A notable moment is when Ron is asking her to come over to his place for the first time. As they are talking about him leaving and he first asks her to go with him the film alternates between medium c...Read More
While I personally am not too crazy about All That Heaven Allows, I do admire just how straightforward its editing is as the narrative develops. From what I can tell, Sirk utilizes continuity editing ...Read More
Link to Article: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/96-all-that-heaven-allows-an-articulate-screen This article provides the context and tense circumstances surrounding the film’s creation....Read More
I have to admit I did not have many expectations for this movie. I have a bad habit of writing off movies made before the 1980s (1990s if I’m being honest), and hearing it was a melodrama made m...Read More
All That Heaven Allows is a 1950s melodrama that lives up to its genre but also is much more than that. There are many overly dramatized scenes and dramatized language like “I can’t bear”. Howev...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
In chapter 6 of Film Art, we discuss different editing techniques, and how they can be used to achieve a certain goal of the director. For example, we learn about the 180* system, where cameras must n...Read More
When watching a performance, the average viewer has a degree of accessibility to cinematography and Mise-en scene. That is to say the viewer can see and take in the visual components of Mise-en scene ...Read More
The art of editing is perhaps the most authoritative process on how audiences view film, and for good reason. As mentioned in Film Art, 12th Ed., Soviet documentarian Dziga Vertov was onto something w...Read More