Reviewing the Great Gatsby

This 2nd term I took a class called Ollywood, where we learned how to critic a film. I learned about the elements to pre-production,production and post production to properly review a film. Pre-production involves location scouting, casting actors ,storyboard and costume design . Production is the shooting of the film involving camera angles and lighting .Post production is editing the film, sound editor and helping with the aesthetic of the film through CGI. In class, we watched Amelie,Jaws and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, after we  had to review and criticize the film based on its pre,production and post. In Ollywood, we got to get out of the classroom a lot, since film involves getting up and going around the city. One of my favorite FE's(field experience) was location scouting. Our class had to get excerpt from a book,visualize it by turning it into a scene and find a location that would best fit that scene. It was exciting to get out and I felt like a professional location scouter!

For the action project we had to choose a film we either hate or loved and had to give a review on it with a partner. My partner, CG(https://cggcelabschool.blogspot.com) and I chose to review, The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013. I found this project to be enjoyable since I fell in love with The Great Gatsby the first time I saw it and was happy to critic it. One difficulty I had with this AP was the post production, editing videos can be tedious and can take lots of time for a small section. Specifically, my partner and I had trouble getting the blue-screen to work for a background. We had to watch videos and get help from our teacher, but it was an easy problem to fix in  the end.