Film Shots and Techniques 12/10/10

1. close-up & high-key lighting

2. high angle & low-key/chiaroscuro lighting

3. panning

4. crane

5. long shot & low-key

6. Bottom lighting

7. Front/rear lighting/"halo" lighting

8. Editing technique

9. Eye line match

On The Water Front Questions

1. I think that he's mostly hard headed , brave and he also is very strong. I think in group loyalty you draw the line when you have to take responsibility in your actions. Meaning things that mean something and are going to affect you come first then a gang comes next.

2. He articulates the code he goes and lives by on the mobs expectations. He fallows the mobs rules through it all but still keeps his own priorities on track. Mainly he fallows the mob. He begins to question it because he has other things to take care of but yet he doesn't want to let anyone down.

3. Terry and Edie went way back since forever. They were friends very good ones too. She sees the good in him, cause the remet at the church and he got her out so she wouldn't get hurt. She brings out the good in him. They give eachothers trust and bring out one another's qualities.

4. He did really good on capturing the real feel. The capture doesnt show any hollywood characteristics. The method acting and natural lighting contributes to films realism. Kazan showed a diff. kind of camera work.

5. Brando strengths as an actor is that he uses his body language to portray what hes saying rather than actually saying what he wants to. The roles hes best suited for is the ones that acts like a bad boy role. He has the roles that put more emphasis on "bad".

Citizen Kane Questions 11/17/10

1: I think that all of the different points of view agree with each other. The only different thing would have been between people. I think Kane is still somewhat of a mystery but we get a general idea of what kind of person he was.

2: He wants everyone to love him. He wants love from the readers of his newspaper, from his political supporters, from his second wife, and from life. He buys there love, and that stands in the way. He wasn’t successful in the end. Both his wives left him, and his friend from the newspaper. And he wasn’t elected. He was screwed.

3: He built a newspaper empire in order to reach out to people so that they would love him. He built things for people just to win there love. These things that he built brought him happiness. He got to reach out to people but his staff and eventually readers dont want him. Susan didn’t want to be forced to sing.

4: At the end of the movie, “Rosebud” was a word on his sleigh as a child. The last thing he was doing before he was taken from his family by the banker was playing on his sleigh.

6: For the newspaper, Orson Welles wants to show us that the people of the newspaper lie. Kane wants to let the readers of the inquirer to know that he was going to tell all of the news honestly and after a couple years he goes back.

7: You can see people in the background and know what they do in the other scenes. Also it helps when someone is walking to or from the camera there like getting important or not important.

8: I think that Kane has an urge to collect things because he feels that he had so much taken away from him early in his life. At a young age he was taken away from the things that attracted him. So he was happy to have all these things again.

10: I think that Kane did these things to himself. So i dont feel bad for him. He made people not like him, he tried to buy people’s love. So he deserved he to lose everything.

Against MPAA

I dont like the rules because I think that kids are mature enough now to handle the bad stuff. I think they should just leave it up to parents to decide wether there kids can or can't watch the movies with death, nudity, blood and guts etc.

Hays Code

The Hays Code spelled out what was acceptable and what was unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States. Some of the rules were : Nakedness and suggestive dances were prohibited, The ridicule of religion was forbidden, and ministers of religion were not to be represented as comic characters or villains, The language section banned various words and phrases that were considered to be offensive, and murder scenes had to be filmed in a way that would discourage imitations in real life, and brutal killings could not be shown in detail. Revenge in modern times was not to be justified. I think Hollywood used these rules because they wanted to these movies to apply to all ages. They aren't censored as much now a days and all ages watch them.

Silent Film Review 10-11-10

1. Great Train Robbery

Edwin S. Porter

Tracking Shot

Cross Cutting

2. Birth of A Nation

Griffith

Iris Shots

Cross Cutting

Halo & Low Key Lighting

3. The Arrival of A Train

Buster Keaton

Close Ups

Tracking Shots

Silent Film Review 9-30-10

1.Metropolis

Fritz Lang

Chiaroscuro Lighting

Using a futuristic city

2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene

Low key lighting

Chiaroscuro lighting

Fill light

3. A Trip to The Moon

Jean Melies

Uses innovative animation

Special effects

4. The Great Train Robbery

Edwin S. Porter

Close ups

Cross cuts

5. Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

Cross cutting

Fast pace music

Critique Projects 9-29-10

GROUP 1 :

Organization : Great [3]

Creativity : Then slides were creative

Entertainment Value : Not so exciting but it was good

GROUP 2 :

Organization : It had great organization [3]

Creativity : They were very creative with the way they did the videos

Entertainment Value : It was funny

GROUP 3 :

Organization : [3]

Creativity : It the silent films are great

Entertainment : The music is funny

Chaplin vs. Keaton 9-28-10

Keaton vs. Chaplin :

- More serious while everything that Chaplin did had a little joke.

- Keaton has a script while Chaplin doesn't

- Keaton does his own stunts

- Keatons facial expressions aren't as clear as Chaplin's

- The music is different

- Keaton does things in a slower way than Chaplin

- Some of Keaton's jokes were made on the spot

- Chaplins movies are easy to make out and Keaton's are harder

- The music is more of blues than Chaplin's upbeat music

- Keaton and Chaplin both do the "big man little man" thing

- Keaton had one of the most amazing montages ever

- Keaton's music doesn't really flow as good as Chaplin's

- Keaton's scenes are put together (some of them)

- Cleverness plays well with Keaton