reflection on writing as a film maker
While trying to complete this assignment, I felt confused for a moment, since I am never good at observing objects especially from three different perspectives like this. Rather, I prefer observing people because I would receive more reactions than from objects. While completing this assignment, I felt amazed that there are so much details that I have not noticed before, such as the different textures of different clothes and how we choose what we wear everyday.
Approaching this assignment with texts and words definitely helped me notice something that I would simply ignore in the past and try to use words and expressions to write them down, which helped with my descriptive writing. I had to look up words to describe a certain type of texture and the material used in the clothing.
One of the challenges I faced was narrowing down my ideas. My main idea was to show the purpose of clothing and how that has been changing throughout times by observing closet and clothes. But it took me a long time to figure out which cloth specifically that I want to explain in details. Since every clothing in my closet has both the purpose of keeping in warmth and presenting characters, it was hard to choose one of them using medium and close-up shots. The solution I had to overcome this challenge was comparing all my clothes and see which one stands out the most in terms of having the variety of materials. And finally I picked one of my jacket.
I think one of the things I did well was that I included the history of closets since it is important to get a deeper sense of the purpose of clothing. One thing I could have done better is that I could take the medium shot using the same perspective as the long shot instead of changing my perspective to focus on one specific cloth.