directed and a Master Class taught by Martin Scorsese. For the third week, we watched some videos talking about rules of editing and how editing can portray a character’s emotions or actions. We also watched a Master Class from Ron Howard. We were going to go into the computer lab and edit a group of shots into a scene. That would have been fun and very helpful for getting us experienced for our future films. Some things we’ve done well so far in the class are each of us making our own individual movie blog for article reviews and personal learning reflections. I also really like watching the Master Classes and hearing filmmaking advice from some of the most talented directors in the world. Something we can improve on is not having days in class where we do not do anything. Something from class I would like to know more about is editing and how it can change the genre and themes of the movie. I would also like to know more about cinematography and how it can set the tone and reflect the characters in the scene.