Film Shots and Techniques

1. eye level , close up, high key

2. high angle, medium shot

3. pan

4. dolly/tracking

5. boom/crane

6. long shot, mise en scene, low key, rear lighting

7. medium shot, front lighting, bottom lighting

8. rear lighting, close up

9. dissolve, superimposed

10. eye line match, point of view

Blog Review

*method acting

*screwball comedy

*hollywood censorship

*silent films

*chaplin vs. keaton

- 1941

- walt disney company's snow white and the seven dwarfs is the first american animated feature film

- during ww2 propaganda films are made for the first time en masse

- federal government breaks vertical integration of hollywood studio system

- hollywood begins major conversion of movie making aesthetics and production methods with introduction of widescreen processes

Double Indemnity

Adam's point of view: he has seen it, is brilliant, its hot and sizzling, he thinks the movie is amazing and very well done

Sam's point of view: was disappointed, not a bad film, first half not suspenseful and a let down, did nothing for him,

I partly agree with sam because at the beginning it was a little slow but i also agree with adam because it did get very suspenseful. it was a good movie

Method Acting Project

Dani, Rianna, Karisa, Amerijoyce

We are doing the movie John Tuker must die

we don't know what scene yet

we have out own camera

we will film off campus

we will not be using a green screen

Method Acting

Actors were not to emote in the traditional manner of stage conventions, but to speak and gesture in a manner one would use in private life.

Konstantin Stanislavski was a director at the Moscow Art Theater, wrote a number of books on acting, the first of which, An Actor Prepares, published in english translation in 1936

By his body movement and using his body to express things.

Favorite Actors

I don't have any favorite actors.

If they are good then their good.

A good actor is when the actor can do many types of rolls.

They are very diverse in the type of movies they act in.

They catch an audience from the first time they say or do anything.

They are a joy to watch.

11-3-10 HW 2nd Soliloquy

Hamlet's state of mind is that he thinks something bad is going to happen, "all is not well," but he is trying to stay calm.

11-1-2010 Soliloquy

1. Hamlet's speech on page 26-29 is a soliloquy because he is on stage alone talking after everyone except him exits the stage.

2. He doesn't like what his mother's decisions have been because his father did so much for her, "so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly", when he was alive just two months ago.

Film Review

He doesn't really have a hook. If there is one you can't tell or it isn't a good one.

He gives background about the guy who invented facebook. He talks about the film mostly.

He doesn't discuss the film techniques at all.

Screwball Comedy

In the mid-1930s a new film genre, screwball comedy, arose in American cinema. Based upon the old "boy-meets-girl" formula turned topsy-turvy, it generally presented the eccentric, female-dominated courtship of an upper-class couple.

Mon. 10-25-10 Hamlet Q

1. Marcellus - asks why there is a strict schedule of guards has been imposed

- bronze cannons manufactured = Denmark

-weapons = bought abroad

- shipbuilders = busy = don't rest on sunday

- late king = rival of Fortinbras, king of Norway

- Hamlet = killed old king Fortinbras = surrendered all his territories, and his life to his conqueror

- Fortinbras's son = bold, unproven, gathered thugs from lawless outskirts of country

- ghost is something to worry about

2. Before my God, I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes.

For/Against MPAA

I am against the MPAA because I don't think all those rules are really needed. The ratings are fine. I think the rating of the movies is good. But not making a movie because of certain things I don't think is equal.

Hollywood Censorship

The set of industry censorship guidelines that governed the production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios from 1930 to 1968.

1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence, the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing, evil or sin.
2. Correct standards of life, subject only to the requirements of drama and entertainment, shall be presented.
3. Law, natural or human, shall not be ridiculed, nor shall sympathy be created for its violation.

So it wouldn't get out of control. There always needs to be some sort of boundary so people don't do things that shouldn't be done. It is just to keep it under control and stable.

It is still censored but not a strict. Movies are rated for certain age groups.

Presentations

Film Review Project:
- Organization: 3
- Creativity: 2
- Entertainment: 1
I felt that all the information was there but it was kind of plain.


Genres of films:
- Organization:3
- Creativity: 3
- Entertainment:3
they had all the information as well. The only thing I believe they need to improve on is the vocal expression in their short clips. The longer the clip was the more expression the needed.


FIlms, Films, Films
- Organization: 3
- Creativity:3
- Entertainment:3

The information and the way they presented it was really good

silent film review part II

Great Train Robbery, Edwin S Porter, story, color

Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith, cross cut, close ups

Arrival of a Train, Lumier Brothers, long shot, documentary style

Silent Film Review

Metropolis, Fritz Lang, chiaroscuro lighting, futuristic

Cabinet of Doctor Calagari, Robert Weine, unreal sets, sideways

Trip to the Moon, Georges Melies, first fantasy, minimum shots

The General, Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, great tracking shots, great crazy stunts

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, slapstick, allusions

Chaplin vs. Keaton

* Keaton planed out his movies unlike Chaplin.
* Keaton takes familiar jokes and makes then funny again in a slapstick way.
* Keaton has a storyline while Chaplin just goes with the flow.
* Keaton used a story within a movie and uses this way to represent his dream.
* Keaton characters break the forth wall- the first to do this kind if thing
* used great montages (both)
* Keaton used circus tricks to make allusions appear
* Chaplin uses more straight on slapstick
* Keaton uses a softer approche towards slapstick