Filmmaking

Hynkel commands all jews to be put in a concentration camp, Chaplin ends up thrown in as well. He ends up escaping and is later mistaken for Hynkel because of the close resemblance. Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin had a strong connection for filmmaking as seen in the barbershop scene where Chaplin is asked to give Hannah a makeover. The most powerful scene I’ve seen in a film from Chaplin was the speech he gave addressing the world. To conclude the film he begins his speech with not wanting…

Films have their own ideas, perspectives, and ideology, which as the book states “the term is generally associated with politics and party platforms, but it can also mean a given set of values that are implicit in any human enterprise- including filmmaking.” Every film insinuates to viewers actual diverse aspects presented in the movie. For example, that one tale in the film Wondrous Boccaccio in which the film explores religious values, the nuns are seen as religious individuals, and the Mother…

1. The article says for the story concept, the film noir presents dark themes such as desolation, detachment, iniquity, pessimism, etc. The story is complex and perplexing. In the filmmaking technicality, the directors employ strong shadow lighting techniques (often use one single source of light to create strong shadow, deep focus and unusual extreme camera angles. The sound also intensely gripping to form suspense. 2. They are a predatory character that uses a seduction and manipulation to…

No matter what adaptation of Frankenstein that we discuss, whether it be the book or the movie, the construction and animation of the creature is absolutely the most significant part of the story. Knowing the importance of the creation scene, we would assume that each film adaptation would follow along exactly ‘by the book’; unfortunately, this is not the case. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the creation scene is not very lengthy, nor is the process of by which it is created. “I collected the…

Citizen Kane is one of the main movies as to its filmmaking impacts. Director Orson Welles and Cinematographer Gregg Toland were massively inventive in use of camera shots, angles, and lights. Moreover, they utilize the narrative and Dramatic elements in a creative way, describing a story of one individual in many ways. All in all, Citizen Kane opened interesting platform in the filmmaking and techniques. Charles Foster Kane was a man who had everything in his life. But, the one thing he needed…

an immense amount motivation, and a goal that I could work towards. Without that passion, I wouldn’t be where I am today and wouldn’t have such big aspirations. Another photograph that is in my collage is a lady holding a camera. Photography and Filmmaking have been a big passion of mine for the past year. It has motivated me to start…

Dziga Vertov has been credited as the father of documentary film capturing reality and a world that otherwise escapes our preoccupied eyes. Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera reflects his championed concepts of “life caught unawares” and “film truth” but were these captured in actuality? His ‘fly on the wall’ approach inspired many documentary filmmakers throughout the 20th century resulting in the birth of direct cinema throughout the western world. D.A Pennebaker approaches his…

The role of the mysterious Harry Lime in The Third Man is played Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), a character that doesn’t appear in the film until nearly the end of the movie, but his sudden appearance and presence makes for a climatic final. Much as been said about Welles involvement in the making of the film, citing on the fact that he was well-known as a director, producer, writer, and actor in his own right. And the fact that he won an Academy Award eight years before for writing and Original…

I first became interested in applying to NYU after watching the films that Charlie Kaufman had written as well as directed. I looked Kaufman up, in order to learn more about his career as well as his background. When I found out that he had attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, I researched Tisch and discovered all of the other incredible men and women that have walked through its doors, and moulded film into what it is today. I wanted to learn from the minds that taught Martin Scorsese, or…

sounds and dialogues. He compares silent films to sound films, and how important music is to the sensitivity of scenes in a film. Pudovkin opinion on Sound film was pretty straightforward. From the first paragraph he states how the technical side of filmmaking may be perfected in America. He does think that certain practices regarding sound film are primitive. He goes on to state ways that we can make sound film more…