After Easter Break, we were welcomed
back to school with an in-class assessment. Using the scripts we wrote for
homework two weeks ago, we had to explain how our stories were inspired by Wong
Kar Wai, taking into account theme, locations, characters, lighting, and even
costumes. Apart from the fact that it was an assessment on our first lesson
back from the break, I had positive feelings about the assessment. I found it was
a good reflective experience of analyzing our own work, and breaking it down to
its foundations and investigating how the story is related to Wong Kar Wai’s
work. The section I had most difficulty with in this assessment was the question
regarding costumes, simply because I had not thought of this aspect of Wong Kar
Wai’s films. Part of this would be because costumes were not mentioned in the
previous lesson, and I had not taken note of it while watching The Hand, or really any other of his
films that I watched over the Easter break. This taught me to not rely solely
on the teacher’s lectures, but to also make my own observations, particularly
in the Arts division where there is no definite “right” or “wrong” answer.
The activity I enjoyed most in this
lesson was the storyboarding section of the assessment, where we storyboard a
scene we choose from our scripts. I enjoyed this activity, because I do not
normally put so much effort into storyboarding, and I am proud of the images I created
and how I was able to put my vision onto paper. I also feel that this is an
effective exercise, as it forces us to storyboard at least a section of our
script and not leave it to last minute chores. Overall, apart from the fact
that it was scheduled for the first lesson back from Easter Break, the
assessment went smoothly, and I even enjoyed it at times!
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