Filmmaking Essays

  • Lights! Camera! Action! : Filmmaking in the 21st Century

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    Lights! Camera! Action! : Filmmaking in the 21st Century Movies are one of the most remarkable and prevalent art forms of the 21st century. While we as a society praise the actors and actresses that star in them, we tend to ignore the actions that occur behind-the-scenes, also known as the filmmaking process. Contrary to popular belief, this process doesn’t simply start with “lights, camera, action” and end with “scene”. It can take months, years, or even decades to get a movie made; never mind getting

  • Film Editing Research Paper

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    art in order to edit it film or videos. One example of this is designing, theme, and putting in details in videos. Without these features you wouldn't have anything to catch the eyes in your videos that you have edited. A required course for filmmaking is in charge of making, leading, and developing movies production, according to

  • Film and video production

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    Film is such a competitive business that education is crucial if one wants to land a decent job in the work force. Although it is possible to do it all without the education, it is highly unlikely. The knowledge one learns from just basic filmmaking techniques will prove extremely valuable in the ... ... middle of paper ... ...lm festival’s one can attend to gain more knowledge about the business. Film Festival’s could help to broaden the readers knowledge of the actual film production

  • The Face Behind the Truth in Cinema

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    Since the beginning of Documentary Filmmaking, films have shown the eternal search for truth. Exposing reality as it is to the world through Film became a goal to Documentary Filmmakers. For a period of time Filmmakers lost their path along the way and became promoters who manipulated the audience around the world into believing what they wanted. During the 1960’s two special movements began to emerge in different parts of the world. Direct Cinema in North America and Cinema Vérité in Fance. These

  • Auter Theory: The Meaning of the Word Auteur in Movies

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    style but also the styles of the screenwriters, set designers, editors, and photography directors. Goldman himself benefitted and found himself pushing his art to keep up with the forward thinking and envelope pushing everyone in all aspects of filmmaking was engaged in as an attempt to heighten their profiles and gain prominence and be seen as artists who contributed a particular and unmistakable style to the piece. Works Cited Boozer, Jack. "The Screenplay and Authorship in Adaptation." Authorship

  • On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

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    those interested in the craft of filmmaking. I, a hopeful amateur currently studying film, do not (and should not) expect to easily reach the ranks of such idols, let alone be lucky enough to have myself compared to them down the road. Hoping to be able to, one day, take my storytelling aptitude into the world of cinema, I often find my humble self asking, “Where would an aspiring filmmaker take his or her first steps into the field?” I have read a number of filmmaking books before, such as Lloyd Kaufman’s

  • Lost In Translation

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    Process of Making a Film? What are the Four Stages, and what is Involved in each? 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. Normally, finding the idea of the film whyhat one wants to create is the core of the entire filmmaking process.; an idea must be born to make a film. The idea mostly comes from inspiration

  • Steve Harmon in Monster

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    trial for a being a possible accomplice to a murder. The book begins with him in jail waiting for his trial to start. The story is written in screenplay format along with Steve’s journal writing which he does even in the courtroom. Steve enjoys filmmaking and screenplay writing. Steve writes this way to keep his sanity while being in prison during the trial. The majority of the story takes place in the courtroom. Steve is there with another defendant, James King, who has his own attorney. The events

  • Brazils Current Film Industry

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    director Nelson Pereira dos Santos employed the filmmaking techniques of Italian non realism by using ordinary people as his actors and by going to the streets to shoot his low budget film. He would become one of the most important Brazilian filmmakers of all time, and it is he who set the stage for the Brazilian ‘cinema novo’ (an idea in mind and a camera in the hands) movement. By 1962 ‘cinema novo’ had established a new concept in Brazilian filmmaking. The ‘cinema novo’ film’s dealt with themes related

  • An Evaluation of the Work of Jan Svankmajer

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    began his career as a director, designer and puppeteer at the State Puppet Theatre in Liberec. During the Early 1960s he collaborated with several different theatre companies in Prague to stage a variety of plays. In 1964 his interests turned to filmmaking. In this medium he felt that more would be possible technically, and that his work would reach a wider audience. After creating various award-winning short films like The Last Trick, his work underwent a decisive transition from Mannerism to Surrealism

  • Critique La Ventura

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    Cannes film festival of 1960. No surprise he didn’t win the Palme D’or, but why give him an award in the first place? The reason for winning the title seemed unclear at first because the film had serious issues with breaking the rules of standardized filmmaking. For example having his actors enter the scene from opposite directions from where the came the shot before. However L’Avventura is a whole other world of its own. The title translates to English as “The Adventure” and indeed that’s what it is.

  • Music Supervisor: A Career Of A Career In Film And Music Production

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    This becomes a problem where the music supervisor must decide what area of the triangle has to be compromised; good, fast, or cheap. The fact that this responsibility falls on the music supervisor is proof enough of his or her importance in the filmmaking

  • Alain Robbe-Grillet and The Secret Room

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    chronological time in favor of repetitions, an absence of emotion, minute objective and sometimes geometric descriptions, the lack of authorial analysis, and the deconstruction of time. His films also reflect his desire to challenge the conventions of filmmaking, but he is recognized principally as a novelist. The novels of Robbe-Grillet all challenge their readers to reevaluate the way they read, the way they think, and the way they visualize the world around them. The novels are vastly different from

  • Personal Narrative: How Orphan Changed My Life

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    It was the worst movie I had ever watched. Not because it was poorly made but because it was so ghastly. I usually don’t watch horror movies. I grew up in a strict household with very rigorous rules, but this one I couldn’t turn away from. We were at my grandmother’s house for Christmas and my siblings and I had some extra time on our hands. My grandmother always had HBO which was great because I could watch movies here that I couldn’t at home. At first we were watching The Blind Side but when that

  • Anime in America

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    history. Reiji Matsumoto created Space Cruiser Yamato or Star Blazers as it was known here, a show about a WWII battleship turned spaceship used to defend Earth. Mamoru Oshii directed Ghost in the Shell, "the current standard for high-tech anime filmmaking" Osamu Tezuka created Tetsuwan Atom, known in America as Astro BoyTezuka is also "responsible for the 'large eye' look" found in anime. Tatsuo Yoshita created Mach Go Go Go, otherwise known as Speed Racer. Katsuhiro Otomo directed Akira, the first

  • The Big Sleep: Movie vs. Novel

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    hardboiled detective novel. Film noir is the "'dark film,' a term applied by French critics to [the] type of American film, usually in the detective of thriller genre, with low-key lighting and a somber mood" (Bordwell 479). By using this genre of filmmaking, Hawks had an effective vehicle with which to retain the tone of Chand... ... middle of paper ... ...yer's daughter. In the book, Marlowe had less difficulty respecting his employer through his unnatural sense of chivalry. Raymond

  • Operatic Melodrama in Apocalypse Now

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    political and social unrest of the 1970s provided Hollywood with some of its most influential films, often stemming from unlikely sources; two decades after melodrama's heyday, the genre re-emerged in an original form that continues to affect modern filmmaking. The historical influences of Italian opera and Hollywood family melodramas spawned a type of film that has been described as "historical, operatic, choral or epic" (Greene 388). Filmmakers of the 1970s explored the traditional modes of melodramatic

  • Comparing Dziga Vertov's Film, Man with a Movie Camera and Run Lola Run

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    point of departure the use of the camera as a keno-eye, more perfect than the human eye, for the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space." - Dziga Vertov , Manifesto The Council of Three (1923) The innovative theories and filmmaking techniques of Dziga Vertov revolutionized the way films are made today. Man With a Movie Camera (1929), a documentary that represented the peak of the Soviet avant-garde film movement in the twenties, displayed techniques in montage, creative camera

  • I, the Worst of All

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    that it is not. Mainstream cinema never looks at women as "beings with ideas," as she says in an interview, but as empty shells, foils for the male characters, so that they can act and think (Pick 78). She had to fight a whole tradition of male filmmaking with her movie, and (re)assert her own feminist values in a film that challenges all the stereotypical filmic representation... ... middle of paper ... ...berg Tells the Untold." Americas 46 (Mar/Apr 1994): 20. Bergmann, Emilie. "Abjection

  • The Story Of An Hour/The Joy That Kills

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    Filmmakers are granted artistic license because filmmaking is an art and because film and literature are not always exactly compatible. There are many artistic components in the making of a film. The plot or the story behind the film is one the most important of these components. The makers of The Joy That Kills in making a film version of Kate Chopin's short story The Story of an Hour took artistic license to its limits. The entire story was dismantled and then completely reinvented. Many characters