Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Samantha Bray- In Class Post 3

Exploring Film Technique



Bunny
Bunny was a strange little clip. There was no dialogue, but after seeing how it played out, I realized that it wasn’t necessary. The woman was clearly upset about the fact that her husband was no longer alive. The moths were her guides or angels. At first she found them to be very annoying, but as the clip went on, she decided to follow them, and they ended up leading her peacefully into her death and there she was reunited with her husband. Mostly, I was just trying to figure out who would come up with something like this?

Paris, Texas
The main things that stuck out to me in the clips from Paris, Texas were techniques used when the man and woman were talking through the telephone and glass. It was great how they used the shadow type effect through the glass so you could tell who could see who and what was going on. Other strange things happened in this film, like the father and son eating in the back of the truck. Why did the creator decide to park it on the side of the road under the overpasses? In the beginning clips though, the guy seems crazy. He’s running around out in the desert and no one can get him to stop. The more he walks though, the more you can see that he’s getting closer to civilization. 

Northfork
In Northfork, the church was being moved so one of the walls was missing. Looking at the congregation, it just seemed like a regular church building, but when you looked up at the Preacher, all you saw was him standing there with a completely open background. The mountains in the background seemed to represent the transcendent beyond. Later we see a father and son going to check out a house. The house was split in half, where one side was living and one side was dead. We see it’s snowing in the middle of the two parts. The father jumps to the other side, gets knocked out, and sees angels. 

Harold and Maude
This woman kept trying to set up her son with different girls. Every time he would do something really strange to scared them away. The mom and one of the girls were sitting in the house and the girl looks outside and sees Harold and he appears to have lit himself on fire. The girl starts freaking out and screaming and runs out. Harold then comes back into the house acting like nothing happened.  You see him smirk and seem very proud of what he has done. It was cool how the film creators were able to make the illusion that Harold had set himself on fire when he really didn’t. 

Cabeza de Vaca
The one guy gets shot with a bunch of arrows and he’s holding a cross in front of him. He walks towards the light, as if it is heaven. A tribal guy does a ritual to keep the prisoner there so he basically runs in a circle and ends up right back where he started. He feels like he’s stuck in an evil place with demons. Eventually he is reborn and gets along with the people who had originally kept him captive. They realize he has a special healing power so they set him free. 

The Wall
I honestly had no idea what this clip was about. Maybe because it was animated and was all over the place, but I just could not follow it.

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