This document provides a weekly reflection from Harry T. Docwra over their first 6 weeks in a film studies course. Some key events summarized: In week 1, Harry presented on the Classic Hollywood era and found the workload overwhelming. In week 2, Harry began planning a social media video discussing delays of the film The New Mutants. By week 3, Harry completed planning documents and started research for the video project. Harry filmed footage for the project in week 4 but wishes technical aspects went smoother. Harry contributed to a group presentation on narrative forms in weeks 5-6 and continues editing their social media video to meet the 2-3 minute runtime.

1. Reflection
Harry T. Docwra

2. Week 1
Last week we begun work on people who had influenced our ideas for
our work, such as Quentin Tarantino and others We were also told to
do a presentation on certain eras and areas of cinema. I was given the
task of researching classic Hollywood for my presentation. I was given
and then completed a presentation on the Classic Hollywood era for
film studies. I felt the first week of the course a bit overwhelming but I
know I’ll be able to adjust and cope with the work more as the year
goes on. I am going to have to find time in the week to come into
college and do the work.

3. Week 2
In my second week on the course I picked a topic for my social media
video, I will be discussing how The New Mutants social media
advertisement was affected throughout its many delays over the years.
I also begun the planning document for shooting the video. I showed
my presentation on Classic Hollywood to my film studies class and I’m
yet to receive my grade for it. I think I did well on my presentation
although compared to the others I don’t think mine was as creative in
terms of how it looked. I wish I had added some creative designs to
match the topic of the presentation.

4. Week 3
On third week of the course I completed the planning document and
am still currently working on my research document. I have also begun
work on a presentation of all the other types/eras of Hollywood, such
as new Hollywood, national and transnational Hollywood. In our theory
class we were given our first task of the year which will be due in
January. One of the things I could’ve done better is a more detailed
shot list, including prop inclusion and lighting. I also wish I hadn’t
rushed the work and rather spent more time on it, if so I would have
been able to give it more detail.

5. Week 4
On my fourth week on the course I filmed all the footage I need for my social
media video in the studio and begun exporting the videos onto my iPad via
email the next day. The filming went well, but the microphone I was given
didn’t fit the audio jack in my canon camera, so I placed my iPhone
somewhere else in the room and left it on record because I wasn’t certain on
how good the microphone quality was. Later when I played the audio of the
video through my iPad I found the audio sound decent enough to not need
syncing up with the audio on my iPhone. My footage itself looks good but I
wish I had remembered to focus the lens a bit more, I also wish I had
remembered to clear the card before I used it, because the card became full
at one point and I had to clear the card of old footage I didn’t need which
took some time.

6. Week 5
My fifth week of the course was rather a slow one. I gained more
screen recordings for my video project, as well as started work on my
PowerPoint for film studies based on different types of narratives there
are. Me and Sam worked on it together and we picked which 3
narratives we would work on, I chose to do Hollywood, Alternative and
non-western narrative structure. Finding information on the first one
was easy but the other two were rather tricky, I couldn’t even find any
examples of a non-western narrative, so Sam recommended I look at a
kishōtenketsu narrative instead.

7. Week 6
On the 6th week of the course I completed the assignment on the
narrative forms with Sam. He had done his side of the PowerPoint and
combined our two documents into one, sent it to me then I sent it to
Scott via Microsoft teams. I like how our work ended up and I am
feeling positive about getting feedback from it. I have continued
exporting and editing footage for my social media video project for
Josh, I feel the editing is going well but I need to find a way to make it
as short as I can, as the ideal limited runtime for the project is 2-3
minutes. I am begging the decide which information is relevant and
which can be cut out.