Evocative
1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
Creative Critical Reflection: Evocative
2. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
Keeghan –
ReplyDeleteMuch stronger presentation.
Question one response needs some development of sentence structure in places; this would greatly improve the clarity of your expression. Slow down. Be careful to avoid sounding misogynistic; some of the sentences are a bit “broad and sweeping” and may sound anti-female to some readers.
Example:
“…[this] represents how women can see no purpose in life directly after they have lost someone close to them…”
Sounds like all women have a tendency to lose their societal effectiveness or become mind-numbingly depressed after a loss.
Possible alteration:
“…[this] represents a woman caught in the downward spiral of depression following a tragic loss…”
Sounds like one woman is being used to exemplify a societal condition. Could follow up with a comment on how society responds to this situation based on gender of the one who has experienced loss.
Otherwise, good attention to representations, media messages and media processes. I particularly like the “male” section where you reflect on the how you could improve the effectiveness of an editing choice you made (i.e. blue light leak).
Second question shows good depth and consideration of how various social issues can affect one another (i.e. complexities of mixing professional and personal lives). Could have extended to that sort of depth in Audio and Camera sections of this question. How is the viewer the antagonist? As a viewer, I did not get that feel.
Also, Distribution should consider the reasoning for your proposed methods.
Third question – I like your responses, yet the software you used isn’t the most user-friendly.
Fourth question – All very good answers. Still, there’s one aspect missing; the technology in the film itself! Titles and font used when Natalie woke up showed the audience particular technology as well, and helped set the scene.
OVERALL - 14/20
- T. Marcus