The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Review
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Major Project - Reflective Statement
I think this is one of the toughest projects I have ever undertaken in my time in education. I have felt both scared and stressed out believing I will fail this whole course if I even remotely submitted anything subpar and thus fail at having a career in animation. Not helping was the Covid pandemic which has greatly affected the university, my mental health, my course, my family, among much more. While I think I am likely to pass the course now that I have submitted all the necessary components for my major project, needless to say there is quite a bit I wish I could have done better. The reason I believe for a lot of this was simply time. Some was out of my control other times I feel I could have done something to help myself give a better outcome of the project. I cannot help but feel that while it could've gone a lot worse my project could've been a lot better if I had a bit more time such as having better time management and stopping myself from procrastinating as often.
Well done for getting your first film review out there, Ted!
ReplyDeleteA couple of pointers on the structure of your review; it's quite hard to read at the moment, being one big chunk of text with the pictures embedded like that. Better would be to keep the images out of the text - so start with the film poster, then have an introduction, move on to talk about the style in the next paragraph, follow with a supporting image, before moving on to the next paragragh etc.
You should also draw your review to a conclusion; one good way of doing this is to finish up by talking about the film has been influential to other contemporary film makers, so in this case maybe by making a comparison to Tim Burton's film, for example.
Great start though, and I look forward to your next review!
Hey Ted - I enjoyed this review - I loved your use of language - it has an authority and confidence to it that bodes well for your longer assignments. I do have a punctuation nitpick for you... You write 'the films ending' - without an apostrophe in the right place, this reads incorrectly. When your referring to something that 'belongs' to another something you're writing about, you need to use an apostrophe like this: 'the film's ending' - here the apostrophe tells us that 'the ending' belongs to 'the film'. Everyone get's confused by apostrophes - so check out this quick guide here, especially the bit on Possessive Nouns:
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.... and Jackie is right about those images - keep it really simple for the ease of your readers' experience - don't flow the text around images - just give everything room on the page to breathe.
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