Project Choice-Magazine

Personally, i would prefer to produce a magazine over a film for my project. I have several reasons for why.

1. Easier Writing
2. Easier Expression (for me)
3. Easier Production

I enjoy writing articles. Its easier to imagine it as what i would be saying and type it out from there, Trying to create lines of others though tends to be a lot harder. While the full article we have to create will take time, i would consider it more fun and less complex compared to scene selection, script design and all the editing required.

Its easier to express your passions,at least for me, through this medium without having to worry as much about other peoples actions. Trying to create a movie to flow around your interests may require more nuance an an article where you can just focus on the subject. 

Working and creating this project is also easier. Work that could only been done on location with everyone at once requires coordination & communication. This compared to the much more individual aspects. After the title, subject and a few smaller things like fonts are decided, the rest of it is given to each team member for their own unique decisions. 

Project Selection-Film

Films are a very unique form of media. Compared to radios, plays or anything printed, they allow for much more freedom for creativity. Music can be dubbed in without affecting actors voices, scenes impossible in any other form are doable and mistakes are easily fixed. This freedom has allowed for fantastical movies featuring galaxies far far away. time periods only existing in our imagination and a view into places we've never seen before. Some movies urge change in the world, what with Good Morning Vietnam and Kony 2012 and that type of social change is something i have always found interesting.

My largest advantage when it comes to making a movie is my sociability. While the newspaper project does require working together, the filming process requires much more group work and coordination to succeed. 

My largest disadvantage would be my weariness to be filmed. I tend to not enjoy being the one on camera and normally would prefer being behind it in some other aspect. This especially would be something that needs to be overcame for this project.

Project Selection-Magazine

Print Journalism is a very interesting form of media for a few reasons.  One of the things that attracts it to me is its ability of provide either highly specific information for certain subjects that interest you, such as Esports Insider or Car Mechanics or much more international information such as Foreign Affairs or The New Internationalist. This means that a variety of interests are provided in much more concise and readable formats that other forms may find harder to achieve. Another of the more interesting aspects is the investigative aspects associated with it. Some of the largest stories of generations were broken by newspapers, not television shows or radio hosts. The Pentagon Papers, Snowden, The Watergate Scandal, The Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers. The amount of physical change brought to the world by journalists just always amazed me.

The magazine would be a good fit because of how passionate i am when it comes to completing a project. While with a movie much more organization and screen time is required, this form of presentation allows me to complete a lot more work without worrying on how i look onscreen.

My biggest challenge would be from trying to write the larger articles, as while i can write relatively short paragraphs easily, keeping longer articles concise is much harder.