Production Classes

This is probably the aspect that is my weakest, but it was overall still developed!

Media Production: learned and developed ways of editing with Final Cut Pro. Also learned the important steps of movie making in terms of the production aspects of it.

Creative Video Production: Learned the basis of Imovie 6.

Computer Art: learned skills with Photoshop and developed ways of creating visual art pieces while using a specific software (PS)

(Picture of FCP's interface (on the left); programmed used in on of my production classes; probably one of the softwares that I have acquired the best skills in, that and PS (on the right))

Film Analysis

Second strongest aspect of my time at Dawson College!

Film Genres: Analysis of what constitutes a genre and the different classics included in the different categories.

History of Film: Developed historical knowledge of films in general and analyzed the major classics of film history.

Film & Culture: Learned how culture and films have influenced each other and how they still depend on each other in a very obvious way.

Script Writing; Analysis of film dialogues and learned the proper way to write a script and especially the proper format. Developed skills of writing especially when it comes down to the style of the writing.

(Picture; example of an annotated movie script)



Documentary Film: Learned the History of documentary films and its evolution through time. Also learned the proper way to do research and present it. I've mostly acquired these skills through the making of the early steps of building a documentary.

Media & Youth: Looked at the media aspect of films (How the media influences the youth and vice versa) Developed analytical skills of ADs and Music Videos.



(Picture; cover of the movie Gilda; to illustrate the importance of the historical aspect of my classes and how also my strong basis of the history of different genres is an important part of the skills I've acquired)

The Arts

This is, without questioning, my strongest area!

History of Art and Aesthetics: The analysis of early works of Arts from B.C.E. to the Medieval era.

(Picture on the left from a painting found the caves of Lascaux; it is part of the earliest works of Art found)



(Picture on the right is of a Medieval Tapestry which is a symbolic piece of art from that era)















Philosophy of Art: The analysis of works of Art that are either from modern periods or from earlier periods with a philosophical perspective. It's analyzing the works with a different aspect, which leads to a different conclusion about the work in the end. Also it makes the viewer aware of the different perspectives other viewers can come up with or can have while looking at the pieces.

Art Criticism: A class mostly about photography, developed skills of formal analysis with different perspective (formal perspectives, structural perspective, Marxist perspective, etc) Learned the history of photography in detail and how it evolved from early portraits to what photography is today, and also the evolution of the works of photographers.

(Picture for W Magazine by Richard Prince; his work was deeply analyzed in my final paper for this class. He often, like in this picture, deconstructs stereotypes and myths (in this case regarding gender)



Western Religions and the Arts: Analysis of works of Art that are related to religion on different levels (sometimes picturing a scene described in religious texts and sometimes more symbolic works)Developed skills of writing, religious vocabulary, and learned about the lives of Saints, and life of Jesus in details .