1) At this moment, what would I consider my favorite movie?
Not necessarily just at this moment, but on I have considered my favorite for many, many years is The Sandlot.
2) Why is this my favorite movie?
I played baseball for about 14 some-odd years while growing up. Some of my most fond memories are from practices and games when I was a little kid. I still love baseball, and consider myself somewhat obsessed. From all the memories I have involving baseball, The Sandlot, in my opinion, encompasses so much of the emotion and enjoyment of what I loved, and still love, about the sport. The movie is an adventure of several youth overcoming an issue, that in their minds, was insurmountable, yet in reality was very simple. The story revolves around a summer of baseball and fun. I never tire of watching this movie and it seemingly gets better and better every time I watch it.
3) Why did I choose media as a career?
I have had a long and confusing story about how I landed in Media Studies. It is something that I, more or less, landed in. In this major a minor is required, and I chose TFM. Even though this has been the path the school has led me, it is a major that I love and really have enjoyed being a part of. I have long sought to work in professional baseball, preferably for the Padres, with long term goals of getting into media coaching and image management. Having such a backing in media will allow me the insights and knowledge to explore at least one, hopefully all, of the avenues mentioned above.
Even before I declared TFM as an official minor, I had taken a couple TFM classes. With this, I consider myself quite uneducated in much of what these classes entail (e.g., with terminology and extensive knowledge) and have been impressed with what I have learned from the professors and fellow classmates. With this being said, I loved what we did in the first class meeting for 310 when we watched the opening scene in the original Jaws, and broke it down piece by piece. Much of what we talked about in class I found very interesting. We broke down and talked about a lot of different subjects and even though I had slight difficulty keeping up with it all, I felt I kept up decently wit it all.
As we started with the opening scene of Jaws, we notice that before anything even appears on the screen, we are queued into that infamous theme music. As this music is playing, I attempt to put myself in the shoes of someone sitting in the theater back in 1975 when this movie was first released. How powerful and thrilling this must have been for everyone in the audience! This suspenseful movie begins immediately trying to pull you into the story, and it does an extremely effective job at doing so, in my opinion. This movie transitions straight from the sounds of the theme music into and underwater view of what is assumed to be the shark eye view moving through the bottom of the ocean. Brilliant!
After viewing the scene, we started getting into an in depth look in the shots used, where the camera was angled in relation to the actors, etc. Admittedly, this was some unchartered territory that I really enjoyed learning about. The break down of scenes, let alone movies, is much more involved than I ever imagined.
In addition, the break down of character profiling, location establishment, and some of the smaller themes with the scene were very interesting as well.
I loved how we spent so much time slowly dissecting such a truly small part of the movie and all that went into it. It was very cool.
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