1> From your studio, reflect on an aspect of two other students/groups’ media works in terms of specific insights they produced about a key idea addressed by the studio.
After reading several other students’ scripts, I found that Charlotte’s ‘Convalescence’ and Boyu’s ‘Mary’s Way’ have both focused on the characterization of characters. Charlotte’s ‘Convalescence’ mainly tells the story of a woman who discovered she was pregnant when her husband was out of town on business. This news caught her husband unprepared to become a father, leading to the outbreak of emotion between them at the same time. There are several highly emotional moments in the script that focus on the spatial, psychological, and emotional differences between the two sides’ perspectives. Boyu’s ‘Mary’s Way’ focuses on a young, promising policewoman who falls in love with a criminal during a mission, but she must choose between justice and love. He not only focused on the dialogue between the characters in the script but also focused on polishing the details of the entire scene.
Because they all focus on shaping the characters and polishing the dialogue and contradiction between the characters so that the audience can better substitute the emotions. So when I read the script, I unknowingly inserted myself into the character itself, and it was very infectious. The shaping of the character image is essentially a secondary creation process in which the performer moves the artistic image of each character from his mind to the screen. In the process of film screening, the success of character image shaping directly determines the effect of the audience in the cinema, and even a brilliant character image shaping will leave a very deep impression on the audience. Charlotte and Boyu did a really good job on this assignment, I think. After all, this is the first time for us to write a script, and we can still see that we are not very skilled in many details. For example, some of the languages in the dialogue are not particularly infectious, and the actor may not be able to perform the effect the author wants in the process of interpretation under the condition of uncertain emotions.
My script also focuses on characterization, but I don’t choose to focus on the dialogue between the characters. I mainly portray the character image through the behavior between other characters and the protagonist. In the future, I will learn to better portray the character through the emotion and dialogue between the characters. The study of this semester, my creation, and watching the writing achievements of others have laid a good foundation for my future employment in the film industry. And thank you to Tim for going out of his way every week to help each of us makes the script better.
2> Choose one other studio whose works you viewed in Week 13. Describe a key idea that you think the finished media/studio work communicated with reference to two specific examples (i.e. particular individual/group works)
Another studio I chose was POWER OF THE CUT. Among them, Emily and Jade’s works shocked me the most. The main task of their studio is to further develop individual short film editing skills through multiple short edits. They both use fast-paced jumps and minimal word work to highlight the ideas of the film itself, and they are both female editors.
In most films, the cinematographer, editor, and director work together to create an immersive, integrated viewing experience. Some editing points may make the audience jump out of this experience and realize that they are watching a movie. Emily and Jade use this technique to bring the audience in. Rhythm change is the soul of film art. The rhythm of the film is also a rhythm formed by the film structure, the processing of shot length, and other elements. The order of a group of faces is complete, middle, near, and special such as a progressive relationship. This is exactly in line with the social situation and people’s psychological state. However, with the development of society and the enhancement of people’s thinking ability of generalization, the demand for film rhythm is higher and higher. As long as it is a developing thing, the change will have its rhythm. For example, in the ecological change of nature, society keeps pace with The Times, and the psychology and emotion of the characters have their rhythm. Although it is the first time for Emily and Jade to try to edit a short film, I think their final product is very good.
By watching their finished products, I learned some understanding of short frequency rhythm. This also set a good example for me to control the rhythm when editing a short film in the future. In the process of editing, I will add what I have learned.