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    It seems as if from the moment that our parents are told our gender they begin to purchase things that “corresponded” to our gender, each the stereotypical. Though there are those few exceptions were the parents decide to purchase gender neutral items, but they eventually begin to do the same as other parents do. In our everyday lives many of the spaces that we go to are gender spaced, from the stores that we enter to our own homes. The Space Project gave me a perfect opportunity to explore some…

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    A negative is a type of image that is placed on plastic film. When this negative is viewed, the darkest areas of the actual subject will appear the brightest, and the lightest areas of the subject will seem the darkest. This is because the light-sensitive chemicals within the camera reverse the order of colors. When a camera is shot, the chemicals become darkened by exposure to the light. Like black-and-white negatives, color negatives use the same type of technology. In essence, the colors on…

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    The beautiful film All That Heaven Allows directed by Douglas Sirk shows the struggles women faced in the 1950’s and how gender norms limited women from having an independent and safe surrounding, all through the story of a rich widowed woman who falls for a young man. Sirk uses the set of the film to its maximum potential with his experience with mise-en-scène. With mise-en-scène Sirk can place any visual object in order gain emotion from his audience and in the film All That Heaven Allows he…

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    these elements and the overall theme of the film, and how the theme is developed, will then be discussed. All the elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene contribute to the theme that death is an inevitable, inescapable part of every person’s life, and that death itself is an almost mundane topic. Cinematography is the means by which a film is made. Within the scene, many different techniques are used for emphasis and to highlight the theme of the film. The camera movements, for example,…

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    Film began with the simple invention of the magic lantern in the 17th century. All it needed to work was light, such as a candle, and crude lenses. It was used for entertainment and often times, education, for all ages. It remained very popular until motion toys came about and soon the concept of “persistence of vision” came forth, in which it is “the eye's capacity to retain an image even after it has been removed”. Peter Mark Roget in 1824 came up with that description and idea and helped…

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    Camera Obscura Essay

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    According to the history of cameras, the first camera ever developed was called camera obscura later developed into daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film, and digital cameras. An Arab person named Ibn al-Haytham was the first ever person who created the camera. He published his Book of Optics in 1021 AD. He produced the first pinhole camera after observing how light travelled through a window shutter. He realized that smaller holes would create sharper images. He is also credited with…

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    subject of the new National Portrait Gallery photography show, ‘Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon’. Born in Belgium in 1929, Hepburn’s early life as a ballet dancer and chorus girl led to her exceptional career as an Academy Award-winning film star. The photographic portraits on display document the many roles she played onscreen - in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sabrina, My Fair Lady, etc - and offscreen - fashion icon, humanitarian worker, and an exquisite beauty. I don’t want to give too…

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    invention of the photographic gun camera. This camera was used by Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge. These men worked on increasing the proficiency of the camera. Muybridge expanded to 24 cameras, and Marey created a camera that could take 12 photographs on one plate. These two men helped create the first motion picture camera. Later, a man named Thomas Edison and his assistant, William K.L. Dickson, created a device called kinetoscope. It was small box that that had film roll and a…

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    Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory, Gaines wanted to show how a theory of the text and its spectator, based on the psychoanalytic concept of sexual difference, is unequipped to deal with a film which is about racial difference and sexuality. “The Diana Ross star vehicle Mahogany (directed by Berry Gordy, 1975) immediately suggests a psychoanalytic approach because the narrative is organized around the connections between voyeurism and photographic acts, because it exemplifies the…

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    Eadward Muybridge

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    Lumière brothers specialized in the manufacturing of photographic equipment, and managed to create an early motion picture camera and projector called the “cinématographe”. With this new…

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