Filmmaking

Modern technology has shaped the way in which society is evolving. The rising popularity of cell phones containing cameras has led to a shift in culture and a new found passion for amateur filmmaking among society. Several cultural factors, globally and locally, have contributed to the success of mobile devices and amateur film. Technology is not just shaping culture; modern film and internet culture is shaping the development of today’s society. Globally, the self-concept of many cell phone and

1) To what does the term ‘event sequence film’ refer, and where and why was this developed? In your response provide at least two examples of this filmmaking practice. The term event sequence film refers to a work of cinema which is centered around a single discrete event from beginning to end, as opposed to focusing on abstract concepts or impressions (MacDougall 126). This style of film was developed initially at the Harvard Film School by Timothy Asch and John Marshall to represent the daily lives

Documentary filmmaking was then born and tremendously explored. Average men were instructed on how to use the recently-created camera and were hired to go for journeys around the globe and capture all the exotic images so as of the pyramids in Egypt. To say that the first movies were documentaries is a mistaken belief that too a big one. The first one-reelers were no more than a minute long, and they were called actualities. They were recordings of almost pointless daily events. Documentary filmmaking was

you’re a director. Everything after that you’re just negotiating your budget and your fee.” Anyone can be a filmmaker if they please. But while filmmaking is easy to learn, it takes years of practice. Many filmmakers take years honing their craft, striving to improve their creative skills and become better. From the 19th century to the present, filmmaking has been a growing and succeeding career. The first motion picture ever was made in the year 1872 when an English photographer by the name of Eadweard

present or future (Singer). It is the special attention that has recently been given to Native American’s own film making that is intended to reverse the devastating effects of previous discrimination and colonization of the Indians. This kind of filmmaking has been popularly referred to as indigenous media production (Singer). It has been considered to be a way for tribal people to think about and reflect on the white man’s most seductive and reductive development for conception and fair representation

Film style refers to the technical practices employed within filmmaking, this includes the use of cinematography, mise-en-scene, dialogue, editing and narrative. Understanding the changes in film style is crucial to examining film in a historical, political and cultural context. In this essay I will be exploring how the coming of sound homogenised filmmaking which resulted in changes in film style. The coming of film sound, transformed an experience which was exclusively visual, to equally audible

“The Eye of Horror”. Mark is a photographer and whenever he goes to kill one of his victims, the POV shifts to that of the cameraman, and then the camera slaughters it victim. This is a direct metaphor about how the filmmaking process “murders” the actors and actresses during the filmmaking process. They are acting, but none of their true personality comes through on screen. In order to do their job, the actors of a film are asked to repress their true dreams and desires and take on the role of someone

Leni Riefenstahl is seen to have played two roles throughout national and international history. One as a Nazi propagandist and the other as a pioneer filmmaker or “The mother of Documentary.” The work Leni did 1933 through 1945, however skilful and revolutionary to the art of cinematography, is tainted due to her involvement and contribution to the Nazi Regime. Leni Riefenstahl was offered the opportunity to film for the Third Reich in 1933. Out of both fear and intimidation to comply, Riefenstahl

Hollywood filmmaking conventions and techniques of the 1950s and 60s Hollywood cinema, in François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959). Hollywood produced films of the time used a very limited variation in film techniques such as camera, acting, mise-en-scene, editing and sound. This can be mainly attributed to the low innovative thought of creative and expressive camera movements, angles, etc… due to technological hindrances. In particular, this film analysis will de-construct the filmmaking elements

To complete the service-learning component of this course, I assisted Dr. Finley in conducting research used to create an encyclopedia of documentary films on the subject of crime or the criminal justice system. Documentary filmmaking is one of the oldest forms of motion picture. In 1919, when motion pictures were in their infancy, a Russian filmmaker by the name of Dziga Vertov criticized the Soviet film industry for creating the same fiction found in theaters and in literature instead of documenting