Let’s talking about interpreting a script, time to see how ‘visual’ I am. Ella seems like a perfect role for Anna Kendrick, and Emily Blunt can be a great Juliette. Since this film will never be made, might just dream big. I want to begin the scene with a close up on the books, as […]

This research is really painful to me. My first obstacle was picking a topic, I really have selection difficulties and I highly doubt if that can be cured. My first choices were “Wildness in Film”, “Dutch Angles” and “Legs in Film”. I just thought these would be interesting to talk about, but then I realized […]

There are 6 clips in Part 18, three are from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s film The Kid with a Bike (2011) and the other three are the directors talking about the making of that film. Although I remember someone said musicians making commentary tracks for their own music is the sign of death in music […]

Watching the clip from ll deserto rosso (Red Desert, 1964) reminds me of the time I was watching L’avventura (1960). I did not remember too much from the view experience of L’avventura, I can only remember that it was nothing like the other films I watched before, and certainly nothing like the films people make […]

There were 6 presentations from the other week, some of them I think are quite interesting. And Ada’s presentation strikes me as the most practical and broad. She is investigating on car scenes in film, which is kind of what I’m doing; we are both researching on a specific type of scene. It is interesting […]

This research is conducted to study the elevator scene coverage in films. I will be looking into the ways these scenes are covered, what is the relationship between these types of coverage and the space they are set in. Due to time limit and other reasons, this research mostly focuses on cinematography, staging and directing […]