Mrs. Grinnell English 12 1st May 2005 Film and Video Production: Becoming the Future of the Silver Screen Every so often a movie is released with such tense anticipation and glamorous visual art that the public is drawn to this dramatic rendition of life in the theatre. For even just two hours or so‚ you are put into a different lifestyle. Action‚ drama
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The film by D.W. Griffith—“Birth of a Nation” is merely propaganda used to brainwash the young white population of 1915 into denying blacks further freedoms. The film shows blacks in a state superiority over Southern whites which is quite ironic because if up to Southern Whites blacks would still have been their property‚ so technically no white would have allowed that situation to even come close. Throughout the film it depicts blacks in a submissive position to which they are abusing their powers
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some collapsed‚ while others ran out yelling in disgust or horror (qtd. in “Disturbing New Pathways”). The legacy of Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock‚ renowned American movie director‚ inspired countless movies and created a new sub-genre in horror‚ known as “slashers”. According to Carol Clover‚ an American professor of film studies‚ the slasher movie is characterized as following the story of a psychotic killer who brutally victimizes a group of young attractive women with a phallic sharp object
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The director uses film techiques to tell the story ad create a respose in the audiece. These techiques are. Shots wide shot- a wide shot is a shot that shows the setting as well as the character. This kind of shot is used so the audience can understand the characters physical experience with the setting. normal shot- a normal shot usually shows the characters waist and up. This is a standard shot that helps to focus attention on the action. close up- a close up shot is a shot in which the camera
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taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot. • To orientate the viewer to the flow of the narrative by alerting the audience to the beginning of a new sequence‚ but does not itself carry narrative information. Effect: When the director wants the responder (us) to understand the emotion being experienced by the character or something unique about their physical features. Creates an intimacy between the character and the viewer. • The camera moves closer to one of the figures or
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Homosexuality in Film When sultry‚ womanly JoAnn steps into the five and dime‚ rarely would a viewer automatically leap to the conclusion that twenty years prior‚ that gorgeous she had been a he. Ed Graczyk and Robert Altman pushed the envelope when they so blatantly portrayed homosexuality and trans-genderedness in a movie in 1982. They were not‚ however the first to choose to display homosexuality in movies. "In fact‚ homosexuality‚ or the idea of it‚ has been with [the viewer] since movies
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Jett Palframan Ms. Nicolson Film Studies Connected This short drama film follows two protagonists and their struggles with bullying‚ social media and trust. The “popular” girl Abby Hull is beautiful‚ seemingly confident and can be very mean when she wants to be. Although she has no trouble being a bully in the really world‚ Abby prefers to do it behind the protection of her computer. Abby picks on numerous girls over social media because of dark issues that reside inside her due to her everyday
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Film Language The Semiotics of Cinema What is Film Language? Ways in which films tell stories and affect the viewer; the elements of filmmaking employed to tell the story in a particular way Christian Mertz’s theory: film was not a language system but a language. French film theorist Conventions Customary ways of doing things‚ rather than grammatical rules A way in which something is usually done‚ especially within a particular area or activity Example: Canadian tire money‚ where it
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YAK Films is an American and France based video production company whose work includes music videos‚ hip hop dance videos and commercials. The company was co-founded by two youth workers and was incorporated as a privately held company in January 2011. The company’s stated mission from the outset was to produce "multimedia production as a voice of resistance and an alternative to the mainstream." They are best known for the viral video "RIP Rich D‚" commonly know as the “dancing in the rain” video
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Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality‚ primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.[1] A ’documentary film’ was 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
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