Formalism

Formalist film theory is a theory of film study that is focused on the formal, or technical, elements of a film: i.e., the lighting, scoring, sound and set design, use of colour, shot composition, and editing. It is a major theory of film study today.


*Formalist film makers shape and mold the images we see on the screen the way a sculptor shapes and molds clay. Their approach to film emphasizes their ability to create story and emotion through manipulation.


* Or one might consider the synthesis of several elements, such as editing, shot composition, and music. Formalism is unique in that it embraces both ideological and auteurist branches of criticism. In both these cases, the common denominator for Formalist criticism is style.

Aquamarine

The story is about 2 girls called Clare and Haley that were best friends and lives in a dilapidated beach club near their home. One day after a huge storm, they discover Aquamarine, a mermaid, in the pool of the club. Aquamarine have problems with her dad, that was the god of the sea and she tells them that she needs to find love in three days, and they agree to help her because helping a mermaid means you get a wish, and they decide that they can use their wish to try and stop Haley from moving to Australia. She falls in love with the lifeguard called Raymond, and they begun to go out the 3 days that she still in the land. But there was a spoiled rich girl called Cecilia that also likes Raymond and she wanted that Aquamarine and Raymond to be apart. Eventually, it is not Raymond that convinces Aquamarine that humans can love, but Claire and Hailey, who are willing to give up their wish and their lives in the aiding of a friend. Raymond and Aquamarine share a kiss and promise to meet up again in the future, Raymond promises he'll wait for her. Hailey and Claire get their wish from Aquamarine, but decide not to use it until later.But it is mentioned that they plan to use it to make sure all three of them can visit each other every summer.

Realism in film

Realism is often situated somewhere between the codes of classical cinema and the innovation of the avant-garde. Though these kinds of realist films do not entirely do away with plot and plausibility, they often bend the rules of continuity, motivation, and genre that characterize commercial filmmaking. In particular, realist films often include moments of narrative ambiguity that would never be allowed in the classical Hollywood narrative.

Realism brings to the screen individuals and situations often marginalized by mainstream cinema and society. Realism brings to the screen individuals and situations often marginalized by mainstream cinema and society.

Like the avant-garde, realism invents new configurations of the visible and new forms of representing the real.

Showing actors, faces, people who had rarely or never been shown on the screen, or who had only been seen through stereotypes, was part of cinematic realism's way of reconfiguring the world.

Realism situates its characters socially and economically, and economic hardship is often one of the motivating forces of the realist films' plot. Finally, while realist films are not documentaries, they claim a privileged relation to a reality outside of the movie theatre. Realism foregoes historical dramas and period pieces in order to focus on the actions of the contemporary world.

The notebook

The movie starts in a nursing home with Duke reading to an older woman, whose memory is slipping from her more and more everyday. Duke reads the story of two lovers who meet in the south at a carnival. Allie was 17. A city girl from money, and Noah was a country boy. The two spend the whole summer together but Allie is forced to move and go to college although she was willing to give it up for Noah. Noah writes Allie 365 letters and she never gets them. So he restores the house him and Allie went to one night out of 'labor of love' he do this because he thougth that by restouring the house Allie will return to him. Seven years pass and Allie meets and falls in love with a wealthy soldier Lon. When seeing Noah's picture in the paper, Allie is drawn back to him. They spent a few days together and she doesn't want to leave. Allie has to chose between her fiancé and Noah. But at the end she choose her true love, and that was Noah.

I really love this film, is so romantic how if you really someone no matter if you met new people, your heart will always belong to that person. A lot of things happens inthe movie but their love keep them together until dead, like Allie says to Noah before they died.

Optical Illusion

The broad definition of an optical illusion is essentially any image perceived by your eyesight to be visually deceptive.

There are many different classes of optical illusion, relating to distortion of shape, color, pictures, size and distance, geometric, sensory perception, and hallucinogenic illusions. Some optical illusions occur without any other stimuli other than the image itself, others rely on your own voluntary eye movement to produce an illusionary effect. Others rely on us to focus on a particular point of the image.

An optical illusion occurs because the different cells and receptors of the eye perceive images and colors at different rates, which sometimes result in a false image being relayed to the brain. The brain receives information from receptors in the eye, but in actuality, the eye only perceives a certain quantity of visual information at any given time, while our brain continuously decodes, constructs and reconstructs visual information, giving us the illusion of continuous sight. The right combination of colors, shapes, spatial relations, and other stimuli viewed by the eyes and reported to the brain during the relays of information can achieve the effect of an optical illusion.

Titanic

Well, I am going to talk about one of my favorite movies... Titanic; written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic.The main stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, are two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship. Titanic is an American disaster/romantic and drama film that turned out to be an enormous critical and commercial success. Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it won eleven, including Best Picture.It became the highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of over $1.8 billion.

The story in a summary goes like this...

84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukator tells a story to her grandaugther and the crews of the searching of the sink Titanic about her life set in April 10th 1912, on the ship when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Cal Hockley.
Meanwhile, a poor guy and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.

At the ship Rose feels helplessly trapped by her situation and makes her way to the aft deck and thinks of suicide until she is rescued by Jack. Cal is therefore obliged to invite Jack to dine at their first-class table where he suffers through the slights of his snobbish hosts. In return, he spirits Rose off to third class for an evening of dancing, giving her the time of her life.Rose's mother & Cal Hockley try desperate measures to keep them apart. But that strategy goes out the window when the Titanic collides with an iceberg, and due to a design flaw begins to sink - despite being proclaimed 'unsinkable'. At the end Jack make Rose to promised him that she will live and will have babys and that she is going to be a survivor, after she promised him that Jack die.

The end of the movie is a little confuse ,James Cameron wanted the viewers to decide for themselves,we can pick for ourselves what happens as he said in an interview. People ask if Rose ath the end died in her bed or she wast just dreaming but personally, I think Rose died becausse:
1)She did all of her promises Jack told her and one of them was dying an old lady.
2)At the end of the movie she wasn't breathing
3)At the end of the movie she goes back to titanic. I have heard that when people die they go back to when they were most happy, which is their heaven and that was when Rose was with Jack.
4) It was a perfect ending if she died and ended up with Jack.

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Hi, I am Valentina Morla, i am 15 years old and i create this blog for film's homework =)