For our class on Wednesday the 26th, each of us brought in a draft of a critic piece, mine being on ’13 reasons why’. Critiquing someone else’s work is not always easy, but I feel it has many personal benefits. My partners work I believe was so well structured, something I really need to work on as I feel i’m a bit of a waffler sometimes. I really enjoyed having to read over her work as it gave me some ideas about how I might restructure my piece. It also showed me that when you use language that relates to what your critiquing, the flow is a lot clearer and you’re points are more justifiable. This is something I really want to work on, I feel I really need to work on expanding my language for the pieces we have to create over the semester. I believe this will make short and sharp sentences that really bring in the reader and my point of view.

For the reading this week, ‘Film Criticism for the next Generation’  I took great notice of film critic Calum Marsh whom is a freelance critic and contributor to Cinema Scope, Slant Magazine and Reverse shot. I really enjoyed reading his comments on being a critic himself as he seems to be extremely realistic about being a critic and believing he doesn’t do feel entailed to be paid for. I think this is a great quality to have because when you take it out of your time to produce something for others that you don’t benefit from, it is always so much realer. Marsh says that “An odd thing about the practice of film criticism in general is that it doesn’t necessarily proceed from a shared or accepted understanding of its intended purpose”. This opened by eyes about trying to be a critic himself, is that no one is always going to agree with what I have to comment, but it is those who can relate that will get the most benefit from what is said.