GOLDEN AGE OF CINEMA: The fact that someone had to invent "the idea of film", makes me realize how creative human beings are. Starting with the stop motion style of film, photos of a horse moving, looping over and over, and ending today with dolby cinema heavy actions films in 4k resolution. We have come so far, and the biggest revolution in film, in my opinion, is the frames per second rate. the fact that, broken down, film is just photographs taken in milliseconds can show movement.
The fact that when the first real kind of "motion picture" was as simple as a train coming two's the camera makes me amazed at how complex films have become. In the movie Hugo Cabrae, they talk about that film, and how people where amazed, and jumped out of there seats as the train as coming towards them.
zoopraxiscope- a device for projection motion pictures

Bella, Kennedy, and I will be creating an environmental PSA about pollution and littering at White Rock Lake. We will focus on trash on the shoreline, as well as pesticide runoff. We will also highlight For the Love of the Lake, an organization dedicated to preserve and enhance White Rock Lake.

FRENCH NEW WAVE: This style of film really is the use of most film today. There use of foreground, middle ground, and background is so interesting. We don't really notice how much they use these tactics, because we are so used to it. Seeing some of these films reminded me of shots I've seen in more modern day films. I am a huge cinematographer, so I look at all the shots vividly, and being able to breakdown each shot into this format is cool. A director who Reminded me of French New wave style is Wes Anderson. He uses these three tactics in almost every one of his shots, to perfection. Or the closest thing to it. every shot in grand Budapest hotel made me think of this style. Watching some of the French New wave films myself, I notice how similar Wes's films are to those.This is one of my favorite shots from the film Grand Budapest Hotel. in the foreground we have the little medals truck with the two main characters in it. The middle ground has the army troops marching, and in the background is the hotel. But it isn't that same as the first shot of the hotel, because the soldiers flags are on it, hinting that the hotel has been taken over.

NEOREALISM: This style of art, and more specifically film is beautiful. It is so simplistic, but the simplicity makes it edgy and clean. The quality is amazing for the time period of film this is in, but it is in black and white. These filters didn't use artificial things, like a set, and extras, they just filmed on the street. I find that so cool how these people took a big ass camera, didn't care what the passing people thought, and created art. That is something hard to find in this day in age. Now film makers just have giant set, with payed extras all around just "making something fake reality." These films are real. They have pretty simple plot structures, but it is so interesting to see all the parts, and hear what they had to do.
the quality of this shot is insane, there faces look so distraught, and it is in black and white. This film is also very old, so the camera quality surprises me. The simplicity of this shot surprises me, cause at first glance, the black and white makes it look so artsy, and complex.

 that is the size of one of the cameras  they used. Now can you imagine  seeing a group of people randomly filming with this thing on the street. That is what it was like for all those people in the background of the film.

MAJOR INCITING STORY INCIDENT: One of my favorite films, Eternal sunshine of the spotless Mind, has an amazing storyline. Everything is so ambiguous, and you actually have to watch the movie to understand it. if you look away for a few seconds you will be lost. that is what I love about this movie.

The inciting incident is one of my favorite parts, and the main idea of the movie. Jims character had met a girl in the beginning of the movie, and the first 15 minutes are them happening to go to the same places. getting off the train at the same stops. then it cuts to a shot of Jim crying, so obviously something had happened. The inciting incident is when Jim finds out his girlfriend erased her memory of him, and Jim starts to go crazy. this one event starts the whole conflict of the play, to is the point at where all the characters cannot turn back, which id the definition of the initial incident.

I just finished watching the experimental film Intermittent Delight by Akosua Adoma Owusu, and let me just say it was an experience. So many different aspects relayed in a 4 and a half
minute video.

For one there were the patterns. So many different designs and colors and effects flashing
before your eyes. You had women making patterned quilts, and this was a reoccurring 
image in the video. So many of the "scenes" were reoccurring and that aspect of it was 
amazing.
















If I was asked to describe this video in one word, that word would be interesting. it was so
different, and weird in a good way.

another huge part of this video was the audio. Different noises in your ears bouncing around, in a way. it wasn't very melodic, just random and loud. However, it did fit the video perfectly.

the link to the video is here: https://vimeo.com/43646564