{"id":171,"date":"2025-11-03T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2025-11-04T04:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:07:16","slug":"final-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Final Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post serves as a final summary and reflection on the ds106 video unit. This assignment was broken into two main parts: a theoretical analysis of film language and a practical application of that analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the links to my work for this unit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=167\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"167\">Analysis of Cinematic Theory<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/?p=170\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"170\">Deconstruction of a Scene from The Matrix Revolutions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reflection Questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This unit challenged me to move beyond simple consumption of media and into active analysis. In reflecting on the process, I considered the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>What did you learn?<\/strong> I learned how to identify and articulate the &#8220;grammar&#8221; of film. I now have a vocabulary (low-angle, juxtaposition, one-point perspective) to describe why a scene makes me feel a certain way. I learned that sound design and editing are arguably more powerful in telling a story than the images themselves.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What was more complicated than you thought it would be?<\/strong> The &#8220;Audio Only&#8221; analysis of the Matrix scene was surprisingly difficult. My brain kept trying to supply the visuals I already knew. It took active concentration to separate myself from that mental image and listen to what the audio track alone was communicating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What was easier?<\/strong> Once I had read Ebert&#8217;s article, identifying his methods in the wild was easier than I anticipated. The use of high- and low-angle shots, in particular, became immediately obvious in every clip I watched.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What drove you crazy? Why?<\/strong> The hyper-fast editing of the <em>Matrix<\/em> scene was frustrating during the &#8220;Visuals Only&#8221; analysis. I had to re-watch the same 10-second segment multiple times just to note the sequence and type of shots used, as they changed every 1-2 seconds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What did you enjoy? Why?<\/strong> I enjoyed the 3-step &#8216;Look, Listen, Analyze&#8217; process the most. It was a completely new way for me to watch a scene. I was genuinely surprised by how different the &#8216;Audio Only&#8217; experience was. It forced me to notice how the sound effects and musical score were telling their own story, and I gained a new appreciation for the scene&#8217;s sound design, which I had previously overlooked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also found the process of seeing other students&#8217; analyses on the class blogs to be valuable, as it highlighted different interpretations and showed me techniques I may have missed in my own work. Overall, this was a challenging unit that provided a new lens for all future media I consume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post serves as a final summary and reflection on the ds106 video unit. This assignment was broken into two main parts: a theoretical analysis of film language and a practical application of that analysis. Here are the links to my work for this unit: Reflection Questions This unit challenged me to move beyond simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-assignments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villamizarcaleb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}