Transnational cinema

Thesis: Director Christopher Nolan’s attitude of only relying on special effects when absolutely necessary, along with the superior editing demonstrated on the film to keep the story moving and the expert use of sound design and film scoring, all contributed to the success of the film Inception. I. The use of practical effects and less CGI in the movie Inception makes the film more believable and keeps the audience’s attention. A. For the scene where the train bursts onto the streets of a city

If you could go back an have a choice of which decade you wanted to be raised in, which year would you pick? Every time that question comes to mind, I would always typically think about living in the 70’s or 80’s. From what I have seen the people living through that decade looked as if they had the best time of their lives. It looked as if during these time periods, a lot of people broke out of the norms and started living freely. Those people living through these decades had to have had an interesting

How did different was Captain America: Civil War compared to previous projects? In many respects the work was similar to past Marvel projects, for Cinesite – coming on board late into Production, there was a definite brief to work to, a locked cut, pre built assets and plenty of reference to match to, except for an exact look for the Black Panther. How did Dan DeLeeuw articulate what he was looking for? Dan briefed us on Conference calls with Cinesync, running through cuts, incorporating editorial

Mass Reproduction and Cultural Eradication In the reading “The Work of Art in the Age of It’s Technological Reproducibility”, by W. Benjamin he expresses his point of view on the loss of the traditional aspect and “aura” of art that is seen within today’s society. He also speaks about the way that photography has become a device for the mass reproduction of images and has begun to eliminate this aspect of authenticity that places an image in a specific place and time. The person that is behind

Cinematic codes entails the visual aspects that are employed in filming of a single shot, and include the lighting, movements, sound objects, color, shadow, among others. Normally, these cinematic codes must be planned earlier before the filming kicks off and requires that they are stationed in particular stations within the set. These codes appears to have the real world existence therefore may appear not to have been encoded. Boyz N The Hood is an example of the film where the cinematic codes

To Hollywood, the word blockbuster refers to a movie that provides the audience with sensational experience independent of such old-fashioned notions as plot and performance. The move towards sensational entertainment was fueled by Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The blockbuster action-adventure type film was a huge success due to a few defining attributes. Those attributes are normally a buff man that stars, his disregard for conventional law enforcement justice meaning he does what it

format and setup, but this does not make it a classical movie like the Wizard of Oz. It is no walk in the park creating a Classical movie. Jaws is the quintessence of Classical Hollywood Cinema. It is a great suspenseful classical movie that will beat out the test of time. Two main element in narrative Hollywood cinema are focusing on main character, and that main character solving a goal. The movie, Jaws, revolves around Sherriff Brody, and his struggle to protect the beaches from a shark. Once there

The studio system was an arrangement of craft services and talent that made movies dictated by contractual terms. Through this system, studios could easily move from project to project, producing like that of a factory. Creating movies in this arrangement eliminated the need to raise money or finances; directors usually created movies in the style of the studio which lessened artistic creativity (Lewis, p 104). The studio system was dominant in Hollywood through the 1920’s well into the 1950’s

Over the years the studio system has changed faces multiple times. Beginning in the early twentieth century with competition between the independent filmmakers and the Motion Picture Patents Company, to the studio system’s peak times of production, profit and theatres, the film industry adapted an organization of the studio system, saw it rise to a golden age, and saw its decline. What exactly is the studio system? An organization of filmmaking and production was originally made because there

What are the foundations of any film? The foundations of a film are nothing technical, but the time and thought that goes into them are what makes a film. These foundations are the lights, scenery, plot, camera techniques, and of course the actors. What really makes a film is the selection of actors the director picks. Yes, all the other foundations are important, but the character choice is what makes a film. In Nakahira’s film Crazed Fruit, he choice actress Mie Kitahara to play a youthful young