Blog Post #4:

 This week I would like to talk about what I've learned this week during class, and the discussions we've had. There is a major project that is over a documentary we had to choose out of a selection of many. I personally chose "Chasing Coral".  This film seemed to be quite interesting, just off the topic is was over alone. I discussed more of my thoughts on the reflection questions I posted earlier, but to just give a brief summary on it, I thoroughly enjoyed the film. I would recommend the film to anybody just by the visuals alone, they were absolutely stunning to see. Moreover, the actual substance that the film covered, which were the bleaching events that caused over half of the coral reefs to disappear was interesting to watch as well. 

Writing the summary and rhetorical analysis for this film has been nothing short of a slight struggle. I've never wrote a summary over a film, and I was not really interested in watching many documentaries before this point. However, even though it has been a struggle, it has been a joyful experience trying something new like this. While I have been working on this project I have learned many things regarding the writing style that it takes to write a summary. It's something I'm not used to, personally I'm used to writing my own input over the material. But now I just basically have to explain what happens, and then go on from there in chronological order and so on. Which is a change of pace for sure. 

In the end though, the experience overall has been one that I enjoyed. And I am excited to read my fellow classmates summary and rhetorical analysis over their films.