The Director

Artist Review Handsome Little Devils Summer is the season for outdoor art festivals. One of the most popular in our area is the Blue Creek Arts Festival which is usually held the first weekend in July. Artists apply from all across the US and are hand selected only to seat a mere 250 coveted spots. Each booth is a celebration of outstanding, unique creativity. All medias are…

their respective forms of entertainment. Eric Bentley defined theatre as A performs B for C (Brockett, 6). This means the most basic definition of theatre is performing something for someone else (Brockett, 6). Movies fill this definition easily: Directors,…

These events were known as the Paramount decision and the Hollywood Blacklist. Both had a significant impact on not only the way movies were produced, distributed and exhibited, but also affected people directly, such as screenwriters, actors, directors and musicians as well. In both cases, laws were being broken, and the rights of individuals were being violated. The shift in direction came when those affected sought litigation, and censorship began. Paramount Decision The five major studios…

Tim Burton is a well known director that effectively uses cinematic techniques such as lighting, camera angle, and sound to create a unique and different mood and tone. Lighting in films gives people an important image that controls the way they feel about that moment of the movie. Tim Burton uses this cinematic technique in his films to control the mood. For instance in his film Edward Scissorhands he uses high key lighting when we are first seeing the neighborhood and the people…

MCABOE Board of Directors Meeting Mrs. Taylor attended the MCABOE Board of Directors meeting on September 30. A president, vice president, secretary and treasurer were elected. The next meeting is November 4 and they are offering Community Relations Leadership (CBA 106) to all Monroe and Lenawee County district board members. The MCABOE meeting in the spring will be about renewing the technology millage. They will provide a history of where technology was 20 years ago and where it is now.…

years. Some critics argue movie display as a moral decline in America. Due to the variety of visual aspects, films have increasingly challenged the brain over the years. The story plot in films such as “Edward Scissorhands” from well- known film director Tim Burton, have revolutionized over the years and have incorporated a large variety of visual and story line detail, in which viewers are far more intellectually challenged. There is no surprise that modern films have evolved an infinite…

Schlondorff’s The Legend of Rita used different movie techniques such as camera angles and scene settings, lighting/character placement to help portray what he wants, aspects of the rugged world happening in the time period through costumes/makeup and props, and the people who defected and fought to change the regime. Mise-en-scene aka “placing on stage”, in filmmaking moves our attention to the space of the shot itself. If a really long take is needed, planning is required to make sure that…

been referred to as the “master of title sequences” (Pulver, 2013) Saul Bass was born on the 8th of May 1920 in Bronx, New York. He started out in Hollywood in the 1940s by designing print advertisements. He was discovered by Otto Preminger, the director of The Moon Is Blue (1953), when he did the advertising designs for the film. He then collaborated with him for designing the poster for Carmen Jones, Preminger’s movie in 1954. Preminger was so impressed with Bass' work that he asked him to…

changes are made. For the adaptation of My Antonia, I prefer the novel of My Antonia more than the film version, because the film version focused too much on the love relationship between Antonia and Jim. The movie is faithful to the book mainly, but directors make some changes which is a result of adaptation. The movie is mostly faithful to the book itself. They shared many similarities. The main part of the story happens in Nebraska at the end of the 19th century. Most of the place where…

Sean Reape Comm 320 10/12/2015 Ray Harryhausen to Peter Jackson Ray Harryhausen is arguably one of the most influential and creative artists to ever lay a hand on the camera, with his master visual effects skills he carries the title of father of stop-motion model animation, and created ?Dynamation? which is an animation technique where a certain object is physically manipulated making it appear to move on it?s own. This was a technique that would change not only the…