Wk 1: Introduction to Media Arts, Tropfest Jr.

Today's lecture looked at the fundamentals of Media Arts and how important the points ‘making’ and ‘responding’ are within media arts. We particularly looked at the Tropfest Jr as a main source to look at the stimulus “Fly” for the upcoming 2014 Tropfest Junior.

It is understood that when making a film, music is shown to be one of the key stimulants into making a suspenseful, thrilling and joyous film to its full potential (McGuire, 2012), along with the main storyboard, and characters that are set within the film. 

This short film, called 'The Maker', incorporates many of the different lighting and shot angles to create a sense of time, space, and setting of the characters. These elements are needed to allow the audience to be emotionally engaged in the film and to connect the audience with the character/s. Although, it’s main source of stimulus is music as it allows the audience to be immersed in the storytelling of short film. Implications into the future of teaching media arts as a whole would be whether or not the schools I work in will have the funding to have suitable resources to make media arts happen.

References:

Kezelos, C. and Kezelos, C. (Producers) & Kezelos, C. (Director). (2011). The Maker [Motion picture]. Los Angeles, USA: Zealous Creative.

McGuire, A. (2012). Media Arts: A Shifting Paradigm? Arts Education Policy Review, 113, 119-122.