Essays on Film Editing

Movies are a good source of entertainment and information. An individual can watch a movie within 2 or 3 hours. This is one of the key reasons why most people prefer to watch movies than reading a novels. Instead of taking a couple of hours or days reading a novel, they will have the curiousity to watch for 2 hours and get over it. A movie is usually limited by time. In a busy life of a person, they will get some time to rest or to have some entertainment. In that plenty of time, people are ...

Through this essay I will be looking at the work of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick is known for his demanding and very detailed approach to film making and is the embodiment of an auteur. But what does it mean to be an auteur? The auteur theory, which was derived largely from Astruc’s elucidation of the concept of camera-stylo (‘camera-pen’), holds that the director, who oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture, is more to be considered the author of the movie than is the writer ...

The history of cinema and how it came to be the widely popular enterprise it is today can be associated with many people. For instance, one of the most influential people to change the cinema were the Lumière brothers. They helped to make cinema the commercially viable enterprise that it is today, through their inventions, popular movies, and innovations. The Lumière brothers innovation would allow other film companies to make movies and spread the passion of movie making all over the world. ...

The dinner scene is set in a prison cell, which is where the men spend most of their time. Within the first scene, you can see a close-up of Pauly who finely slices garlic with a razor blade is. Frierson (2018: 5) states that “Following the Cartesian coordinate system of x-axis for the horizontal dimension, y-axis for the vertical dimension and z-axis for the line extending from the camera to the horizon. With this three-dimensional spatial framework established.” This then cuts to using the ...

Now that the semester has reached to its end, I feel impressed with Creativity, Innovation and Design course since it served me well. This course has workshops for each week and each workshop had different topics. In each week, there were videos that the students should watch before tutorial related with the topics so that the students can understand a bit about the topics beforehand and then the students can discuss and tell their opinions about the video. This course encouraged the students ...

Writing and directing is no easy task for filmmakers, but developing the initial story is even harder. This was especially true for Pete Docter, creator and director, of Inside Out. His initial idea for the film was inspired by his daughter whose varying display of emotions sparked his curiosity about what was really going on inside her head? This inspired him to create a film from the perspective of the things that control us the most – emotions. This is what makes it unlike another Pixar ...

The Graduate, released in 1967 and directed by Mike Nichols, is a groundbreaking film that brought to the screen the issues plaguing a young generation. Following the post-college life of Ben Braddock, the film depicts his journey through an unknown and unfamiliar world. One of the ways Nichols inventively portrays Ben’s path is through water imagery. It is used in several different ways throughout the film, including Ben’s fish tank and his parents’ swimming pool. These examples of water ...

In a firm operation, MIT CISR defines Enterprise Architecture as an organizing logic between the business and Information Technology sides over two dimensions; standardization and integration. According to this formulation, standardization is defined as following the same procedure for processes, while the sharing of data between processes is called integration (Ross et al. 2006). Johnson & Johnson (Ross 2003) can serve as example for its IT Enterprise Application. In 1995, J&J had around 150 ...

In recent times, film has been overcome with the idea of “the male gaze”. Stories are told through a visual lense of a “straight-male”. Sadly, this not only objectifies the dame character, but places the female in a much more passive role than their male counterpart. From time to time, films present themselves that attempt to both challenge and cleverly incorporate the male gaze. Silence of the Lambs, directed by Johnathan Demme, is one of the diamonds in the rough. Demme constantly uses film ...

Interstellar, which Christopher Nolan directed, tells the story of the voyage of several astronauts whose sole purpose is to save mankind from utter destruction. The film poses an interesting question; what is more important, the individual or society as a whole? Throughout the film, the resounding answer is that ultimately the hope of humanity and societal needs trump those of individual lives. Among the many cinematic tools used to convey this theme, the most powerful are the production ...

To begin with, an independent film is a film that is not produced in a major film studio. These films usually do not have big name actors, nor have certain special effects. Usually these independent films have a restricted budget. Independent films are only filmed at different film festivals, national or international. Sometimes these films can win an award even though the advertisements are low and the budget is cheap. Independent films are unique and can be very successful in their aspects ...

Hollywood movies have dominated film markets worldwide. Such domination is in clear evidence in Hong Kong and Taiwan1. In marketing these foreign-films for the consumption of the two Chinese communities, film distributors choose to translate the imported foreign film-titles into Chinese. The translated film-titles are different in the two communities, with the Hong Kong ones being more descriptive, more colloquial and mostly rewritten or adapted, whereas the Taiwan ones are usually literally ...

Reading “In the Blink of an Eye” was a very inspiring experience; it made me want to go in and cut a film and experience all of the emotions involved in cutting a film. I appreciated Murch’s approach fundamentally on the idea that editing is primarily an emotional experience. He kept going back to this idea throughout the book: technical editing is important but only through the idea that technical editing concepts are primarily rooted in conscious and subconscious emotional experiences we ...

The film Superman: The Movie, is the 1978 theoretical adjustment of Superman, which was directed by Richard Donner. The motion picture of this film was taped and created in the meantime as its spin-off; Superman II, in spite of the fact that this game plan was plagued by generation challenges, and the continuation of this film was not discharged until 1980. The two further portions of Superman were placed in the arrangement: Superman III (1983) and Superman IV: The Quest For Peace (1987), just ...

It was disheartening when The Fosters fans learnt after the season two finale that one of the most loved characters in the drama - Jesus played by Jake T Austin was being recast. The second season of the drama ended with a cliffhanger which came as a shock to many. In the last episode that season, Ana was seen confused about who to give her unborn child up to for adoption - her parents or the couple (Stef and Lena) who adopted her other two children, Jesus and Mariana, but before she could ...