Example Of A Reflective Essay
Reflective Essay
On my note card, I wrote I want to learn about the different types of films and how they are made. At the beginning of the class we the class discussed Manipulating Perspectives in movies, and how the directors show us what they want us to perceive and everything they prepare on film, is not an accident. Like when we watched the short video clip that Stanley Kubrick filmed, of the man in a space suit walking down the pipe looking hallway. We also discussed why Kubrick's movies are so uncommon and his heavy use of one-point perspective, to focus in on a single character or object, and often to create a sense that we are trapped within the scene rather than merely watching it almost …show more content…
I felt with this film, Herzog went through all the footage and took out some of the worst clips, like when the character started a cursing frenzy, and getting off topic of why he was doing this work. I don’t think I learned much from this film, unless its teaching us what not do in making a documentary. Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer was an exciting film, in the way of the actual filming of how the director shot it in three different scenarios, one after another, each with a different end. For an 80 minute film the director made it feel longer with the three parts, the film features two allusions to Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo which is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller …show more content…
I wouldn’t have thought about angles of the camera, the lighting, the setting, the script, and whatever goes on in T.V or movie production. I like that I now know about the camera angles and shots, why directors either shoot over the shoulder, which we see a character or main object over another’s shoulder. Too extremely wide shots which characters appear small in the scenery, and often used to the at start of a movie or sequence as an ‘establishing shot’ to show where the excitement is taking
On my note card, I wrote I want to learn about the different types of films and how they are made. At the beginning of the class we the class discussed Manipulating Perspectives in movies, and how the directors show us what they want us to perceive and everything they prepare on film, is not an accident. Like when we watched the short video clip that Stanley Kubrick filmed, of the man in a space suit walking down the pipe looking hallway. We also discussed why Kubrick's movies are so uncommon and his heavy use of one-point perspective, to focus in on a single character or object, and often to create a sense that we are trapped within the scene rather than merely watching it almost …show more content…
I felt with this film, Herzog went through all the footage and took out some of the worst clips, like when the character started a cursing frenzy, and getting off topic of why he was doing this work. I don’t think I learned much from this film, unless its teaching us what not do in making a documentary. Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer was an exciting film, in the way of the actual filming of how the director shot it in three different scenarios, one after another, each with a different end. For an 80 minute film the director made it feel longer with the three parts, the film features two allusions to Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo which is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller …show more content…
I wouldn’t have thought about angles of the camera, the lighting, the setting, the script, and whatever goes on in T.V or movie production. I like that I now know about the camera angles and shots, why directors either shoot over the shoulder, which we see a character or main object over another’s shoulder. Too extremely wide shots which characters appear small in the scenery, and often used to the at start of a movie or sequence as an ‘establishing shot’ to show where the excitement is taking