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 […]

Judging by the title, it is apparent this is a reflection written in a very blunt style. Two things we need to address before we begin: First, though I mentioned the all power being in the title, I am not a Christian. Second, for the love of god, can we stop talking about the 180 […]

There’s a lot of content in the Paul Schrader interview and it is very complex. I had to read it back and forth to understand it. One thing that attracts me the most in that article, is about the ideologies around those directors and how they are affected by those ideologies. This article talked about […]

After reading Chapter 24 of Tom Reily’s book, I want to say to assistant director what Jeff Winger said to Abed in the first episode of Community, “I see your value now.” I always have this concern about filmmaking: if I were to shoot a scene, how do I know the ‘background’ in my film […]

The scene I chose is from Michael Bay’s film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). Here’s the link to the clip: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zxeE7JVCVRSNnmXqW4hdyTl-jjkBknLp This is a chase scene from Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), where Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) has a goal to escape the hunting of Decepticons, and use the ‘matrix’ (which is temporarily in dust) to revive Optimus Prime. Along with […]

This clip is from film Brgin Agian (2013, John Carney), the scene starts from 1:12 in the video above, and  17:20 in the actual film. The scene starts with Dan (Mark Ruffalo) comes into the bar and sits down, and immediately cut to the other side of him, from a close-up to a mid-shot. In […]

In Week 3 online courses started, of tree parts of this week I was most enlightened by Part 2. Coverage of two bar scenes from Gossip Girl (2007) and The Fire Within (1963). The former one is, as Robin described, shot-reverse-shot between two characters, shot type alternates between mid-shots and close-ups. I found this coverage […]

One question popped up in class: what does a director do? I don’t know how to answer that exactly. In my mind I always think that a director sort of does everything, but also sort of nothing. A director has to oversee the whole production, he/she conduct actors, he/she makes decisions on what kinds of […]

The first assistant director is responsible for many things, contacting and hiring crew, renting or purchasing equipment, breaking down the script, and what I learnt from the class —— preparing a shooting schedule. I think it is a quite difficult job, in order to set the schedule, the first AD needs to communicate with the […]