French New Wave

Overview:
 The new french wave began in around the 1950's, 

it brought on a new perspective in the film making industry.

 It encouraged film makers to express their views and creations of their own minds.

Before this wave had hit France film making was an expensive endeavor, films in that time had to have a backing from a film making company to make it possible to create. Thought through the French new wave equipment had become cheaper and people started making films and proved you do not need a big budget to produce a good film, only a good imagination.

STTAAAAAPP

Bicycle thief
Director and year:
The film was directed by Vittorio De Sica and released in the year 1948

Do you agree with the statement that the Bicycle thief is one of the greatest films of all time:
Despite not liking it myself I do agree that it is a great film, considering when it was released it unlike other films of its time had relevance that reflected the society in that time period.

What does the bike represent:
No clue :P

Is the use of non Pro actors evident good or bad:
I think it was a good, move, the people used were not pros however their performance was great, using non pro helped with the connection that they were making to society at the time.

Character arc of the father:
The father starts out as a good man with a job but then due to his circumstances is slowly withering away into a (not bad) but desperate person who will do anything to keep his job, even if it means going against the law.

Boys opinion of the father 
the boiy held his father in a good light, a father figure to follow, and someone to look up to


Write your own review
I thought the film was quite boring, while the acting and plot were decent, I didn't find the film captivating in the least, though, unlike most of the films we were watching I wasn't fighting to stay awake.

Casablanca

Casablanca

Personal Opinion:
Personalty I thought is was quite boring, adding to the fact that I didn't get enough sleep didn't help me concentrate. a bit of it just slipped past me. The film itself while it is held in high standereds its defiantly not my kind of film, just the genre and what goes on it too boring an uneventful for my taste in films.


What film techniques were used:
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Does the film still hold up today?
The film is still held in high regard in the film industry, while in mainstream media the film does not have an effecting footprint, it is still a huge part of the cinematic history.


Would I recommend the film (why why not)
No, while its a classic and all its not something I find interesting and I really only pass on films I absolutely love (marvel movies*cough cough*)


Did I recognize any famous quotes
The only quote I remember from the film is "He's looking at you kid", the only thing I learned from this film is where that damn quote came from.

Screen Arts Proposal

Screen Arts Proposal

Is it true art to have meaning behind it or is it merely to confuse and shock its audience?

Is it a reflection of the subconscious mind
Makes scenes to very few,
makes you think and delve into meaning
deep thinking deep thoughts


Surrealism 
I chose the surreal to study firstly, because out of all the options it was the only one that sounded interesting, but also just because it pulls at the mind, streaches the limitations of reality, makes you question everything.

Pioneer to study: David Lynch
Overview: David Lynch was a surrealist film maker from America, Born in 1946, he moved around a lot as a child due to his fathers work (APA), David Lynch was married and had a son around the age of 21,

Overview of their work:Some of Davids Lynch's works include, Erazorhead (1977), The Elephant man (1980) Blue Velvet (1986). One of his works by the title of "Erazorhead" was one of his first films and was inspired by the living conditions of the neighborhood in Philadelphia in which he had lived a while.

Another one of his works Rabbits (2002)



Techniques and methods used: And how they are used to convey meaning
Timing, in his films there are always long pauses, though it can get boring in some cases, it can cause tensions and unease in the atmosphere, in these pauses there is rarely any sound,




How i'm going to incorporate techniques and explore in my own works:
Equipment and Software I will use:
I will mainly be using Photoshop as it has many tools I find useful for drawing, and it is possible to create giff's withing the program so that might take a part withing my body of work.
I also might possible use Fire alpaca, though that is more unlikely,
I can see it possible to use ToonBoom to animate some aspects of an artwork then transfer it into a gif.


Experiments to be conducted and intended results:
I want the effect of my work to be unsettling and disturbing, I want to try and create flashing images (not too fast as that can have negative effects on some people) For example it may come across as some sort of glitch or lightning, even a flickering lamp.

I want to see whether having the picture simplistic or cluttered, I want to find out how with will effect the atmosphere within the image and how my viewers will react to each one.
Seeing as i'm going for a sort of horror/thriller theme, inspired from David Lynches two films Rabbits and Erazorhead, I want to mess around with grey scale, and dull colors, while greyscale can make something creepy dull colors in the right places might enhance the creepy factor of my experimental works.


References:
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/david-lynch-presents-the-history-of-surrealist-film-1987.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxKPBLjHAEA
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000186/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Screenarts

Golden Age of American animation:
This was the prime time of development in animation, it was the era when sound was being introduced and later on colour. Though some thought no one would want to hear a character speak this movement helped skyrocket the animation industry giving it a future

An animator from the Golden Age:
Walt Disney, a well known animator and creator of the Disney Company, he created various animations most notable are his silly symphonies.

What character did they create:
One of the many characters he created was Micky mouse, which to this day is a very popular Disney Icon for the company, he first debuted in the animation Steamboat Willie along with Minnie Mouse and Pete.


What Studio(s) did they work for:
Walt Disney worked for his studio, Walt Disney Studios.
His own company and creation (it is named after him after all)


What changes to the character were made over time:
Over time Micky mouse has made a lot of changed, while his outfit is similar from old to new, he has a more refined style now, and of course, is now in colour, Micky also makes various appearance in multiple media with different designs and example of this is the game colab between Disney and Square Enix known as Kingdom Hearts.

Blog thing

Screen Arts:
Classical Hollywood:
Classical Hollywood is a period of time, it is also refereed to as the Golden age


Major and Minor studios:
The major studios at the time of Classical Hollywood included studios such as 20th Century fox, Warner Bros. Studios, the smaller studios were those such as Universal, United artists and Collmbis (I can't read the writing the libitery gal)


The studio system:
The studio system took a huge role within the time of Classical Hollywood, It allowed the studios to create and distribute their films as they wished. the system worked somewhat like a pyramid, the biggest studios got the best choices and options while the smaller studios, not so much.


The Hay's code
The Hay's code was put in place around the latter strange of the 1920's, it was trying to make films more respectful in societies eyes. It was a guide of what could be shown in films, making sure nothing would be too inappropriate for the audience that were to view the films.

The Star system
Stars of the studios, the stars that were in certin films had contracts with the studios, The actors claimed the felt owned by the studios, as they had the contracts and appeared in the film only a studio made.

Narrative structure
A narrative structure, is what is commonly used in films, its contains a clear beginning middle and end to the story. It provides a conclusive and resolved ending to a film, and have a linear narrative throughout the film.

Blog reserch

What movement did Surrealism evolve from?
Surrealism originated from Dada, it was a cultural
movement that began after world war 1 from around
1916 to 1922, Majority of the works were of painting,
literature and cinema.



Who founded the surrealist movement and drafted the surrealist manifesto?
The Surrealist Manifesto was created by Andre Breton,
he was a contributor within the Dada movement.

What are the aims of surrealist films and animations?
The aims are to swipe aside normal narrative forms and go for a jarring and unexplained concept, its purpose is to shock and disrupt the normal, doing the unthinkable and the unusual. It evoked feeling withing the viewers, making them think, question, and baffle them.



Provide an overview of film makers/animators covered in class, who's work you found interesting?

Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
Un Chien Andalou - a colab between both the artists.
The film was a dream like sequence of a film, and was inspired from their own dreams.
I found this one interesting and to a point funny, The type of things that happened like the Male groping the woman was something I would never have expected from an old film as that sort of thing was taboo at the time, to have in media, though that was not the only thing that drew my attention, it confused me when he was pulling along two pianos, with a dead donkey atop one of them.


Jean Cocteau
He not Only created films he also had a hand in various other things, such as poetry, writing novels, and painting.
The trailer for one of his films shown in class was, alright, Some aspects of it interested me but others failed to catch my interest, one of the interesting scenes, was when a man was looking into a mirror, then he dropped into it, reveling that he was really balanced on some sort of troff filled to the brim with water.

Man Ray
Man Ray was the only american to have a major role withing the dada movement,
I found his film pretty boring, while the surreal images and shapes were pretty for a second, they were dragged out, too long for me.

Maya Deren
Meshes of the afternoon
The beginning of the film was alright, however the repetitive scenes with little change in them got boring very quickly

 Walerian Borowcyzk
He was a Polish film maker and also an animator

Eraser Head

Surrealist film

First of I found the film slow paced and boring, it seemed as if it was based on some wacky dream
the main character had, it could extent to the fear of becoming a parent in real life, and this in turn has a devastating effect in the dream-scape. The lack of common scene and lack of narrative made it a surreal film, every concept is floating and things are all unclear

 on other terms it could be some sort of mental disorder that the main character has, or ya know humans that somehow got mixed up and ended up having an alien child that they Really shouldn't have.


I don't mind surrealist film but ones such as these, I really don't love them, it was just to slow paced
and not many interesting things happening, In terms of surreal it didn't seem that distorted to me imagery wise, rather concept wise. The slow passed must have been to cause tension and unnerve the audience. I don't think its a slow pace alone that makes me dislike this film, nor the lack of narrative.(Though seeing as its the morning and im tired as hell does not help)

Screen arts

Surreal cinema

David Lynch - Rabbits
It gives of an erray atmosphere, its unsettling to its viewers
Dada - people saying how silly War is


Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
Dream like sequences
based on dreams they had

Jean Cocteau:

Man Ray
Only american to play a major role in both Dada and Surrealist movements

Maya Deren
Meshes of the afterlife.

Reoccuring things:
Knife
Key
Flower
Walking up the stairs
herself


Walerian Borowcyzk
Did film and animation
Scratchy drawings, animated photos and live action

Jan Svankmajeer
Stop motion
-(how shapeshifters make babies XD lol)

Hitchcock - Spellbound



Desino
- Salvador signed a contract with Disney
1999 worked on fantasia.


(Proposal: chose something in surreal art to study DUE WEEK 12
look into Rabbits and Desino
What we view
Dreams, fabric of reality and space, how our minds can be warped
Pulling at the mind
No meaning or scence
(goal, to make people question themselves and what the hell they are seeing, to creep and weird people out, by creating disturbing and pulled imagery. Escape from reality, people trying to escape this messed up world by tearing their mind apart.

We will meet again.
Two people say they will meet in the next life.
Reborn, they keep killing themselves untill they meet again.

German expressionist film Blog reserch

Time period? 1919- 1931
The time period that the films such of mr. cqaligans cabbinit were created in Germany shortly after world war 1. to get away from reflecting what it was like at the time and to create something based and focused around story.

What are the characteristics in regards to sets, costumes , lighting, and acting?
The imagery in the films are distorted and have askew angles, pulled expressions and tension. The backgrounds were cartoon like, however they provided a distorted background that twisted the world the actors and actresses were in.
Two different ways of lighting
One colour for a certain scene.


What are the Key themes?
Distortion
Telling a story
Warped minds/views
Suspence
Twisting


What type of film genres were influenced by German Expressionist film?
The genre that was most influenced by the German expressionist films was and is still the horror genre, The tilted angles provide an edge along with the distorted scenes


Discuss how the films of a contemporary film director have been influenced by German expressionist films.
Tim Burtan's style can be seen to heavily influenced by German expressionist films, the distorted forms and background can be seen through his works,

Blog Reserch

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Pudovkin said that the actors in films did not really act, that their performance is not what makes the film special but that, it is indeed the camera works and editing that truly makes a film. He believed that a montage did not work in the way most people though that it did, Pudovkin saw montage a linkage of frames compared to how it was originally conceived as a collection of cut frames placed together.

Dziga Vertov
Vertov Worked as a newsreel cameraman and and was the person to create the term, Film eye also known as Keno Eye/, Vertov believe fiction to be corrupting to the film industry and opted towards more realistic events within his films, using camera cuts to create tension and panic within his films. He wanted to capture life, real life, within his films, to show the world whats around them instead of creating fiction which various other people did. Even though he said fiction corrupts the film industry he has created one of the earliest Russian films.


Sergei Eisenstein
Eisenstein style of film had been influenced by events that had surfaced after the Russian Revolution,
He designed and created propaganda to keep peoples morals high while he was involved with the Red army.
Eisenstein followed a set of methods when creating montages:

Metric - Based on timing / number of frames
Rhythmic - Cutting for continuity / movement of within the frames.
Tonal - The tones of a shot Lighting, shapes and shadows
Overtonal - A combination of Metric, Rhythmic and Tonal
Intellectual - while the previous methods look for an emotion response this method looks to create and show ideas between the film and the viewer.

Soviet Montage Notes

WE GONNA NEED A MONTAGE (of this lesson)

russion revolution, new goverment that was also overthrown, huge demand for propaganda

experimental with films, chopped up old films and mushed them together
films could instruct the masses - tool of persuasion

Lev Kuleshov
D.w Griffith, he studied him
archive of old for his own experiments
what he found was the people responded differently to a film depending on what film was shown beforehand

Sergei Eisenstein

Metric montage- based on timing

Rhythmic - Cutting for continuity or by the content

Tonal - emotional content

Overthonal - combination of metric, rhythmic and tonal

Intellectual - seeks to express ideas


The Odessa Steps
The lack of orientation provides the symbolism of chaos,
the idea behind it is suppose to be confused, so that you can put yourself in the shoes of the people in the steps
the quick shots makes the film seem in a state of panic drawing you into the perspective of the people,
its supose to feel like a lot longer then the actual scenario would have been
make you feel what it would be like if you were there

North by North West
Naked Gun
Parody

Dziga Vertov
-worked as a camera man
- Coined the term, film eye ( Kino eye)
- Cut his films together to create an emotional effect
tried to create a unique language of cinema
his style was unmatched until the music video era
created one of the earliest Russian animations, Soviet toys

Vsevolod Pudovin
Leanse replaces the eye
Said actors didn't act it was the work of the camera
believed that montage worked differently.


Editing techniques: 
1) Contrast
2) Parallelism
3)Symbolism
4) Simultaneity
5) Leit Motiff

Conterversty over, "Birth of a Nation"

Conterversty over, "Birth of a Nation"

What is the name of the book that the film was based on?
The book that "Birth of a Nation" was based on was named "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon
which tells the story of racism in the 1960's

Who does the film portray as the hero's?
The film portrays the members of the Ku Klux Klan as the hero's of this film

Who used the film as a recruiting tool?
Because of the films wild controversy, it became widely known and the members of the Ku Klux Klan took this to their advantage to recruit new members into their society.

How are the African American men portrayed?
The African Americans within the film "Birth of a Nation" were portrayed as Dangerous, lazy, brutish and overall bad people. Lustful people who go after women


Oscar Micheaux made a film called "Within our Gates" (1919) as a response to "Birth of a Nation" why?
The films was most likely created as  a retaliation of Griffiths "Birth of a Nation"
Holding a mirror back to them
creating a more realistic film

What was the name of Griffiths follow up film?
The name of the film that proceed "Birth of a Nation" was called "Intolerance" it was created in response to the retaliation of "Birth of a Nation" by Griffith.

Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/birth-of-a-nation-opens
https://archive.org/details/withinOurGates1920
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2013/08/griffiths-intolerance-a-foundational-film-thats-also-a-great-one-at-film-forum-067223

1905-1915

James Stuart Blackton
Emile Cohl
Martin Thronton
Winsor Mccay
Ladislaw Starwicz


These people were known animators from the 1905's onward they all partook in a form of animation, some also containing live action and some not. One of the films was said to be the first film to be animated in colour, unlike its predecessors which merely had painted film frames. All the artists listed have animations that are or rumored to be the first of something for example, Emile Cohl was considered to have created the first fully animated film and James has said to have created the first drawn animation on film.
From live-action with animation in it to complete cartoons and stop motion in this time period animators were very experimental in what they did and created.


James Stuart Blackton:
James was a cameraman and director his carer boosted when he mentioned to Edison that he liked to draw, James was also known to be a founder of the animated film or so it is said.

Emile Cohl:
Emile was part of a group that partook in presentations for people who could not draw, the group the Emile was involved in Emile used this to create art in a new medium, he pulled and streched his creation of animation, anything in his films was possible and that was one of the films that laid the path for new animations.

Martin Thronton:
Martin made use of two different mediums in his filmed namely live action and animation. it was said to be one of the first animations to be animated in colour though unlike it predecessor the process of tinting the film to give it colour was not used, instead the film was created by using various filters as it was created the process was known as Kinemacolour.

Winsor Mccay:
Said to be the first classical animator of his time.

Ladislaw Starewicz:
The form of film Ladislaw created was stop-motion, his films were wildly successful, one of his films included moving around beetles and other various bugs by using wax on the bug models he was able to move, take apart, and reattach limbs to create his stop motion animation.


George Melies:
what techniques did he create?
George created various techniques such as, people bursting into smoke in his films, he discovered this by accident when his equipment for filming had jammed, and thanks to that he had discovered an important aspect of filming and the trick of stop-frame.. These techniques made his films extremely popular, and he introduced new genres to the film industry such as, science-fiction and fantasy. Other techniques he created were, Reverse motion, fade in and out and cutting within the camera.

How did they influence new films?
As his films and the techniques used were wildly popular this in turn inspired more people to create films with the same aspects of his, people wanted to create stories within the new and exciting genre that George had created.
(though I have a feeling some just wanted to ride along the popularity train as is usually the case with things like these)


How has he been and influence to films in my list?
Many of the films I love and enjoy are within the fantasy genre, thanks to George skyrocketing the genre, films in the future are created in such genre letting peoples imagination run wild with no limitations.

1900 Animation PP-summery

The film Industry in the 1900's, They were black and while and had a short run time, even so for the time period this was seen as very impressive. Before the 1900's Film was taken in a photographic sequence and sometimes put on some sort of wheel spun, to create the illusion of movement even in ancient times like ancient Greek bowls and cups were shown to have multiple images showing the movement of a subject

The first recorded animation in the 1900's was a stop motion advertising matches, advertising that their soldiers needed them and that they needed donation to do so the impact the stop motion had a long lasting effect on the public.

The Lumieres brother are the people who boosted the use of film in society, they shot films at 16 and have been credited through history to be the first people to make a breakthrough in the Film industry.

Thomas Edison, on contrast to the brothers made films with a person as the center of the scene.

(not much might update when I find the power-point again)

10 Films

10 Films that I like
1) RWBY
2) How to Train your Dragon
3) A Silent Voice
4) Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Gahoole
5) Treasure Planet
6) Throne of Elves
7) Miraculous Ladybug
8) Finding Dory
9) Moana
10) Monsters INC.

1) RWBY (2013)
Formerly Created and directed  by Monty Oum until his passing. The writers and staff of rooster teeth continue the creation of this animation.
The genre this animated show falls under the Fantacy and Adventure

2) How to Train your Dragon (2010)
How to Train your Dragon was originally written by author Cressida Cowlle, but adapted into a movie with a different plot by Dream-works animation, this movie is Directed by, Dean Bebois and Chris Sanders. The movie falls into the Fantacy and Animation Genre.

3) A Silent Voice (2016)
A Silent voice is a anime movie directed by Naoko Yamada, The genres that this film fall into are Romance Anime Drama

4) Legend of the Guardians (2010)
This Movie is directed by Zack Synder and Falls into the Family, Fantasy and animation genres.

5) Throne of Elves (2016)
Throne of Elves if Directed by  Yuefeng Song and Yi Ge, This film is withing the, Fantacy, Animation Genre.

6) Treasure Planet (2002)
Tresure Planet is directed by Ren Clements and John Musker, the genres of this film are, science fiction, animation, adventure and family.

7) Miraculous Ladybug (2015)
Miraculous Ladybug is a french show directed by Thomas Astruc, the genres this animation falls into are Superhero Fiction and Magic girl.

8) Finding Dory (2016)
Finding Dory was directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus Maclane, the genres that the film belongs in are animation, adventure and comedy.

9) Moana (2016)
This Disney film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, the genres of this film are fantasy, adventure, comedy and family along with musical.

10) Monsters Inc. (2001)
This Movie was directed by Pete Docter, The genres this fims goes under are animation adventure comedy and fantasy.