Tutorial

In Week 4, I was supposed to be in a tutorial with my tutor, but I forgot and attended late. We had a brief tutorial before the next person who was supposed to attend. My tutor first pointed out my mistake with my Major Project Ethics Form, in which I entered information about a different activity from a different module and told me to replace it with a proper project aim, which was to write a film review. Afterwards, she pointed out that my recent two blog posts (now deleted) covered activities from a different module and told me to replace it with posts of the previous weeks, which I had also done. As for my short essay covering my project, I had not put very much into it before and I am rushing to get it done before the deadline.

For my film review, I will be reviewing the 2019 romantic comedy film "Isn't it Romantic?" directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson and starring Australian actress Rebel Wilson. I chose this film because I was suggested to write about a film in a genre unfamiliar to me; romance in this case, and that I have glanced at certain parts of the film when my mother watched it on television, and I wanted to see more of it. I have quickly filled in some basic information on my project into the short essay, and I will continue to add more as I research more into writing my actual project. 

Major Project

On Week 3, my tutor was not present to do an online class, but were left with an ethics form for our Major Project and a PowerPoint that was supposed to be presented. On that week, I had filled in the ethics form for the project but with the incorrect activity, which was brought up this week by my now-present tutor. She corrected me and advised that I write a film review of a film in a genre that I am not familiar with. This was encouraged by my tutor to challenge myself into doing something that I am not familiar with, which I can agree with. Initially, I plan to write a review on the 2019 romantic comedy film "Isn't it Romantic" starring Rebel Wilson, but this may change.

I was also tasked with doing an exercise from a PDF to help understand academic writing for my set essay. In that week, I have not done the exercise, but I hope to make up for it by doing it soon.

Set Essay

For Week 2 of Media II, we were presented with a brief for our Set Essay to be handed in on Week Six. Many of the choices presented in the brief appeared to fit various continuation routes, and as such there was one that correlated with my continuation route of Film Studies:

"Critically analyse the mise-en-scene in the David Fincher film Seven (1995) consider in-depth the setting, lighting, costume/make up, figure expression and movement and how this affects the narrative."

This is similar to my previous Set Essay from last term where I was to write about a scene from the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo, but this wants an analysis of the entire film's mise-en-scene rather than one. I will use my experience from the previous Essay to write this and learn from my previous mistakes. I have already watched the film on Netflix and currently am writing the essay.

This term, I am slightly more confident than last term on the approach of this, but still have some worries as this is due next week. Whatever the feedback will be, I hope it will be more successful than the previous essay.