While this was a challenging project, I can 't find myself saying I didn 't enjoy it. Even though I still am a freshman in college and in the midst of changing my major, film is always something I 've found a passion to have. I still haven 't decided yet, but film or architecture will be one of my majors. The other? A minor. It all first started Junior year at Bishop Machebeuf High School. I took the only film class there after having accomplished my speech class. The class consisted of watching movies, but not solely for one 's own enjoyment.
Many types of camera angles, audio, themes, shots, etc, were all things we had to keep an eye out for and write an example of such down on our worksheet. Another thing we did, and best of all, was making movies. Throughout the semester, Mrs. Aksamit would give us different assignments to work on. In the beginning, they were simple, but as the months passed by, the assignments grew more challenging. Regardless, that didn 't mean I didn 't have any fun making them. Our stop motion assignment for example, I had burned down a dollhouse. I must say, it was rather hilarious. The elements and skills I learned in that classwere ones I kept forever.
When we got the opportunity to do a broadcasting project in my Journalism class, the moment Professor Baum mentioned the assignment I had begun thinking right away of some ficitional stories to come up with. We got into groups, and my group consisted of Geordan, Mickella,
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I consider this to be a part of my work now, so I have to give it everything I can. The other thing I would probably change of course, like any other regular college student, is the time. The assignment was issued a month ago. After class that day we sat down and came up with hilarious segments and stores. However, we didn 't start filming until two weeks into November, and by Thanksgiving Break the majority of people were away for the
The panel featured people across all spectrums of media including journalism, broadcasting, and public relations. The panelists included Mike Royer, a longtime broadcaster, Daniel Sparkman, a former journalist and current press secretary for Governor Kay Ivey, Catenya Henry, a longtime TV host, journalist, and producer, Ed Enoch, a reporter for the Tuscaloosa News, and Mike Faulk who joined over video chat, a journalist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. These panelists provided valuable insight to the students in the audience that is helpful for anyone pursing a career in news.
Small time commercial and indie film director, Edoardo Nolfo has dedicated his life to filmmaking and educating others on the steps to take to become a filmmaker. His personal website entitles “LA Video Filmmaker” has a detailed and labeled step by step guide to how the process of a film comes to life. The following process is all according to Edoardo Nolfo as he has labeled it in his personal
This information was presented in form of a movie in a campaign dabbed “Make a Movie, Make a Difference”. This information was enlightening as high school students engaged in movie production to addre...
Lately, I’ve been getting into filmmaking, that’s really fun for me, so I’m working on making a short film right now; but I don’t know, it’s wherever I end up going. Hopefully, I’ll have fun doing it!
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
After taking this course, this has been a struggling journey. I did not find fun in this class due to the grade I have now as a result. My writing skills did not improve from high school, losing confidence in myself to create well-written, interesting papers. However, this class has given me ideas about new styles of writing. Having done these papers helped me to discern the qualifications to write a rhetorical analysis essay from a visual critique paper. Here is how my experience in College Writing went.
As you probably could have assumed, I love to watch any film I can get my hands on, and my once strong friendships are hanging on by a thread due to hours spent helping on short films of mine. Unlike some applicants, I come from a farming community with no film connection, none of my classmates are interested in pursuing a career like film, my school offers no film courses, and I have no film connection currently. Surely I sound like a poor fit for the Hollywood Reporter’s top film school, you may even wonder why I, without a single connection, would choose this field. Hopeful it may be understood me more through my background.
Over the years video has evolved from a slideshow on a screen to an emotion reality wrapped up into a 2 hour blockbuster film. Watching a movie today you would never think or imagine that it was once silent, or it was once told that film was pointless and would never last. And you could never think that it was done by take strips of pictures cutting those pictures, over lapping the pictures, and gluing a reel together just for a 15 minute side show in a theater that seat 100. Film is a big part of society now. It has become into something that most can’t live without. The history of film is captivating and full of surprises. Starting in 1900 and ending to where we are now is a big topic to go over, but it really has developed into three steps, pictures, Audio, and people.
When I first entered this class, film as an art form and as an expressionistic medium was foreign to me. Films have always been a part of my life; I grew up in the era of Disney and Pixar, but it was an art form I had not analyzed before this year. Throughout grade school, you are exposed to painting, drawing, even perhaps photography; rarely does film enter the picture. You learn about the great master artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, or even Ansel Adams. These are the people that are remembered in our classroom. Film has its own masters of the craft, a concept I did not realize before I took this course. Each part of a movie is carefully crafted; the director is the skilled artist and the film is his masterpiece. This
Over the course of the semester and watching many different films starting at 1927, my view on films and my filmic experience has changed in multiple ways. Starting with the film It (Badger, 1927) and six weeks later watching The Graduate (Nichols, 1967); I saw the differences in how the films were capturing the characters and the advances in technology. Watching Annie Hall (Allen, 1977), which came out 10 years after The Graduate, I saw differences how they went about showing the moments of intimacy since The Graduate came out when the production code was in effect. Seeing how films started with black and white and not having camera movement, to the camera moving and start having effects such as shot-reaction shot, breaking the 4th wall to
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Do not believe something when you know it is not correct. Even though people may have good intentions most of the time there are those are out to harm you. Take this story of a man named Edward Daniels (also known as Teddy). In the movie Shutter Island, directed by Marin Scorsese in 2010. Teddy is a Us Marshal with a lost soul and a daunting past. Teddy is a World War I vet, who has a lot of flash backs, and nightmares about his past. Teddy meets up with his new partner, Chuck Aula, on the ferry ride to the island. This was the first time Teddy had met Chuck. Right in the beginning you can tell there is something off about the whole situation. Why would Teddy Barely meet his new partner on the ferry, I would think they would have met at the
Across the globe watching movies started as an asylum for the working class, but slowly the ideas being portrayed onscreen have evolved resulting in movie going to become almost religious. Movies have the ability to leave us in awe as a result of their ability to give us a glimpse of a dream, however unrealistic. I myself am a huge fan of the film industry. I started to feel a certain reverence for it because of the way it inspired me to dream and gave birth to my ambitions. This ultimately led to me to go into an in depth investigation of whether I was the only one who felt this way and what affects had been created because of this feeling.
Ever since I was little I remember playing games where I would fight the bad guy and win the girl in the end. This never seem to affect me or make me wonder what small effect it had on my thought process. In games such as Zelda, call of duty, assassin creed, gears of war, Mario, and even halo you play as a white heterosexual male. The idea of playing this way never seemed to phase me as a young child. As I grew up and became more aware of the difference of people and the need for other as well as myself a need to be able to connect and find one 's self in different place such as games, movies, and TV shows. I became aware of the one sided views that video games seem to have. Then I realized that it was seen as acceptable to only have the one sided displayed due to the lack of speaking out on the need for change.
Film Industry Statistics and Career Info (2010). All Art Schools. Retrieved August 9, 2010, from http://www.allartschools.com/faqs/film-industry