The Cameraman

However, individuals can realize the “uncanny experience that one is being written” , a process called Realization, and “take a more active role in this . . . process ([called] Authorization).”9 Andrew’s psychological awakening, from his role as the cameraman to the subject of his narrative mirrors Kirpal’s mythemes of Realization and Authorization. With immense power under his command, Andrew realizes that he no longer needs to hide behind the barrier of his camera lens. Andrew can rewrite his…

INTRODUCTION. While filmmaking is a collaborative enterprise, editing is the foundation of film art. All the other departments of filmmaking; screenwriting, directing, cinematography, music and sound, production design and acting, all exist to be brought together in the cutting room. Film is collaborative, only for the edit. Pre-production and production give the editor; the necessary pieces of the puzzle they need to make the film. The editor works with the footage, the sound and…

twelve seconds: “Your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign car”, introduces a new scene of the video at a gas station. We see the group of girls buy snacks while Rihanna makes a phone call over on the side of the station. At this point, the cameraman blurs out the background, which is the foreign car and the girls, for a quick four seconds and focuses only on Rihanna. Her anger towards the phone being repeatedly banged on the telephone post shows that the person that owes her money is…

Would the use of drones in the U.S. be a good thing? Drones offer a multitude of good uses for the people of America but there a few bad uses as well. A couple of the good uses for drones would be commercially by businesses or they could be used on the police force as well! Both of these examples would provide the greatest positive affect on America. Criminals and enemies of the U.S. could possibly use the drones against the U.S. COMMERCIAL USE OF DRONES FOR BUSINESSES The first major positive…

The movie Nightcrawler, directed by Dan Gilroy, begins with a Los Angelean thief, Louis Bloom, being denied employment. After seeing a career opportunity in filming and selling crime footage, Bloom pawns stolen items to purchase a camcorder and police scanner. With his new equipment, Bloom gets close-up, graphic footage of a shooting which he sells to Channel 6 News. The film editor, Nina, praises Bloom for his natural eye for the scene. Inspired to improve, Bloom learns the police code and…

Vertigo is a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height. This feeling translates to the 1958 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock titled Vertigo, which is based on the novel “D’entre Les Morts” by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The film is a romantic story of obsession, manipulation, and fear. In the film, a detective is forced to retire after his acrophobia, fear of heights, and accompanying vertigo causes the death of a fellow…

What do movies like The Wizard Of Oz, The Godfather, and Star Wars have in common? These movies aren’t just good, they aren’t just great. They’re classics. But what makes these movies a masterpiece? Most would say the actors or the script, which is true. But these are not what leaves you walking out of the theatre with a smile on your face. Every movie is like a puzzle, and each element is a puzzle piece. All of these pieces come together to create the film, and if any of the pieces are missing…

used whilst a violent storm was brewing. The handheld camera also resembled Hushpuppy’s perception that order can be restored to the universe through one’s behaviour—just like stability can be restored to the film by changing the behaviour of the cameraman. This was also reinforced when Hushpuppy explained “you gotta fix what you can” because “if you can fix the broken piece, it can all go right back.” Therefore, it can be seen that within Beasts of the Southern Wild, Zeitlin has used…

John Rindlisbacher Mrs. Miller English 12 September 20 2016 Good or Bad? Originally the 2014 winter olympics in Sochi were planned to cost around $12 billion, however they ended up costing Russia $50 billion. The extremely large investment that is the olympic games, rarely pays off. There have been few games that bring financial good for a host country. The olympics require constructing new venues for sports that aren’t traditionally common, and upgrades on the hosts transportation, sanitation…

attacked Rodney King in Los Angeles California. On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed pursuit. After King was caught, the officers pulled him out of the car and beat him brutally, while an amateur cameraman by the name of George Holliday caught it all on camera. The four L.A.P.D. officers involved were eventually indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, and also excessive use of force by a police officer. Sadly after a three-month trial…