Week one of the studio consisted of everyone finding their feet and thinking about what it meant to be a reviewer or critic in any form of media.

The last film I watched in the cinemas was Baby Driver, directed by Edgar Wright, starring Ansel Elgort and Kevin Spacey. I thoroughly enjoyed the film and chose to do my first 300-word review on it as I had a lot I could talk about. I’ve already found after completing this first review that it’s much easier writing a piece you actually care or are passionate about, because the words aren’t forced they just come naturally. For this film there were so many elements I could discuss, both the good and the bad (majority good) so I decided to go for it. Since it was the first review, it was only just discovering the ways we could write, so it didn’t matter so much on the content.

I was quite scared going into the task though since I had never written a review in my life – ever. So it was quite daunting. However, I completed it to the best of my ability and enjoyed doing so which is exciting because it makes me want to write more over the course of the semester.

The brainstorm helped a lot as well. I was able to gather the two main ideas we came up and agreed upon in class, ‘research’ and ‘description’ and think about how I might apply them into my first piece.