In the very beginning of the first class, I clearly remember Professor Scott telling us that after this class, we will never be able to watch a film the same ever again, and he was right. When I used to watch films, I just simply looked at the film as a whole, and its story. If anything I would overthink the storyline, but I never really looked at technical aspects and how those play a part in telling a story too. In this class we learned vocabulary specific to films, including sound, videography, etc, terminology, we learned about production design, acting styles, cinematography, character psychology, themes, etc. These were all intricate details of films that an ordinary viewer would not pick up on, but we were taught about. For example, we may notice a character’s pretty outfit. But do we realize the color pink may be used on purpose to indicate playful character? We may know that sound sets the tone of a scene. Sad music = sad scene, for example. But who would think sound and lyrics could help foreshadow future events in a film? A part of the class that struck me the most was definitely when we watched DDLJ, a Bollywood film, which was touching for me, being South Asian myself. I focused on the sound of the film. Sound in specific was extremely interesting for me throughout the semester, as visual aspects were a bit more obvious to me. Seeing how, for example, whistles displayed urgency of the main character's emotions, how the piano and violin indicated the male lead’s longing for female lead, etc, were all indicators of how sound played an important role in the film, in ways we might not even notice. In this way, I learned the most I ever have about filmmaking, gaining understanding of basic techniques and terms used in different areas that prepared me for future MIT classes I took in sophomore year.