from week 1 reading

Narratives in photography

It’s interesting to explore narratives in different media and how its work for each medium. Due to the nature of the media (photography, cinema, radio, comic strip,etc) and the technologies,  the narrative form is slightly different for each one. 

I never thought of such thing like narrative in photography, especially singular photos. Just in a frozen moment of time, a story is told from camera angle, the subject, the acting, the lighting, the exposure. Every single technical part of the photo contributes to the overall narrative of what the photo wants to tell, creates a mood, sends a message.

The influences of computer culture

Contemporary Hollywood cinema is mostly produced by huge conglomerate companies with interests in the spin-off computer games, music tracks, clothes, videos, CDs which their films may help to market.

The narratives of the blockbuster movies now also can be developed to become a money earning tool with by-products like games, books, music tracks, clothes and literally everything they can think of. The idea of how the producers utilises the plot to make other things excites me so much. Just think of how powerful the computer culture is.

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My goal

 

I love watching movies, all kind of genres and so learning to know how they are made is so interesting. It isn’t as easy as it seems. 

Film TV 1 is where everything unfold and starts. Taking this course, I want to know more and know deeply in details from A to Z how a movie is made, regardless its length. Not only the theory but actually practice through exercises will surely help me to understand how each part of the production works and co-operates to create a whole film. At the end of this semester, I desire to know all the basic process of each part of the production  and find out which one suits me and my abilities best. And of course,  making some short films!

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