As Electronic Media majors, it is important for us to learn from these productions and to apply the knowledge from our other classes when critiquing creations like this film. Often in college we ask ourselves why we're taking so many liberal arts classes, or classes that we do not think apply to our major. I know that has been the hype around campus lately. I have heard, "I don't know why we have to take this class!!" in regards to countless classes from countless amounts of students throughout the semester. We may not be able to see the point in taking "Breadth of Knowledge" courses as Freshman, but someday we will conclude that everything we learned helped to improve our professions as Electronic Media specialists and producers. This film is one way that we were able to apply lots of our new knowledge to different areas of the creation. For example, several of us are in the 20th Century Movies class here at UC which helped us to be able to critique the cinematography in an educated way. Also, some of us are taking a History of Theatre class which actually helped critique the acting and scenery of the movie with educated points to back up our criticism. Using other examples, a Spanish class could have helped us understand the culture of the Texan/Mexican border in the film and a psychology class could have helped us critique the attitudes and behavior of each actor, especially the criminals to tell reasons why the character might be acting certain ways (perhaps because of their childhood, superstitions, etc.). Our educated observations would not have been the same if we did this project at the beginning of the year. With this said, I am anxious to see just how all the other BOK classes we take throughout college impact future projects and jobs to which we will be assigned. With each hour of each random class we take, whether we realize it or not, we are becoming better Electronic Media producers and enthusiasts.
-Carley Vanatsky
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