my journey towards a BA in photography
Mother (1926) Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin Synopsis: One woman’s struggle against Tsarist rule during the 1905 Russian Revolution. Summary: In this film, the mother of Pavel Vlasov is drawn into the revolutionary conflict when her husband and son find themselves on opposite…
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“Nanook of the North (1922)” vs “The Last Trapper (2004)” vs “The Village at the End of the World (2012)” Excercise 3.4 ask to consider the 3 films together as a representation of the genre of constructed observational documentary…
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Village at the End of the World (2012) Director: Sarah Gavron, David Katznelson Summary: Village At The End Of The World is a witty, surprising and ultimately feel good portrait of an isolated village of 59 people and 100…
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The Last Trapper (2004) Director: Nicolas Vanier Synopsis: A trapper and his wife brave the harsh Yukon climate, treacherous landscape and dangerous wildlife in an attempt to live a life of solitude. Review: What can I say about this…
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Nanook of the North (1922) Director: Robert J. Flaherty Synopsis: In what is wildly regarded as the first feature length documentary; Robert J. Flaherty charts the life of Inuit Nanook and his family over a year living within the Artic…
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In this 1960’s interview on of cinema’s masters talks through 3 different style of editing. Montage – he describes this as more assembly than cutting as mosaic. He references the the famous shower scene of “Psycho”. I would be impossible just…
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IFC – Exercise 3.3 This first part of section 3 has been and interesting journey to a part of cinema I have not given much thought to previously. The only early cinema I have watched previously was the silent films…
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As with the previous post Filmmaker IQ have produced a relevant and insightful film, explaining the background to “The Soviet Theory of Montage” which is essential to under stand the subtles of the film making of Sergei Eisenstien in “Battleship…
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How the First World War was affected the Film industry http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/08/holl-a05.html The above two articles a view of how the film industry was affected by WW1 from 2 very differing opinions. I his 2000 Article in the New York times…
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The Evolution of Film Language Edwin S Porter (1870 -1941) was one of the first film makers to understand that a single shot was just the basic building block of film and it was the organisation or editing of these…
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