Short films

The Short films are technical descriptions originally from the American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost with short subject.
The short films have no more than 15 minutes and they can have a developed plot but it has to be short because of the time.
Although the North American definition generally refers to films between 20 and 40 minutes, the definition refers to much shorter films in Europe, Latin America and Australasia. In New Zealand, for instance, the description can be used to describe any film that has a duration longer than one minute and shorter than 15 minutes.

The North American definition also tends to focus much more on character whereas the European and Australasian forms tend to depend much more on visual drama and plot twists.
It is a derivation of the feature film form, usually acting as a platform for aspirant Hollywood directors.

The light in the movies

Ligth is one of the most important things in the movies. Without light there is no cinema. The lights creates shadows, wrinkles, rejuvenate the character or make him/her older, it created psychological effects on the character and depending on where you pput the light it changes the atmosphere of the movie. If you don´t use the light for any documental or films, the film will be incomplete, it will be difficult to see what is actually happening during cameras and will not complete the director's truly idea.

Ratas, ratones y rateros

Hi, this week I am goin to talk about an Ecuadorian movie released in 1999. This movie is called Ratas, ratones y Rateros and was filmed by Sebastian Cordero. This film talks about the delinquency of the country and how the thiefs haves to live everyday in poverty, in drugs, and with unhapiness. Is a drama film that talks about the lost of Salvador's childhood and how he had to handle his live living this way.
In this movie they are not special effects, we see here a lot of camera movement, maybe because the director wanted the audience to feel the excitement of beeing in that kind of poor places of the city of Quito. We see a lot of full shots and medium shots. There is a song that is repeated 3 or 4 times around the movie, maybe to make a feeling of suspence.
At the beginning of the movie we see that is a naked part, basically this movie has an strong content, I actually didn´t like it so much, I thougth it has going to be better, but is wasn´t also the worst. It was okay, but for me the movie was to slow, sometimes the dialogues were boring and there is a lot of use of bad words but I think that Sebastian Cordero wanted to make it s real that even the most insignificant details were importants

SPECIAL EFFECTS : PHYSICAL EFFECTS

Physical effects are usually planned in preproduction and created in production,this effects are performed in front of the camera, we can see that what is placed here is what is going to be putted in the movie.For example:

*the weather effects
*collapsing buildings
* water effects
* pyrotechnics,
* explosions
*weather effects ( the wind) like huracans that can created wind with fans of different sizes and create the effect of a huge mass of air.
*Fire, etc

The greatest changes in the revolution of Physical Effects happened in the 20th century. For example we can see that in Titanic the effect of the water sinkin the boat was a Physical Effect.

Importance of directors in film

*The Director or the film's creator is the main creative force in a film's production, and acts as the most important link between the production, technical and creative teams.
*Directors are responsible for translating the film's written script into actual images and sounds on the screen.
*He/she must visualise and define the style and structure of the film, then act as both a storyteller and team leader to bring this vision to reality.
*Directors' main duties include casting, script editing, shot composition, shot selection and editing.
*Directors must also always be aware of the constraints of the film's budget and schedule.
*Directors are ultimately responsible for a film's artistic and commercial success or failure.
*Directors make crucial decisions, such as selecting the right cast, crew and locations for the film. They then direct rehearsals, and the performances of the actors once the film is in production. Directors also manage the technical aspects of filming, including the camera, lighting,sound,design and special effects departments.
*At all stages, Directors are responsible for motivating the team to produce the best possible results. Directors must also appreciate the needs and expectations of the film's financiers.

For me, director is the head of the film without him/she there will not be any movie because he is the one that make it, the one that create's his own point of view after watching the script and the storyboard. He put all his imagination, his thoughts and everything on it.

Edward's Scissorhands

Hi this week I am going to talk about a movie called Edward Scissor's hand. This movie was directed by the famous Tim Burton and starring with Johnny Depp. In a empty casttle near the city lives Edward, he is a young man created by a death cientific. Edward was like an experiment. He was almost like a human but he had scissors instead of hands. One day a nice make-up Avon seller went to this house and he meet Edward. Later on she decides to take him to live with her and her family. Now he was living in the reality of life and he will discovered love, intolerance, loneliness and pain because he was not accepted. I really love this movie, it is one of my favorite movies because here we can see how is the reality, that if you are different form the other you will not be accepted and that is the thing that we have to change. But a girl makes a difference, Kim that was Peg's daugther ( the make up seller). Kim begans to fall in love of Edward and Edward falls in love with Kim. But his boyfriend was a mean guy that wanted Edward out of the family and he ended up figthing for her love.
We can see in this movie that the costume that Edward use is a black one. He doesn´t have any hands, he has scissors, big ones. He is palid, very whiite with no color and he was cuts in his face because of the scissors. We can see that in the movie there is a prepaired scene for each part. For example the neighborhood is all settled by the director. They use a lot of wide shot, bird eye angle and medium shot.
They use slow motion picture at the end when he is making the snow.
The time the movie is settled is about the 80's

Beetlejuice

Hi! This week I am going to talk about a movie that i really like that is called Beetlejuice, he is a character created by the director Tim Burton and this movie was released in 1988. and he is a ghost that lives in the "no live world" that is the representationof the real world but with the dead´s vision of it. Beetlejuice works as an exorcist of the living people. He help ghosts kicking out the living people of their homes. Beetlejuice is a dirty, rude and rogue man that eats cockroaches. He always use a striped dress and he can transform himself in what he wanted to be.
The movie starring with Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice; Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz, a very dark girl that hated her father and her step mother. Charles and Delia Deetz, are por Jeffrey Jones y Catherine O'Hara.The film, a delirious black comedy was a huge success the year that was released, earning only $ 73 million in U.S.

In this movie we can see that the make up and the customs are very important because Lydia is represented as a sad, dark girl. And the make up and customes that the director use are a black drees, dark hair, with a pail white face and dark tones of make up. Also beetlejuice is a ghost and they use a white pail tone for his face and a black shadow for his eyes and lips. In this movie we can see a lot of effects, but by this time it wasn´t to credible like in this time they are. For example the snake they use is CGI. They use the effect that make a character disappears. They use a lot of whide shot, and high angle.