A Direction for Directing My first camera gave me a direction for my future, along with the guidance of two inspiring teachers and the insightful films by Ingmar Bergman. Freshman year, I reluctantly took Video Journalism, but in this class I had discovered that I enjoyed recording and editing videos. The next three years I spent in Video Yearbook embedded my desire to move forward in the field of cinematography and film/video production. Additionally, I am fascinated by the creation of movies and the stories they tell. The art of a film coming together is both, exciting and complicated. A bachelor’s degree will be essential to understanding that a movie making process is collaborative and requires organizational techniques. The benefits of …show more content…
His career has influenced my future endeavors. Ingram grew up in a strict household in Sweden. He saw his first theater at age 12 and with that he was able to escape his thoughts by making dolls and performing his own puppet theaters (Liukkonen). Bergman left home at 17 to begin his career in stage performances, radio productions, feature films, and television productions. Bergman did attend the University of Stockholm, which likely had a profound effect on his success. He eventually was awarded a doctorate from Stockholm also. Beginning in the 1940’s until his death in 2007, Ingmar directed more than 60 films (Baxter). Bergman was able to make the most of his films without spending much. He could also get the films done fast. This could be do to his repeated use of the same handful of actors and locations for his films. It is rare that he traveled outside of Sweden. Rainer thought “ with his unprecedented, conspiratorial intimacy, his great stock company of actors incarnate his tortures. Those handful of actors performed in most of his later chamber films. Of course, his stunning works earned Bergman numerous accords. At the Cannes Film Festival, he won for his film “The Seventh Seal”. Additionally, he received his first Academy nomination for a screenplay called “Wild Strawberries”. He eventually went on to be given the Best Film Oscar for “The Virgin Spring”. What’s more, Bergman received three more Oscar nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Besides being recognized for his films, Ingmar had a quality that set him apart from others in the movie industry. Mainly, Bergman was known for his close-up shots. Woody Allen a well known actor, comedian, filmmaker and playwright wrote that Bergman had “put his camera on faces for unconscionable periods of time while actors and actresses wrestled with their anguish” (1). Even as technology changed, he
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
Film making has gone through quite the substantial change since it’s initial coining just before the turn of the 19th century, and one would tend argue that the largest amount of this change has come quite recently or more so in the latter part of film’s history as a whole. One of the more prominent changes having taken place being the role of women in film. Once upon a time having a very set role in the industry, such as editing for example. To mention briefly the likes of Dede Allen, Verna Fields, Thelma Schoonmaker and so forth. Our female counterparts now occupy virtually every aspect of the film making industry that males do; and in many instances excel past us. Quite clearly this change has taken place behind the lens, but has it taken
Leif Erickson. You may not know him, but he was the founder of America. He was a viking, one of the only ones to step foot on the North American continent. I know, you were taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Well you were taught wrong. People can argue this but there is actually a Leif Erikson day. October 9th.
Freddie Steinmark was one of the toughest football players to ever play the sport. He was one of the smartest kids in his high school class. Freddie’s dad pushed him to be the best he can be. He had struggled with a mysterious pain in his left leg. Many people have battled the same disease as Freddie but not a single soul could deal with it the same way as Freddie.
Bordwell David and Thompson, Kristen. Film Art: An Introduction. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
January 30, 1933 is when the doors opened up to murder six million Jews by the Naiz’s that were controlled by Adolf Hitler. So many people were targeted by the Germans they were believed to be “ racially superior. ” For example Hitler and his Naiz’s were againist Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Homosexual’s.
Golda Meir was a woman with a lifelong commitment and an unfailing dedication in bringing her dream to a reality. Her dream was for Israel to be a safe homeland for the Jewish nation, including the Zionist Movement, which she wanted people to clearly understand. Zionism served as a strong belief that the Jews should gain their fatherland in Israel that they had lost to the Romans in 70 A.D. Golda Meir never lost sight of this goal, and did countless things for Israel. If only we could have her compassion, strength, courage and intelligence- then would we all be able to make such a perpetual effect on the world’s countries as she did.
Throughout the cinema of Bergman, the ticking of a clock has become a violent reminder of one’s own mortality. The ticking suddenly stops as the film cut from the credits to the face of the boy, Johan. This cut from Bergman’s morbid leitmotif – the clock – to the youthful face of Johan, in diegetic silence, creates a striking contrast. Bergman juxtaposes several ideas: life against death, a boy of youth against darkness and time; faith against knowledge, unexplained sound against a proven silence; understanding against ignorance, written words against a boy without a fully developed understanding of language. This single cut presents a throng of interpretations, and each may be equally valid. Silence is pure and unchanging, therefore it can be replicated and become associated with specific themes; however, unlike other audio-visual events, it is natural and requires no
As you probably could have assumed, I love to watch any film I can get my hands on, and my once strong friendships are hanging on by a thread due to hours spent helping on short films of mine. Unlike some applicants, I come from a farming community with no film connection, none of my classmates are interested in pursuing a career like film, my school offers no film courses, and I have no film connection currently. Surely I sound like a poor fit for the Hollywood Reporter’s top film school, you may even wonder why I, without a single connection, would choose this field. Hopeful it may be understood me more through my background.
Yula Dos Santos Costa CINE 540 Prof. Persona In the film Persona, Ingmar Bergman reflects on the consequences of cinematic practice by constructing images from the experiences established between the two women, Alma and Elisabeth. Although nothing is real, everything “seems” to be, and the representation of the human being in fiction allows the characters to approach to themselves. In the film, Bergman experiences the place of creation as an opportunity for life at the moment it can be lived. Bergman moves away from belief in something absolute, and suppresses what is continuous through cinematic language.
Bordwell, David, and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
Bordwell, David, and Kristen Thompson. Film Art an Introduction. 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2001.
Dancyger, K., 2007. The technique of film and video editing: history, theory, and practice. 4th ed. s.l.:Taylor & Francis.
Offering the unique ability to visually and audibly convey a story, films remain a cornerstone in modern society. Combined with a viewer’s desire to escape the everyday parameters of life, and the excitement of enthralling themselves deep into another world, many people enjoy what films stand to offer. With the rising popularity of films across the world, the amount of film makers increases every day. Many technological innovations mark the advancement of film making, but the essential process remains the same. Pre-production accounts for everything taken place before any shooting occurs, followed by the actual production of the film, post-production will then consist of piecing the film together, and finally the film must reach an audience. Each step of this process contributes to the final product, and does so in a unique right. The process of film making will now start chronologically, stemming from the idea of the story, producing that story into a film, editing that footage together, and finally delivering that story to its viewers.