Reflection

    

    Wow. It's that time. I can't believe that after 8 weeks this has come to an end. This has genuinely been such a fulfilling project to do. Not only was I able to do a school film project with my sister, which is something we've always wanted to do, but we were able to formulate such a relevant and personal feeling/topic into this medium and genre (a documentary), as well as be able to creatively embrace the medium of docu-series further with social media and print. This last week has been an immense hassle, but looking back, I'm extremely proud of all of the work from last year to now. I feel like I would've been able to lean and oftentimes jump into a whole new side of my creativity, as every big idea was amounted to by singular, specific intentional choices that required a lot of energy and commitment, even if they seemed “small”. Those are the things that add up to making an influence towards an overall final product. 

    I am so happy that I took AICE Media Studies because not only did it allow me to express creative ideas that I otherwise wouldn’t have given myself the time or space to do, but I also learned so much about the media world and how it ties into society as a whole, which I am really intrigued by and love to explore (all conversations revolving societal impacts, etc…). I would’ve never expected for us to delve into topics that I’ve always been so passionate about, such as conformity and social norms, or regarding the entire creation process of a piece of art, specifically the intentionality of different production aspects. While I could go on and on about, I want to end off by saying thank you for such an impactful, crazy two years in this class. I have genuinely learned so much and will take everything I've learned with me into the media-saturated world we live in. I wish more people got a chance to create and learn about the things I did in this class, especially in the state of the world we live in and build now. 

    Without further ado, the next two blogs will be links to my Final Portfolio project for this class. This isn't goodbye, just see you later! (I'm gonna try to use blogger still) Thank you for everything Mrs. Stoklosa :)