Re: Stanford Field Trip

1. It came from Outer Space

2. The Day the Earth stood still

3. Spiral Stair Case

The day that would interest me the most would be Saturday. For the sake that, that day is the most greatest day that we can all hang out on a saturday to see a movie. Common' who doesn't want to see a movie on a saturday night?

My parents, unfortunately can't go. :/

Re: Eisenstein and Hitchcock

In the film Battleship Potemkin what had happened was that there was some intense close up shots. That shows the emotion of the film, how the characters react. It also shows how Eisenstein liked how he had used the film's close up shots at a very good angle. There were some low angle shots, and also a stationary camera. In the shower scene that we previously seen in Psycho, that had also the extreme close up, medium shot, also the high angle shot. The scene was memorable first, the taking place of a shower was pretty interesting. The certain film techniques, I also know that Hitchcock rarely even uses the close up, so that makes it memorable. Eisenstein was also probably influenced by German Expressionism characteristics, Hitchcock used his own methods as any other director the Auteur Theory.

Re: The Master of Suspense

He surely kind of goes back to German Expressionism. Also how he uses the Camera that makes lots of sense. The point of view and the montage that is used is quite unique I would have used those characteristics. It makes perfect sense and we also go back to the same stuff that other directors use. Well I have seen some Panning shots in Rear Window. It's a really good film, it shown the famous Pan shot in the beginning. Using Humor to break tension is one of the reasons why suspense is the big part of the film.

In the beginning, long shot was used to show the show down battle ground and also the camera spinning around when Tuco was looking around. Close up was used when Blondie dropped the rock on the ground, and also close ups were used on the three men right before they shot their guns. Medium shot was used to show the men's bodies from the waist up. The camera had shots that cut from person to person. Eye line match was used to show how the characters were looking at one another. There was a high angle shot of the rope of when Blondie wanted Tuco to put his neck through. The music was very dramatic and powerful. He creates a very strong show down that heightens with all of these shots and creates a montage of all these images put together.

Re: Evolution of the Western

Western has changed over time because of the increase in western television series, ideology formed the western was becoming outmoded in the new permissive society and the rise of violent spaghetti westerns. This reflect changes in the world because these story plots of these westerns influenced Japanese samurai films.

Re: Reinventing the Western

Characteristics of a western genre are heroes (cowboys)/and or outlaw heroes, good vs. evil, and the battle between cowboys and native americans and the usual setting takes place in western nights. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a western because the battle in the movie is between the outlaw and official hero. The setting was taken place in a western town. The Good, Bad, and the Ugly is different from the The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance because there is more of a western theme song, more intense battle scene wise and there's more of mysterious twists in the film and more film techniques.

Re: Film Timeline and Film Techniques

On the film timeline, we are studying the year 1959. The next unit will be focusing on films made in the 1960's. Different film techniques that deal with the International Cinema unit are jump cuts and tracking shots. Jump cuts were introduced in the film Breathless and tracking shots were used in the films The 400 Blows and Children of Heaven.