Harris Savide’s fantastic cinematography in David Fincher’s film “Zodiac” was the product to producing an overall thrilling adaptation of the zodiac killings. In the first sequence “Lovers Lane”, the cinematography is instantly evident through its tonality. The young man character’s face is lit by low key lighting, but Fincher makes sure that his whole face is able to be seen […]
Enemy of the State (Tony Scott, 1998) and edited by Chris Lebenzon is a fast paced, action film that uses a variety of mobile framing techniques and cross cutting to convey meanings. During the opening credits, there is sequence of found footage that is cut into short sharp sections, most of which are from a […]
As i read McKee, Robert. (1997). ‘The substance of story.’ In Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting. New York, USA: HarperCollins, pp. 135-154, it really got me thinking about all the meanings and portrayals of characters in my favourite films. He said “the protagonist is a willful character…a conscious desire…must be empathetic” and […]
As i read the extract from John Mason, 2002, Researching your own practice: The discipline of noticing (London: Routledge), I learnt that they’re three main points in noticing: Noticing Marking Recording As I pondered the many instances that i had noticed something, marked it down, and then recorded it was quite funny actually. Since, unknowingly […]
What is the controlling idea of your portrait? The controlling idea is to show her qualities through representations of painting equipment and the what people teenagers think is they are during adolescence and trying to find yourself at a young age. How is your portrait film structured? The portrait is structured with cuts of a […]
From this week’s reading, Looking at Photographs by Victor Burgin, my friend and I reflected on it and found that their were two major ideas concerning the relationship between people and photography. The first one was the significance of subject and subjectivity, and the second was how there is a visual language in photography and imagery. This […]
The semiotic tradition of analysis is drawn from the semiotic codes that are procedural systems of related conventions for correlating signifiers and signified in certain domains. Also there are codes that provide a framework within which signs make sense: and are broken up into social codes, textual codes and interpretative codes. As all this information […]
As I listened to the voice of this random individual known as Paul Ritchard I felt calm and relaxed. Wait this isn’t a diary, it’s a blog! Anyway, it was interesting to hear the major factors that a professional thought was the significant points in order to become an effective media operator. I myself have […]
In todays lectorial we had the infamous LOUISE TURLEY (my workshop teacher) talk about interviewing others and how it’s an art form to master. She explained the difference between open ended and close ended questions and how opened ended ones are far better, and results in a better response from your interviewee. Another useful tool […]
