CAMERA MOVEMENT

PAN SHOT: a fixed camera pivots on its axis turning form left to right for the puropose of following the action within a shot. In movie and television, pan shot is released by turning horizontally on a vertical axis, but the effect may be enhanced by adding other techniques, such as rails to move the whole camera platform.


CRANE SHOT:A camera positioned on a crane can swoop down or up covering great distances and producing unusual camera angles.They are usually, but not always, found in what are supposed to be emotional or suspensful scenes.





DOLLY SHOT: The camera moves toward a subject (dolly-in) or away from a subject (dolly-out) The camera is mounted on the dolly and records the shot as it moves. Dolly shots have a number of applications and can provide very dramatic footage.


TRACKING SHOT: The camera tracks alonside of the object or person.


ZOOM: Camera stays stationary as the focal length of a lens zooms in or out. Framing gets tighter id the camera zooms in. Framing gets looser of the camera zooms out.Zooming means altering the focal length of the lens to give the illusion of moving closer to or further away from the action.




ZOLLY SHOT: A dolly shot in combination with a zoom.

FIRE PROVE

Hi! This week I am going to talk about a film that is call Fireproof that was released in 2008 by Alex Kendrick.
This movie talks about a fireman, Caleb and he always use to said, "never leave your partner behind", He was married with a young woman call Catherine.
Their marriage is in a bad situation, they are always fighting, they have no communication and it's almost over. Later the father of Caleb gave him a book with advices of how to save his marriage.
I think that in marriage you need to have a good communication and respect, because those are the bases of marriage, also to have respect because love is the synonym of respect. And also you have to think very deeply whit whom you are going to married because this is the most important decision that you are going to take in your life because you are choosing the person that you wanted to spend all your life, that person that will be always with you, in the good ones and bad ones, giving you all your support and love. In every marriage there are problems and fights but that´s life, nothing is perfect and with all that problems you will learn to don’t commit the same mistakes that you commit before.
*This is a drama film, they used low-light, medium shots, back of the shoulder shot and close up.

MAIN FILM GENRES

Films were created to make the audience feel fun,fear,mistery,sadness, etc. Each film has a different story, different plots,and each movie has its own genre that characterized them. Here I am going to show you and give a brief explanation about each filme genre.

ACTION MOVIES: This are movies that usually include:
*high energy
* big-budget
* physical stunts and chases
* battles, fights
* escapes
* destructive crises (floods, explosions, natural disasters, fires, etc.)
*heroes figthing agaisnt bad people.
This kind of movies have a lot of special effects and one example is James Bond.

ADVENTURE MOVIES: They are exciting stories, it includes exotic places and settings, and they are very similar to the action genre. They can include:
*traditional swashbucklers
* serialized films
* historical spectacles.
The adventure movies are usually the searching of something extraordinary, expeditions, treasure hunts, etc.
One example is "The mommy"

COMEDIES MOVIES: Comedies are fun stories about different situations, plots that are created to amuse and provoke laughter by exaggerate the situation, the language, action, relationships and characters.
One example is "White chicks"

CRIME & GANGSTER: They are develop around the sinister actions of criminals or mobsters, particularly thiefs, and people that doesn´t respect the law and they earn the life stealing and murdering. This category includes a description of various 'serial killer' films.

DRAMA: Dramas are serious, with realistic characters, settings, life situations, and stories. The characters has an intense development and interaction. Usually, dramas don´t are no focused on special-effects, comedy, or action. One example is : "The notebook"

EPIC MOVIES: They include:
*historical dramas
* war films
* medieval romps
*panoramic backdrop.
Epics take an historical or imagined event, legendary, or heroic figure, and add an extravagant setting and costumes, with a unic scneraio, dramatic scope, high production values, and a very good music score.

HORROR FILMS: designed to frighten and to invoke fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale.
Horror films use range of styles. They are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens. They are accompained with blood, scary carachters and a lot of death.

MUSICALS: are cinematic forms that scores song and dances routines in a significant way, they are films that are centered on combinations of music, dance, song or choreography.
One exaple is "High school musical"

SCI-FI FIMS: Sci-fi films are films that uses a lot of special effects because they has to describe heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology, unknown and unknowable forces, and extraordinary monsters, etc.They are also related with fantasy films because nothing of thismovies is real.

MUSIC IN FILM

Music within film is very important. Not only it helps to create the ambience of the film and its plot, it also helps to evoke the emotions of the characters, so that the audience gets to feel the same thing to happen. For example Hitchcock's suspense thrillers,like "Psyco", the music evokes the horror sensation of the plot. Without music, the film won't have as much of an impact as it does with music. Music also helps you to relate to a certain situation within the movie, a sad song resonates with the sadness felt by the characters, for example. And a happy song lifts the mood of the film. In turn, the audience feels the same.

As both music and film sequences are structured in time according to the viewers' perception, there is a strong link between the two when played together. "A viewer has two perceptual modes whilst watching film and listening to music, real time or ontological applies to where the viewer/listener perceives each note or movement, and psychological time in which the composition/film is perceived more subjectively and the viewer takes what they see/hear as a whole". Music is a structuring in time, and film music is especially good a giving the viewer a sense of time passing, although upon watching a film, the music becomes part of the background and somewhat dissolves into the whole viewing entity. The sense of time can alter depending on whether the viewer is watching the film, or listening to the music.

THE PIANIST

Hi! this week I will talk about a movie that is an adaptation based on the autobiography of the Polish composer, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, Szpilman struggled to stay alive,even when cast away from those he loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw and scavenging for food and shelter. At the end he is rescued by the Russian's and he ended playing the piano in the radio like the beginning.

This is a clear story of fight for your own live and the repercutions that war can bring to your life.
This movie use a lot of wide shots, high angle, medium shots and long shots, because the director wanted to describe briefly the situation that the main character is passing.

*This are some important details and scores of the movie

Production Status: Released

Genres: Art/Foreign, Drama, Adaptation, Biopic and War

Running Time: 2 hrs. 29 min.

Release Date: December 27th, 2002 (LA/NY)

MPAA Rating: R for violence and brief strong language.

Distributors: Focus Features

Production Co.: RP Productions, Heritage Films, Runteam, LLC
Telewizja Polska S.A. (TVP)
Planeta 2010, Canal Plus Poland, Studio Canal, Hermitage Films, Les Films Alain Sarde, Polanski Productions, Roman, Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures GmbH

U.S. Box Office: $32,519,322

Filming Locations: Berlin, Germany
Warsaw, Poland

Produced in: Poland

*We can see also that the movie use a lot of light in some scenarios but in some cases the director use low light because he wanted to make suspense and to make people feel what main character is feeling during this war time.


*The critical reception was:
The film received extremely positive reviews from critics and Adrien Brody's performance was met with near universal acclaim. The Pianist currently holds a score of 95% on the film rating website Rotten Tomatoes, with the Cream of the Crop critics rating the movie with a score of 94%. Metacritic rates the movie as 85% based on 40 reviews.

By showing Szpilman as a survivor but not a fighter or a hero—as a man who does all he can to save himself, but would have died without enormous good luck and the kindness of a few non-Jews—Polanski is reflecting... his own deepest feelings: that he survived, but need not have, and that his mother died and left a wound that had never healed

COMEDY FILMS

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour.The most common thing in a comedy film is a happy ending. One of the oldest genres in film, some of the very first silent movies were comedies. Comedy, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former are "make 'em laugh" films designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are light-hearted dramas, crafted to amuse, entertain, and provoke enjoyment.

The comedy genre humorously exaggerates the situation, the language, action, and characters. Comedies talks the deficiencies, foibles, and frustrations of life, providing merriment and a momentary escape from day-to-day life.

• Action comedy films blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts. These type of films are often buddy films, with mismatched partners such as in Midnight Run, Rush Hour, Bad Boys, and Hot Fuzz. Slapstick martial arts films became a mainstay of Hong Kong action cinema through the work Jackie Chan among others. It may also focus on superheroes such as The Incredibles & Hancock.

• Comedy horror is a type of horror film in which the usual dark themes are treated with a humorous approach. These films are either use goofy horror clichés such as in The Old Dark House, Young Frankenstein, Little Shop of Horrors, Haunted Mansion and Scary Movie.

• Fantasy comedy films are types of films that uses magic, supernatural and or mythological figures for comic purposes. Examples of these films include Being John Malkovich, The Princess Bride, Night at the Museum, Groundhog Day, Click and Shrek.

• Sci-fi comedy films, like most hybrid genre of comedy use the elements of science fiction films to over the top extremes and exaggerated science fiction stereotypical characters. Popular examples of these types of films include Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Evolution, Innerspace, Galaxy Quest, Mars Attacks!, and Men in Black.

• Military comedy films, involve comic situations in a military setting. Examples of military comedy are The Secret War of Harry Frigg, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Stripes, Up the Academy, MASH, Private Benjamin, Full Metal Jacket, Tropic Thunder, The Private War of Major Benson, and the boisterous Flagg and Quirt movies.

DEAR JOHN

Hi! this week I am going to talk about a movie that really touch my heart and it is called "Dear John" is a timeless romance that will warm your heart. Sergeant John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on a two-week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried) after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John and Savannah falls in love at first sight. Savannah is a college student at the University. She is on spring break and is helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. John joins in with Savannah to help build the house. Along the way a budding romance occurs, and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. As she is about to go back to college, she promises to write John overseas during the next 12-months until he returns to her after completing his enlistment. Their love is put to the test when John reenlists after the 9/11 attack. The end of this movie is confusin because it doesn't tell if the end together but you can assumed that because they met in a coffee station at the end. This movie doesn´t have a lot of special effects because is a drama movie but we can see in the war battle that there is an speacil effect when the soldier shot John. The message of the movie is clear. If you really love someone no matter distance you will always have that person in your heart and never forget her/him. Also maybe we can say that she is apling the phrase that says " If you love someone let him/her go, if she/he comes back is yours if he/she doesn't it was never true love.