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Video Essay: The Edge of Night
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It is 1am on Monday morning, and I just realized I completely forgot to upload my video essay. Or do the Weekly Summary. So. Happy Halloween. For my video essay, I did the scene from The Return of the King where Pippin sings for the Steward of Gondor. The Steward, Denethor, has just sent his son, Faramir, on a pointless suicide mission to retake a fort that has been lost to Sauron’s forces. I chose this scene for two reasons: I could see a lot of symbolism in it, and I love Pippin’s song. Making this movie was extremely difficult for me, ...
Video Essay on Rue’s Death in the Hunger Games
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For my video essay, I had to think about movie scenes which were especially powerful to me. Instead of doing multiple scenes, we were to pick just one. I came up with the scene from the Hunger Games where Rue dies. It is an incredibly powerful scene. I used Audacity to record my commentary on the scene, then I used Windows Movie Maker to edit the video and the audio together. Here’s the completed video with commentary:
Reflection Unchained
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We were directed to review a video this week for the Video Essay assignment. I chose to review the opening scene from Django Unchained. I chose to watch this movie as opposed to another movie simply due to its accessibility on Netflix. It begins in the middle of nowhere featuring opening credits in red. These opening credits standout in contrast to the background creating a tension on the screen which alludes to Ebert’s idea of intrinsic weight. Furthermore, examples of Ebert’s ideas in the article are displayed when the characters come into view and march off to the right of the shot. The direction of ...
My kind of essay
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I really enjoyed completing this assignment. When I first saw essay, I dreaded the thought of having to write an actual essay but once I saw the actual assignment I was excited to complete it! I chose to analyze a scene in Django Unchained that had the shot-reverse shot effect, the ensemble staging effect and lots of movement. To complete this assignment, I went through and read Robert Ebert’s article and watch all of Tony Zhou’s short series videos. I took some notes from these and tried to narrow down what I was looking for in a scene. I then ...
Meanings Behind the Camera Shots
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I reviewed many articles about film analysis and the details on how films are created. As such, for this assignment we were to choose a scene in a film and analyze it and reflect on how certain aspects of the scene related to the new information we learned through our readings. The movie I chose a scene from to analyze is titled “Tombstone”. I chose this movie for multiple reasons, I feel it contains very good imagery/scenery that emits certain emotions to the viewers, it is centered around the western theme, and takes place in the same town as my ...
And Then There Were None
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This 5 star video assignment was to do a video essay. I picked “And then there were none” because Agatha Christie is Isabelle’s favorite writer and someone she aspires to be. I went through several scenes and marked what I thought was important to the watcher. The movie was good, but predictable. As soon as someone admits to their crime, you know their time has come to die. I used Movie Maker to create this video essay. I had a hard time getting all my captions to stay in the movie. I think it was just an example of ...
My Wife Left Me
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…for the week to go to training at her new job. She left me here with our little one, who does not keep quiet or entertained for long periods of time. I resorted to dispensing Funyuns and drinks galore, as…Read more The post My Wife Left Me appeared first on Coding Spencer.
“Notorious” B.I.G. (Movie)
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A major part of this week’s assignment was to create a video essay for a movie that was included on a list that the professors provided. Considering that I have always wanted to watch an Alfred Hitchcock film, I chose “Notorious”. Preceding the viewing, we were required to read Roger Ebert’s “How to Read a … Continue reading “Notorious” B.I.G. (Movie)
That Postman is Back at it Again
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So yesterday I watched The Postman Always Rings Twice from 1946, because I was interested in seeing how the story we read the second week of classes would be depicted in a film. I decided to analyze the opening scene of the film when Frank first meets Cora, mostly because I couldn’t decide on a scene that I liked best and this one was already on Youtube. So I downloaded the scene and put it into Movie Maker. Because the scene itself is only about a minute and half, I ended up recording about another 2 minutes of film of myself on ...
Notorious: Video Essay
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For the video essay assignment, I decided to watch the movie Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock. For my video essay, I focused on the scene when Grant tells Bergman about the about his plan to have her seduce one of her past acquaintances. I read through Roger Ebert’s How to read a movie. I concentrated my essay on his talk of movement and the meaning behind left/ right, background/ foreground and top/ bottom. I enjoyed reading his article because I had never thought of the placement of characters on the screen having a meaning. It made sense for foreground/ background and ...