Monday, 29 April 2013
Camera Distance
First, I must thanks for the models in my pictures: Gary, Matthew, Carroll and Jeff. Especially thanks for Jan.
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Sunday, 21 April 2013
Toyland (Spielzeugland)
Toyland, the Oscar for the
best live action short in
2009, was directed by a German film director Jochen Freydank.
The story happened in Germany
during the World War Ⅱ,
when the Nazi were searching Jewish on the large scale. “‘Toyland’ is a
euphemistic name a German mother invents when her son asks where his Jewish neighbours are going.”
To be frank, I love this short
film. At the very beginning, audiences including me think the mother was
finding her son. At last, the great mother saved her neighbour's child from the
Nazi, which make me feel really surprised and moved. The film also interspersed
the boy’s and the mother’s memory, helping the clue of the story more clearly. The
short film uses different camera angles and camera heights to help audience be
personally on the scene.
The setting in the film is
also an important aspect which is worth to talk about. For instance, the cloudy
day and the messy room with an upside down piano let me feel depressed and
upset; but at the same time, the piano before destroy in a warm-lighting room
makes me feel tender. The background music of the film is piano music, which
seems that eulogize the great mother love and the friendship between two boys.
Sunday, 14 April 2013
American Beauty
Costume
A suit, a tie, a watch, a briefcase and a
pair of leather shoes
Face
Angry but a bit confused
Position
On a path in front of a house
Setting
A sunny day, a garden, a house, bush,
flowers, fence and a straight path
According to the costume, face expression,
the position and the setting, I think the man is an officer, whose position may
be quite low. The man is kneeing and picking his documents in the garden,
looking forward a bit angrily but also nervous. The man might have a fight with
someone and the briefcase fell down, opening. Or he is finding something
important. It is not easy to judge which country it is, but judging from the
old briefcase and two small black boxes which like phones on the ground, it may
be the period between 1990 and now. as for the genre of this film, I think it
is a Hollywood film or a feature film.
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
La jetée
The film that we watched on class today is La Jatee, a French film
in 1962.
It was the time that the World War III had broken out, a man
who had seen a man died in front of him in his childhood survive in the war but
was sent to a time travel experiment. He was sent to the age before the war, at
this time, he met a woman on the parking apron and fell in love with her. When
the experiment was coming to the end, the people who came from another planet
found him and gave him a chance to go to future to avoid the disaster. However,
the man rejected, and requested to back to the past where his lover is. The last
time when he was sent to the past, suddenly he understood the man who died
before him in his childhood was himself. Finally, he cannot escape the time but
die.
The most different point in this film is that it describes the
story by still photos. However, I think the still photos film has the stronger
emotion than the normal films, because the actors always freeze when they have
sudden facial expression, which make the story more convincing. The film is
short with 28 minutes long, so it is too brief to describe this complicated
story, which makes people sometimes feel confused about the plot. The whole film gives people a sense of upset
because of the background music, the strict face and the whisper when the
experiment was in progress. Although the man was meeting his lover, the background
music was still sentimental. In addition, I wonder how the man knew where he
could meet the woman, and I think this had not been told in the film. All in
all, I think this is a classic film, because it influences the later films like
12 Monkeys.
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