Reflection

What did you learn from composing your analysis? What difficulties faced you in doing analysis of your media object? How might the approaches you chose for performing your analysis carry over to other media objects? What more would you have liked to be able to discuss about your media object?

Well working with Adam was awesome. For once, I was not being the leader of a project and was able to be an aid to someone who had an idea and a plan already constructed. This also allowed me to view someone else write which is something I rarely get the chance to do. We discussed how we present ourselves in the discussion and through the blogs. I take a much more liberal approach to these items as to where Adam treats them as he were writing an academic paper for later research. Essentially, we have similar personalities which was helped a lot with the collaboration. However, the differences in which we approach this line of work are very different. That alone was enthralling. As I sit here writing this, I am able to look at what we created and look at the process in which we created it. There was a lot of witty banter, scribbling, rambling on my part, and fine wordsmithing on his part.
All in all, it was fun; however, it also raised questions for me. Mainly, what is the correct lens in which to view a media object?

Initially, we began viewing the trailer as a recreation of the narrative to skew the film to change its genre. Then it shifted to how the actors are presented in order to keep them in their stereotypical roles so the viewer could connect with the icons. After that, we shifted to an economic lens to see how these two different shifts would affect ticket sales. We made great use of the ideas presented by the theorist noted in the blog post.
I think if we are able to do this again, I can make great use if the waffling that occurred in our discourse. Find a point that works then turn it 90 degrees and see where that take you. Study, analyze, write, and repeat. Eventually, you will have to come to an end but where that ending may occur is uncertain.
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ad my brain been fully functional yesterday, I would have liked to shred this film via Benjamin. There was talk about the cult and there are cult films. Are cult films disappearing because of the way trailer are mediated? How is the reproduction of the narrative into a trailer changing the movie going experience and the industry? Things like that appeal to me.