This week’s readings on narrative form both highlighted distinctive time periods throughout film history, with Gunning focusing on the industry pre-1906 and the textbook on all films thereafter....Read More
When I read this chapter and it told me to close my eyes and listen to my surroundings, I was surprised by how much I could hear from my dorm at night. There were crickets, my roommate typing, cars dr...Read More
After completing Chapter 7: The Sound of Cinema, one might ask themselves: why wasn’t this assigned before we watched The Zone of Interest? The proof is in the pudding. “We’re strongly inclined ...Read More
Chapter 7, “Sound in the Cinema,” explores the various roles of sound in cinema, emphasizing its equal importance alongside visuals in shaping a film’s overall experience. The chapter delves int...Read More
In A Dialectic Approach to Film Form, Sergei Eisenstein believes in the idea of marrying art and science. He utilizes suggestive editing and the conflict between what is real and what is not to demons...Read More
While reading this week’s passages, I couldn’t help but think of a quote I once came across: “Are we an identity with ideas and experiences conformed to it, or are we ideas and experiences f...Read More
When reading the first reading, A Dialectic Approach to Film Form, the part of the text that stood out to me the most was the idea that art should have no set form and regularity destroys art. This st...Read More
I would like to believe that everybody else struggled with the readings as much as I did, so I will provide a brief summary of Eisenstein and Bazin’s respective ideas. It appears that Eisenstein...Read More
In this chapter of Film Art, we focused on editing. Editing is often described to be the ” invisible art” of filmmaking- however it is one that is mostly responsible for keeping the viewer...Read More
Avery McAdams Editing is one of the most key factors in creating a movie. Post production, the editors so creatively get to work on piecing the film together in an interesting and entertaining way. Af...Read More