History of the camera

Being locked away behind bars in prison is something that one would not like to imagine for themselves. While outsiders view the scandalous cases that play out every day in our courts, they rarely think about what happens to the convicted person when found guilty. Unless a person has a close relationship to a convicted person or gains the rare access into the world of the unknown, he is highly unlikely to have any idea what happens in everyday life in prisons across America. For those that have…

In this essay it will be explained how Alfred Hitchock used influences of Soviet Cinema, German Expressionism and Classical Hollywood and how this is evident through the production of the film Rebecca (Hitchock, 1940). Alfred Hitchock believed that everything within a film should be less important than the technique used to film. In his quote “I am against virtuosity for its own sake. Technique should enrich the action...The beauty of image and movement, the rhythm, and the effects- everything…

running away in order to be with the man she loves, gets lost and decides to stay at a motel for the night, shortly regretting what she’s done. This film, featuring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates and Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, breaks cinematic history. With Hitchcock’s great eye for detail, he engrosses audiences in this ground breaking psychological thriller/horror film to the very end. Hitchcock makes use of motifs and mise-en-scene to explore the key themes and ideas such as duality,…

9 Palms Manifesto Bernd and Hilla Becher were born in 1931 and 1934. They were german conceptual artists, first meeting at their college, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Collaborating on their first project in 1959, the pari photographed disappearing German industrial architecture. These works would be only done on 8x10 inch film. Always shot objectively, on cloudy days, to avoid shadows. They favoured early morning light as well. They arranged the photos in rows, helping to display the…

Paul Wilmshurst. It tells the story of the crew who flew the mission of Hiroshima and dropped the bomb, and focuses on the story of the people of Hiroshima who were the first ever victims of the nuclear retract. This movie can be also a drama or history one, as it touches emotions at specific points regarding the after-effects of the nuclear explosion. In addition, background music keeps changing (when it necessary) from one situation to another, especially while viewing the bomb's descend to…

Throughout American history, African-Americans have constantly struggled with the issues of racism and discrimination. Since slavery hundreds of years ago, African Americans have always been treated as inferior by white men. Even today, racism continues to be a big problem in American society. Selma, a film directed by Ava DuVernay, retells the events surrounding the march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., African-Americans along with civil rights activists of…

what makes the genre so interesting because there doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer as to what makes something strictly a Direct Cinema film. Is it something that attempts to be unbiased by showing individual moments that aren’t affected by the camera, or is it something that encapsulates a specific emotion in a specific time and place with as little bias as possible? The technique of it all is very much up to the filmmaker’s style and I think that is good because it gives a certain freedom…

Unfortunately, there is a negative side to having such advanced forms of technology. Especially the forms of surveillance that are used in present day. Technology such as drones, domestic surveillance software, facial recognition software, and body cameras have violated the privacy of millions and therefore should be restricted. Drones have done tremendous things for our country. They have been proven to help carry out numerous missions, such as locating high targets to kill or capture…

Gameau embarks on a journey that shows his opinion about sugar. Throughout the documentary, he also involves the help of Hugh Jackman who does some hocus pocus with visual aides concocted with sugar granules on a lit-up podium to illustrate the history of sugar and Brit wit Stephen Fry who elucidates the difference between glucose, lactose, sucrose and fructose in rhyme. The way that Gameau chooses his information is clever. Instead of that…

some of the things that she did. One of those actions that she took created one of histories most remembered hoax’s, The Cottingley Fairies. Elsie borrowed her father’s camera to take near the stream that she lived by, Frances accompanying her. The girls came back home about 30 minutes later with Frances behind a bush in the foreground, on which four fairies appeared to be dancing. When Elsie’s father had taken the camera back to the dark room to produce hard copies of the photos they tool, he…