The Art of Film Making is My Passion

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

Tennessee is by far my most memorable place. This place is far from my little town “the watta,” and getting there is a long ride. One can take a plane or drive all the way there but whichever you choose when you arrive it’s like going to paradise. The feeling of arriving you get is irreplaceable. Viewing the mountains from far is truly a peaceful place. It is filled with so much nature, it reminds us of how beautiful this world truly is with it.

With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.

Sound editors create the entire sound plan for a movie. Foley artists, the crews who do fun stuff like slap lettuce and crush ice to simulate fight noises, take direction from him. And the sound mixers, or "re-recorders," take his final plan and mix it into the film. His job is critical. "Just try to imagine any of your favorite movies without

“The most powerful way to reach an audience is through the characters' emotions” (Alderson). Sometimes a producer’s toughest job is to appeal to his or her audience to gain their interest in a film. Two of the movies we watched in class came to mind when I think of this. ‘Three Idiots’ along with ‘A Bronx Tale’ are fantastic examples of how a producer can reach the emotions of an audience. However, I felt that one film was more powerful than the other. Although ‘A Bronx tale’ is a well written story with talented actors, the feel for the viewer throughout the movie is almost a sort of low key melancholy as the drama unfolds. ‘A Bronx Tale’ deals with more complex issues such as the mafia, murder and even racism but the producer almost always gives us what we expect next. Conversely, the lower budget film ‘Three idiots’ with little know actors leads the audience through

The thought is exciting and daunting and every other electrifying synonym, a bizarre concept considering I never once imagined myself at a university surrounded by other like-minded, confoundedly optimistic individuals. I reminisce about the hazy evenings of miniature me struggling to keep my colossal handycam steady while trying to capture the sunset and think maybe I was safer then, sheltered by my gullibility and inexperience. I know it’s all malarkey, and my fervid conscience would never forgive me if I didn’t reach for higher ground. The journey has already been wondrous and spellbinding, but how exhilarating is the notion of possibly one day triggering someone else’s love for cinema the same way I was transfixed — to turn someone’s black and grey thoughts into some pink and purple

Let me tell the story of a little girl who grew up loving film. I vividly remember sitting at the foot of my mother’s bed watching television movies on our old big box TV. I grew up with chronic Asthma, so as a child I would often find comfort in moving images on the screen as the continuous hums from the nebulizer soothe me and the steroids released my constricted airways. Around the age of six I learned to give myself Asthma treatments without waking my working single mother. I would come into my mother’s room for comfort as she slept, gather my medicine, turn on the television, and escape to a world that was full of wonder. This was when I first fell in love with film.

Directing Jaws (1975), Steven Spielberg exercised numerous distinctive methods in order to lure in the anxiety of the spectators and to confine their mind's eye. These procedures incorporate elite results so as to generate worry, unusual viewpoints in order to demonstrate expressions and crowd sequences. The

I am currently a Film Production MFA student at Full Sail University. As a child I went to see “The Empire Strikes Back” when it was first released. I was in such awe of the film that I knew I wanted to make movies myself. Irvin Kirschner’s name became more important to me as I got older. He once said, “I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.” It is with this intention that I want to create films.

In the words of G.I. Joe, the American Hero, “Now you know and knowing is half the battle”. While reading through the text I recognized some of my annoying habits through the eyes of a professor (my apologies). Unfortunately, I struggle with perfectionism so obtaining an insanely high grade point causes me to stalk the grade books, at times. However, as I embrace my weakness, I’m working towards allowing God’s strength to take over my efforts in completing my degree. Also, there is room for improvement concerning patience. Patience is a virtue most needed while working through assignments and waiting for responses from professors and other students. Now that I understand professors are people too (just kidding) I will practice more understanding

My entire life I have been fascinated with film and commercials. As a kid, I would stop what I was doing to watch a commercial. This has not changed through the years. My goal in life is to work in the film industry and work with video. This may have developed from my brother’s short term love for the video arts. Like most little brothers I followed in his footsteps through a lot of things and most of them would not stick. As I grew older I developed my own different ideals and likes. But, video just stuck with me. Even if film production doesn’t work out I have always had a childlike excitement for fighting fires. Being the person to save the day is something that everybody wants to do, but not everyone peruses this dangerous career.

In service of this argument, the essay unfolds in three parts. The first section sketches an appropriate framework for understanding how cinema marshals and moves viewers by engaging them in a fully embodied experience.4 The second section offers a brief overview of the film's plot before turning to an analysis of its triptych narrative and affective development. The third and final section considers the methodological, critical, and theoretical implications suggested by the preceding analysis.

The intention of this essay is to discuss the romantic notion of a film director who has etched their own cinematic vision into the body of their film work, and whether the theory and practice is dead and an infringement of the spectator’s imagination and is it the spectator who finds meaning in the film. I will be closely looking at critical material, primarily André Bazin and Roland Barthes and applying them to several case study films directed by Christopher Nolan including The Following (1998), The Prestige (2006) and Inception (2010), to examine whether Nolan possesses the qualities of an auteur and if so, does that imply an ideological view of what the auteur resembles or an artistic one.

Every so often a movie is released with such tense anticipation and glamorous visual art that the public is drawn to this dramatic rendition of life in the theatre. For even just two hours or so, you are put into a different lifestyle. Action, drama or comedy it may be. We are thrust into a different way of thinking. We are forced to learn the characters thoughts and feelings. The hard work and artistic skill that goes into these magnificent films is not an easy thing to mimic. Out of the thousands of movies released worldwide each year only a handful are truly worthy of the label film art. Most of the great movies are either produced by a multi million dollar

Art. To me is something undefinable, what I want my art to show you is a piece of myself and a piece of yourself. Something we can all relate to; a memory, a song, a poem, art should make you feel something. Art is a gift, a tool we can use to hide beauty in ordinary places and things. I want to broaden my understanding of design and the world that art is beyond my knowledge and experiences. Because my love for creating burns so bright and deep within me, I am determined to find a career path that will allow me to explore the world of design and art every day. A number of art forms are endless and this seems like a daunting task to find just one path that can express the enjoyment and involvement I want to have with art. Throughout my life I have been endlessly drawing, painting, sculpting and creating--often times I feel almost cursed with such talent to create because the ability seems endless. I have taken a number of art classes exploring my passions as a High School Student and created many different types of works including oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; etching, embossed, and screen printmaking; charcoal, graphite, and pastel drawings; Sculpting with ceramics and plaster as well as wheel pieces. I find that there is few mediums I have yet to experiment with. I have become accustomed to Acrylic paintings as I have recently started to create paintings and sell them to community members. I participated in a local art fair and it opened my eyes to what art