Shaping the Film

I didnt really like this article. The other articles that I have read so far for the most part I found to be helpful and informative, but I did not get the same responce with this article. It wasnt that the information wasnt helpful, but I guess, for lack of better words, I wasnt drawn into the reading like I had been with the other articles.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

I have always loved this movie! I watched it tonight and althought I enjoyed it, I also watched it with a intro. to digital video perspective. As I watched it, it became more and more clear to me how much work actually went into making this movie. Although it is animated, for the time period it was really intense stuff. This movie was released in 1993. Back then the animation technology was nothing like the technology we have now. As a side not, I love Tim Burton. I wrote about his new release of Alice in Wonderland (which I also loved) and he never ceases to amaze me. His unique style intrigues me and I have enjoyed all of his movies! :-) The Nightmare Before Christmas is definately a classic that everyone should watch if they have not already.

Lighting article

I found this article to be very interesting mainly because I know a decent amount about lighting. I work at a Sears Portrait Studio and we us a model similar to the umbrella and spotlight combination. I got very excited when I could recognize that style of lighting. The other thing I found interesting that I did not really know was the visible spectrum. The frequencies of visible light are something that I had been told in some lasses,  but it did not go into specific detail before. This article was very interesting.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

WOW!! This was one of the strangest movies I have ever seen. This movie is right up there on the weird scale with A Clockwork Orange and The Wall. The characters were wonderful and the story line was intriging, but it was difficult to follow in some areas. I found the angles and the lighting for this movie interesting. The angles allowed a sense of mystery to come through and the lighting implied a dark side to the film. Interesting movie. I wouldn't watch it all the time, but it definately worth seeing at least once.

Technical Sound article

I found this article very informative and find it fascinating that sound is so essential in film. Obviously I knew that sound played a part, but I had no idea how in depth it went. Although there was a lot of information, I am interested more so to see the practical aspect and the practice of using sound. I think it will be interesting to see how film and sound line up together. I always wondered how they can sync up so well and this article has given me a wider understanding of that.

Boondock Saints

I love this movie. I have seen it a few times before, but I never really looked closely at the angles, lighting and music. When I looked deeper, I found that the way the director filmed this was genius. There is a scene at the end of the movie where a friend is killed (Rocco, for those of you that have seen it) and the angle where one of the brothers is leaning over him is beautiful. I really enjoy this movie and now I appreciate it more as well.

After the Death of Film

I was not as interested in the majority of this article as I was with the other article I blogged about, but I did find one thing I found very interesting. The idea that nature can be a useful tool. I always thought that using nature in film was normal for a background of a scene or something, but I never look at it and its function as a "collaborator". It never seemed that important in film, but after reading the article and watching movies I have discovered how aesthetically pleasing it is for nature to be in the film.

"Looking Through Video: The Psychology of Video and Film"

I thought that it was interesting how they view video. Yes, they touch down on the history of film, but the real attention grabber for me was when the discussed that television and film were deveoped seperately. I had no idea that they werent directly realted. I had always thought that they went "hand in hand", which they do now, but not in the development stages of the two. The history of of video is very interesting, but I have foud the most interesting statement in the article was Edison, which said "do for the eye what the phonograph has done for the ear." To me, that is very interesting because the two inventions working together is so cool in my mind. Its cool because you can put two seperate invention ideas together and make something entirely different.