Week 1 Summary

This week was more-so a transitional time with more housekeeping and preparation than actual creative projects. The majority of it was spent setting up accounts, creating this blog, coming up with my semester goals, and meeting with Paul. This week I also watched my tech-noir film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and wrote my review on it. Nothing this week was particularly challenging or stood out much. I did thoroughly enjoy watching my movie as I’ve been wanting to watch that one for a while and have never gotten around to it, so this gave me a good excuse to do so while also analysing it. I felt it necessary to take a much more allegorical approach to discussing cyberpunk/tech-noir which I did have quite a bit of fun with. Cyberpunk/tech-noir is not really my thing, I tend to find it very overstimulating and sensorily overwhelming, but I loved that this film didn’t have the hyper-futuristic neon dystopian chaos feel that many films in the genre do. This week taught me a few things: mainly that cyberpunk/tech-noir is a much more broad theme than I had realized and that this course actually utilizes many things that I already have a degree of experience in and I would definitely benefit from expanding on my skills and creative repertoire in those mediums.