Feature integration theory

My intended major is film studies. My career goals are to be a professional editor that My interest in film began when I met a movie, “The Mummy” in 2000. The director, Stephen Sommers, filmed this action and adventure movie about Egypt in 1999. This film told me different ethnic culture and it gave a shock to my heart. The mummy had the fast pacing with a lot of action, comedy, and special CG effects. It was my first time to watch the Egyptian culture movie and was interested. I was raised and…

When I was thirteen, my sisters and I tried our hand at filmmaking by entering in Harford County Public Library's book trailer video contest. Our first ever film went on to win second place. With this newfound interest in film, I began spending several hours each week volunteering in the video production department at my church. This volunteer position enhanced my skills and showed me how filmmaking can be used as a powerful agent for social good. When I began my college journey at the age of…

My topic, D.W Griffith, was a man that very few people know about. He was one of the founding fathers of modern film making and one of the first people to add camera effects to his work. However, he had humble beginnings because he was born on a farm in Kentucky on January 22, 1875. His full name was David Llewelyn Wark Griffith. His parents were Jacob and Mary Griffith, they met each other after the Civil War, but during the war his father fought on the side of the Confederates as a…

Digital DNA: Teenage could be vulnerable Syed Rabius Shams Let’s face a Facebook chat between a teenage boy and girl. ….. Boy: Hi, are you engaged? Girl: Excuse me, why do you ask this type of question, may I know. Boy: Otherwise I’d like to approach. Girl: approach for what? Boy: I’ve scanned your profile, like it and would approach you for affairs…. This is an existent Facebook conversation that I have had experienced. Not only for such kind of affairs but also teenage browse other profiles…

The violence of the films Funny Games and Cannibal Holocaust is perpetrated by human beings. In Funny Games, cruelty is dealt with a heavy but nonchalant hand by highly creepy, unnaturally polite and detached young men who repeatedly call out the audience on their nature and motivations. By asking the audience if we are sated, our thin immersion within the film is broken and we find ourselves suddenly disconnected and forced into introspection. Why are we watching this? Is this entertaining?…

Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song (1971; Sweetback hereinafter) is a low-budget, 97-minute-long independent film written, directed, produced and scored by Melvin Van Peebles (b. 1932). Its production is considered a watershed in the history of US filmmaking. Sweetback’s firm stand on racism in the movie industry and the wider US socio-political context is still pertinent today as the racist ideology is disturbingly still with us today. Hence, the importance of revisiting Sweetback to unpack its…

E.T., Jaws, and the Schindler’s List Are just a few of the very popular and wide known movies that the revolutionary director, Steven Spielberg, had been a major part of producing and directing. Growing up a shy kid, often an outcast for being jewish, Steven Spielberg had taken an interest in his father's 8mm camera. Expressing his opinions through the work of movie making, He had gotten the attention of many growing up with his home movies including his boy scout leader, the Atlanta Film…

The aim of this essay is to identify my strengths and weaknesses throughout this project and to evaluate if I succeeded with the stylistic challenge. The director I chose as my auteur is Wes Anderson, who is well known for his unique and eye catching visual style. In order to become more familiar with the directors individual style, I researched into all aspects of Anderson's filmmaking, focusing on the cinematography and reoccurring themes within his films. I particularly focused on his use of…

The actors in each film are indicative of the era in which they were made. In The Immigrant, a silent era film, director Charlie Chaplin uses a group of actors that he’s used in previous films, most importantly Edna Purviance and Henry Bergman, with the latter starting in two of Chaplin’s 1915 films, The Kreutzer Sonata and The Melting Pot, all the way to Modern Times in 1936. Many similar ‘auteurs” of the time used the same actors as well, especially D.W. Griffith, who used actress Lillian Gish…

The story of the Disney Short Story: Paper Man produced by Kristina Reed and directed by John Kahrs, show both form and content in a quality six-minute and thirty-three second short film. The idea of the film was a bold, yet well designed. The film’s making was complex because it was all hand drawn and it lacks dialogue between anyone during the film, yet it was still about to get its many points and messages out. The man, also known as the “Paper Man” in the film uses the paper to overcome…