Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Film Shot/Technique

1. Close-up, high key lighting
2. High angle
3. Panning
4. Tracking shot
5. Crane shot
6. Long shot
7. Bottom lighting
8. Rear lighting
9. Super Imposition
10. Eye-line match

Sunset Boulevard Chart

1. Male Characters
  • Joe
  • Max
  • Demile
  • Artie
2. Female Characters
  • Norma
  • Betty

3. Silent Film Style Narratives
  • dark
  • mirrors
  • Joe = Narrator

4. Silent Film V. Hollywood
  • you have to be ruthless to get ahead
  • violence sells
  • Silent film actors were just kicked out when the "talkies" began

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Rebel Without A Cause Q's

  1. They communicate about youth and rebellion by stating that rebels don't have a cause, that they rebel because of family issues.
  2. Jim is seen as the unhappy child with a dad that doesn't play his role. The mom is seen as the power of the house. Judy is also unhappy because of her relationship with her father. Plato doesn't feel loved by his parents and is brought into the police station for drowning puppies. All these characters are connected because they're not getting love from the people around them. Objects play a role in the film as well. The mirror device is used to bring them together, and Ray's shooting links the three. Another scene is when Jim tries to give Plato's his coat.
  3. When Plato is shot, the camera tilts after he is shot. This makes the scene more dramatic. Unique lighting is also used with the police headlights. Plato's socks also plays a role which the characters feel a connection between them after looking at it. His color of his socks make it stand out dramatically.
  4. Colors played a role in the film. The red jacket stood out showing how he felt isolated from the world. Plato's socks also shows that he is disturbed with the mismatched socks. Connects all the main characters with the color of red.
  5. They are like Romeo and Juliet because they sneak out and are rebellious to their parents. The father also disapproves of Jim. Natalie Wood is in both films and lots of red is used in both. The differences would be the dialogue, as well as the weapons and clothes.
  6. The big,ominous place above L.A make it an effective setting. Its a play to run away and hide. The universe is ending and they want to find their place in the world. The problems of the three characters are insignificant compared to the universe ending. Plato is scared of the world ending because he's so lonely.
  7. It is important because his dad is a "chicken". Jim comes back to this word because he wants to prove to the world and himself that he is a man (more like his mom). He wants to show he also has honor, becaues his dad is a liar and all of the adults are unscrupulous.
  8. It shows that gangs just follow what ever the leader tells them to do. They have no idea what else to do with their lives but to be told what to do.
  9. Jim is shown as an outsider with the crest and seal. He also makes the moo noise and makes people laugh in the theater. In the beginning, he asks for directions to the school and offers Judy a ride, but she refuses and tells him she has her own friends. The red coat once again shows he is an outsider.
  10. Jim and Terry are both tough guys, but are sensitive especially towards the girls they like. Plato and Jimmy both look up to their father figures and are the older brother type of guys. Judy and Edie are the love interests. Judy is immature and Edie is more of the strong character. Father Berry and Juvenile Officer both want to keep young people out of trouble.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Citizen Kane Q's

1: I think that all of the different points of view agree with each other. The only different thing would have been between people. I think Kane is still somewhat of a mystery but we get a general idea of what kind of person he was.

2: He wants everyone to love him. He wants love from the readers of his newspaper, from his political supporters, from his second wife, and from life. He buys there love, and that stands in the way. He wasn’t successful in the end. Both his wives left him, and his friend from the newspaper. And he wasn’t elected. He was screwed.

3: He built a newspaper empire in order to reach out to people so that they would love him. He built things for people just to win there love. These things that he built brought him happiness. He got to reach out to people but his staff and eventually readers didn't want him and niether did Susan.

4: At the end of the movie, “Rosebud” was a word on his sleigh as a child. The last thing he was doing before he was taken from his family by the banker was playing on his sleigh.

6: For the newspaper, Orson Welles wants to show us that the people of the newspaper lie. Kane wants to let the readers of the inquirer to know that he was going to tell all of the news honestly, truthfully and not leave anything out,but after a couple years he goes back.

7: You can see people in the background and know what they do in the other scenes. Also it helps when someone is walking to or from the camera there like getting important or not important.

8: I think that Kane has an urge to collect things because he feels that he had so much taken away from him early in his life. At a young age he was taken away from the things that attracted him. So he was happy to have all these things again. And I think he has an attachment issue.

10: I think that Kane did these things to himself. So i dont feel bad for him. He made people not like him, he tried to buy people’s love. So he deserved he to lose everything. In the end, he was a bitter old man

Film Shot/Technique

1. close up

2. high angle

3.Pan

4. dolly/tracking

5. Crane Shot

6. long shot/chiarroscuro lighting

7. bottom lighting

8.

9.superimposition

10. eyeline match

Thursday, December 9, 2010

On The Waterfront Q's

1. I think that he's mostly hard-headed , brave and he also is very strong, but he also has a soft side to him too. I think in group loyalty you draw the line when you have to take responsibility in your actions. Meaning things that mean something and are going to affect you come first then a gang comes next.

2. He articulates the code he goes and lives by on the mobs expectations. He fallows the mobs rules through it all but still keeps his own priorities on track. Mainly he fallows the mob. He begins to question it because he has other things to take care of but yet he doesn't want to let anyone down.

3. Terry and Edie went way back since forever. They were friends very good ones too. She sees the good in him, cause the remet at the church and he got her out so she wouldn't get hurt. She brings out the good in him. They give eachothers trust and bring out one another's qualities.

4. He did really good on capturing the real feel, his facial expressions look very real and natural which adds to his ability on capturing the feeling. The capture doesnt show any hollywood characteristics. The method acting and natural lighting contributes to films realism. Kazan showed a different kind of camera work.

5. Brando strengths as an actor is that he uses his body language to portray what hes saying rather than actually saying what he wants to. The roles hes best suited for is the ones that acts like a bad boy role. He has the roles that put more emphasis on "bad".

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Blog Review

-Silent Film
-Hollywood Censorship (MPAA)
- Screwball Comedy
-Method Acting
-Film Noir
In our timeline, we are around 1941.
Some events from the Hollywood Unit are the conversion of silent movies to sound and from black-and-white to color. Also the Hollywood Studio System is improved. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are established and Orson Welles madeCitizen Kane which ranked #1 in critics' lists of the top 10 international films of all time.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Film Noir Hard-Boiled Dialogue

-Hey Grifter,
-Hey Greaser, So did you go glaum the hooch store, or were you over the edge with the rams?

-No, i had a house dick come to my place last night with a warrent, he thought I kidnapped a newshawk, so I pooped him.

-Your such a boob.

-I need you to hid my bean-shooter. I'm behind the eight ball right now.

-Alright I'll cheese it. just take it on the heel and toe.