Essays on Filming

Executive summary

Drone technology has been in used for quite some time now in many western nations for military operations. More recently, this technology is being applied to manufacture inexpensive technology and in the filming technology. Unmanned systems commonly referred to as drones continue to be made available to different consumers globally for their private means. The use of drones in the film making industry has helped to improve the quality of films produced. Further, it has increased efficiency and grown the film industry as film directors are able to capture moments that were nearly impossible to obtain some few years ...

Throughout the history of the film industry, the cinematography was aimed at expanding and solidifying the nature of storytelling. The development of cinematography influenced the development of cinema as a whole, while cinematography itself was impacted by the expanding methods of storytelling. Cinematography also makes you involved in the art of expressing your thoughts and worldview to many people and allows convincing and sharing your opinion with many at the same time. In a movie, you have an opportunity to employ your imagination and explain things that can be hard to explain. For some people, cinema provides a platform ...

Among the greatest TV show that ever graced the screens in the mid-20th century, The Andy Griffith show and I love Lucy can be considered as among the biggest shows of their times. The two television shows offered great memorable times to the viewers of those early days and gave the society a platform on which to reflect upon their daily challenges. In fact, the two shows still remain to be popular and bring nostalgia to the older generations that were wowed by the sheer adventures the characters. Indeed, the importance of these two TV shows cannot be underrated ...

The film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is an action or an adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, edited by Michael Khan and produced by Frank Marshall. It tells the story of Indiana of the Covenant that he believed would make his army invincible. This review seeks to address how the filmmakers made use of known filming techniques. First, as indicated above, the movie falls exactly in the action/adventure genre and it achieved this through its portrayal of the star character, Indiana Jones, the style and location of filming in the jungles of Hawaii. Second, in film making, the ...

The Andy Griffiths and I love Lucy Shows

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One of the top most grossing industries or sectors in the contemporary society is the entertainment industry. Increasing standards of living around the world have allowed individuals to accumulate bigger disposable incomes. Lifestyle changes continue to arise within the contemporary society owing to the growing, improving incomes. Consumables that were previously unprofitable have since become among day-to-day products. The growing entertainment industry is one such sector. The focus of this paper is to analyze the industry, growth process, and evolution of the cinema industry in India. The growth of the movie sector is one of the indicators of a ...

Every nation has some sort of historical trauma. The creepy and full of horror twentieth century did not miss anyone generously awarding each with a bouquet of mass psychosis caused terrible events. However, among the many big and not very countries most of all has gotten to China: war, revolution, famine, the occupation in the first half of the century and the severity of the second one. Mainland China having suffered under Comrade Mao with his Cultural Revolution, Hong Kong remembers the bloody riots of the 1960s, and Taiwan has gone through a difficult period of "White Terror." This ...

Introduction

Virtual reality has indeed experienced a revolution in the current decade. Precisely, the technology associated with this innovation has been heightened to newer levels making it more promising than it was in the previous century. According to Ohta and Tamura (2014), virtual reality is a computer generated an environment to replicates an actual setting to enhance an immersive feel to an individual. The sensory experience created involves one’s sense of sight, smell, hearing, and movement. In 2010, the first prototype of the Oculus Rift was created, and it had the ability to generate stereoscopic images that created a ...

I would like to talk about the movie “Mountain Patrol”, filmed in 2004 by the Chinese director Chuan Lu. The peculiarity of this director's narrative is inherent in all of his films, but here he surpassed himself. Merging in one movie two different approaches – the artistic and documentary one was an unmatched idea. At least, hardly anyone else came across this symbiosis. It really turned out a beautiful picture, in which both actors and documentary were involved. I believe that his film was a key moment in the struggle to save the antelope Chiru, not only in China but ...

The two passages written by Bordwell and Toland provide the analysis of different aspects of Citizen Kane, one of the most legendary products in the cinema industry. Gregg Toland, an outstanding cinematographer, primarily famous for his work with Orson Welles on the movie Citizen Kane, in the paper “How I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane” makes the analysis of his collaboration with Welles as well as the analysis of major achievements which were made in terms of this collaboration during the shootings of the film (Toland 569). Firstly, he explains the differences between the terms “commandment” and “convention” ...

When one thinks about a film and who is responsible for its creation, they think about the actors, directors, or producers. Perhaps other people cross the individual’s mind, like financial supporters, but one who may rarely be thought of is the film production manager. In reality, the film production manager is one of the most important people to be a part of the film’s staff, both before and during production. Responsible for important tasks such as setting and keeping a budget, creating a schedule, and ensuring the safety of those on set, film production managers are essential ...

Daniel Day Lewis in the Last of the Mohicans, is pointed to as one of the great method actors of our time. He totally immersed himself in the role actually killing and skinning his own food, learning the crafts of the Mohican tribe, and carrying a rifle with him everywhere during the shoot. Before the filming ever began he lived for six months in the woods and continued to do so throughout the shoot. By believing he was the character he was portraying, he convinced the audience as well as his co-stars who also gave more realistic and believable performances. ...

In Deborah Scranton's documentary, War Tapes, focuses on the war that happened in Iraq using the soldiers' point of view and personal war stories, as well as their families' who are all based in the United States. What started out simply as a documentary of events that transpired in Iraq has grown into a movie-like presentation of the actual events. The documentary was wrought with emotions and thus, bleeding with human-interest factors. While this type of news reporting is nothing new considering what is known as participatory reporting, the question about objectivity arises as well in that the stories all ...

A. Introduce the three works you will be analyzing (suggested length of 4–5 slides) by doing the following:

1. Summarize background details about the three works, including author or artist names, titles of the works, and the disciplines to which the works belong. 2. Provide a thesis statement to clarify for your audience how all three works connect to a common theme that applies directly to your chosen profession.

B. Provide an objective analysis (suggested length of 4–6 slides) by doing the following:

1. Describe the literary work-- description includes:-

• Form

• Subject matter (Explain in 2–3 sentences.) a. Summarize, in list form, how the author approaches the subject matter (reveals what the work is about) without discussing your personal opinions. 2. Describe the first nonliterary work of art - ...

Background

Taiwan has a magnificent movie industry. The movie industry in Taiwan is filled with talented actors, singers, dancers, and even personalities who excel in all of these three fields. The movies that will be reviewed for this paper are the movies “Invitation Only” and “Comedy Makes You Cry”. Both movies were filmed in Taiwan and the actors and actresses who filled the roles of the movie characters were either Taiwanese or of Taiwanese origins.

Narrative Strategies

This movie was one of the blockbuster hits about 3 years ago. “Invitation Only” was considered to be a movie under three genres: crime, ...

Introduction

Film editing has been revolutionized over the years due to a number of factors including changes in viewing behavior and technological advancement amongst others. However, there has been a more or less consistent industry trend as far and film editing is concerned. The Hollywood style of editing is the most dominant in the market and has since minimized the business scope of other film editing companies like French New Wave and Soviet Montage. This is because mod American media like commercials, music videos and televisions still follow the Hollywood style of editing. This paper discusses the various reasons why Hollywood style ...

United Arab Emirates-police officers handling foreign offenders

The police officers-across the world- are expected by its community to maintain peace and order. They are also responsible for writing traffic tickets, enforce laws, serve warrants and investigate crime. These important roles conducted by police officers help in curbing and controlling crime within a country. When it comes to the issue of foreign offenders in United Arab Emirates; it is the responsibility of the police officers to arrest these offenders. Traffic law is the one mostly conked out by foreigners-it is the major predicament committed by foreigners. United Arab Emirates consist of individuals from all walks of life- ...

Abstract

This report will discuss the varied, ever changing film industry with a motive of seeking a career path in the industry. Based upon primary and secondary research and first hand experiences of interviewed professionals from the industry, the job role and career path as a director will be explored. Considering economic, social and technological factors, film industry’s future trend will be assessed.

Key Aspects of Filmmaking

The film industry is largely a combination of institutions that educate about filmmaking and its allied areas, organizations, production companies, professionals with various skill sets like acting, screenplay, script writing, directing, etc. One common activity is making movies or motion ...

Response to question 1

Ryan knew that business is dynamic. In one month the sales can be high and in another it can be very low and so the elasticity of start-up business like Modern Shed required that he gets into partnerships with different people instead of a team of permanent employees. At the moment Ryan states that his company has about 14 employees in construction, office work and sales in the Seattle headquarter. 12 sales representatives and 37 dealers do business for Modern Shed in other parts of the US (Ryan Smith). This shows that Ryan has adopted an organizational structure that is ...

Introduction

The short film we had chosen was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Tell-Tales Heart. This short story was published in 1843. Just as Edgar Poe divulges, the short story is a narration by an unnamed author who recounts a murder he had committed on an old man who had pale vulture-eyes. The group acting and filming the narration comprises my mate Jake and me (Poe, 16).

The film is only 6 minutes long and this makes the film both a success and a failure. One of the aspects of successes we realized was the choice of the narration. ...

The start of cinematic vision in China was a contribution of a lot of factors pre-existing in the Chinese community. Before jumping into the factual statistics particularly related to Hong-Kong filming aura it will be apt enough to have an ideological understanding of the stream of certain social integrations in China which indirectly or directly affect the filming industry’s trend shifts in its evolution. To the viewer, martial- arts or the genre ‘Action’ might just be a mere theme of just another film but if the industry is responsible for producing several movies with same theme, this denotes the presence of ...

Paper/Assignment Due Date

The flow of the story is quicker in action films, and so the film needs to be reflective of that. The main antagonist in the film Unstoppable is Train 777, an unmanned train barreling down the track at eighty miles an hour. Not only is it destroying everything in its path, but it poses a serious risk -- it's carrying three carloads of an explosive, unstable liquid. It's a difficult task to make an inanimate object into a villain, but Scott does it through the use of combined real and filmed shots, close and quick cuts, and shaky camera usage. The scene ...

The Jaw Log by Carl Gottlieb can be compared to a movie director guide. The making of The Jaw Log has a unique perspective of one of the chief players in the alliance that resulted to the Classic movie by Spielberg. The work by Gottlieb seems like a chaotic production and a writing process that has resulted to great changes from Peter Benchley's book. The movie book was initially released in 1975 and coincided with the films release. The work was later expanded for its twenty-fifth anniversaries and later released in a hardcover for the first time in its thirtieth anniversary where some footnotes ...

Cinematography refers to the technology and the art of photography of motion-picture. It incorporates a couple of techniques such as scene composition, lighting of the location, camera selection, lenses, film stock, filters, movements, angle of the camera; and other special effects. To achieve the effects and images desired by the director, a sizeable crew is deployed to look into the various concerns. The crew is headed by either, a photography director, lighting cameraman, first cameraman or cinematographer and ensures that the desired quality is achieved. Cinematography is marked with major revolutions. It has evolved greatly with the application of the emerging technology. ...

Of all kinds of entertainment, movies are, by far, the single most popular type. People are so used to watching films cablecast on TV that they cannot envision the time when no sound was to be heard coming from beyond the screen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine soundless motion pictures, which used to be a reality more than 100 years ago. Cinematographic was an infant industry in the second half of the 19th century. However, in the early 20th century, experts created the first movie with a synchronized sound coupled to image reproduced on the screen. Actors and film directors ...

[Author’s Name] With the arrival of cinema as an artistic medium, a bunch of movements arose to portray emotions and themes through different techniques in filmmaking. One of the most important movements of the 1920’s is the surrealism movement. The Surrealism movement is described as a cultural movement that began in the early 1920’s. The reason behind the movement was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality” (Barnes, 2001). Before the movement included film, it was a medium of art that mostly contained illogical, wild, and strange creatures in paintings. Once film and cinema was ...

As film students, we were taught to detach ourselves from the typical everyday spectators who usually after watching something would simply comment, “I liked it”, or “I hated it”. Though, I do watch films analytically unlike a typical audience, I sometimes, cannot help but tocriticize the same way after viewing something. Being said that, after watching Scott Stark's films on December 9th at the first person cinema, I was torn. There were some pieces that I completely detested (Traces, Hotel Cartograph, To love or to die), and there are those that I was so gratefulto be blown away (Degree of ...

Introduction

Stranger with a camera is a documentary film directed by Elizabeth Barret in 2000 that tries to shed some light to the murder of Canadian television journalist, Hugh O’Connor, in 1967, at Lecher County, Kentucky. O’Connor was shot by a coal miner named Hobart Ison, when he was trying to document poverty and living conditions in Appalachia, and interviewed Ison’s house, without Ison been there at the time. When Ison arrived, he asked O’Connor and his crew to move away from his house and when they did, he shot O’Connor to death. In this documentary Barret ...

Compare and Contrast the Gold Rush and. Battleship Potemkin

Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. The film presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that took place in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship, Potemkin rebelled against their officers. On the other hand, “The Gold Rush” is a silent film comedy written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1925 where he stars in his Little Tramp role. The film narrates a story of the Gold Rush, where Charlie Chaplin searches for gold in Arkansas. The aim of this paper is to compare and contrast the two films by making specific ...

According to associate senior producer John Williams the food network is prepping for yet another scrumptious season of its televised show “Restaurant Impossible” filled with nothing but the best and most exotic food variety on the planet. In preparation for this new season the food network recently gave an extreme and to be honest quite necessary makeover to a local food establishment. The Windsor 75 has indeed been reinvented into a five star establishment to be used by the food network in the upcoming season of “Restaurant Impossible”. The season premiere of the show is due to air on Wednesday November ...

Little Background on the Cinematographer

American cinematographer George Walton Lucas Jr. is producer, director, editor and screenwriter; he was born in the town of Modesto, located in the state of California. George Walton Lucas, Jr. (May 14 of 1944, Modesto, California, United States) is a filmmaker States, creator of the hit film of Star Wars and later Indiana Jones, president of Lucasfilm, LucasArts Entertainment Company, and Lucas Digital Ltd, Lucas Licensing, and Lucas Learning Ltd LucasBooks. He was considered two consecutive years as the number 4 of the most powerful in the entertainment industry, just behind the owners of Time Warner, Turner and Steven Spielberg ( ...

In the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the titular troublemaker (Matthew Broderick) brings his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and his friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) with him on a day of hooky in downtown Chicago, skipping their suburban school to get a taste of the big city. As much as the film is an expression of youthful exuberance, carpe diem philosophies and the need to live life by your own rules, writer/director Hughes also uses this opportunity to craft a wonderful love letter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where he grew up. Says Hughes of the location of ...

Biography

MacKenzie Phillips was born on 10th November 1959 in Alexandria, Virginia in the United States of America. Her parents were celebrities John Phillips and Susan Phillips. The father was a rock musician while the mother was a ballerina dancer. Mackenzie had four siblings namely Jeffrey Phillips, Tamerlane Phillips, Chynna Phillips and Bijou Phillips. The latter two were a singer and an actress respectively. Her father later married Michelle Gilliam after divorcing his first wife Susan Phillips when Mackenzie was 3 years old. Mackenzie’s family life was troubled given the early family separation. At the age of three, her mother had parted ...

The mention of Holocaust brings to mind probably the greatest agony in history that mankind has ever faced. It is agonizing to even imagine the world being revisited by the horrendous events between 1938 and 1945. More than six million people (most of them Jews) were murdered in a state-sponsored spree led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party in Germany during the World War 2. The event of the Holocaust have been captured in several books and films each trying to capture the horrific memories of the events in the best way they know how. In the film Night ...

Interior design

A look at the history of art and architecture, it is clear that architecture has undergone significant changes mostly in depiction and areas of concentration. This can be attributed to change of focus and sources of design from the exterior aspect of landscape design in building design to other aspects like space and illumination 2. The major changes in design were in the interior architecture which occurred in the 19th century. This was due to the widespread civilization that was taking place in almost all areas of the world. This also impacted heavily on building architecture as well as ...

Japanese horror movies have long been a fan favorite because of their innovative way of combining traditional ideals and myths with innovative technology and storytelling to both thrill and horrify audiences. By looking at the cinematic elements in some of Japan’s most popular horror movies, we can better identify key themes and understand what elements serve to make these films so scary and so popular.

“The Ghost Story of Yotsuya”

“Ghost Story of Yotsuya” the 1959 film directed by TokaidoYotsuya, is representative of the traditional Kaidan genre. The plot revolves around the ronin Tamiya Iemon who lives a double life as a samurai while secretly killing ...

‘Guess who’s coming to dinner’ is an American film shot in 1967 and directed by Stanley Kramer. The film focuses on the controversial topic of interracial marriages in the United States at the time. At the time of the movie’s filming, interracial marriages were illegal in various states in the country, and mostly in the southern states (Levine 377). The movie represents the concept of interracial marriages, and how they got perceived by both blacks and whites in the country. This paper will provide the dreams of the film’s characters and compare with the steps taken ...

“Beauty and the Beef,” first appeared in Spy magazine in 1996. Joey Green tells us a short story and explains how ‘food celebrities’ are pampered before they are aired on TV commercials. He adopts certain techniques in his writing, such as description and process analysis, to explain why fast-food hamburgers look so good on television but are not representative of the real thing.

On television, you see the perfect burger of your dreams. It is a masterpiece of flame-broiled beef, topped with crispy lettuce, true red tomatoes, onion rings and juicy pickles. Everything is well organized in between two halves of a ...

Introduction

Happy Together was a 1997 movie filmed in Hong Kong. The story revolves around the everyday life of two middle-aged men, Ho Po Wing and Lai Yiu Fai, who also appears to be a homosexual couple. A significant part of the film focused on the way how the Ho Po Wing and Lai Yiu Fai managed their long-term & unique but ailing relationship. Apparently, one supporting character named Cheng comes into play to comfort Lai as another cycle of his abuse, break-up, and reconciliation relationship pattern with Ho goes in. In their relationship, Lai can be seen as the more concerned, loving, ...

Introduction

A documentary is a movie that attempts to present events, people and places in real life for purposes of instructing or maintaining historical records (Aitken). Documentaries are characterized by carefully chosen and arranged scenes just like movies. Unlike movies, documentaries are not scripted and the people in a documentary are not actors. In most cases, documentaries rely on voice-over narration to explain events in a given footage. In other cases, the story in the documentary is told through interviews with the people featured.

Documentary analysis

The 1929 film, Man with a Movie camera by Vertov Dziga fits the description of a documentary for several reasons. First, ...

Japanese horror films through the years had made astounding contribution to the movie industry and to the horror genre in particular. One of the notable directors of great Japanese horror flicks is Kurosawa Kiyoshi who is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick in terms of directing style and influence. Most of his films are focused on ho a general society affects an individual and how the society also reacts to adverse irrational and disintegrated social mechanisms. Japanese horror movies are not typical to the usual western made fright movies. As observed from many western horrors movies, they incorporate ...

Michelle Williams becomes Marilyn Monroe in the film My Week With Marilyn. It is obvious that Williams spent hours studying both movie and news footage of Monroe. Williams perfectly portrays Monroe’s voice, body language, and facial expressions. This film gives viewers a glimpse into Monroe’s fragile ego. Monroe’s low self-esteem causes her to be late on the movie set and influences who she chooses to have in her inner circle. The story is told from the perspective of the young Colin Clark. Clark was only twenty-three years old when he landed his first job in filmmaking ...

Old Fashioned Gay Love Story is a film about acceptance and resistance to change, involving a gay couple from Hawaii and their attempts to overcome various adversities both in their personal relationship and their community. The film is intended for all audiences, but particularly for the younger viewing audiences unfamiliar with the struggles of couples considered outside the mainstream. It is our hope that the film will provide understanding and acceptance of all people, and it is our hope that the production of the film will inspire other local artist to recognize their own dreams and to take action. We believe ...

Introduction:

Bringing Down a Dictator is a classic documentary featuring how the Serb dictator, Slobodan Milosevic was eventually overthrown not through force of arms but eventually through non violent opposition spearheaded by student groups mainly with the backing of The United Nations and other NGO’s. It is a powerful film featuring some great filming and focuses on the ruthless brutality of the dictator paired with the intrinsic bravery of the opposition groups who faced considerable obstacles in attempting to get what they wanted. They used rock concerts, general banter and other methods to achieve their ultimate goal although it has to ...

1. In which way did the Big Eight dominate by the late 1930's the "Big Eight" the domestic and foreign markets? Please provide some examples. In the 1930’s, the Big Eight managed to control all of the markets through taking control of every aspect of filmmaking, from creation to distribution and selling. These companies managed to maintain a foothold over the entire filmmaking industry, allowing them to reap most of the profit. They also made sure that the first-run theatres were run by them, as it determined how a film did overall. This led to higher salaries and paychecks ...