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Cogs & Celluloid
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Final Exam Essay Question:
The online portion of the exam has been opened. You have been given PLENTY of hints on how to do well on this exam, but the one open-ended portion of the exam is the written response. Please be familiar with the following BEFORE beginning the exam:
This essay may be pre-written, but you cannot copy and paste into the window. You must re-type you answer, but this will help you revise your argument and avoid typos.
Taking
any one of the nine "narrative" films that we watched over the course
of the semester, write an essay in which you discuss how the key element
that we focused on for that particular film functions in the film--and focus on how viewer expectations were met (you can also watch Lost in La Mancha to discuss production).
I
am looking for comprehensive scope here rather than individual detail,
but one in which you make a connection between the particular element of
the film and how it manipulates or guides the viewer to certain outcome
or perspective.
As a reminder, here are the feature films we watched for class:
- Purple Rose of Cairo: Any element can apply to this film, since it’s primary focus was viewer expectation
- Man with the Movie Camera: Form/Genre
- The Player: Production
- Lost in La Mancha: Production
- Adaptation: Narrative
- Barton Fink: Mise-en-scene
- Ed Wood: Cinematography
- The Five Obstructions: Editing
- Irma Vep: Acting
This essay may be pre-written, but you cannot copy and paste into the window. You must re-type you answer, but this will help you revise your argument and avoid typos.
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Graduate for Wednesday Analysis: Focus on LAST Scene in Sequence
For Cinematography Analysis in Mid-term Exam:
Scene following soon after in hotel where he calls Mrs. Robinson:
Following scene in the hotel room with a cut to black:
Scene for full analysis following hotel room scene:
Scene following soon after in hotel where he calls Mrs. Robinson:
Following scene in the hotel room with a cut to black:
Scene for full analysis following hotel room scene:
Monday, April 1, 2013
Actors as Elements of Film
Early Film Reflects the Stage
Griffith Learns to Edit w/ Lilian Gish (beginning the director/actor relationship)
Power of the Closeup for Actors on Screen
Humphrey Bogart is the epitome of the studio-generated Star, who went from being typecast as a gangster and became instead the cynical film-noir hero who reveals his noble side at the end of the film.
Tom Cruise @ IMDB - A perfect PERSONA actor. His catalog is basically a rewriting of the same character for different narratives: the likeable bad boy gone good routine. He is always confident, arrogant, and self-serving at a movie's start, but life or circumstances teach him a valuable lesson that makes him a better person. He is as close to the studio actor as it used to exist within the old studio system. If you watch any interview with him, he maintains that persona continuously, just as a studio would require.
Johnny Depp @ IMDB
Griffith Learns to Edit w/ Lilian Gish (beginning the director/actor relationship)
Power of the Closeup for Actors on Screen
Humphrey Bogart is the epitome of the studio-generated Star, who went from being typecast as a gangster and became instead the cynical film-noir hero who reveals his noble side at the end of the film.
Tom Cruise @ IMDB - A perfect PERSONA actor. His catalog is basically a rewriting of the same character for different narratives: the likeable bad boy gone good routine. He is always confident, arrogant, and self-serving at a movie's start, but life or circumstances teach him a valuable lesson that makes him a better person. He is as close to the studio actor as it used to exist within the old studio system. If you watch any interview with him, he maintains that persona continuously, just as a studio would require.
Johnny Depp @ IMDB
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Reminder: Sustainable Santa Fe Student Film Competition Deadline is April 2.
Go to this website if interested in entering a film for the Sustainable Santa Fe Student Film Competition. Deadline is April 2. You COULD use this film for your final project if you have been working on it.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Interesting Film for the Role of Digital in Movies
Saturday, March 23, 2013
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