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C&N Assignment 3 – Self Reflection
Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills
Having undertaken Introduction to Film Culture – became used to essay writing although the assignment questions on that course were a little more focused – so been given free rain for only a 1000 essay was quite hard.
Attention to detail with my spelling and typo’s can be my weakness, I hope that I have checked and double checked this enough; I know how annoying it can be to read something littered with grammatical errors. It seems to read ok
Quality of outcome
I would never have thought I would say this but a 1000 word essay is quite short to cover all your potential points for this essay I have covered
- a description of the image
- a brief background on the photographer
- punctum – a key part of this image
- and interpretation of the image looking a the background of the subject.
I feel that the essay is balanced raises points for the reader to consider, discussing the theory of Punctum for the reading them moving on to the juxtapositions of the snake and human and how the metaphor can be initially misread if not tied to the punctum. I would have like to go further and touch on perhaps #metoo and gender perception male gaze but this was not possible with the essay length.
Demonstration of creativity
Creativity in my essay – I have not picked a photograph that has been dissected over and over again by academic, so I feel that my essay does cover a unique point of view, in its interpretation of the metaphors. I have given the essay to a female friend who likes art but not a student of art and is the mother of a teenage daughter, to give me her feedback on the essay and she liked the interpretation. Which was reassuring as it always a hard call defending a female nude, taking by a male photographer that for much of a history has been the staple of [male] students bedroom walls.