writing about film.

Formal analysis: formal analysis is breaking down the entire film into its separate parts and talking aout how each part contributes to the whole of the film. By breaking down the film you would talk about how lighting, casting, sound design, cuts, cinematography all individually effect the film as a whole and how they all collectedly effect the film. To be well in formal analysis you must understand each part of the film, you kmust understand the concepts of editing and cinematography and how they can effect a film then you must say how they do effect the film that your are writing about.

Film history: there are three types of writing in film history. The production history, in the production history you can see the planning that went into the film, you can look at the production of the film, the screenings the directors did before they shot, how they shot the film and so on. It focus on the history of how the film was made, the steps and process of producing the film. You can alsow rite about hte release histories of the film. who they were released to where they were released to and why they were banned in certain places. You can look at the history of the audience and their accptance or refusal of that type of film. THen there is film history, or the history of film. Here you would write about how the film lies in the large context of the history of film, where it lies in the evolution of its genre how succesful it was during that time period why it is a famous film and so on.

Ideological writing: ideological writing focus on the ideas and themes within the film. Writing about this means you need to take the overall message from the film and talk about that. Even films that are made soley to entertain have themes and messages in them. Ideological writing focus on bringing out the themes and talking about how they effect the film and how the time period effects the theme and film itself.

cultural studies: this writing talks about the culture in which the film was produced. The writing will examply the values and ideas of the nation from which it was produced. Looking at an American made film, one could see the need for action and testosterone pumping along with the need for good to triumph over evil, but watching films were are foreign to might confuse us as we will not know there values as a nation or understand all of the techniques they use.

Discussion of auteur: writing about this looks as the finished product as the work of a single person. mainly the diector. Here it will show the orginaial vison that the director had versus the product that they produced. problems that come up during this writing are that a movie is not the work of a single person, it is the work of a collaboration of people and studying one person will not give a full insight towards the finished product of the film.

Anotating a film sequence: this means to take short abreviated notes of the camera movements. To note that it starts in an establishing shot, to a close up then reverse shot. Taking notes about the shots will help to notice patterns  in the film and note how they move the camera and find the meaning behind these camera movements.

Think beyond the frame: when she says think beyond the frame she wants you to think not only about what is happening in the shot now, but rather what went into making that shot. What is the production of the set. what do critics say about this film and why. What were the makers of the films vision. what happened to be able to make the shot what it was. The movie was not jsut what is on the screen it has many more elements that went into its production, those are the most important things to note.

silent to studios

sound was first brought into films by the Warner brothers company. Before they decided to use sound the idea of making films with sounds appalled many other studious. It did so because adding sound would for one mean the production of movies would become more expenisive and that the studios would need to build sound rooms. Also many of the major stars were not strong speakers and their voices would not fit the film aliases that audience were used to. Warner brothers added sound to their movies because they were not doing well money wise and needed something that would keep them afloat and sound might just do that. When they added sound people lined up around blocks to buy tickets for a film with sound. Seeing the success of Warner Brothers the other studios had no choice but to add sound as well. Because sound was added many of the famous stars had to go to voice and diction lessons if they wanted to keep there jobs as actors. Many actors left the bussiness as they couldnt make the transitions. Also thousadns of musicians were laid off because they no longer needed to play the background music for films as the music only had to be recorded once. Sound also affected the production and style of music. Movies became boring and unimaginative because simply having sound was enough to have audience buy tickets. Also shots lost their old creativity as the Cameras couldn't move as they were incased in sound proof boxes to stop the microphone from picking up the noise of the camera. shots were static and not as detailed as actors had to be close to the microphone and there was only one microphone.

Many studios during the 1930-1950's adopted a factory sytme in which they produced films. From this sytem they had all mempers of production under contract for however many films they were to produce and those members were not allowed to work for any other studio without their original studios permission. This factory system allowed for studios to produce quality films in a well organized factory like system. However the factory system did have some dark sides. Many studios adopted a policy called block booking. This policy had theaters taken in many low quality films in order to be able to show the few high quality films. It was one of the ways the Studios tried to gain control over the  film empire. Another way was Blind bidding, where smaller chains would bid on unfinished products from the major studios.

narrative: The narrative excels because it highlights the main parts of the films narrative without giving away the ending or all of the rising action or climax.
The plot is, theres a normal family, the zombie Apocalypse starts. they escape and learn to fight them, the government wants the main character to fight for them, he says he wont leave his family and will come back for them, then the rest of the movie he wants to get back to his family

 Normal family:

 apocalypse starts:

learn how to fight:

Government asks him to fight:

fighting to get back to family:



















mis en scene: The mis encene was very compelling because it highlighted the amount of chaos and terror a zombie would apocalypse would be. It showed how many people would be running around crazy like, them military coming in to try to stop it. It also just shows the ultimate terror that a lot of zombies would bring to the world. It demonstrates how much chaos would be involved in this scenario. it overall shows the genre of film, a type of action survival movie.     

the cinematography of the film does a fine job at showing the nature of the film . This shit for example shows a lot of zombies all trying to climb their way up a ladder. The shot starts of at the top of the ladder with one zombie and slowly moves its way down revealing more and more zombies as they all funnel their way up the ladder. The shot makes the trailer successful because it is awe-inspiring it shows the overall action that the film will hold inside of it. 

The edit does a good job at highlighting the action of the film. The edit shows the overall theme of action by connecting multiple shots quickly that have some type of theme in common. Like running towards a helicopter jumping then showing people skydiving from the helicopter. or by showing multiple shots of people shooting at each other, or rather zombies i guess.                






The score does a good job at explaining the action and the thrill of the movie. It has lulls and intense points. The lulls are around when they are running or talking then the intense parts come in when you see someone jumping off a building or they see a horde of zombies. The intense parts of the sounds convey the action and intense parts of the film.                            

Dracula

The principal subject of this documentary is Dracula, the story, legened and the man who inspired him Vlad the Impalar. It talks about the stories behind Vlad and how he inspired the vampire story. It also talks about hte history of the town Vlad was in, Vlads own history, how vampires myths could have started.

The film has many interviews with all people that could have presence in the analysis of Dracula. They interview peole form the town in which Dracula was born and lived. you find that Vlad the Impalara was a national hero there. They interview scholoars who talk baout Vlads life. They interviewed a vampire hunter as well.

When talking about Vlad the Impaler life, they often show clips from other films centered around Vlads life when talking about specific times in his life. Also they show paintings and drawings of Vlad and his conquest. When talking about Dracula the novel they show several shots from the film adaptations.With adtions of these shots they want us to expirence not only the film and words but also get a sence of what they are talking baout letting our sight help in the overall picture of who Vlad and Dracula were.

The voice over that the film uses is used to add additional knowledge that who they were interviewing did not fully convey at the time. Also the voice over is used as a transition at times. It is used so that multiple points could be brought together without seeming awkward.

The documentary does not seem to have spontaneouse dialouge. The time the people are interviewed they are usually shown in an establishing shot and then introduced.

The people interviewd in the film are citizens of the town where Vlad lived inorder to get an insight on public opinion of Vlad. Others are scholars who talk about the conquests of Vlad to help understand who he was. The scholars also talk about the life back in the 1500's to give insight into how cruel Vlad may have been. They bring in doctors to understand how the vampire myths may have been creating by talking about vampire like symptoms of the film.

They use many paintings of Vlad, to show how t=he was seen in the ancient times.

Some of hte scenes are composed. when talking in the city Vlad was born in there is the presence of a statue of Vlad behind who is being interviewed.

The interviews the Documentary film maker uses are heavily edited. Many of the interviewers are brought up several times through out the length of the film. The way the film is edited is it starts with the idea of dracula, has people brought up about htat then slowly moves into Vlad, how Vlad came to power and his life, how vlad represented dracula and how vampires came about. Through out the film many people are brought up again as they have many points for the different topics.

When talking about torture, the undead and being buried alive the is a slight dramatic score going on in the background. Them music creates a more dangerous atmosphere around the information being presented.

The film maker do-sent change angels much. They usually start with an establishing shot of the interviewee then move to a close up of the the interviewee. From there the camera stays in a fixed position. At time the camera is angled different to show something behind the interviewee or to reveal something else.

Overall the documentary was very effective. It gave out valuble inforamtion of the start of Dracula the actual dracula and the implications the actual dracula has today. It also gave out valuble inforamtion on how vampire myths and legends may have been started and how they have evolved through out the ages

Pudovkins: concept on constructive editing was that each shot had to make a new point. It was not the shot itself that he cared for it was the juxtaposition of shots that he believed would create new meanings. belived only CU's and textures were acceptable, long shots were to close to reality and that a jumble of juxtaposition was a better concept of reality.The kuslhov effect is when you get the emotion not from the actors acting but instead by the juxtapositions. The viewer gets the emotional feeling once the correct objects have been put together in the film Eisenstein: montage was were he believed that film will be created by juxtaposing two contrasting opposites. He believed that all phenomena were subject to change. Smooth transition was not preferred instead harsh contract was better. He believed that by showing a thesis and antithesis that a new idea would be synthesized. in the odeasa steps the eisenstien style creates ambiguity of the film. It shows good then bad, bad the worse worse then good. There is no dialog. Allows viewers to synthesize own ideas about film by showing good with bad. Andrea bazins idea was realism. He belived film was the most real media. Belived montage was one of the many tools film makers had at there disposal. Belived a film became real because of its ambiguity. Allowed the viewers to make there own interpretations of the film. Belived classical cutting was to impsoing took away the viewrs ability to make own ideas. Used long shots and panning trucking and tilting rather than cutting.

The " Man with a Camera" is based off the kuslhov effect. It has sharp contrasts and not smooth transitions is aopen for interpretation. In bicycle theif it has more of a realist shooting with some of pudovkins concept of constructive editing. From the shots in bicycle thief  it holds out long shots of bicycles back and forth, we get not much of a responce from the actor but from the holding of the scene we understand what the actor is going to do, steal the bike.

The character i choose was the Joker from the film the Dark Knight rises. The joker always dress in a purple pinstripe suite, with a green vest and blue shirt. His high class wardrobe provides a contrast to his facial makeup which is composed of white facepaint black eye shadow, green hair and an eerie ear to ear smile. The jokers wardrope and body language match his person: crazy. His wardrobe contradicts his face which gives the impression of chaos. His body language is he uses wild hand gestures and flips his tongue when he speaks. His persona is just chaos, he hardly ever does anything for personal gain he just does it because it will cause chaos. In this scene the Jokers purpose is just to demonstrate who he is. He tells people his idea of chaos and how gotham needs a new high class villain. He proceeds to demonstrate his philosophy on chaos by burning a giant stack of money they had just stolen. His only real character flaw is what his character is. His insanity is what puts him into danger and is what makes Batman try to stop him. The way the joker gets past his insanity is he really dosnt, but however his insanity almost saves him. since the joker wanted no monetary value from anything he did he just wanted to do it for the chaos it made it hard to stop him as there was nothing to hold against him.

The surreal photos of Martin Marcisovsky. This photo is one of the many surreal photos of the dubblin photographer. his photos show a world that seems non existent. They involve a single protagonist usualy with there backs turned towards the camera. The photos have there own scene of mystery to them as iit gives no back story of who is there or why the person is there, however the photos allow the viewer to develop there own ideas on what the photo is.  Its vagueness allows them to create there own idea for why this lonely protagonist is walking in some strange desert. It gives the viewer the idea that they are lost and exploring some new spot in their own mind,

when you find me

Character: In when you find me, at the beggining they set up the character as a girl with plenty of imagination. You can already see from how she is dressed that she is a character with a wild personality. Personality that dosnt take the world as it actually is but instead makes up her own one.

the setting.  This setting is supposed to be one in the afterlife. The setting does a good job of portraying how the afterlife should be. The colors in the shot, white, make it seem very peacful and sercene. Also the lone tree with endless hill ranges give it the idea of tranquility. That its a quite and peacful palce

Back story. This shot  is the first shot the movie shows of the mother and with this one scene you can already tell a lot about her. You can see that she has been hospitalized for quite some time now most likely with cancer as she has a cap on which indicates she is bald. The shot also shows that she has recently died as her arms and face are limp while she is being hugged.

Goal: form this shot you can tell that the goal is to see the mother again. The mother is shown using a different medium to show that she isn't part of this plane of life anymore. The goal of the youngst daughter is to see her mother again when she was alive and not affected by her disease

Time, In this shot by the light of the sky and the fact that the girl has a lantern you can determine that the time is night. most of the plot happens at night in this story so night is very important to drive the plot forward. Night always gives the conotaion of supernatural and thats what happend the little girl has a supernatural expirence with her dead mother

Relationship: In this shot you can see the relationship between the mother and daughte and  that it is a loving one. The mother is crouched down in order to hug her daughter and they both stay embraced there. Even though it is brief in the story the relationship is what drives the story forward. THe little girls longing to see the mom again is what causes her to run out at night in order to find out what happened to her mother.

Obstacle: In the film the obstacle is that the little girl is constantly being stopped by "real" world objects or ideas. Her sister keeps telling her that she cant actually see her mom and the obstacle she has to climb over is being ale to find a place where she can try without anyone telling her that she cant






Mood. In this hsot you can see the that the mood is ver emotional and sad by the fact that the woman in focus is crying. The mood of the whole story is sad as it deals with the acceptance of death of a loved one as the main character being so young that they dont fully understand what death is. The mood in this shot is a very melancholy mode as it deals with the older sisters acceptance of their moms death.

themes of story telling

theme 1 mood: mood convey the atmosphere, the tone or emotion of a shot. How the audience feels when looking at the shot.

        

The shot i choose to portray mood was this shot of the wolf. This shot was most likely shot using a long lens and a narrow angle. You can guess it was shot using a long lens and narrow angle because this shot is a close up on the wolfs face. The close up on the face makes the shot initamate and gives the audience the feeling of power and anger that the wolf conveys. The emotion in this shot is the audience feels the power of the wolf, the can feel the anger generating from the wolf. The emotion is given off because it is such a close shot and you can see the wolfs face clearly and also because the wolfs eyes have a contrasting color to the monochrome color of the rest of the shot.

the next theme is goal: Goal is what ever the character is trying to achieve.

The goal in this shot is to win the game. The shot is taken with a normal lens as its not close up on anything and was uses a shallow depth of focus as only the man with the ball is in focus. The shallow depth of focus helps to portray the goal in the shot because it focus on the man that has the ball. The shot shows the determination in the mans face. It shows that the goal is trying to win the game by focusing on only the man with the ball and that all the other people not in focus may be either team mates or members on the opposite team. But it shows that the mans goal is to not lose the ball.

Back story: Back story is a history that promotes a better understanding of the narrative

The shot that i choose to portray back story is the one of the murder. The shot was taken with a short lens and wide angle as you can see the whole room. however whoever took the photo blurred out the background so all you could see was the knife the crying girl and the dead body. The blurred out background makes it so the audience only pays attention to the important parts of he shot. from this shot you can get some understanding of the story in this shot. That the person with the knife stabbed the person lying on the ground, most likely a relative to the small girl. The way that this shot is framed draws attention to the little girl. The little girls face is right in one of the intersections for the rule of thirds. This placement draws the audiences attention to her face, so you can see the emotion that she holds.

Character: Character can be anyone or anything.

the shot i chose for character was shot with a long lens. It also uses a selective focus. This shot focus only on the old man and blurs out all background so that the audience will only look at the character in the shot. This shot offers no back story and promotes the audience to ask questions about the character, like where is he going, and what is his story. The shot is also in black and white which only allows the audience to be focused on the character and not distracted by blurred colors in the background. Another way that the sshot makes the audience focus solely on the character is that he is positioned perfectly in the rule of thirds line. He is on the line for the rule of thirds which draws our attention to him. Also the picture gives the hcaracter adequate lead and head room

Obstacle: Anyone or anything in the characters way

This shot was taken with a telephoto lens as it is extremely zoomed in on the dragon fly and lizard. It uses selective focus as all you can see is the lizard and bug. The character in this shot is the dragon fly. The shot shows that the dragon fly is the character as it is put on one of the rule of third lines. The obstacle then must be the lizard. From this shot you can tell that the dragon fly's obstacle is the lizard and that it may just loose its life as food. this shot focus only on the fly, as the lizards tail is out of focus, to show how the fly must face many life or death obstacles daily.

Relationship is the relationship between anyone or anything
this shot was taken with a normal lens and a wide angle. The shot
 focus in on the expression of the two dogs. The relationship could be with the dogs and the owner or the dogs and each other. either way you can tell the relationship is positive as the dogs are happy

Setting any location or environment
This shot was taken with a shot lense and wide angel. The light from the projection room is right on one of the rule of third intersections making it interestingly framed. The setting in this shot is obviously a movie theater. There is some over exposure in the shot which comes from all the glare from the many lights in the theater.




Unknown: Can be anything unexpected a twist
This shot is probably take with a long lens. The wave gives of nice graphic vectors, with the foam on the top of the wave and all the ripples in the wave itself. The unknown in this shot is the water, you have no idea where it is or what is in it.

Time represents the time of day or within history

the shot i chose for time is of the car. It was taken with a short lens and aide angle of vision. The car provides an index vector. and the shot was shot with a short focal length to make the car seem larger then it actually is. The time of this shot was made to look like it was probably sometime in the 1900's

film review

the short film that i watched was called surprise! the film is about a man who makes a vary elaborate way of getting his lover up in the morning. The way he goes around doing this is is by putting together an arsenal of weapons that in the begging makes the audience seem like he is trying to kill his lover aft first. The film is shot in a way that you cant tell exactly what the main character is up to, and it makes you wonder the whole time what he is actually doing.

I particularly like the way that this shot is framed, the way the axe is positioned makes you think that the axe is going to hit the girl. The director uses an excellent use of mis en scene. The main point of the film is conveyed entirely by mis en scene. Since there is no dialog in the film all the message of the film has to be conveyed byAlso there are all those ropes in the fore and back ground and they make you think what the hell is this guy doing? The entire movie you think he set up an elaborate way to kill his lover but he really just woke her up in an elaborate way. The casting of the main character i believe was very well choosen

The main character just acts and looks weird and strange. He looks like the kind of guy who would do some obscure thing like this to his lover. This scene is in the very begging and it makes you wonder why is he taking a picture of himself with such a weird smile on his face.

This scene was shot at the main characaters point of view. It is as he is aiming a crossbow at the chair of the breakfast table. As he aims it it pans over the table and you see a full breakfast made. This shot just adds more to question, which is what i really liked about the movie, it makes the audiance question why he would make a breakfast if he's going to kill his lover and at this point you just think the guy is crazy.

This shot shows the apartment after all of his "booby traps" go off. I like this scene because it shows the location of the film at its fullest. and shows how much destruction went on in just getting her up. there is also a nice motion vector during this scene as the girl is just sitting there trying to figure out what just happened a door slowly tips over and falls behind her.

This shot i like because it introduces a new angle. THe scene was when tthe lover looks at the picture the man took in the very beggining it uses a fish eye lens and bends the side and gives her a strange look. I think the effect of the lens effectivly captures her emotions and thoughts well

The effect of the acting adds to the shock and fear of the murder, Cranes shrieking screams itensify the murder and adds more fear to it then if it were just silent.
The camera angles are mainly ECUs of Crane getting stabbed, this adds meaning as it causes the audiance to visualize what is happening around marions body being stabbed and adds mystery and wonder of who is stabbing her, there is a graphic match of the shower drain and Cranes lifeless eye after she is just killed to show her life ebing sucked away.
Meaning is created through closed form as the scene offers many questions who killed Crane? all we have to see is a shadowy siloute in a dress, also the repeated slashes in ecus add more question as the audiance wonders what is happening in the film
Meaning is created through editing as the camera becomes the knife in ecus and with the use of sovite montage theory where images are presented not next to eachother but on top of eachother, the killing is thrown on to the audiance and has them use their imagination to put the missing pieces of the montage together in order to get the whole scene in their mind, and ultimatly adds more fear as the unknown is left for the audiance to interpret.
the black and white softens the gore and brutality of the murder  it also adds more question into who the killer really is because it vlocks out the color and only gives a shadowy figure
Through sound the meaning of fear is created as the repeated high pitches startle the audiance and adds to the initial fear and shock of the film

My rational for choosing this section of the film is this is the point that drives the plot onwards, it gives it reason.
The extract relates to the film as a whole because it is what the main plot is about why the private detective and marian crane sister and boyfriend go to the bates motell. It is why Marian crane dose not go back home and give the money back which she was planning on doing.
The film is constructed to the story being told as  it follows a linear path, with this as a major road mark on the path
The fil uses other ways then narrative sequence for example after Crane goes into her room Bates is left in his den, but then he moves a picture to reveal a peep hole the looks into cranes room revealing that this is somthing that bates has done before and Crane is not the first of his prying eyes. The peep whole also ads confusion after Crane is killed you think Bates did it as he was looking into Cranes room, but then you hear bates yelling at his mother for killing Crane. It ads confusion because the idea that bates had killed crane was planted in the audiances mind from the peep hole. Another way this develops the narrative was that Crane decided to return the money she stole she took a shower. The shower was her becoming clean and moraly right again washing off the sins of what she did, which is why the audiance feels bad for sarrow for her even though she had done somthing wrong. It makes her character good again.
The engagment between our characters is that Bates dressed up as his mother to kill Crane. Before bates kills Crane he only see's her through the peep whole before she is about to take a shower. When ever bates feels atraction for a girl part of his brain takes over to make himself think that he is the mother that he killed, he belives that since he was jealouse of his mother and her lovers when ever he is attracted to a girl the mother gets jealouse. Thats why Bates couldnt get close to Crane after he became attracted to her, the wall that he looks through symbolizes the mother side of his brain after he bacame attracted to her the mother side blocked him from getting close to Crane, only when he dressed up as the mother was he able to aproach her.

The movie psycho can be seen as a work of Hichtcock as hitchcock was known as the master os suspense and many of the best scenes in psycho were made so bacause of the suspense. such as the shower scene and when Arbogaust dies. Those scenes are both made powerful because of the susppense they create. The  film was shot in black and white because paramount pictures didnt think the movie would do well so they gave him a small budget to work with. Also Hitcock thought the movie would be to gory in color. when the movie was being shot Hitchcock made it clear that he would not allow anyone involved in production of the film to tell anyone about the films plots, he also made sure that when movie was being screened in movie theaters people knew they needed to get there on time and that late admitance is not allowed.

The movie represents a specific culture as it was the first films to start to break away from the Motion picture production code. During this time period television was being popularized and movie producers had to find a way to differentiate them selves from the T.V shows wich followed a more strict code then the motion pictures code. movies started to slowly break "laws of the code" and Psycho is a prime example. In the film it breaks several rules as you are not suppossed to feel sympathy for wrong doers, Crane steals 40,000 dollars and is a wrong doer but you feel sypathy for her when she dies in the infamouse shower scene. They were not supposed sexual scenes that were outside of marriage or voyerism and Psycho does both these things with Crane and her lover in the beggining of the film and when Bates looks through the peep whole he made into Cranes room. Also the concept of murder was not to be presented in detail and the infamous shower scene is regarded as the most brutal murder of its time. Also the flushing of the toilet in Psycho casued a big uproar as it was the first time a toilet was seen and heard fully in a motion picture. Hitchcock made psycho as to come back from not being able to film two other movies that fell through in production.

The movie psycho would be classified as a horror, mystery or thriller.

The features of these genres are- Horror: Horror filmsa are designeds to repulse, cause fear , panic to the audiance while keeping them intertainded at the same time. A typical horror plot involves some sort of evil thing that is terrorizing a person or people, the person or people trie to stop the evil thing but usually with no luck at first, until at the end of the movie during a final fight scene between good versus bad the evill thing terrorizing thepeople is killed or stopped. These elements are in Psycho at several locations, When Bates frst kills Mariancrane, when he kills the police officer, and when he tries to kill at the very end of the movie, those elements couse fear because they jump out and suprise the audiance.

Thriller: A thriller movie involves many plot twists and keeps the viewer in anticipation of what will happen, thrillers involve quick action, suspense and plot twists to keep the viewer intrigued. Psycho has these elements when Bates kills the privet detective as he is walking up the stairs the audiance is nervouse as they wonder what will happen to him, then when ever bates tries to kill some one it is very fast pased and plot twists comes with who is really killing the people bates or his mother?

Mystery: Mystery films involve questions that are unanswered until the end of the movie, but they throw out pieces of information throughout the movie to keep the audience guessing. This is in psycho as you never know who the killer is until the end

Hitchcock produced Psycho he produced this movie to recover from two other aborted films, and based it off of a book that he read by the same name.

The films have boys with struggling relationships with their mothers; North by northwest, ridiculed by mom for insting men are chasing him. In frnzy the killer hates women but loves his mother, in strangers on a train the main character hates his dad but has a very nice relationship with his mother psycho Norman bates killed his mother and must compinsate for her death by becoming her in his mind.\Visual techniques are a series of close ups cut and put together in a montage to create a story by putting the pices together not just showing the full story 

The films theme is the split personalities that people have, the concouse ones with Marium Crane as she seems t be a cool headed women until she runs away with the money and Norman Bates who belives he is both himself and His mother.

The target audiance of this ovie would be just horror fans

ideology in film

1. Ideology refers to the values or messages that a type of media is able to communicate to the audience

Eplict ideology refers to a message or view point that is promonet throughout the film easily identifiable, on the surface

Implicit ideology is the under the surface questionable motives of a film, it is not easily identifiable and require research and a reasond argument

2.Robert downy Jr.

Played roles in iron man iron man two Sherlock holms Sherlock holms 2 due date

Quick thinking

Smart

Dark side

Good at heart

Tries to do good but messe up at times

Next role would be one where he plays a man who gets involved either on purpose or by accident with something he must try to complete. , while on his way to complete this goal his darker side comes when he tries to help his partner

3. in starwars a new hope

what I like about Luke is that he just starts out as a small farmer but gets enveloped in a large war to save the universe. What is done to make me feel this way is making Luke not perfect he has his flaws and refuses te call to action but when he steps up he becomes a hero.

The values that im being asked is to not follow a dictatorship you should have personal choice and fight for that right

Feelings are being manipulated by

They might want me to follow a certain view point because they support that point and want others to follow it aswell

Artistic/fincial consequences might be not being to put everything they want to put in the film because what the audience want to see or putting to much in

Not being able to put in what the audience want to see to make sure that the finacer gets what he wants.

4. The ideologies of a given time period could change the way that the film is presented to its audiances because the changing ideologys affect what the people want to be seen and told. The changing ideologies also affect how people behave and reflect what they are going through. After world war two the idea of a hero changed from one that wa perfect to one that had flaws and struggled with them. That ideology changed the way a nerative was told because instead of having the hero go out and accomplish his or her goal they had to have a flaw that needed to be introduced and be stuggled on through out the film

5. A film a can affect ones behavior without them being conciouse of it because the movie holds a message wether it is explicit or implicit, and the message will be imbedded in the audience mind and cause them to think about it and after thinking about it it wll alter the descions they make based on the message the movie implies

6. suspension of disbliefe is beliving the fictional world of a movie to be true when we have not or cannot experience what is happining in the film but we still accept this as real. An example of this would be from the film Terminator cyborgs have not been created and we havnt interacted with them but we still show one walking talking acting as a real person in the film Terminator.

7. The finacial supporter of the film can change the ideologys of the film because he gives the money so the producers must do what he wants in order to get the money

Genre

Action films

Terrminator

Return of the dragon

The dark knight

Action Films usually have a narrative story that involves some kinda of rescue, protection or attack. It usually follows a path ofhero must attack retrieve or protect X while something else constantly tries to stop them. The action is usually fast passed and constant with some slow secens to give the audience something to compare the action to. When action is happening it is intence and keeps the audience guessing. The hero role is usually played by a male character but females do play the role sometimes or act as support to the male lead. The movies usaly end in a dramatic battle where the hero comes out victorius or dies destroying the main bad guy

 

Comedies

Harold and Kumar go to White castle

Borat

Comedy narratives usually don’t have much in common except that it involves the main character trying to accomplish a task but ludicrous and unexpected obstacles pop up and try to stop him.

Commidies they rely on language body language to keep audience entertained not necisarily plot and story but more of what else could go wrong

Comedies can either be played by female or male roles. Male roles usually derive more gross and slapstick humor

They could take place in anyplace but the more ludacris the better the comedic affect is

Horror

Poughkeepsie tapes

Midnight Meet train

Narrative usually involve evil thing tarroizing single person or whole community and involves that person or comunitys tries to rid themselves of it.

Plotline is usually creature gets introduced, attempts to stop it, evil thing is stopped or it still exists

Horror films usually have slow pans to keep the suspence constant

Low lighting to add more to the suspense

Caracters can be either male or female

Scenes usually apaer in places that we think to be safe or home or our city and use that precieved safeness to add on to the horror when something goes wrong

writing about film

There are 5 types of film papers. The first is Formal analysis, formal analysis analyzes each individual part of the film and connects it to how the film works as a whole. You must be able to explain what certain aspects of the film are and what they due to the film as a whole. The next is Film History Films reflect the history of the world that they appear in but films are also stories of their own history, how the were made who liked it and didn't like it and if its remembered in history. The is ideological papers. ideological papers analyze what the film promotes. What message does the film convey to the audience? All movies have some message that they pass on to the audience and ideological papers analyze what the film promotes.
Cultural Studies/National Cinemas is a writing style that aspects how the nations culture affects there films. In America Films there is always action and adrenaline and when americans watch foreign films they may be confused on why certain things are or happen. The discussion of the Auteuris another way of analyzing a film. This way analyzes how the film was created by the director and recognizes the film as the product of a singe person.
 Annotating shot sequence is when you write down each shot that happens in a particular scene so you can  understand how the film was created and why the film may have certain affects on the audience.
What the author says when the say think beyond the frame is that to think about who put that scene together what history went into making this movie, what do others say about the movie, and what can you learn from the films genre. It is to say what else happened to make that shot possible and was it affective.

5 most valuable minutes

I selected these five minutes because they were the climax of the film. It is where the whole film has been leading up to after Travis goes out to buy the guns and make all the contraptions to be able to use them he finally does use them. All the suspense about when he was finally going to snap and use the pays off in how he fights of the gang members to save Iris and almost dies in the process. Those five minutes are what the entire movie led up to and are the one of the few intense part of the movie and allow for the conclusion the movie to be what it is.

            Those Five minutes relate to Martin Scorsese body of work because His other bodies of work talk about concepts such as redemption and modern crime and violence and that extract shows just that. It shows Travis redemption because after just living in New York and talking about how he doesn’t like the city and how its all garbage and should be flushed away he actually does something to help “flush it away” and in the process saves a teenager. After struggling in deciding on what he should do, and in almost killing the senator he does something beneficial and redeems himself from just a taxi cab driver to a hero to some. This extract also shows modern crime and violence as the crime is keeping a child prostitute and the violence is in Travis in a heated gunfight with the gangsters.

            

This extract relates to the narrative plot structure because it is the climax of the movie. It shows how all the things that Travis experienced all tie up in the end. With the man telling him about how he was going to shoot his wife, to him buying guns and how he hates all the garbage that live in the city. It ties up all those points with Travis using the gun the man told him about to go and try to fix the problem of the garbage living in the town.

            This extract shows Martin Scorsese intent with how Travis Bickle is trying t break away from the social dystopia that he lives in. Scorsese use the themes of violence to show the social dystopia. It shows how society was controlled but Travis tries to break out of that society by going against it, which he does by killing of the gang members who run that part of society.

            The 5 minutes reveals how Taxi Driver is part of the rise of the Anti hero genre. The Anti-hero is a hero who isn’t perfect and doesn’t have heroic qualities but because of that the audience is more able to relate to the protagonist. The 70’s anti hero was one who was darker than before and went out and crushed all his opponents to get what he wants, this related to the American people because its reflected America in the Vietnam war. Travis goes out and kills those who he thought were his enemies just so he could get what he wanted to save Iris. Travis making the motion of trying to kill himself shows how the hero is society has become darker.

 Arrival of a train that camera dosnt move it stays in the same spot and creates good depth, while in Damsel in distress the camera moves around to show the emotion if the actor. In arrival of train it is one continuos shot while Damsel has lots of jump cuts. The Train shows story through long shot while the Damsel shows the story through many shots and through the actors interaction

 Constructive Editing is the idea that every angle and shot will show a new idea to the story. The Kuleshov affect is that the placement will proceed the actors thoughts, that the ideas of the film should be conveyed through details put together. Eisinstien belived that the film was in constatnt change and should be comunicated throught the edit. In "Odessa step" the technique is used with incomplete and jump shots to provide the moral for the shot.


Brazen didnt belive in the classical and formalistic editing styles because he belived they destroyed the scenes effectivness and change how the audiance percieves the shot. He belived that these types of edit were harmful for the audiances perception. The realist films are al about isolation, with the use of deep focus and long shots.