Essays on Filmmaking

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The review of Wong Kar-Wai’ work by Peter Brunette is an inclusive yet critical analysis of Wong’s films which provides the audience with an insight of the themes of filmmaking aesthetics. Mazierska and Rascorali explore the theme of time in Wong’s films by exploring the various ways in which Wong displays his understanding of postmodernity. These two theses on Wong’s works evoke several questions. For instance film, students might be tasked to answer the various ways in which Wong directs his films. Thus, examination questions may include: In what way does Wong stand out as a ...

It was a pleasure reading this article. The concepts were a welcome review of sound’s role in filmmaking. ‘Designing a Movie For Sound’ by Randy Thom was thorough.. Normally, in the world of film today, audiences expect ‘nice’ songs to accompany story. These musical sound-bytes, designed by movie-makers, pander to their wishes, thus – contributing nothing of a shared, integrated structure to the overall mise-en-scene of the film. In stunning contrast, Thom discussed the legendary, extraordinary sound design of the movie, Apocalypse Now, describing how Coppola imbued the film into the sound, giving the characters “the opportunity to listen ...

Final Essay: Robert Bresson’s Dictum & Film Analysis of “A Man Escaped”

Introduction The modern film-viewer may anticipate feeling abashed, or risk feeling bored when scrutinizing an old, black-and-white movie that lacks an action package. However, Robert Bresson’s film made in 1956, A Man Escaped, offers a compelling example of filmmaking skills which captivate the attention of its audience. One of Director Robert Bresson’s favorite dictums asserts that “What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear” (“Notes on Sound”). Control of narrative space, and command of sound perspective strategies in the film demonstrate an exercise of the filmmaker’s philosophy. The film analysis herein, ...

One has to reckon the fact that film first came to exist in the public domain as a form of art back in the year 1895. Over the years, this form of art has developed a lot and films have come to be one of the most complicated forms of aesthetic expressions. However, if one traces back to the history of cinema and the making of the early films, it can be comprehended that the films made were quite different from the ones that one sees in the present times. A close introspection of these early works of cinema ...

The history of film, much like any other industry throughout time, has largely been male-dominated, with the vast majority of opportunities and accolades going to male filmmakers. However, it is important to note the influence of women in the film industry, and the sorely underappreciated role they have throughout the history of cinema. When tracking women directors through the 100+ years film has existed, their impacts and struggles has ebbed and flowed in surprising ways. From the silent film era’s breadth of opportunities to modern filmmaking’s slow but steady infiltration of women directors today, female filmmakers have ...

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The world of art has always been driven by an immortal tradition where the sole artist worked as the creative force and his relationship with the art was way more influential than the traditional author-art relation. In the case of films, the concept of the ‘Auteur’ explains one of the most significant styles of cinematic direction in which the director becomes too dominant over the entire film that he is being ranked as the author for the film. Some directors in the world cinema are reckoned to have such a strong authorial presence in their films that is very ...

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The cinematic depiction of the cultural criminalization (intersection of crime and society) has been adequately expressed in some renowned films and mostly these films are categorized as ‘Mafia films’. Further, in terms of a significant illustration of the Italian mafia in the American society, two of the most remarkable cinematic works are those of Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ (1972) and Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’(1990). Both these films have rendered their level best effort in romanticizing the private lives of the Italian mob in America and tries to explain the life of a Mafia with utmost clarity (Sims, " ...

This paper is to research the nature of documentary films, their history and theory. Documentary films are movies with close-to-reality plots. The themes of documentary films are often thoroughly chosen and arranged according to the unknown things of the world. The documentaries give the audience the lessons and warning about the peculiarities of the arrangement of different things. Many components of the films are analyzed through the impact they carry along with background voices and meaning of the scenes. These components are timbre, gender, texture, tone etc. They have connotative meanings similarly to those which modes of documentary films ...

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 ...

Intensified Research of Ridley Scott

Intensified Research on Ridley Scott There have only been a handful of filmmakers who had been able to stand out from the crowd of great film personalities that ever flourished in Hollywood. These filmmakers may not be the ones who made the most popular film in the world or the ones who made the most critically acclaimed or commercially successful films yet. Instead, these people are the pioneers that proved how significant movies can become for popular culture by influencing almost a couple of decades of filmmaking and/or lifestyle choices. Works of this handful of filmmakers, hailed as classics ...

Technical Communications

Executive Summary Filmmaking, like everything else, has benefitted from the development of technology. However, this evolution was slow but fruitful, enhancing the world of filmmaking, the quality of the film, and the skills of th filmmakers. From the simple idea of Louis and August Lumier, the French brothers who first screened the short film they were able to take, to the development of the phenakistoscope, or the kinetoscope, by Simon Stampfer and Joseph Plateau, the development of filmmaking technology kept moving forward. Thomas Alva Edisonand Kennedy Laurie Dickson were the first to show one shot films without any camera ...

George Lucas, a multi-film Star Wars Chronicle has had a substantial effect on the American Culture. Star Wars stories are deeply rooted in well-liked culture; with explicit references being made in regards to the key actors and storyline of Star Wars. These have casually created in most English speaker nations, majorly the US on the presumption that people will comprehend the reference. ‘Gone With the Wind’ was the first bestselling film, notably theatrical in its production design, scale, and full visual sweep. The film was box office’s best film of all times up to the point when it ...

The cinematography is one of the greatest arts. It combines the elements of literature, theater, music, painting, architecture, ballet, etc. As a result of the synthesis of the traditional arts appears a new type of the art - film. Despite the fact that the cinematography is a relatively young kind of the art, it has already become extremely valuable for us. Moreover, it is simply impossible to imagine our lives without movies! After all, we are accompanied by them from the early childhood. Of course, cinematic preferences of a person may change, but it is also worth noting that ...

The first part of the slides describes the history of developments and inventions of movie production industry. The first steps in movie production have been taken by Marey and Muybridge in 1870s-1880s. They were able to capture motions by taking series of pictures using a single camera. Almost 15 years later, Thomas Edison created first Kinetoscope, where through the peep hole only one person could see the illusion of movement, that was created by showing sequence of images with a high speed over a light source (“Kinetoscope”). In almost the same period Lumière brothers invented a new device ...

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A brief glimpse into Berlin, Germany, and film and documentary production in the 1920s will provide historical context to better understand and appreciate the quality and value of this innovative documentary. Cultural life blossomed after the 15 million deaths and destruction of World War I. In the 1920s, the German film industry, despite uncertainties and financial difficulties, became firmly established and very productive (Goesch 61, 72). The emphasis on Expressionism became reality, objectivity and good times in the late 1920s. The art ...

There can be no denial that the cinematic form of art provides enormous scope for the creative artists to exude their skills and leave an impression on the minds of the avid audience. Now, it needs to be reckoned that the narration of a film is one of the key elements that helps engage the audience and communicate the idea or story of the film. However, the narrative process of the film too provides ample scope of exudation of aesthetic sense and creative style of the filmmaker. A scrutiny of a couple of films in relation to the narrative ...

The process of filmmaking is a complex, but very rewarding one. In the initial stages of the process, there is a story or idea that is thought of by an individual and subsequently, he or she begins writing it. The film company, or movie studio more often than not hires scriptwriters to work with the individual's concept and flesh it out. Once the script is completed, then the various roles within the film are cast by the casting director. He or she will interview and observe a significant amount of people as they read the lines from the movie ...