Assn. #1b/Lynne Sachs Interview/House of Science

Assn. #1b

I will be upfront about my opinion about sound. I don't care for it. I always seem to get my levels messed up no matter what the meter in premiere tells me. To hear that for this project that they were right relieved that anxiety. Sound is undeniably important to any form of cinema, but producing a story through sound is not my area of expertise. If I'm going to be a good editor, however, I need to become more familiar with it. My project that I presented was good in my opinion, but I always strive to have flawlessness, and that was not flawless to me.

Lynne Sachs Interview

I found the discussion of hot-beds in this interview to be intriguing. She mentioned asking the subjects who immigrated from China about some touchy subjects that they felt okay talking about because she didn't other them as humans. She instead asked how that made them feel, allowing them to open up and reveal their story. This subject is also interesting to me because when I visited China, I learned a lot about the cultural revolution, but in a positive perspective. I never knew about the tragedies that happened to the people who would flee due to this. I am going to put Your Day is My Night on my must watch list.

House of Science by Lynne Sachs

This film communicated the complications women go through to be taken seriously on an academic level. The imagery was beautiful, from women in the desert falling down a sand dune to a little girl in a batman costume narrating a story. The entire experience felt liberating but tragic, as does feminism as a whole feel. The fact that women have to be liberated from being treated like second rate humans is damning. The depiction of females being treated like "criminals" for refusing to be submissive is a great reflecction of how society treats women.

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  1. silvashanSeptember 21, 2017 at 7:20 AM

    Oh no! If you aim for flawless you will never be happy Parker! Focus on learning and being messy in the name of growth/evolution. Flawlessness is overrated. :)

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