Fascination Project Reflection

I was pretty nervous about doing the Fascination Project. I don't always do well with open-ended assignments, as the vast amount of possibilities tend to serve for my mind tornado-ing around from idea to idea but having a hard time landing on a single one.

However, I knew I wanted to focus on film history. In general, I'm a history nut, and as I explained during my presentation, it also relates to how I view my major and myself as a creative.

Once I realized that a lot of the history I was interesting in talking about was reliant on the technology, and started to see connections with how that technology also shaped what kinds of stories were told in the first place, I found myself some solid ground to work from.

More than anything else, this project was full of research research research. As I decided I would educate/teach the class, I knew I'd need good information and sources to back it up. I discovered some awesome sites along the way, especially filmcolors.org, which is not only a fantastic learning resource, but also just a very fun site to explore if you're interested in film color processes.

As for my presentation, I prepared a bit but I knew that I would be able to give the most natural presentation if I focused on mastering my content. So while I didn't give any practice runs of the speech part of my presentation, I did go over my powerpoint slides many times over so that I was comfortable about what I'd be speaking on.

Overall, although this assignment greatly intimidated me at first, once I got on the right track, I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable project.