FILM EDITING

Film editing is part of the post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling. Film editing is the only art that is unique to cinema, separating film-making from other art forms that preceded it. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art"because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that he or she is not even aware of the editor's work.
On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent whole. A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors' performances to effectively "redirect" and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole. Editors usually play a dynamic role in the making of a film.
With the advent of digital editing, film editors and their assistants have become responsible for many areas of filmmaking that used to be the responsibility of others.It is common, especially on lower budget films, for the assistant editors or even the editor to cut in music, mock up visual effects, and add sound effects or other sound replacements. These temporary elements are usually replaced with more refined final elements by the sound, music, and visual effects teams hired to complete the picture.
Film editing is an art that can be used in diverse ways. It can create sensually provocative montages; become a laboratory for experimental cinema; bring out the emotional truth in an actor's performance; create a point of view on otherwise obtuse events; guide the telling and pace of a story; create an illusion of danger where there is none; and even create a vital subconscious emotional connection to the viewer, among many other possibilities.

Forrest Gump

This movie was created in 1994, by Robert Zemeckis. This movie talks about a man that is called Forrest Gump, he is not very small but he has a great heart and he always follow his dreams. This movie is characterized because it has some montages like the meetings with Elvis Presley, JFK, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, John Lenon, and some other scenarios like Vietnam, Savannah etc.
We can see that the most important value in the movie is that you never have to give up your dreams, your wishes and your objectives. Forrest was always supported by his mom, he always listen to her, and that is also a lesson;we have to hear what our parents told to us because they only want the best for us. Even though he was a little retarded he ended been a very good husband, a good friend, by saving his friends life from death, also how healthy he was by making some sports. He was a good father, a good shrimper, a good son. We also see here that the spiritual part exist, when the mom of Forrest pray for him and also he prays for his friends and Jenny. He was a simple, humble, and a a honest man. This movie started with flashbacks and many scenarios, many changes, that can let us notice how years were passing by. At the end of the movie Forrest have to take care of his son, and in the end there is a symbolism in the movie when the bird feather is under the foot of Forrest, that means that Jenny do become a bird :)

MY SISTER´S KEEPER

hi! this week I would like to talk about a drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes and released in 2009. Anna, the eleven years old sister of Kate and Jesse wants to emancipate from her mother, with the help of a lawyer. This girl wants to emancipate from her mother because she refuses to donate her kidney to her sister Kate. Since Anna was little she has been helping her sister donating many organs and with many medical exams. Her sister Kate has Leukemia, so her mother Sara went to the court to obligate her daughter Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. But Sara doesn't want to accept that her daughter Kate wants to die, because she believes that she will not survive the surgery. Anna won the case and after that, Kate died. Most of the movie we can se flashbacks where it shows us how was Kate's life, her life was not easy, she had to pass from many surgeries, chemotherapies, and vomiting. I think that this movie proves us how the love of a mother can be so big that you don´t care about anything child.But everything happens for a reason, and God knows about it.This film proves us and makes us think about the love that we have to have for our family because we don´t know when they are going to go out of our lifes and is important to enjoy every minute with the people that you love especialy with your family

LENS

Lens

-A transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted ligth and to form images.

TYPES OF LENS:

-Standard 50mm

-Wide angle: less than <50mm-landscapes-they onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/sony-20mm-SAL20F28.jpg">Less than <50mm-landscapes-they> more than >50m-sports- it is great for bringing for away objects rigth up into the meat of the picture.

Dirty dancing

This is a movie placed in the 1960s, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains.Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner (Johnny is not the father). She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse - that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". Because of this, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny and she apologize for her father's rudeness and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before. In an act of bravery, Baby states that Johnny is innocent, and alibis him by confessing that they were together all night. This revelation causes a huge rift in the family and Baby makes an impassioned speech to her angry and bereft father. At the closing night performances, and although he has been fired and banned from attending, Johnny returns and takes the stage to tell everyone about the woman whose faith in him and whose courage changed his life. They do one final show-stopping dance together. Baby's father learns that Johnny was not responsible for his partner's pregnancy and learns to accept that although his beloved daughter is transitioning to womanhood, she will always love him.

LIGTH IN FILM MOVIES

*The ligth creates atmosphere and mood in the movies.
*Intesity, direction and quality cause an effect of the way an image is percieved, this means that because of the ligth you can see and image in a completely different way.
*The ligth affects the colors and focus attetion

There are two keys of ligth:
subjects.
HIGH KEY LEVEL:
The fill ligth is rised to almost the same level as the key ligth
*Images are very brigth
*Is characterustic of entertainment genres like musicals and comedies.

LOW KEY LIGHTING
*It used very little fill light

*Creating strong shadows that obscures parts of the principal

*Associated with "hard-boiled" or suspense genres such as film noir.

The blue lagoon

The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American romance and adventure film starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, produced and directed by Randal Kleiser.
The film tells the story of two young children that were on a ship, but the ship sinks so they and the chef get in a boat and they survived. They got into on a tropical island paradise in the South Pacific.The story tells about the way of living in the island, how they get the food, how they built their place to live, etc. One they the chef died and they have to manage their lives alone. They only have each other.
Actually they were ignorant because nobody has told them the rules of society and emotional feelings and physical changes arise as they reach puberty and fall in love even thougth they were cousins.Later on, they have sexual relationships and they have a son. At the end they ate a poisonous plant and they fall sleep.

I really love this movie, is so romantic the way they love each other, they don´t have anybody than their selves and they do work team to built their home and to bring food to eat. This teach us that no matter where you are, that person that you love is the most important thing you can have and you will supperate everything if you have the company of that special person.

SHOTS

In film, a shot is a continuous strip of motion picture film, created of a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time. Shots are generally filmed with a single camera and can be of any duration. A shot in production, defined by the beginning and end of a capturing process, is equivalent to a clip in editing, defined as the continuous footage between two edits. Frames, shots, clips, scenes, and sequences form a hierarchy of units fundamental to many tasks in the creation of moving-image works.



WIDE SHOT In photography, film and video, a wide shot typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings. Long-shot ranges usually correspond to approximately what would be the distance between the front row of the audience and the stage in live theatre.


MEDIUM SHOT In film,a medium shot is a camera shot from a medium distance. Medium shots are relatively good in showing facial expressions but work well to show body language.Depending where the characters are placed in the shot, a medium shot is used to represent importance and power.





CLOSE-UP In film, and still photography and the comic strip medium a close-up tightly frames a person or an object.Close-ups display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene. Moving in to a close-up or away from a close-up is a common type of zooming.



EXTREME CLOSE-UP The shot is so tight that only a fraction of the focus of attention, such as someone's eyes, can be seen.




TWO SHOT A Two shot is a type of shot employed in the film industry in which the frame encompasses a view of two people





THREE SHOT three shot has three people in the composition of the frame. In these shots the characters are given more importance; this type of image can also be seen in print advertising.

Film in the 20´s

The Big Five

1920-1930 was the decade between the end of the Great War and the Depression following the Stock Market Crash. Film theaters and studios were not initially affected in this decade by the Crash in late 1929. The basic patterns and foundations of the film industry (and its economic organization) were established in the 1920s. The studio system was essentially born with long-term contracts for stars, lavish production values, and increasingly rigid control of directors and stars by the studio's production chief and in-house publicity departments. After World War I and into the early 1920s, America was the leading producer of films in the world - using Thomas Ince's "factory system" of production, although the system did limit the creativity of many directors. Production was in the hands of the major studios (that really flourished after 1927 for almost 20 years), and the star system was burgeoning.

Originally, in the earliest years of the motion picture industry, production, distribution, and exhibition were separately controlled. When the industry rapidly grew, these functions became integrated under one directorship to maximize profits, something called vertical integration. There were eight major (and minor) studios (see below) that dominated the industry. They were the ones that had most successfully consolidated and integrated all aspects of a film's development. By 1929, the film-making firms that were to rule and monopolize Hollywood for the next half-century were the giants or the majors, sometimes dubbed The Big Five. They produced more than 90 percent of the fiction films in America and distributed their films both nationally and internationally. Each studio somewhat differentiated its products from other studios.

Warner Bros. Pictures
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation became Paramount
RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Fox Film Corporation/Foundation