The Power of Great Editing in Films (Reader)
Editing, at its core, allows the filmmaker decide what shots to include in a film and what shots to not include. For film editing, the editor have different choices to make in term of how they want to... Read More
Portrait of a Lady on Fire: The Female Gaze and Consensual Looking
According to Laura Mulvey, the male gaze is a way of depicting women in movies through the eyes of a heterosexual man, and women are portrayed as passive objects that serve to please both men on-scree... Read More(Reader) The Role of Editing in Film and Making Editing Memorable
If you think about the aspects of a film as if they were a band, let’s say, you could think of Mise-en-scene as the lyrics or chords, laying out the scene and the tone. The cinematography could be t... Read More(Searcher) Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Radical Portrayal of Abortion
Abortion & Film Abortion, especially within the US/Hollywood context, has seemingly been accompanied by an oddly untenable coldness and violence since film’s inception. While this is not sur... Read More(Reader) Different purposes for editing
You probably have heard about editing through short video clips on social media, or you may have noticed the changes from shot to shot in a thriller. Filmmakers tend to use cuts to reveal the relation... Read More(Reader) Long Single-Shot Scenes to Editing — The Progression of Cinema over Time
Prior to 1920, films gained criticism on whether it was appropriately categorized as cinematography for it to put so much reliance on editing. After this period film theorists began to realize how exp... Read More(Viewer) How different shots and camera techniques demonstrate different aspects of Marianne and Heloise’s relationship
In Portrait of a Lady on Fire, cinematographer Claire Mathon further delves into unspoken aspects of the relationship between Heloise and Marianne through the use of different types of shots. Through ... Read More
(Searcher) A Portrait of a Lady with a Combustible Head
If you enjoyed (or endured) A Portrait of a Lady on Fire, I would very much recommend They Might Be Giant’s You’re On Fire. I couldn’t get this song out of my head. What relevance do... Read More