Though many of the blog prompts were interesting and useful in understanding concepts, some were more interesting than others. Blog prompts where we needed to find examples of things we learned in class in movies and television shows we were familiar with were the most interesting to complete.
The 8th blog assignment over professor Ramirez Burg’s lecture on the three act and five act structures of film was interesting to do because it forced me to think of all the movies I knew and realize that what we were learning in class was extremely relevant. When we were asked to find examples, I found myself finding more and more examples as I thought more. Most movies follow the five or three act structure that Prof. Ramirez Berg talked about. Even the timeline was he mapped out for us for acts 1, 2 and 3 were very accurate in the examples I found such as the movie Mean Girls.
The other blog assignment where we found examples of long shots, medium shots and close shots in movies we were familiar with was also interesting. The connotations we were taught that went along with the shots were very accurate with the shots I could think of from some of my favorite movies. Again, this assignment showed the relevance of what we were learning in lectures to real life and the movies we watch often.
When blog assignments were based on finding examples in the media, they were much more interesting to complete. Relating what we learned in class to what we see in the media on a daily basis helped make the class more enjoyable.
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