In class this week, I was assigned director of my group’s film. Director’s roles in films are to oversee all parts of the production including the actors, the technical crew, and script supervisor. During the class project I did feel influential in the production of the film, because the director makes sure everyone is ready and decides when to cut. I mainly try to have the film look nice and presentable during production. As Bordwell and Thompson said, “It is the director who makes the crucial decisions about performance, staging, lighting, framing, cutting, and sound”. These components are influential and make the director a critical part of the plot. During this simplified process, I mainly decided staging and performance, but I think the …show more content…
If the producer has an intention for the script, they may also decide to change it or, in the real business, hire someone new to adjust the script. I believe the producer is a large part of the film making process and has majority of the power. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) depicted Roscoe Dexter as the director, who was a very high strung and uptight coordinator who was stressed, because of the simple tasks which Lina couldn’t fulfill. I believe this depiction is how the directors feel and may sometimes act in relation to their actors. I personally was not as frustrated as he was, on the other hand I had a short time with the actors and didn’t have all the responsibilities there are with cinematographer’s and technical …show more content…
Feurer supports this theme when saying “The opening sequence sets up an obvious split between sound and image, truth and lies. Put in the context of the film as a whole, it corre-sponds to another opposition: that between Lina Lamont, who thinks Don loves her because he makes love to her in films, and Kathy Selden, who is destined to be his "true" love and who-at least initially-scorns the "dumb show" of silent cinema.” (445). Feuer continues to support her topic saying Lina represents the fakery in film and Kathy represents the idea of purity, because Lina is not able to voice herself while Kathy is the full package of singing, acting, and dancing. When she spoke about this theme, I thought it was interesting how she depicted the characters as a resemblance of real or fake. I didn’t think of noticing this film as a resemblance of genuineness. I thought it furthered my thoughts in the film and had me fining new things I didn’t notice in the film before, for example the idea of film changing from fake to real when sound was incorporated into
Gimme Shelter is a documentary film that captures the events of the Rolling Stones Tour and the concert at Altamont in 1969. The Rolling-Stones are a very popular band that helped define Rock n Roll music for generations. Member Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been an inspiration and adapted into other films, characters and performances for actors and filmmakers over the last few decades. Gimme Shelter has been known to be one of the greatest rock n roll documentaries ever made. The events that occurred during the Rolling-Stones tour in 1970 made headlines and showed the world the impact and chaos music can cause when a murder occurred during the events at the concert at Altamont. Gimme Shelter was an opening track on the bands 1969 album
The film conveys the feelings of the characters very well. Phillip Noyce uses lighting which always goes very well with the scenes even though he uses a lot of non-diegetic and contrapuntal sounds. The film?s shots are always correct and seem to have a purpose and the editing is wonderful.
After watching the movie "Even the Rain", I was impressed how deeply it was thought out. With this film, I realized that people are ambiguous, and in different situations may not act the same way, showing the character from an unexpected side for others, and for himself. Also that history always repeats. Are hundreds of years old and forgotten, Read in dusty books suddenly is played at you through the window.
How much does a long-term collaborative process between composer and director influence the establishment of the former as an author? Give examples as appropriate.
was able to get much more appreciation out of the movie because I am studying it's topic in this
Essay #1: Film Comparison: Singin’ in the Rain, dir Stanley Donen with Sunset Boulevard, dir Billy Wilder
Classical Hollywood Cinema is a chain of events that has a cause – effect relationship within a time and space. The environment looks realistic and believable to the viewers because the style is predictable, and the time is linear throughout the film. Each scene with the development of the plot and story is motivated by cause and effect. The filmmaking process involves four major steps that cut across the board. The process revolves around these levels that make it orderly to every individual involved in filming. The process has the following stages: Idea and Development, Pre-Production, Production and Post- Production. In Idea and Development it is normally
The elements of editing such as shots, takes, scenes, and sequences are important factors to each film. In the film, the
Overall, the score was beautiful and appropriate, adding suspense and mystery at all the right times. The sound effects added psychological flavor to the story without drawing too much attention to it.
Although I enjoyed the main portion of the movie, there were some obvious likes and dislikes in my opinion. I believe that I learned from this movie and it helped me understand more of what the people of that time were feeling.
If I had a children in my class with an exceptionality I would keep it
In the anime, Attack on Titan, the director is able to create and blend different master plots: vengeance by visual editing that places flashbacks at important moments inside the story and camera angles; hero’s quest by visual cuts and transitions from different character points of view; underdog by changing camera angles. Finally, but not least temptation through the use of sound editing with actions scenery and coloring. Narrative elements used by the director inside a film can change the master plot at any critical moment inside a story, elaborating a different story that can vary depending on our way of interpreting and analyzing the world around us. The director may have a general message that he wants to convey through narrative elements as it was previously stated, but we as the audience have the last word in what the film represents even though we obtain the main idea through the manipulation of the narrative elements used by the director.
How important a contribution does the script or storyboard make to any given film? Storyboards are critical in the pre-production for most films, as they demonstrate how the camera will move throughout scenes, as well as the way the scene is organised through the mise en scene. Alongside this it helps the Director develop a view of what his final film will look like, as Mark Simon states, ‘The storyboard is an illustrated view, like a comic book, of how the producer or director envisions the final edited version of a product to look’ (Simon, 2000 pp. 3), I have created my own storyboard for a short scene, and I will analyse what I have done, and discuss some of the issues that I came across.
and decide on the size, cost, and content of a production. They hire directors, principal
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.