Avant Garde Film

AVANT GARDE FILM:

Resolution and Aspect Ratio
Resolution in the detail an image holds. Aspect ratios are as followed:
                                  1920x1080(16:9)
                                  1440x1080(16:9)
                                     640x4809(4:3)
                                     720x480(4:3)

Examine the comments you received on your film: I was told that I did some cool effects my audio was very well picked out and helped set the mood.
Reflect on what you feel you did best: I feel I did the best on recording a lot of the panning shots and also on the adding cool effects but not over doing it.
Reflect on what your classmates said you did well on: Many of my classmates said that I had really cool effects and that I had cool audio.
Reflect on what your classmates suggested you should improve: I didn't show many oof my classmates the film and to the people I did show no one told me that I needed to work on anything.
Strengths and weakness??:
I would say my biggest strength in film is probably filming. I just love having the camera in my hand and messing with different things, like the colour, the angles, etc. Another one of my biggest strengths is probably adding cool effects/editing. I love messing with everything a seeing things differently. I also just love seeing the story come together.
A huge weakness for me is probably putting the whole film together. Though I always write a story board before I film, its just always a struggle cause either I don't want to follow the story anymore or I don't like how things are so I want to change everything.
What can you approve?:
I can probably approve my editing skills a but more just to make things run smoother
How can you make your strengths better?: Just keep with them and keep doing what I do! You know what they say practice makes perfect!

Dada Film

Dada Film: 

Dada is an expression of art through experimental techniques. The Dada movement was during the European avant-garde  in the early 20th century and it was used for "anti-war" purposes after the end of WWI. The Dada movement later inspired other forms of arm including surrealism. The dada art style was one of the transitions from art on a canvas to art on film. It took the artistic abilities from paper and put it into a technical art through cameras.It's technical and artistic advancement was shown through the use of typical things and distortion in order to show this art


* Dada is a cultural artistic movement existing between Futurism and Surrealism that appeared around 1917 
* Dada art was usually expressed through poetry and performance
* It is the only art movement named not by critics but by the artists themselves

Resolution and Aspect Ratio

Kuleshov Effect

Kuleshov Effect : The Kuleshov effect tries to bring emotion to the viewer from the effect of the image or actor. It gives the viewer a thought of what the actor is feeling. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.Lev discovered that depending on how shots are assembled the audience will attach a specific meaning or emotion to it.

Film Analysis on Metropolis

                                                                ----- Metropolis -----

Who made this? Metropolis was directed and written by Fritz Lang. His Wide Thea Von Harbou also helped write it.
Why Was Metropolis made? It showed the problems that were happening in Germany during the war. It tapped into Germanys struggles, government, poverty, class, etc. A lot of Langs metaphors were political messages.
How Do you know ? A lot of the Metaphors convoyed the messages and because it was filmed around war time.
What can you tell about the film makers? That Lang wanted to make his film realistic but adding a twist making it a Si-Fi movie.
 How do you know ?  Because the messages that were expressed were problems that Germany at the time was dealing with, well at least most of the problems. Also because it was a si-fi movie.
How does this movie address its audience? It addresses it connected to both Upper and Lower class
What is the nature of our engagement in this film?  Helps ups raise questions about who is in power and our countries struggles.
How do you know? Because it convoys messages about the government power and different problems that are happening.
What Outside influences can we perceive in terms of finance, ownership, institution and social cultural context? The war and Germanys goverment.
How do you know? Because the films based off of the war and the problems in Germany.
To what other works might it be connected ?  SnowWhite can be connected because if the glass coffin.

German Expressionism

Edward Scissorhands

December 7, 19990

Tim Burton

1. What makes this film fit into the German Expressionism movement? The film Edward Scissorhands is very gothic and dark and like most film back in the German Expressioism times. Also it expresses very different and weird things, for example a human like creature having scissors for hand, them living in a dark home with machines and weird chemical stuff everywhere. Most films in the German Expressionism time were weird and dark, so thats why it fits it.
2. Has this film inspired any other films, directors, or movements? No, I don't think it has. Though a lot of Tim Burtons movies have this dark and weird theme to it.

Nosferatu
1922
F.W. Murnau

1) How does this film fit into German Expressionism Movement?
The film Nosferatu uses dark make up, high contrast, it is very mad and eerie and it shows diverse and complex architectural design.

2) Has this film inspired any other films, directors, or movements?
Nosferatu has inspired vampires to be in films including Dracula which came out in 1931





Faust
1926
F.W. Murnau

How does this film fit into German Expressionism?
Faust has rapid camera movements and a urban setting.

Has this film inspired any other films, directors, or movements?
In the Faust the "Bald Mountain" scene served as the inspiration for the " Night on Bald Mounatian"animated film Fantasia.

Chase Project

Before I started this project I did research on different angles and movements to learn what would be the best to use in each scene. As a film maker using different camera movements helps the viewer focus on the subject or character in different ways. When a film maker uses tracking this helps the viewer focus the movements or characters. It also helps the character look more or less powerful. If a film maker uses zoom in, it shows an approaching subject  and when the film maker uses zoom out, it show a distancing subject. If a film maker uses a pan then this helps reveal new information to the viewer. A lot of times film makers use movements to effect the viewer, for example tracking pulls the viewer in making it seem like you are running or doing the action with the character. When a film maker uses pan it revels secrets to the viewer that character may not know at the time, pulling the viewer more into the plot.
When filmmakers use different angles in their films it helps enhance there videos, for example if a film maker uses birds eye view it shows a different look at the shot, then how it normally be seen. When a film maker uses a shot like close up or extreme close up it helps enhance their film because it helps take the viewer into the mind of the character. When a film maker uses over the shoulder as an angle this helps in enhance their video because it lets the view have a feeling of being let in.
During this project I think the group successfully used the angles to pull in the viewer into the film, on certain camera movements like tracking I think the group could of done better and been less shaky on it. If I were to complete the project again I would try to make certain angles and shots better to flow together and help the viewer understand the film better.