AICE Media Studies

Mickey and I partnered up for this week's project, co-directing a short film showcasing the various editing techniques put forth by film theorist and director Vsevolod Pudovkin, which can be found at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIYSuFS-TiI Leitmotif: For our leitmotif, Mickey filmed a guest star and I performing a popular dance move today, the "dab," which acted as the recurring theme, or motif, that the leitmotif capitalized upon. Parallelism: For our edit utilizing parallelism, Mickey again acted as the cinematographer, and he filmed the parallels between Josh and I as we each wrote in two separate situations. Our actions are parallel, but the contents and context of our actions are different, demonstrating parallelism. Simultaneity: In our simultaneity edit, I finally got behind the camera and filmed a suspenseful shot, cutting between Josh and Mickey walking towards each other at the same time until they finally crash into each other in the...

Camera Angles The Giver (2014, dir. Phillip Noyce) For this week's assignment, I decided to watch and analyze the use of various camera angles in the 2014 movie "The Giver," based off of the novel by Lois Lowry. Since I'm a huge fan of the book, I thought that it would be interesting to see how the director would adapt certain scenes from the book into visual form, what kind of camera angles and framing he would use, and things like that. One of the first shots in the film is a tightly shot, dynamic REACTION SHOT of the main character, Jonas, as he experiences his first glimpse of color. In the movie and the book, everybody is colorblind, and maybe I should have expected it but for some reason I hadn't really considered that this would translate to the movie being in black-and-white. With the reaction shot, the audience is put in Jonas' shoes as he first sees color, and with some clever editing the audience experiences that too, as some light blue and ...

After looking at both Lily and Kiley's blog posts collecting a dozen different shots each, I analyzed the emotions evoked by some of each of their shots, and my responses to those shots are collected below Lily The tilt shot captured an air of mystery as the camera slowly revealed more and more of the strange figure.  The framing of the follow shot makes the scene rather dramatic, as the camera follows closely behind Erin so it's hard for the viewer to see the what the subject can see, lending to the tension of the scene.  The over-the-shoulder shot puts the observer into the shoes of the character, and it creates a sense of empathy so that we can better relate with her.  The point-of-view shot also put the viewer in place of a character, and the subject matter is slightly humorous and inspires a gut reaction from the viewer.  Kiley The extreme close-up shot makes me feel a little bit uneasy, because of how the girl's eyes move back and forth, evokin...