For major projects--the Batman Begins essay, the Shot-by-Shot analysis paper--simply complete the assignment as soon as possible for partial credit.
For other assignments, see alternatives below:
- for posts on individual films: Find a clip or two online (can you get youtube at home?) or a good review (remember mrqe.com?), then respond on your blog or on paper, commenting on content, techniques, themes… If you write a blog post, include a link to the clip/review.
- for the post on Visions of Light: Google "history of cinematography," do some browsing/reading, and report on something interesting that you find out.
- for the post on Christian responses to Violence, read one of the other two articles on Christian responses to film: this one about profane/obscene language in film--http://lookingcloser.org/more/articles-interviews/wrong-right-and-r-rated-part-two-who-gives-a/--or this one about Christian responses to nudity in film--http://lookingcloser.org/more/articles-interviews/wrong-right-and-r-rated-part-one-naked-truths/ Then post a response following the directions I gave for the Responses to Violence assignment (see below).
make up work for visions of light:
ReplyDeletei found after searching online some interesting things. i found out more about the lumiere brothers and how they made the first real video camera and how they created the projector that showed their videos. before they used artificial light they used to create houses with like glass ceilings i guess to let the sunlight in to light the set and then they began experimenting with backlighting using mirrors and using lights above to ad artificial light which was diffused to make it look natural. they also lit actors faces with spotlights, this was first done around world war 1
. they then went to a 3 or 4 point lighting system to give certain effect to the actors faces. there is a lot of interesting things online about the lumiere brothers and about the gradual evolution of film. pretty cool stuff.
make up work for christian response to violence:
ReplyDeletei thought he had a good point when he said "It is very difficult to be in the world without being somewhat of the world." the context was cursing in films and in everyday life and how it can get to us and cause us to do the same thing. i thought that he hit the nail on the head with this one. we are easily corrupted and as humans we sin, there is nothing we can do about it...except try not to.
“To avoid profanity and vulgarity is to almost universally cut yourself off from the world around you" this was one response from someone and i think that they have a point. It is nearly impossible to cut ourselves off from the corrupt things of this world. instead we should attempt to fix the broken things in life.
one of the few disagreements that i could find in this article is i guess that some people think that we should shelter ourselves from curses and some people think that it ads a certain impact when you hear a word like that it doesnt go over lightly. if a movie has lots of swearing then the swearing loses its power and becomes nothing more than an attempt at showing power. one person wrote about if we were to shelter ourselves from works with swearing in them we would have to avoid Shakespeare because in its old language some of the terms are translated as swearing. if we lost shakespeare we would lose a lot of history and a huge chunk of what makes modern plays what they are. i think that swearing shouldnt be used to a rediculous extent in a movie but as emphasis on the really important parts, i think we can handle that much.