EQ

EQ: What is the most important quality of an Academy Award nominated film?

1. Define possible terms in your EQ (e.g. successful, effective).  

• Quality: something that stands out, makes viewers take notice.
• Nomination: An acknowledgement from the Academy, although I will only be viewing nominations and winners.
• Film: a feature length film, no shorts or mini-series. 
• Important: most outstanding

2. So far based on your research, what are possible answers to your EQ? 

• A possible answer could be experience. Most nominees and winners (Directors, Producers, Actors, etc.) are recognized later in their career.

3. What has been your most important printed source and why?

• To date, my most important source is The Art of Technique: An Aesthetic Approach to Film and Video Production by John S. Douglass and Glenn P. Harnden. This source has taught me to recognize different story structures, types of characterization and conflicts, though that is not the extent of what I still have yet read. A close second is filmsite.org, written and run by Tim Dirks, an online publication of articles essays on all topics found under the umbrella that is film.

Second Interview Questions

1. How many years have you worked in this industry?

2. What was the moment that you realised you wanted to be what you are today?

3. What was your first job? Was it different than what you are doing today?

4. How has the industry and the technology changed over the course of career?

5. Why did you decide to allow me to shadow you?

Interview One Reflection

What is the most important thing I learned from the interview and why?

I think that the most important thing I learned from my interview, is that I need to be ambitious, as well as a people person, to gain access and entry into the exclusive event that is the film and production industries. I need to be able to network and communicate my ideas to be noticed. This information has only made me more determined to work twice as hard than anyone I may come across on this journey.

Five Minute Presentation Reflection

1) What would you say stood out about your presentation performance and why?

I would like to think that my pictures, and the process by which they were acquired, stood out the most. I think that they were the most interesting aspect of my presentation.

2) What was most challenging to do and why?

I would have to say the most challenging part would have to be deciding what I learned from my research will be used in my presentation and being able to condense it in less than five minutes as well as do the check for understanding. (Which unfortunately ran out of time to do.)