Reed's D Band Media Log

How new media has changed me...

Up until the beginning of this semester, I used to just watch television. Now I understand what I am watching and am bale to tell what the camera is dong without even thinking about it. I am even able to point out errors some times. For example I remember a couple of days ago my brother was watching sponge bob square pants and one of the guys had a hook as his right hand, in the next, the hook was all of a sudden on his left hand. Now I wasn't looking to see which hand the hook was on while I was watching the show, however, when the switch happened, I noticed it. Then I just stayed paying attention to the hand and I realized that the hand with the hook continued to change from right to left and then back.

Forget the errors, I notice a lot of good things to. As a matter of fact, I believe having taken this class has helped me be able to pay closer and better attention to all the movies that I have recently watched. Now don't get me wrong I don't just look at errors and camera activities while I’m watching the movie. It just naturally happens. For instance every time there is a scene where the camera is zooming in on something, I realize that this is something important and it gets me thinking about what the significance of that could be. Then later on, when something related to that close up is about to happen, I already know what it I and understand why it is happening.
I don't feel confused sometimes like I used to anymore. You know how sometimes when you are watching a movie, and all of a sudden something happens that just totally confuses you because you don't quite understand why it happens? Well, because of the fact that I catch hints throughout the movie, I don’t have to wonder why something happened anymore. I realize it on my on. Therefore, I believe that this media class has been helpful for me and has allowed me to gain an interest in the media world.