my journey towards a BA in photography
I found this video helpful when looking when watching the DW Griffith films ‘The Birth of a Nation” and “Intolerance” – it sumerised the build-up of cinema style in those early years showing how Editing developed to create these early…
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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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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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The Birth of a Nation (1915) Dir: D.W. Griffiths Synopsis The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposing armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to…
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The films of the Spanish – American War. Interestingly the Spanish-American War was the first war to be covered by cinema cameras, and there is an extensive library of footage shot from the available at the Libriary of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/collections/spanish-american-war-in-motion-pictures/about-this-collection/)….
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