MOTIVETIONAL ESSAY & JOURNAL The silent period of 1885 – 1930 was an age of great creation and experimentation. There were a number of soviet film like Melies, Edwin S Porter, D.W Griffth, Vesvolod I Pudovkin, Sergei Eisenstein. These people revolutionized the film industry with their techniques as film makers/ editors in different ways. The earliest films were less than 2 minutes’ length, although melies films grew to the length of 14 minutes they still remind as a series of single…
With American big blockbuster and independent films (Indies), there are many factors that contribute to the production of each. Even though both types of films can be great there are similarities and difference in the way they are made. The budget, cast, and film production concept are the biggest factors I will expand upon. The biggest difference between independent movies and big production movies is the budget the film is allotted. While in the comedy “22 Jump Street”, the budget was 65…
studios. Typically, each of these studios was also the owners of prominent theatre chains that spanned both domestically and internationally. Warner Bros, one of the five studios in Hollywood’s pioneered system, was chosen to sit at the forefront of the entertainment industry and produce the most remarkable films and musicals. During this time, Warner Bros was noted for its innovative nature of creating realistic films that were in strong correlation with the lifestyle of the suffering people…
a piano/organ to a full orchestra. Inventors tried joining images to reproduce sound through phonograph records, but it was too difficult to synchronize the sound due to the inadequacy of loudspeakers for theater auditoriums. Finally in 1927, the Warner Brothers released The Jazz Singer which was the beginning of synchronizing sound. Though sound had economic and technological implications, the style was affect. Before filmmakers realized that sound was used imaginatively, directors feared…
Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood, is a film that is successful in portraying both a Native American and white soldiers as humans. Not only was Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American, one of the main characters, he was also a character with as much depth and humanity as his white counterparts. Although there are several moments of racial dialogues towards Ira from his superiors, it seems as though director Clint Eastwood is pointing to these scenes as flawed instead of simply leaving…
Nick Levi was a stunt double for Matt Kragen in the movie Race Across the Stars. The movie was being filmed in Hollywood of course. Nick adores being a stunt double, and he loves the risk that comes with it and the always dangerous tasks he has to execute. The reason he is such an exceptional stunt double is because he is such a tremendous thinker, and an active and abrupt one. When something, or if something goes wrong during the filming of a scene he is able to quickly figure out how to…
portrayal of each of these characters isn’t as good as the Dark Night Trilogy characters. With the flop of Man of Steel, and Batman vs. Super Man, Warner Brothers, the company making DC films, wanted to take a lot of control away from directors, and unfortunately the first movie to take such directions was 2016’s “Suicide Squad” by David Ayer, produced by Warner Brothers Studios. This movie was ultimately a letdown to many people including myself, but it doesn’t take away from the movie still…
Alice Eve has a short film coming out in 2015, and four movies coming out in 2016, three of which are in post-production. The other film is in pre-production. "Lithgow Saint" is the short film that she was in and it has been completed. It stars Eve and Jason Isaacs as the titular character, and was written and directed by Jack Eve. The short film is about a male talk show host and his actress guest. “Criminal”, “Beyond Deceit”, and “The Brits Are Coming” are in post-production. “Criminal” was…
For as long as I can remember, I have grown up in the company of one thing. Films. When I say films, I don’t mean your standard 21st century blockbuster. No, these are much too overdone for my liking. Superfluous special effects, unnecessarily complicated plots, and gratuitous violence have all become key ingredients in the recipe for your generic ‘Captain America’, or ‘Dracula Untold’. It makes sense that after an arduous day at work, the first thing most people seek is some escape from their…
As a child, I had a love for many movies, but I had a special love for a specific movie, The Breakfast Club. My Father says that I would sit in front of the Television and watch this movie for hours at a time. Some would believe that it is odd for a child, my age, to love the movies that I do. Ever since I can remember, I have had a love for movies from the 80’s. My favorites included: Sixteen Candles (1984), The Goonies (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), and especially Dirty Dancing (1987). Actually,…