Avant Garde

Avant Garde: inspiration 




resolution: the detail an image holds. The term applies to raster digital images, film images, and other types of images. Higher resolution means more image detail.
aspect ratio: describes the width and height of a cinema or television screen, or the size in which a film has been shot and should be projected.


Review: I believe that as a group we did a really good job shooting this film and creating the story board. We followed rule of thirds, experimented with white balance, used different shot angles, and incorporated shots and techniques we learned in class. When I edited the film by myself, I learned how to used new effects, layer clips, and change speeds to create a more interesting film. I also used garage band to create audio for the film. Next time I want to be more comfortable when using effects on video clips and to spend more time creating a better audio for the film. Overall I think I have improved on my editing skills and have more of an idea of how I want my film to look like and I have put together a film I am proud of. 

resolution and aspect ratio

Dada Film

How does Dada film do it's job of taking art into the 20^th century by moving images?

The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I, and the movement itself could be seen as a reaction to the catastrophe. While most of the European poets and painters joined the war propaganda and glorified the war as the climax of European culture, Dadaists attempted to undermine the cultural values and social myths that WWI promoted. The Dadaists tried to emancipate their audience from cultural idols, taboos, and norms by creating and participating in art that worked to become public manifestations that provoked the audience to become “Dadists” for a brief moment in time. 

most of the dada films seem to have moving inanimate objects,repetition of objets and people, formal and informal balance, and forms of variety along with unity.    

kuleshov effect

Kuleshov effect:

a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s.It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

(close up of actor, then cuts to a shot of something the actor is thinking about, or looking at. then show them one after another so the audience assumes thats what the actor is looking at or desiring.) 

metropolis analysis

Metropolis Final Analysis:

• Fritz Lang (opening credits)
• wanted to make a film that would make an impression on the American market (googled it)
• He (Fritz Lang), wanted to make the biggest film of that time period. (googled it)
• this film was made for a large audience of people, it addresses the audience by keeping them entertained with the urban/modern aspects and setting of the film and interesting camera movement and angles. (googled) 
• this film was made in a higher society setting and environment due to its large intricate sets, costumes etc... (the film)
• German expressionist (class work) 
• Star Wars C3PO is very similar to the robot figure in metropolis (imdb)

Twilight chase scene

Twilight Chase Scene


I felt that this project was done pretty well and up to standards as our first "real" film for this class.I felt that rule of thirds and camera angles were used in every shot as it was required. Thing that could have been better were the quality of the shots and we should have planned our story board out a bit better. For our next project i plan to have sound to go with the video and to plan out our shots better. Overall I am very happy with the way this turned out.

German Expression Movement

The Golem: 

1920
Carl Boese and Paul Wegener 
madness,anti-hero, contrast, variety
inspired floating rings in Metropolis






Metropolis:
1927
Fritz Lang 
urbanization, sci-fi
inspired C3PO in Star Wars






Pandora's Box
1929
Georg Wilhelm Pabst 
anti-hero, framing, contrast
inspired comic strip Dixie Dugan