Duvernay's Film Style

use the cinematography to add to the movies message. Throughout the film, the directors keep a main

At a very young age of eight, David Fincher’s passion for cinema grew when he was inspired by the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Born in 1962 Denver, Colorado, David Fincher moved to Ashland, Oregon in his teens, where he graduated from Ashland High School. During high school, he directed plays, designed sets, and managed lighting after school. One summer, he and a friend attended the Berkley Film Institute’s summer program, where he hoped to learn film as a true art form but instead was taught the technical production. Either way he was happy to engage is this and as his early film industry career started, he was a production assistant at his local television news station. Years went by as he directed propaganda films followed by becoming a well-known music director until his first movie feature debut Aliens 3 in 1992. However, the American director David Fincher didn’t become a modern 21st century visionary until his creation of the film Se7en (1995). The huge success from this film started Fincher’s popularity in the film industry. From there he continued to make ironic movies we know today such as: Fight Club (1999), Zodiac (2007), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Social Network (2010), Gone Girl, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

For more than fifty years, Clint Eastwood has been actively defining and redefining cinema as an art form. His experiences as an actor on television and in film have greatly influenced his directing style. Across his films, Eastwood incorporates several issues and techniques that help the audience to identify said films with Eastwood's directorial style. Eastwood's aim in his films is to tell stories of the human experience. Francois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris have aimed to define the qualities that make a director an auteur whose works stand out above the rest. The qualities defined by Truffaut and Sarris can be seen in Eastwood films including Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Changeling (2008) and help to establish Eastwood as an auteur.

As Franny is observant, she is also over dramatic. Her emotions convey this beautifully on page 39 when she feels betrayed by Margie for going over the Gale’s house instead of hers. Franny and Gale don’t have anything against each other yet so Margie was just visiting another friend. Franny is being overdramatic even though the two live in a close proximity and are best friends so it isn’t like they never see each other. With these emotions of betrayal, Franny is not mentally allowing Margie to have many close friendships with any other classmates and is getting in the way of her own friendship. While Franny’s emotions can show a great deal about her being over dramatic, her words can as well.After Uncle Otts episode, Franny claims she is “embarrassed for life.” (49). Franny believes that everyone who knows her and her family are going to gossip about the episode at the dinner table and it will reflect badly on her. Franny doesn’t realize that Uncle Otts breakdown doesn’t reflect badly on her but only Otts since she wasn’t the one having the episode and was only a bystander. She even hid herself from the public so they couldn’t see her at all since she was hiding from Otts. Now words are just spoken thoughts and the final instance of Franny being over dramatic is seen through her thoughts. On page 109, Franny thinks the reason Mrs. R’s explanation of the science fair project doesn’t make sense is because Mrs. R hates her. Franny is taking this way too

13th is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The movie was captured and presented in the form of interviews with various people from the diverse background; from educator to politicians, from black to white, they all generally agree with the fact that mass incarceration has done nothing but damage the society and the people of color. As the movie tried to gather all the opinions and information from people with various socio-economic status, I think it is safe to assume that the primary purpose of this film is to serve the information without being polarized to one party. This movie has disenchanted people to realize that mass incarceration of people of color is a big problem. The reason why this topic has been overlooked for

Written in 1989, this piece, like her others, is written in the Post Modernism period. It is a self proclaimed process analysis piece with narrative components. In her work, Dillard aimed to tell the whys, hows, and wheres of her writing. By sharing details about her personal experience, Dillard draws the reader in with her quick wit and creativity. Each essay deals with a different topic or aspect of writing, but all are connected by frequent personal anecdotes and similar styles. This essay deals with the movies versus novels and the power each contains if you are able to see them. She argues that movies are more powerful than novels because they appeal more violently to your senses, but, for one who enjoys reading, a novel can be just as

The documentary 13th by Ava DuVernay was a visual masterpiece. The documentary provided its viewers with an array of information that spanned throughout centuries and was eloquently executed in less than 2 hours. The central focus of the film was about how the 13th amendment shaped this country and its prison system. The 13th amendment was the building block for mass incarceration and as time has gone on, new laws and amendments strengthened the process for more people to get incarcerated. Slavery benefited the country as a whole and as the Civil War was winding down, slavery was coming to an end. As the documentary states, the South especially relied heavily on slavery for their economy to sustain. After the passing of the 13th amendment, slaves were freed and it left the South’s economy in shambles. A stipulation within the 13th amendment, that states “Neither slavery not involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been dully convicted, shall exist within the United States.” In turn, mass amounts of newly freed slaves were arrested and deemed criminals. Being criminalized reduced them back to a lower status in the United States, and unfortunately reignited slavery in a new kind of form. The film was not only educational, it also provided its viewers with knowledge about why there is such a disparity in mass incarnations amongst people of color compared to their white counterparts.

In this film, the main character Ada Monroe, who is the daughter of urban preacher, has lived a sheltered life. She has been raised with all the comforts of a privileged lifestyle including the finest education,

It is about a woman who drops out of medical school after her husband has been sentenced to eight years in prison. While she turns all of her attention to his well being while incarcerated, she also goes on a journey of self-discovery. The film went on to be acquired by AFFRM and Participant Media at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. While at Sundance, it played in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and won the Best Director award for DuVernay, the first African American woman to ever win. It also went on to be nominated and win many awards at other festivals. The film had a budget of $200,00 and a total domestic gross of $236,806.

the first of its kind to be made with a small budget, unknown cast, and limited resources. This proves that this film is unique by showing how differently the director and actors

The Australian film industry is currently in a point of crisis due to the lack of audiences attending Australian films, hence creating a decline in the revenue received towards our national industry. However, this is not due to the lack of creative talent, it is rather the many underlying issues that don?t allow the Australian public with the awareness and accessibility of these films. These problems are within the distribution, marketing and funding of these Australian films, allowing the national Australian community to not seek for films made by people within their nation due to negative pre-conceived notions and the convenience of going to see a Hollywood Blockbuster. These issues are seen through the poor release of both critically received films, Jennifer Kent?s The Babadook (2014) and Hugh Sullivan?s The Infinite Man (2014), both not gaining a wide audience. Through these issues within the industry, Australian filmmakers have not been able to create the revenue needed for these films to branch out to be easily attained by the public.

The documentary we viewed in class is called Thirteenth and is a harrowing deconstruction of the United States current criminal justice system. This one hour and forty minute documentary directed by Ava Duvernay digs deep into the corruption, stagnation, and mismanagement of our countries prison and justice system. Showing how racial prejudice is still alive and well today by examining how we treat criminals in the U.S. This documentary was released in 2016 as a Netflix original and caused quite the uproar. As an indie documentary many people expected very little from Thirteenth, however they were unpleasantly shocked by this scathing dissection of criminality in America. It makes use of the voice of many experts to make a clear point, the

From previously drawing up a backstory and character profile based upon the script, I already had an outline of what personality I wanted May to have; smart and proud that she has raised her daughter single handily and the type of relationship she has with other characters such as her daughter Val, her granddaughters and possibly friends which are quite close and friendly relationships. So, concluding today, I felt like I was filling in the missing links by experimenting and adding in different centres, gestures, and by having a different approach, I brought May to life. I passionately agree that this acting technique is a distinctive way to approach your character in a realistic view. (Gordon, 1998: 144)

In the film adaption by Polanski, the actress who plays Tess has a blank, mournful gaze during all occasions. It is almost as if she was watching through the screen and is essentially emotionless until the end when she kills Alex. I found it hard to sympathize her character when I felt her character had no emotions to a particular scene no matter what was happening to her. During the time frame the film is set, a woman of her status was helpless to stop what she was subjected to because she was a woman and because she was poor. However, I felt that the character had no fight or fire in her, it was as though she would roll over and let things happen to her. That only changes when Alex causes her to snap and kill him. We see tears covering Tess’ pale complexion when she stares down Alex, causing her to look crazy

Understanding movies comes from describing and analyzing the cinematic, theatrical, and literary elements that combine to create meaning. These steps create a basic understanding of the artistic and technical elements found in moviemaking. In addition, the major characteristics of different film genres and classic movies will be analyzed. The purpose of this paper is analyzing the Academy Award winning film Chicago. This paper will describe the six steps that a person should think about when watching a movie. These steps include, (1) analysis of the narrative: story, plot and meaning; (2) theatrical elements, (3) cinematography, (4) editing, (5) sound and the (6) complete package.