Feature film

could never have made any of these films by yourself”- Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg was very inspired by filmmaking while he was young. He took this inspiration and made his dream come true. After dropping out of college, he worked as an intern at Universal Studios. Then, using his skills he learned throughout the studio internship, he created a short film called Amblin using different platforms such as 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm. Steven Spielberg had his short film reviewed by the executives at…

Screenings of films were shown in theatres or music halls, but as the popularity of film grew, it was recognized that dedicated cinemas were a necessity. Once such location that was only used for one showing was the Berlin Wintergarten Theatre. In 1895, Max and Emil Skladanowsky screened a film during the month of November. True dedicated cinemas arrived on the scene around the turn of the century. As we learned in Lesson One, the Eden Theatre in France showed their first film in 1899.…

narrative are transform into visuals; from the ideas to small details. In cinematography, visual metaphor requires the film maker to have the ability to tell a story through the visual (Brown, 2016, p. 46). This is very important as…

Inquisitive Beauty Alfred Hitchcock was a brilliant director of the mid-twentieth century directing very famous films such as Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). The film To Catch a Thief, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, is a suspense-thriller about an ex-jewel thief accused of committing crimes parallel to his work in the past. In the film, the main characters John Robie (Cary Grant) and Frances Stevens (Grace Kelly) were illustrated to be very…

Natural: A Forgotten Filmmaker The first known female filmmaker in the world, who revolutionized the film industry is forgotten in the cinematic history. A global powerhouse with decades-long career who made over one thousand movies, and saw the birth of cinematic motion pictures is vaguely remembered today. Her name is Alice Guy-Blaché and she directed, wrote, and produced nearly one thousand films, both silent and talking. Her drive can be clearly seen in this quote, “Is nothing connected…

concentration camps. Although the film won several Oscars’, many critics who accused the production to have falsely depiction of the Holocaust, unrealistic plot and comedy attacked the film. One of the most common opposition to Life is Beautiful was the unrealistic emotion used in the film. Instead of portraying the Holocaust as an event with horrible features and sensations, the film had a Hollywood storyline. According to one…

A dejected and love struck movie projectionist dreams his way into the film world and in doing so reflects the audiences escapist tendencies, this is the crux of Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent comedy film Sherlock Jr. The film is a great example of silent era comedy films, of which Keaton was a prolific figure. Sherlock Jr. is just one of many that he starred in and directed throughout the first part of the twentieth century. Many times Keaton is contrasted with another great slapstick comedy…

American Beauty, and Zero Dark Thirty. Diegetic sound within the cinematic film domain include tracks of various sounds that are in synchronization with the film and additional sound narrative that includes voice-over. Earning two wins and seven Academy Award nominations, L.A. Confidential director, Curtis Hanson depicts the crime/drama/mystery/thriller genre film that fades-in to an extreme close-up in the opening of the film that includes a postcard of L.A. and directly to a montage of…

– Story/Plot – In this area, you should offer a brief summary of the film, and then show how it was deployed in the narrative structure of the film. Explain the difference between the film’s story and its plot. This area can be addressed as a separate paragraph, or can be threaded throughout your analysis of the film. Star Wars is a simple tale about good versus evil, which takes place in galaxies far, far away. It tells the story of a young light-sword toting warrior monk, or Jedi, who would…

portrayed in film, directors ranging from extremely figurative to literal adaptations of the Gospel narratives. These adaptations have not been without controversy, as religion and creative license are not always well received. This paper will examine significant adaptions of Jesus’s life through silent movies such as The King of Kings, musicals such as Godspell and controversial interpretations such as The Last Temptation of the Christ. While the adaption of Jesus’s life to film is a…