Comments on Unit II Blogs

My blogs for Unit II are much more consistent than my blogs for Unit I. After being duped by journalistic tricks and biases in Unit I, I think I was more critical in my readings of Schanberg’s New York Times articles, and also in my comments on the film. This unit, I tried to go deeper than just noticing interesting aspects of the writings or the film and ask myself why they were interesting or what purpose they served. While extensive and sometimes confusing, the website about film analysis was extremely helpful in my understanding of the different possibilities certain visual or sound effects had on a single shot. For instance, in analyzing the use of shallow focus in the scene at the Coca-Cola factory, I tried to imagine how the scene would be different if the director used deep or raking focus instead. I also tried to trace several themes throughout all the mediums; this helped me when I was writing my screening report because I felt like I had concrete examples to draw on from my blogs. I hope the same will prove true for my essay.