Avant Garde Reflection

    I learned how to get a clip that is smaller, then you would have to expand it so you could see it all. For example if the setting was 1080p but the scene was shot in 720p then you would have to make sure it looks the same.
   I also learned how to work with a new group of people, how to keep their interest and to get this project done. It could of been better, but it  was the best to our abilities.
One of the things that we didn't do well was keep on focus, there might of been a couple of days that we didn't get anything done, maybe I wasn't the best leader to get them on track, or maybe they should of been a better fellow film student, we do not know.
   I will definitely say with a short time period to film and to edit this film,  our film for a no text and drive is not bad at all. It went from very funny and something that might never happen to a serious topic and what could happen including death and what not.

Avant Garde Project

The Kuleshov Effect

The reason why this is a Kuleshov Effect is basically this is the definition of it, and how it is used. You have many people with blank faces and then you have another scene in which there might be soup and what would be the expression on his face be, it would be blank, but you could assume it being a good thing and  the person being hungry.




In this video they explain again what the Kuleshov effect is, and a really cool way they did that was showing it in the Dark Knight Rises, in which the fight scene from Bane and Batman. There are many people in that room going on and you see 3 of them Cat-woman, and 2 other guards, but their faces are blank. Could assume that Cat-woman is having remorse thoughts, or the guards are thinking wow Bane or Batman are actually tough. This would be the present day one.

German Expressionist

Nosferatu
1922
F.W. Murnau
The reason why this is expressionism is because how they use the subjective point of view shot, and how you see the monster for a while in a shadow form and then you actually see it and how weird and maybe disgusting it looks.
One film that it might of inspired would be the movies Insidious because during the whole movie you don't see what the monster looks like it is just a drawing of an outline, but then when it comes up in the end then it actually hits you as wow this is what it looks like.




The Last Laugh
F.W. Murnau
1924
This whole movie shows a great subject view because it is about one guy and he was at his "A" game then gets kicked down by being demoted it a job and his life gets turned around.




Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927
F.W. Murnau
This movie is also really well in the fact that it is a defining movie about love and how in the end it works out, but the one dies and it is lost forever. It is almost like the basic plot line of "A Fault In Our Stars". It emphasizes anti-heroic means.

Metropolis Review

Film Analysis

Film Director- Fritz Lang, looked it up on IMDB or on the end Credits. You can tell the film makers took a long time to create this film, mainly because all of the backgrounds or stages were all built from hand.

From watching the movie there were a lot of major themes including father and son, the rich people or owners to the working class, man versus machine, biblical references, there was a love connection and a chasing film for him chasing after his loved one. One other thing you can tell from Fritz Lang, is that he had a deep passion with this movie including the facts of him making all of these films a different type of movies nowadays. Now there is a thriller movie or even a romantic films, because of Fritz Lang.

We can tell what was going on because there was a lot bigger corporations and they have the big dollars and they were hiring people to do their work. But then also the owners were actually getting greedy so they wanted to change it to machine corporations, kind of like the themes from Willy Wonka and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. After there was the World War 1 going on and there was battles their, so maybe that is where he got his violence from.

For who it was made, it was mainly the audience of the 1927 people, and really it was to entertain them back then, but now, not as much because of the time period we are in, and really how we are so in depth with action movies. I saw the movie, it was an excellent movie when you are critic, most people would say it was boring, but how I saw it was on a restoration movie, because most of the film was lost over the decades, and therefore when it was just words for a while, those are the parts that are lost, and the other big thing was there was commentary. The movie would be a bit difficult without knowing some of the background, because some people might not of gotten the references to the bible or anything. So there it was an excellent piece of art to view as a film maker

Other references to other movies, include Star Wars IV V VI, or even Star Trek. But really any movie could be related like father and son, like there was a new movie out now called The Judge and that is about father and son, and some brainstorms when they were thinking about it probably Metropolis came up.

The other connection like traditional movie, I don't believe this has a traditional movie because I feel like it was the creator of all movies, it was the defining movie of every movie, you could say it was the building block of every movie nowadays, because of all of the issues it brings up; including the father/son rivalry, and without this movie maybe Star Wars would of never been created, or even movies like the Godfather. Categories like horror, action, suspense, this movie Metropolis had it all including action with the chase sequences and the over exaggerated fighting. It had horror with the creepy science man Rotwan. It even had suspense when how would you know who was going to die the fake Maria or the real Maria.

In Conclusion, Metropolis excellent piece of art to enjoy for Film Making.

Camera Angles & Chase Sequence

Camera Angles have a huge importance to films or else you will be looking at footage at just eye level. That would make a movie very bland. So therefore adding an angle not just help people be entertain, it will add up to the suspense to the film or movie. I also learned that there is a different angle every 4-5 seconds. Rarely is there the same angle for anything. Filmmakers use Camera Angles just like how I said it adds to the suspense, or to the romance, or to the action; it will all depend on what the film is about, but it adds variety to the film that you are trying to create. During the making of our film is was really good for an idea, but to actually capture it on film was difficult, but in the end we ended up doing so. But the hard part was to take this film and shorten it. I thought my final draft of 5 minutes was excellent, but here i had to shorten it and it was really difficult, but in the end my final cut was the best of 3 and 1/2 minutes. So I thought I did really well, giving a short film and a creative way of showing a chase sequence.

Camera Movements

Camera Movements

Zoom-  It involves changing the focal length of the lens to make the subject appear closer or further away in the frame.

Pan- moving the camera lens left, then right, looking left over the right is a pan.

Tilt- Moving the camera up down, basically like a head nod, look up and then down.

Tracking- A shot in which the camera is on a track and it follows a set of action, kind of like following people walking in a straight line or so.

Dolly- Moving in a motion that is coming in or out.