originally shot on film stock—the only medium available—but now includes video and digital productions that can be either direct-to-video‚ made as a television program or released for screening in cinemas. "Documentary" has been described as a "filmmaking practice‚ a cinematic tradition‚ and mode of audience reception" that is continually evolving and is without clear boundaries. In popular myth‚ the word documentary was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty’s
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The Digital Imaging Technician is a new job that is becoming more popular by the year because of the digital filmmaking with RED & ARRI cameras. The DIT is part of the camera department and part of the post-production. They ingest the media‚ consults with the director of photography (DOP) and does onset color correction as the footage appears flat because it’s normally shot in Log. This is the person performing the wrangling. This person is responsible for gathering and organizing different data
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things in show business. The nine minute film is separated into two segments--one half taking place in New York City and the other in Los Angeles--and aims to make a bold statement about the film industry while also paying homage to the styles of filmmaking most favored on each coast. The first half of the film--taking
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“Apparently no strictly logical distinctions can capture the variety of factors which create the genres we have” (Nicholas and Price‚ 1998) This quote demonstrates the complexity of allocating a particular genre to a film‚ as various aspects need to be considered. Although concrete groupings such as horror‚ science-fiction‚ crime and drama exist‚ the majority of movies contain more than one aspect which renders them difficult to categorise. For example‚ the difference between an ‘action’ and a
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Quentin Tarantino and the Director as DJ MICHAEL RENNETT I 1990S‚ TIMOTHY CORRIGAN DEFINED A NEW KIND OF film auteur as “celebrity‚” exemplified by Quentin Tarantino‚ Spike Lee‚ and Oliver Stone. He describes these directors as selfpromotional machines‚ in which “the artistic expression of contemporary directors is fully bound up with the celebrity industry of Hollywood” (38–39). Essentially‚ contemporary directors are marketing themselves as a specific brand‚ and the films created by each auteur
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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) is a fascinating piece of cinema‚ due to it’s length (running just over 2 hour) and few amount of shots‚ 140. This film is considered Myzoguchi’s masterpiece and encompasses most of his cinematic techniques and qualities in one film. The shot which best represents this is when Otoku walks down the street with the baby late at night and runs into Kikunosuke Onoue. The camera is from a very low angle in front and to the side of her‚ and follows Otoku as
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everyone felt exactly this way. He wasn’t anywhere near being considered popular‚ but more so not hated or disliked by anyone. He didn’t necessarily fit into any group‚ but he kept an alliance with every kid that attended the school. He had a love for filmmaking. Therefor‚ he spent the majority of his free time creating them with his bestfriend Earl. When he found out that his so called ex middle school sweetheart was diagnosed with a form of Leukemia he was of no dismay. His mother‚ however‚ was not going
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should be regarded to as an auteur. Auteur Theory refers to the reflection of the director’s personal creative vision and style. “Auteur” is a French word for “author.” Auteur Theory suggests that a director can use the commercial equipment of filmmaking in the same way that an artist uses a paintbrush to paint. Auteur Theory is an avenue for the personal artistic expression of the director. The film theoretician‚ André Bazin‚ explained that‚ “Auteur theory is a way of choosing the personal factor
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distinguished the New Hollywood as a symptom of a “Blockbuster mentality”. High concept as a series of economic/aesthetic strategies said to have characterized the New Hollywood blockbuster era‚ to the extent to which High Concept and Blockbuster filmmaking reflects the late 1970s and 1980s The years of 1983 to 1986 were the years that represent the mature period of high concept. Major studios had adapted their production schedule towards this form of production. Karate kid‚ having been made in
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By the time Surrealism emerged as a recognized artistic movement‚ several influential film genres had begun their push into a global cinematic conscience. Such genre-defining films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Nosferatu (1922) for German Expressionism‚ and Battleship Potemkin (1925) for Soviet Montage‚ were all released within a few years of Andre Breton’s First Manifesto of Surrealism in 1924. But Surrealism itself would not see its first film with popular recognition until later in
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