Nick Elnasser Daily Log Blog 11/27/17

Hello Class,
Today in class we took a lot of notes and had a heavy learning day. When we first came into class Mr.Rivers kindly reminded us we have our ready player one reading and assignment for level two due Thursday. He then went on to tell us that he is going to push back our pre academia research because he felt as if we were doing too many things at once. That will be returned to at a later date. Next, we got on with the notes for the day. We learned how to critically re-watch something today which will eventually teach us how to critically write better. Critically re-watching movies is a process and takes time; there's no way to watch a movie once and retain every single piece of information. Usually, you would want to critically re-watch something three times. During the first viewing there's a few things you should do. Before the movie is played you should do some preliminary research such as finding out the artists or watching the trailer. During the movie you should pretty much do nothing and just let the movie happen as if you were normally watching it. Finally, after the movie, you should review your initial reactions such as: what does your gut tell you? Is that gut reaction objective or subjective? During viewing number two before the movie starts again you should go over your initial reactions and figure out which one you want to focus on. We did not get to the during and after parts of the second viewing but we did watch a short Disney movie, "Feast," two times. After the first watching our class came up with a few things to focus on the next time such as lighting, music, the main character, and the perspective of the film. Right after the second re-watch the bell rang and we did not have time to discuss those things but we will tomorrow during class.

This could obviously be used many different ways in the real world. If you wanted to start your own blog this would be a huge help to critically write about any movie out there. You are sure to get tons more information watching a movie three times then if you did once. You could pickup key information that you may have missed the first time you watched it. Let's face it, when a movie is watched for the first time most people only figure out whether or not they subjectively enjoyed it not whether or not it was objectively good. By re-watching films a much better understanding of what the director was trying to accomplish is seen. This can be seen by mise-en-scene elements such as lighting and color. Ultimately, this could be very helpful in the real world.