Reflection of Chapter 2

Although in my English Class during my senior year of High School, we reviewed a lot of the language of the film techniques. We spent an entire semester learning shots, lighting, and setting. We had to implicate those techniques into our very own film and if we didn't use at least one of shots/techniques then we would be downgraded. So most of this was just a refresher for me (so far) and I know that there will be a lot more for me to learn and study. I hope we go over more zooms and the way blurriness has an effect to film because my knowledge in that perspective is lacking.

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Get Out (2017) with Chapter 5 terms: The Sunken Place

After reviewing chapter 5 about Cinematography and watching Get Out in class last week, I can use some of the terms to describe one of my favorite scenes from the film. This conventional thriller film pushed new waves on our interpretation of this genre. Diving into the iconic scene where Chris goes into the "sunken place" after Missy hypnotizes him. Popular director Jordan Peele and cinematographer Toby Oliver carefully crafted the stylistic choices with Chris and the setting. The main characteristic of lighting is Artificial lighting with fill. The lighting was established when Chris was sinking into the darkness and the light was from the viewpoint of what he was seeing beforehand. It casted the dark void Chris was slipping into gradually losing light. The depth of field was chosen to be casted far away from our character to establish the "sunken place" idea with a high angle far shot on Chris. The slow movements the chracter was making created a vision of him b...

Reflection of My Film Project

After spending a few weeks on organizing, planning, filming and then editing this short film my group and I made, I was actually happy with what we made. Everyone in the Group (myself, Ishaan, Francisco, Aidan) seemed to care what kind of product we were putting out. Everyone pulled their weight in this film and contributed enough. The origin of this idea started when Fransisco suggested that we do a crime film are we could not decide originally on the genre. From that point, I came up with the foundational idea about a framed murder that detectives needed to figure out. From that point much of the idea and stylistic choices were made somewhat on the fly. We wanted to make this as organically as possible because we all felt that is where the best movies come from. On the day we did most of our filming, we shot right on campus in the Basement of Wentz Science Center. Found some great rooms to film our two main settings (Murder site, and Detective Room). Those shots went by really f...

Introductory Post

Over the course of my entire life, I have had my fair share of films that I enjoy immensely. Some of the films I've viewed on repeat include Goodfellas, The Dark Knight, Nightcrawler, Stepbrothers, and Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire). These films are across many genres which I enjoy because I can appreciate all different types of film and interpret it will a broad mindset. However, I do that this list will change within a few months but most of these films will stay at the top of my list because I return to them more often than others. The reason I am taking this class is because I would love to improve how I can view film and expand my knowledge of other movies. In high school during my senior year english class we watched a handful of films, learned about different camera angles, lighting, etc so I have a bit of comprehension of filming works. Within the North Central Curriculum there is a Art requirement and this is my personal favorite form of art so tha...

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