Below is a close analysis of a certain shot in the film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The shot is from 35:41-35:58. The film is below. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans portrays the dramatic, comedic and horrorifing story… Continue Reading
Film editing, a part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking, is key to good cinema, and is extremely powerful. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that… Continue Reading
Independent film How do you define an exploitation? Not really a clear narrative – more about the visual elements Excessive You have films that are violent, then you have films that explot violence which are much more violent An exploitation filmis… Continue Reading
Some genre thoughts.. Film genres are ways of grouping movies by style and story; a “film genre” is one that can easily be grouped with a culturally familiar rubric. Film scholars tend to define genres for purposes of interpretation and… Continue Reading
Williams, Raymond. ‘Culture’ in Keywords : A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Rev. and Expanded ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1985. p87-93 Culture: intricate historical development, used for important concepts in several distinct intellectual disciplines and in several distinct and… Continue Reading
Gomery, Douglas. ‘The Hollywood Studio System: 1930-1949.’ in The Hollywood Studio System. British Film Institute Cinema Series. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986. p1-25 Before the coming of television to… Continue Reading
Analyse and critically discuss the following films in relation to the notion of ‘High Concept’ cinema: Jaws and Toy Story 3. High concept cinema refers to movies that sell due to a short, precise pitch. This quick summary driven idea… Continue Reading
Some interesting points on Disney and Pixar – Telotte, J.P. ’”Better Than Real”: Digital Disney, Pixar, and Beyond’ in The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology. Urbana & Chicago: University of Ilinois Press, 2008. p159-178 One of the many reasons the… Continue Reading
Taylor, R ‘Science on Television’, in A. Heck and C. Madsen (eds.), Astronomy Communication, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 Science programming on television is on the decline. There are fewer programmes and those that remain tend to be made for wide… Continue Reading