Unit 3 Reflection

Unit 3 Reflection

    This unit, I learned a lot of new information about movie that I don’t know before. I love to watch movie, before learning this chapter, I had known about some aspects of movies. From learning this chapter, I noticed that there are various kinds of movie genre, for examples: sci-fi, comedy, horror, adventure, epic and action. I study art film as my genre; I think this is a very different type of movie genre. While I was searching, I find out that Art films are a type of movie that is very different from the popular Hollywood blockbuster movies. 

    Art films have many other names. Some people call them art movies, independent films, indie films, art house films, auteur films or experimental films. When I saw the picture that posted in first page of this chapter, I was interested in the Michael Jackson wearing the jackets in the middle standing handsome, but also with some scary ghosts, this is my AHA moment because I have this album. 

    I learned about movie industry by studying four representative movie companies; Hollywood, Paramount, Warner Bros and Tyler Perry Studios. I really like Tyler Perry’s website. While I am searching, I learned a lot about the movie companies’ influence and history. From class, I also learned and think that we need to focus on nonmainstream movies as well, such as Tyler Perry’s movie or other foreign movie, because the movie industry should handle with various movies of the world, and we also watched movies from the International Film Festival, and experience various movie genres. I studied African Americans’ movie industry by reading the ‘Tyler Perry’s Money Machine’. He is defining the African Americans’ daily life, for examples, family issues and Romanic, there are not so many about the racism or discrimination in his movies. I learned how he can make so much of money in the block buster. 

     In this unit, my bumper sticker is “Don’t judge a movie without watching it”. The reason why I made this bumper sticker is that I think people sometimes only care about which big super stars are in the movie or how much money they spend on making this film or who is the direct. I think we all should watch the film first, and start our judgment.