Welcome to my Movie Review Blog!
Welcome to my movie review blog. This blog is a graduation requirement for my senior year at Drexel University and I'm lucky enough to have such an amazing department (Television Production and Media Management) and an amazing mentor and professional film critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Steven Rea.
The
objectives and goals of my senior project are to make an update to date blog of
movie reviews. The blog is entitled: DrexelGrad-FilmCritic.blogspot.com. Using
a checklist and critiquing advice from my mentor, Steven Rea I will be able to
make an efficient movie review using what I have learned from pervious classes.
For example, editing styles and editing choices, cinematography, set design,
shots used and use of certain camera angles (aka directing choices) and
overall, performance and attitude of the movie. I hope to learn more about
reviewing movies from a more cinematic perspective, to be able to use the
knowledge I have learned from my past three years at Drexel and apply them in
the movies I view. This will make me feel more knowledgeable about what I have
learned and how to look at movies differently in the future, as a film critic.
Every week
I plan on seeing a film at the Rave Pictures (Penn’s Campus) Franklin Institute
(North 20th street) or The Ritz 5 (200 Walnut Street). After the
movie I will write a movie review based off what I have discussed with my
mentor and post it on my blog, after sending the critique to be reviewed by my
mentor first. The money I will use for purchasing movie tickets will come from
my own pocket and I will not be reimbursed in any way.
My proposed
timelines are to see a movie by Thursday or Friday evening and have my critique
reviewed by my mentor and up on my blog by that Monday. My blog will be
viewable twenty-four seven if any teacher or my mentor would like to view it
from now till Spring term 2013, when the project is due. I plan to keep my blog
after graduation as a resume builder and calling card to possible job
opportunities.
My budget
can range from five to twenty dollars based off ticket sales, Rave Pictures at
University of Pennsylvania has a Drexel Day where day movies can be as little
as five dollars but a typical student discount is nine dollars for night
movies. Also, I will provide myself with popcorn and soda, only if I want to.
If my budget that week is rather tight I will forgo the popcorn and just get
the ticket. I will pay no more then twenty dollars to enjoy a movie once a
week.
A special thanks to Professor Andrew Susskind of the Television and Media Management Department and Steven Rea for aiding me in this journey of film knowledge with the use of this blog and allowing me to make such an awesome senior project come to life.
