Film

The silent film, The Crowd, produced in 1928 by King Vidor is truly an American classic. This film takes place mainly during the 1920’s featuring the main character John Sims who since childhood always thought he was going to become someone important. However, he never really truly achieves that dream. This film showcases the struggles John and his family went through in search of that dream. King Vidor incorporates various film techniques from Cinematography and characteristics from Classical…

Artistic expressions, such as film, have the capacity to influence the perception of both our past and present. Mass media has been constantly validating how powerful ideas are. There is just a great amount of authority gained just by having something presented in the channels of media. All that it takes is a powerful production. The art form of illustration and film is effective in three things. Through it, a better perspective of the past is gained. It influences the values of the present and…

“Acting In Film” Essay One of my favorite films is a Korean movie called “Veteran” and there are several ideas that I would like to apply to an actor regarding from the textbook. I believe there are three ways the actor might have prepared for his scenes. Firstly, the actor might have observed psychopathic people and also people who uses drugs. The actor’s character has DSM-5, which is very similar to psychopath and he’s also highly drug-addicted. Therefore he is unable to control his feeling…

Film Degree So many people believe the purpose of their lives is to earn money. The amount of of people that throw away dreams and passion for money is unfathomable. While so many people toss away what they really want to do in order to make money, Kirsten Izzett is not one of them. She is currently a senior at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she is working to complete her degree in digital filmmaking. While many see this as a risky career path to choose, Kirsten was more than…

Blaxploitation films like Shaft, Mandingo, and his personal favorite Foxy Brown; he also enjoyed Soul Train and the 70s music African-Americans were playing at that time. Growing up in a dominant African American culture has helped sculpture Tarantino taste in music, characters, and stories he installs in his movies. One would expect that his depiction of African-Americans in his movies would be based of his personal experiences and his studies of the Blaxploitation films. In his Blaxploitation…

learned a great deal more about what goes into making a film. I was under the impression that there was one magical camera that could change settings to capture the diverse range of images instantaneously. Active viewing was something, I thought I did, but it wasn’t until I took a step back and saw the variety of shots and how each one of them is put together that I realized that there is more then one way to watch a movie. The different ways that a film is shot and how the scene is constructed…

In the film “The Hurricane” directed by Norman Jewison, the main theme is imprisonment. The theme focuses on not only physical imprisonment but also imprisonment of our mind through misconceptions and internal conflict. Norman also displays the willpower it takes to overcome these types of imprisonment. Norman uses a range of symbolism, shots and dialogue to help the audience to not only understand and relate to the themes and ideas but also the overarching message of the film, to never give up…

The Film Departures has a vast amount of different components that all come together to make this film extravagant. Since it is a foreign film the production had to rely on more than just dialogue to show the film’s message through to the spectators from different countries. The main features that have made this film astonishing are the camera work, color, motifs, and pacing of the story. The first thing someone viewing this film will notice is how the camera is working throughout every scene.…

Convergence in the Film and Video Game Industries(2010), The Art of Immersion：How the Digital Generation is Remaking Hollywood，Madison Avenue，and the Way We Tell Stories(2011) and 21st-Century Hollywood：Movies in the Era of Transformation(2011) demonstrates a lot about how film develops in the contemporary digital era. The transitions and changes of film narration under the new technical conditions is an interpretation about "narrative is everything". With the revolutionary developments in film…

of countries were making independent local films, but only Mexico and other Latin America countries were making international films. Mexican films were socially engaging, most of the time challenging a government rule. All these films, no matter the theme of it, had a quality which became known trait of the entire movement. The movies had the ability to speak on two topics at the same time, like speaking on religion and politics, By the 1940s, Mexican films were being shown all through Latin…