Okay, so I’ve been working on this video project for an English class on writing style and technology. My first impression is that there are very little parallels between the writing process and movie making. Movie making is a very collaborative process whereas writing is mainly individualized. Although, in the context of my English class, writing has taken on a very collaborative approach. For instance each project contained a peer review session where class mates and I have been able to share ideas and help each other. My movie group carried on this tradition of brainstorming and coming up with ideas together as well as filming the movie as a group. We could have filmed our scenes individually and had somebody edit the footage together, but instead each member of my group had a say and a job for each scene.
As far as the previous readings from this course which I think will be potentially useful, Dennis Baron’s article From Pencils to Pixels will be a source I refer back to. This is because Baron’s article was about the technology of writing and I think the principals that are covered in the article also reverberate for other media technologies, such as movies. What we learned about ancient style will definitaley have an influence on what I write for my reflective paper on the movie making process as well. This is because by learning about ancient style I have seen how such influences have reached writing technology nowadays.
