Blog #4 Reflections on the Class

Overall I enjoyed this class. It was great to get some hands on experience with lighting equipment, which is something that I had no prior experience with. I also like the photoshop stamp assignment. It had been a very long time since I had used photoshop and it was fun to play around with it again to see what I could make. I do wish that more of the class had been spent on new experiences and lessons like these. There was a lot of overlap between this class and the Film 101 and Media 180 classes that I already took. At times I felt disengaged from the lectures because of this overlap. I would have liked to learn a bit more about current techniques within the media industry. I felt like the lectures were very heavy on historical information that I learned in my previous courses. I did enjoy the freedom that this course gave me in the content of my assignments. I found it fun and interesting to analyze posters of my favorite movies and to make my own little piece of artwork out of found images. I also really enjoyed being able to do my photo assignment on Comic Con using my friends as the subjects. This freedom  enabled me to create media that I like and reflect on media that I like. I feel like this has helped me to focus on what it is that draws me to the media industry. I feel like I am walking away from this class with a much better understanding of how different technologies work and how to use them in order to create art.