Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Storyboards.
Storyboards are important graphics or pictures that organizes the events in a sequence of your story. This was developed by Walt Disney during 1930's. It was created for the 3 little pigs. The first time was created to illustrate animated cartoons. Many of silent movies had also storyboard, but in 1940's storyboards for action films were also been used. The storyboard is a succession on images or pictures being illustrated in a comic way that shorltly represents most of your scenes. As I already told you Walt Disney was the one who created this, by drawing the scenes in separate pieces of paper with some information and the order it would gonna be, and then with a sequence so in that way it would be easier to tell the story. The first action film to complete use the storyboard was Gone with the wind. The storyboard is the one that provides to you a visual layout of all the events in the film that will be been focus by the camera.
TITANIC
I would like to talk today about this film that until know is been seen. It was released the 1997 and directed by James Cameron.
This movie is one of my favorites because it has everything, I mean, the music is perfect, the dialogs, the shots, the effects, the way that the plot is presented. This movie won 11 Oscars in: best art direction set, best cinematography, best costume, best director, best effects and sound, best film editing, best music, best picture etc. This movie is very interesting because it has good and bad moments, also it combines from romantic scenes to despair scenes. This is a film that show us, or make us realize that our life is not purchased. We have to enjoy it every moment, because maybe today we are here but tomorrow we wont. We should live our life to the maximum as we can. This film started being shot in Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. The film took 160 days, where many of the cast members got sick because of being in the cold water for many hours. The cost of this film started being $200 million. The used many special effects such as how the ship breaks at almost the end, how people where falling down, how the water was entering to the ship etc. The music or sound for Titanic was from James Horner. Paramount Pictures and Fox financed Titanic movie. The film debuted with $8,658,814 millions and it had made over $120 millions. This film was the most expensive in that time.
This movie is one of my favorites because it has everything, I mean, the music is perfect, the dialogs, the shots, the effects, the way that the plot is presented. This movie won 11 Oscars in: best art direction set, best cinematography, best costume, best director, best effects and sound, best film editing, best music, best picture etc. This movie is very interesting because it has good and bad moments, also it combines from romantic scenes to despair scenes. This is a film that show us, or make us realize that our life is not purchased. We have to enjoy it every moment, because maybe today we are here but tomorrow we wont. We should live our life to the maximum as we can. This film started being shot in Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. The film took 160 days, where many of the cast members got sick because of being in the cold water for many hours. The cost of this film started being $200 million. The used many special effects such as how the ship breaks at almost the end, how people where falling down, how the water was entering to the ship etc. The music or sound for Titanic was from James Horner. Paramount Pictures and Fox financed Titanic movie. The film debuted with $8,658,814 millions and it had made over $120 millions. This film was the most expensive in that time.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Dolly.
The camera Dolly is used in film that creates a smooth movements during filming, they are used in dolly shots. The camera is mounted in the dolly. It is used with frequent in tracking shoots, on horizontal axis. To be more easier to move dolly, you may create some fairly simple dollies. The Skate wheels dollies evolve the from ball bearing dollies and in that way it made shooting sound possible. In 1964 Jim Gordon and Cecil Love made the first field model. There are Dollies that have 2 and 4 wheels. Fisher made a dolly with 8 wheels on a truck that had 4 corners. The dolly records the shot as the characters move. The dolly shot is also known as the tracking shot. Some of the dollies could be move without tracks.
The proposal.
Hi guys, this week I would like to talk about this film, which was released in 2009, and directed by Anne Fletcher. This film make us realize that love is every where, you never know when and how is going to happen. I think that been in love in one of the most wonderful things that someone could have, because you share many moments and things with the person that you really love. But like this movie I think that this kind of love exist. In this movie we could see that it begins when the executive chief of a book publishing forces to marry his assistant because she was going to be deported to Canada. This movie has a lot of romantic and funny parts which make the viewers realize about love and think on how decisions affect your life. The music of this film was composed by Aaron Zigman. The filming of this movie took place in Massachusetts, Alaska, New York and other locations like Rockport Harbor. The film in the release day made $ 12.7 millions, and the film was grossed worldwide in $ 317.375,031. And the film won a nomination as the best comedy motion picture.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Comedy films.
Comedy films are used to make people laugh and enjoy. This films most of the time exaggerates things, like actions, language, situations and characters. Most of this films have happy endings, and a humor side. There are many types of comedy genres, like black comedy that is never going to end happily, the action comedy, the horror comedy, the action comedy, the fantasy comedy, the military comedy, the sci-fi comedy and some others. The comedy films stated in 1895 with the silent area. The earliest comedy was Watering the Gardener by the Lumiere brothers. In 1930 with the introduction of sound in movies made possible the dramatic comedy. Nowadays Comedy films are one of the most fims ever seen by people because of making people laugh, specially by kids.
Schindler list.

Hey guys i would like to talk about this interesting film that had won 7 Oscars, best by: art direction- set decoration, best cinematography, best director, best film editing, best music, best picture and best writing screen plays. This film is based in real life, during World War 2. Oscar Schindler, the main character is a businessman, and member of the Nazi party who saved thousands of Jews from the holocaust. The main character plays a role of by employing Jews in his factory, where at the beginning he had hope to use abundant cheap labour force Jews to manufacture goods for the German army. So in that way he saves them by being transported to the concentration camps or being killed. This man plays a role of intelligent, humble, collaborated, and a man who has a good heart. Theres is a part in the film that was interesting, because we can se reflection. This part was when Oscar was looking the Jews that were asking for help, but at the same time we can see that shadow of Oscar. The film was presented in black and white, but there is a important part where we could see a young little girl that was wearing a red coat. This young girl represents that Schindler has changed. At the beginning he saw this young little girl walking in the street, but the he saw the body of this young girl with some other death people, so this girl represented a change, where Oscar could wanted to help more Jews. The candles also represents when the Jews bodies were burning. This movie was called Schindler list, because it was a list of Jews people where Oscar was remembering for hiring them so they could survive. This movie made $96.1 million in the United States, $321.2 million worldwide and in Germany over 5.8 million tickets were sold. John williams composed the music of this film, he played the piano, and Spielberg hired Itzhak Perlman to perform on the violin. This movie had some controversies because of the sex scenes, or the naked scenes and because of the way the in the movie was showed how the Jews were shot or killed. This movie is to strong, but i believe that is necessary to watch it because in that way we could see how Jewish life were affected, who they had to live, and how the were mistreated. We should thanks God every day of our lives that we are still alive and we should also thanks him because our daily bread.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Cutaways.
Cutaways is a technique used in film making, it is an interruption of a continuously film action by a view of other thing.
In some cases the filmmaker uses this technique to help the editor to assemble a longer sequence, so thats why editors choose this technique related to the main action, such as another action or object in the same location. This technique is more common been use in drama movies, where they are adjust the pace to the main action to conceal the deletion of some unwanted part of the main shot. Not only in drama movies this technique is been use, it is also use in Horror films, where maybe tat first they would show you the face of a murder preparing for kill someone and then it change and shows you the person who is gonna die, and shows you how is gonna die.
In some cases the filmmaker uses this technique to help the editor to assemble a longer sequence, so thats why editors choose this technique related to the main action, such as another action or object in the same location. This technique is more common been use in drama movies, where they are adjust the pace to the main action to conceal the deletion of some unwanted part of the main shot. Not only in drama movies this technique is been use, it is also use in Horror films, where maybe tat first they would show you the face of a murder preparing for kill someone and then it change and shows you the person who is gonna die, and shows you how is gonna die.
Fireproof.
Hi guys I would like to talk about a film call Fireproof that was released in 2008 by Alex Kendrick.
This fireman, Caleb always use to said, "never leave your partner behind", He is married with a young woman call Catherine.
their marriage is almost over, where both has no communication, and it's almost over.
I think that when you marry someone you have to think if you really love that person, because it is a big decision in life, were not only you have to think about yourself , either you have to think of your other partner, because now is part of yourself. Like this two couples, first every marriage has problems at their beginning, but thats normal. I think that in marriage you need to have a good communication and respect, because thats the bases of marriage. Like in this movie, Caleb had no respect with Catherine, it is almost like in the movies, the woman has been insulted several times and has to take care where they live. In my opinion communication in marriage is important, so decisions could be make easily. I also think that taking care of things at home is not only for the woman, the men should also do something for it, help his wife in many aspects.
This part of the movie make me realize that when you have a goal, you fight for it until the end, it doesn't matter how hard it is it, or how hard it seems to be, but at the end been proud of yourself of been sacrifice. Maybe I think that we have in life a second chance, to change and be a good human being, isn't hard but either isn't easy, the only thing that we have to do is to give it a chance. Like in the movie that this young fireman wanted to change, and be a good husband, to make the marriage be ok.
CHARACTERS DETAILS:
Caleb Holt is a talented and dedicated fire captain with a slew of off-the-clock problems. His wife hates him and wants to divorce. He is a men who is disrespectful, who like to scream to his wife, who wanted everything done at home, where loves to see porn in a old computer.
Catherine, a young woman who is a hospital worker who might be Kristen Wiig’s twin, hates him and wants a divorce.
She is a woman who is very serious. Her mother can not talk. She thinks that her marriage is over, and she starts like dating with a doctor in the same hospital where she works.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
HORROR FILMS

Horror films:
They are movies that show emotions of fear, horror and terror from viewers. Their plots involve themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness.
Early horror movies used literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, and thrillers.

Horror films, when done well and with less reliance on horrifying special effects, can be extremely potent film forms, tapping into our dream states and the horror of the irrational and unknown, and the horror within man himself. (The best horror films only imply or suggest the horror in subtle ways, rather than blatantly displaying it, i.e., Val Lewton's horror films.) In horror films, the irrational forces of chaos or horror invariably need to be defeated, and often these films end with a return to normalcy and victory over the monstrous.

Their main characters have included "unknown," human, supernatural or grotesque creatures, ranging from vampires, demented madmen, devils, unfriendly ghosts, monsters, mad scientists, "Frankensteins," "Jekyll/Hyde" dualities, demons, zombies, evil spirits, arch fiends, Satanic villains, the "possessed," werewolves and freaks to even the unseen, diabolical presence of evil.

Horror films started in the 1890's appear in several of the silent shorts created by film pioneers such as Georges Méliès in the late 1890s, the most notable being his 1896 Le Manoir du diable "The House of the Devil" which is sometimes credited as being the first horror film. Another of his horror projects was 1898's La Caverne maudite (aka "The Cave of the unholy one", literally "the accursed cave".
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