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Rethinking Genre: Exploring Romance in Portrait of a Lady on Fire and All That Heaven Allows

Posted on October 28, 2024October 28, 2024 by Leo Chen
Reading this chapter has changed my prior beliefs about what defines a genre. I thought it would be very clear and specific like comedy, science fiction, horror, and action. But as the book mentioned,... Read More

Chapter 7: Searching for Diegetic Rhythm

Posted on October 7, 2024October 7, 2024 by Jasper Braunschweiger
Searching for Diegetic Rhythm  Rhythm is a very fundamentally human concept. If you go back tens of thousands of years, there will be evidence of humans using basic instruments to create rhythm. Prof... Read More

The Cycle of Ideas and Reality through Film

Posted on September 30, 2024September 30, 2024 by Victoria Keane
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

Does regularity destroy art and what truly is cinema?

Posted on September 29, 2024September 29, 2024 by Meredith Farnsley
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

Editing: What can it achieve?

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Joe Chong
When one thinks of editing, they may initially think of simply putting shots together on iMovie. But in reality, editing gives filmmakers a lot of power. With editing, filmmakers can shape the viewers... Read More

How Cinematography Makes Scenes Come to Life

Posted on September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Zachary Shao
Mise-en-scene deals with the elements that are displayed on screen. Background, props, acting, staging, and lighting all play a vital role in providing the viewer context for what is currently happeni... Read More

Cinematography: How to make scenes more memorable

Posted on September 16, 2024September 19, 2024 by Leo Chen
Cinematography is all about the camera and the visualization of what the audience is seeing. The director is always making choices of what to put on the screen, what is the frame used, what is the lig... Read More

The Presence of Cinematography in our Daily Lives

Posted on September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Lester Martin
Have you ever wondered why certain photos look so dynamic while others not so much? The answer lies in the same principles filmmakers use: cinematography. As we learned with mise-en-scene, as viewers,... Read More

The Art of Cinematography: Asking not just What, but How?

Posted on September 16, 2024September 16, 2024 by Hannah Baskin
If mise-en-scéne refers to the objects placed in front of a camera, cinematography refers to how the camera captures said objects. This relates to the actual filming as well as post-production editin... Read More

Why the Mise-En-Scène of a Film Shapes its Identity

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Gordon Taylor
Mise-En-Scène is one of the most important elements in cinematography, setting the tone of a scene through a variety of spacing, lighting, props, and more. In Chapter Four of David Bordwell’s F... Read More
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