In the world of making a movie.

Director: He has the role on facing problems every day and also he needs new ideas everyday.

Producer: He is the one that pays the money for the film, actors etc.

Scriptwriter: In this film, the scriptwriter is hurt, so he needs a typewriter. He is the one that has to change the story if it is needed, and also the script.

Actor: She is uncomfortable with what she has to do in the film at the beginning, so she wants to quit. Then, the actors have script conferences.

Cinematographer: He is the one in charge on changing the stages for the different situations in the film, for example the rain, and the lighting effects for making some romance.

Sound: The sound has the role to adapt music to situations, when there is tension there is a more tense music, when there is romance the music is slower and nice, and also plays with the sound of the rain, which have a good effect con it.

Assistant director: He is the one that do everything for the director to be comfortable and also take orders all the time.

12 pic Movie

In this shot , i wanted to show the cuple as a happy cuple and this is why the shot is only focused on them.

In this shot, I wanted a medium-close up (of the cuple) to the far shot (of the bench) and how the girl points to the bench showing a sign of interest.

In this low-shot of the cuple, I made this shot to try and show that there love and what they had was strong and it could be shown through their happiness.

In this shot, we can see only her face and that shes interested in something but we dont know in what, this makes the viewer have an interest.

Movie review: Strangers

Short Film: Strangers

    In the short film strangers, there were many attributes in which made me make my choice as Strangers to be my favorite of the three. One reason why I choose this short film is because of the fact that this short film settled a context of something was going to happen by placing it in a dark underground place in the beginning. Also by placing the main setting inside a subway, which is a confined and small place with having exits at short periods of time.

    Another way which made me like the short film was because of the distinction in the actors. As you can see with the skinheads, they were mostly dressed in black with tattoos and many piercings on their bodies. They also had a dark and cold stare, which on the other hand the two other men had normal clothing like normal people with a touch of innocence, which made the skinheads, stick out even more.

    The absolute silence and no script at all made you get more of a feel to the movie since it made you pay more attention to actions of what the actors would do instead of listening to what they could of said.

    I also liked, the fact that the directors made a break in a moment of tension by making one of the innocent actors have his cell phone ring a Jewish ringtone. This made it pretty funny for a moment since the he couldn’t find his cell phone and it would still ring. But as soon as he got it, it made the tension come back and with more intensity since he was now another target to the skinheads.

    The director also accomplished a great camera shots by making a lot of close ups on both the Jewish men and on the skinheads. This made you see and understand better the expressions that the actors would show which would replace the words for feelings.

In the end, the director of the short film Strangers, made it be one of my favorites in choosing since it mixes in a lot of different characteristics which make this short film great. 

French Painting analysis

1) Find two images for French impressionist paintings.

Give brief caption with name, artist, date. Explain briefly the important characteristics of French Impressionism.

Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant(Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan

Alfred Sisley, Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art

The French impressions have to do with the light reflections, also with the art movement, that can be seen in Monet´s painting. Also the human interception of what they see in the picture and unusual visual angles.

2) Three outside factors that influenced the rise of French Impressionist cinema?

Explain in your own words.

When WW1 had finished, there was an economic decrease in almost all over the world, because of the war, so the French impressionists in cinema had to be more successful in their job, and had to come up with lots of new ideas. For recovering economically.

Other factor was the improve in modern cinema, which was very powerful in Europe, because this brought lots of new ideas and techniques in filming and also in styles and editing for that time.

3) Describe three or more important technical aspects of French Impressionist Cinema (i.e. use of camera, editing, sets, lighting, narrative, etc.)

The angles where more varied, as for example: Low angle shot, and High angle shot. The Low one, gives power to the character and the High one, makes him look weak.

Editing was also used very much for making flashbacks or shadows in some occasions.

 4) Find information on two important film directors in French Impressionist Cinema from 1918-1929: name, photo, major films, interests or concerns shown in films.

Abel Gance by the Studio Harcourt
Born	25 October 1889 Paris, France
Died	10 November 1981 (aged 92) Paris, France

Filming: Vénus aveugle  after the invasion on France in 1940, to give hope to the French.

Jean Renoir
Born	15 September 1894 Paris, France
Died	12 February 1979 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, United States
Occupation	Actor, director, screenwriter, producer, author
Years active	1924–1978
Spouse	Catherine Hessling (1920–1930) Dido Freire (1944–1979)

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