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I was really excited learning about the different kinds of filmmaking this week because like Roger Eberts I too wanted to major in cinema but cant because umw doesnt offer it so i decided to take the next best thing which was the comm/digital media major and like Ebert i study film making on my own time and use my knowledge to understand filmmaking. I took cinema studies and understood where Eberts was coming from about filmmaking by pausing the movie and really studying the screen while understanding what the director was going with. As someone who wants to work in film and tv one day it was knowledgeable to learn about different ways to dissect the media that we consume everyday from simple youtube videos to complex movies, and im glad i learned this week. The assignments this week were pretty easy because i was able to stretch my video making abilities and show what i can do and improve on the next time. The only real challenging thing was when i made the smoothie video because i used blue painters tape my eyes kept focusing on the tape so my eye placement was a bit wonky. The next time i make a tutorial and need to shoot the parts where i talk into my phone i might just use my gopro to shoot myself and use my phone as a kind of microphone rather then using bright painters tape that’ll take my eyes off the camera and onto the tape
