The Beauty And Suffering Of Filmmaking Essay

What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?

The paper I decided to do was on “Schindler’s List”. I have seen this movie four times and yet had not really noticed the many ways in which the director, Steven Spielberg, used the camera to emphasis a “million words”. It was interesting, when watching this film from this stand point, how I was able to see the importance of the way the director uses sounds and color to make some much significant points of a film.

Surrealism is a movement that built off of the burgeoning look into art, psychology, and the workings of the mind. Popularly associated with the works of Salvador Dali, Surrealist art takes imagery and ideology and creates correlation where there is none, creating new forms of art. In this essay I will look to explore the inception of the surrealist movement, including the Surrealist Manifesto, to stress the importance of these artists and their work in the 20th century and beyond. I also will look to films from our European Cinema course to express how films incorporate the influence of surrealism both intentionally and unintentionally.

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.

Rarely has a film impacted an audience and held the test of time as the film Gone with the Wind. I have always been curious if director, Victor Fleming and producer, David O. Selznick and screenplay writer, Sidney Howard knew what they were creating a masterpiece and how this film would have such an enormous impact on audiences for years to come. Interestingly enough there were some who thought the film should not be made, as Irving Thalberg said to Louis B. Meyer in 1936, “Forget it Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel” (Ten Films that Shook the World).

Higher Learning - Film Analysis Exposition: The Establishing Shot of the film is a full screen American Flag, the camera zooms out and points down, revealing a large crowd of people in a rally, being very patriotic. As the camera zooms off the flag we come across a statue of Columbus- indicating it to be Columbus University. The speaker on the stage gives us another indication of the setting by Shouting'Columbus University'. They are in front of a stage with Band music playing and chants rising out.

I worked steadily in the mountains to film a beautiful setting with a beautiful message. I then filmed a scene near my pond fishing with Clark Kistler. I then went with the whole Reedy Ridge team down to the family farm, where we went on a turkey hunt showing off our gear in the great outdoors. Once all the videos had been taken I began editing the videos making the documentary have a background noise and captions. Once all the editing had taken place I asked my mentor to critique the video and give any words of advice. He told me that I needed to raise the volume, and add more color to the frame. Once I had finished correcting all my mistakes, I began a youtube channel, and began showing people the

While both cinematography and editing are important factors in the scene from Dunkirk, it is the cinematography which makes the scene so powerful. The verisimilitude of the scene is constructed around a young soldier in the process of evacuating a beach in France. The screenplay and the linear cohesion of events helps build a truth for the viewer and evokes an emotional and adrenaline stimulated response in the viewer. In this scene from Dunkirk, the editing and timing is more important than the cinematography.

The tagline for the film 'Gattaca', directed by Andrew Niccol is 'There is no gene for the human spirit' which is relevant to the character Jerome 'Eugene' Morrow. Eugene is derived from the Greek word meaning 'well born' which alludes to his privileged upbringing and valid status in society. Murrow is a variant of the Celtic word 'Murrow' meaning 'sea warrior' which refers to his natural talent for swimming that won him a silver medal at a world event. Eugene was genetically engineered with all the potential to succeed, but lost the desire to do so as a result of the swimming defeat. Andrew Niccol demonstrated the theme 'what you do with your life is not determined by what you start out with' through a range of techniques including dialogue

As a middle school Humanities student, I was offered a Media Production course. It has become one of my favorite classes because it allows me to use film-making as a creative outlet. In this class, I am hard-working, creative, and curious.

The title of the movie is really short it's M, which was released in 1931. The director’s name is Fritz Lang, and the main character in the movie are Peter Lorre,Otto Wernicke, and Gustaf Gründgens.

so instead of having a week or so me and my partner only had around four or five days for filming. Then he had to the editing by himself in three days because I was at game of logging. Also when editing we could not do music and my voice in the same scene because for the most part I was standing farther from the camera so my voice was not very loud. This made us have to change our plans because on one of the scenes I was talking we wanted to have music but we had to Change it because with the music we could not hear my voice. Another part that was hard for me was hearing my own voice in the video it annoyed the heck out of me.

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.

Direct Cinema The term 'direct cinema' was coined by American director Albert Maysles, to describe the style of documentary that he and his contemporaries were making in the 1960s as a result of a lightweight, portable 16mm camera and high quality lightweight audio recorders becoming available. The introduction of these, together with film-stock which was sensitive enough to give a good quality close-up monochrome picture under most lighting conditions (Including hand-held lights) led to a revolution in Documentary filmmaking, allowing film crews to be much more flexible. Gone were the days of bulky, virtually immobile 35mm cameras; now manufacturers improved their 16mm stock and accepted it

Analyze This is a hilarious, feel good movie about two men from different backgrounds living completely opposite lifestyles. Through a series of very funny, random and bizarre moments they form a memorable friendship together. The movie came to theatres in 1999, was directed by Harold Ramis and included a cast full of some of Hollywood’s brightest stars. It begins with two gangsters leaving a café, discussing their plans to attend a meeting involving the countries major crime bosses. One gangster goes back in the café to get a toothpick and at the same time the other gangster is killed from a drive-by shooting. The movie’s plot is based upon the surviving gangster seeking out a psychiatrist to help with his emotional