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May. 3rd, 2008 03:56 pmToday: Read the handouts from Doctor Who class.
Now my head is full of a combination of 60s production methods (which I knew from reading About Time, and am still amazed at) and Weird Facts About Daleks.
Apparently measles are from Skaro and Daleks can't see the color red.
... no, the Dalek annuals were not canon...
I should be working on an essay for Intro Movies, but I can't focus enough to decide on a question, let alone do proper research and stuff. I need to make one of those bubble diagram things and have an outline ready for next lesson, or at least next Friday. I'm tempted to recycle the one I did for the presentation on Jules et Jim, even though that means thinking about the stupid thing some more.
The question I like best is how technology shapes aesthetics. I'd also have to do a bit of research to reshape known facts around that answer. And I'd have to pick something to focus the Close Reading part on. At the moment I want to pick Doctor Who, but it has to be a film from class, so I sulk. This happens every time I have to write an essay, but this time is more so.
The question I'm probably best able to answer is the one where I'd have to grit my teeth and think about the godawful boring movies of this or last week some more.
I should probably stick with the French New Wave answer, roll through a paragraph on Classic Realism and continuity editing, then head on through how the FNW films disrupted this through a combination of new camera possibilities and Brechtian technique, as compared to how the British New Wave just refocalised around a different social class. Because I think I can do that essay in my sleep. It's just likely to *send* me to sleep. Plus I'd have to actually pick part of JetJ and rewatch and write on it minutely.
One of the assessment criteria is comparison to other art forms, and there's plenty of mention of plays and sculpture and art and slideshows in JetJ. So that would slot in there neatly.
I rather like the silent cinema question with the comparison to theatre and the context of exhibition ie sideshows ala TW2-10. But again, more research required.
Urgh. I have entirely the wrong set of books for a JetJ essay. I need three solid relevant quotes from different books to prove I did reading. Even if I didn't. I can fake it. sort of.
Okay, I think I'll do the boring essay and just read up on the interesting ones later.
... I has heavy bag of books for no reason then. Oops. Library: so tempting.
Probably a bunch of them have useful info anyway though.
Essay hand in is 22nd May. That seems far away, and yet... :eyeroll:
Now my head is full of a combination of 60s production methods (which I knew from reading About Time, and am still amazed at) and Weird Facts About Daleks.
Apparently measles are from Skaro and Daleks can't see the color red.
... no, the Dalek annuals were not canon...
I should be working on an essay for Intro Movies, but I can't focus enough to decide on a question, let alone do proper research and stuff. I need to make one of those bubble diagram things and have an outline ready for next lesson, or at least next Friday. I'm tempted to recycle the one I did for the presentation on Jules et Jim, even though that means thinking about the stupid thing some more.
The question I like best is how technology shapes aesthetics. I'd also have to do a bit of research to reshape known facts around that answer. And I'd have to pick something to focus the Close Reading part on. At the moment I want to pick Doctor Who, but it has to be a film from class, so I sulk. This happens every time I have to write an essay, but this time is more so.
The question I'm probably best able to answer is the one where I'd have to grit my teeth and think about the godawful boring movies of this or last week some more.
I should probably stick with the French New Wave answer, roll through a paragraph on Classic Realism and continuity editing, then head on through how the FNW films disrupted this through a combination of new camera possibilities and Brechtian technique, as compared to how the British New Wave just refocalised around a different social class. Because I think I can do that essay in my sleep. It's just likely to *send* me to sleep. Plus I'd have to actually pick part of JetJ and rewatch and write on it minutely.
One of the assessment criteria is comparison to other art forms, and there's plenty of mention of plays and sculpture and art and slideshows in JetJ. So that would slot in there neatly.
I rather like the silent cinema question with the comparison to theatre and the context of exhibition ie sideshows ala TW2-10. But again, more research required.
Urgh. I have entirely the wrong set of books for a JetJ essay. I need three solid relevant quotes from different books to prove I did reading. Even if I didn't. I can fake it. sort of.
Okay, I think I'll do the boring essay and just read up on the interesting ones later.
... I has heavy bag of books for no reason then. Oops. Library: so tempting.
Probably a bunch of them have useful info anyway though.
Essay hand in is 22nd May. That seems far away, and yet... :eyeroll: