Rush #10 Crew Remake Synopsis

The synopsis of our remake is from the film "I Love You, Man." We decided to take the scene where the character Peter is going on a dinner outing with a man to get to know him because he s looking for a best friend. The man he is meeting, Doug, gets another idea about the dinner and takes it as a date. Our scene is re-creating the scene but using "L-cuts" and showing Peter realizing that this was actually a date as he is explaining the night to his wife. This is an example of unification because as he is talking he is unveiling a view of the night he hadn't thought of until he said it out loud.

Rush #9 She's Gotta Have It

For this rush topic I chose to focus on the comedic principles of Unification in relation to my anchor in "She's Gotta Have It." I chose Nola's hair because it at first captured my interest, I liked the style and through it was different. I feel like it also symbolizes the era and women being able to express themselves like they hadn't been able to before. It ties in with her choice to not pick one man and to keep her personal freedom by choosing a haircut that is short and strong. I can't seem to find a way to connect my anchor ( Nola's hair) to Unification but I think a good scene to chose is when the audience is introduced to Greer Childs, (one of her 3 boyfriends) who thinks he is " so great" but really, little does he know Nola won't be choosing him even though he thinks they are great together and that he a a great catch. It slightly brings unification into play that he is unaware of his foolishness that he isn't everything she wants.

Rush #8 Annie Hall

For this Rush I have decided to slightly tweak the rush because my remake group has finished our project, so I will use this as a "what if" instance. Our crew chose the film " I Love you Man," and I felt that the scene in which the main character ( played by Paul Rudd) meets a man for dinner, and they both have different objectives as to what they are there for. The scene in Annie Hall, which I felt could relate or come into play in our crew remake was when Annie and Alvy meet after tennis when they first start to realize they are interested in each other. This scene has similarities roughly in the context but more so in the scene's use of mis-en-scene with the camera shots and use of dialogue. Annie Hall uses her " la te da" line and Paul Rudd character uses his known " pointing, and gestures that are true to his character like Annie is in her character.

Quiz for week of march 7-12th

For this weeks film I chose " Grumpy Old Men." I started by choosing an anchor in the beginning of the film which was Max's duck fishing pole. At first I chose it because it reminded me of an old toy I had when I was young but I also chose it because I thought I might be a hobby of his. Throughout the film I found fishing was his biggest hobby along with his childhood best friend John. The fishing pole comes into play when John takes Max's pole and breaks it in half to get back at him for something he did. This is their friendship, pulling pranks. This pole shows to have much more meaning because it helps to unify the two after John fixes his pole and returns it, even though Max doesn't look like he forgives him at first. This is an instance of unification because although the pole is just an object I chose form his home it is a binding aspect of the film and the relationship between the two men. It brings out comedic understanding and underlying meaning that brings depth to the film and its diegesis.

Rush #7 Re-make project

This week we met with our group and swapped ideas among each other. We were all thinking of similar aspects we wanted to include such as surging and bleeding and the use of L-Cuts. We also wanted to use a newer comedy we could relate to and that we knew well. After coming up with a list of ideas we settled on the film "I Love You, Man." The reason for choosing this film was because the plot of the film is based on a man who is trying to find a best man after going through life without a best guy friend. He meets a quirky man who ends up becoming his best man through a series of stages including various instances of surging and bleeding, where one thinks something while the other thinks its something else. We all agreed on a particular scene of when Peter (the main character) is set up for dinner by his mother to meet a new potential guy friend. We plan to put in L-cuts going back to scenes of the dinner, as he talks to his wife about the dinner date where through talking about it realizes the other man was gay.

After fleshing out our idea we met again and have split up the work for the next step of the project.

Rush #6- Billy Wonder and the Concrete-Universal

In the film, Some Like it Hot, I chose a cigar for my anchor point from the first 5 minutes. After reading the blog post I am a bit confused, but feel I have a slight grasp of the message and connection between "universal" and "concrete."

Various cigars recur throughout the film beginning with a center frame shot of a man drinking a scotch and lighting a cigar at a restaurant. This is a example I believe of a concrete instance of the cigar, another being one of the gangsters who kicks the cigar out of the man mouth they just shot. These are material, or human instances correlating to the repetition of the cigar.

The cigars also come into play in the "universal" term, for instance when one of the two men talks about the "smokin" girl in the "slumber party." Also Jack Lemmon's character says, "his mother will approve because I don't smoke," when talking about his new fiance. These are two different examples of the cigar being used in a different context or in the view of ideals or values, such as the last quote I mentioned, which showed the values the man's mother had and how she will approve.

Rush #5 Anchor Points (again) 2/24/11

The anchor I chose while watching Mon Oncle was the recurring image of a wire frame of an old lamp post that would show up in the foreground of the right corner in various scenes. Im not sure as to why I chose the lamp post, it just suck out at me from the beginning. I applied the word " lamp" to the template, and I came up with the following expression of misfortune:

"They say ideas are like a lamp turning on --but if so, I think I just broke my bulb."

My sequence would open with a blur of street lights from a view of someone driving at night peacefully listening to music. The lights would then dissolve into a scene of a beaming singular light fixture hanging from the ceiling as the camera pans down to someone being questioned for a crime in a police station.

Rush #4 Anchor Points (2/17/11)

1. In the beginning of the film Whiskey Galore, I was intrigued by the image of a fishing net in the foreground of the shot, being pulled put of the ocean by a man of the island. That will be my anchor for this rush.
2. the conflict is the struggles between Scottish islanders who try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship and the home guard captain who is an Englishman,who stands in the way. There were a good deal of secrets being kept as well.
3. There is a connection between the scene where the mother gets mad at her son for not telling her before she found out that he was getting engaged. This relates to the theme of secrets being kept in the Scottish town.
4. Show a shot of the town in distress over when they are investigated and dissolve shot into a shot of a man fishing and find out he has a broken net( more of a scenic transition/connection). These scenes together will symbolize the connection of the town being torn apart by secrets and investigations.

Rush #3- Create an "L" cut

When thinking back to the film "To Be or Not to Be," I found one instance I thought would be a good place for an "L" cut. Before we really know the characters the audience Maria Tura, a famous actress is in her dressing room. By this point I think we knew she was married but did not know any status or knowing of their personalities. The scene is when Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski comes into her room and begins telling her how wonderful of an actress she is, an "L" cut could be made cutting to her husband ( something showing he is connected to her) to show her in another light, rather than making it so clear cut in the beginning. To have the audience find that out through an "L" cut when she is flirting with the fan would create a bigger impact in the scene.

Rush #2 - Sullivan's Travels in relation to "surging" and "bleeding"

In the film, Sullivan's Travels I found a few instances of surging and bleeding through the entire film. Some were hard for me to classify but I found a few I felt were good examples of "surging" and "bleeding."

An instance I found of "surging" was in the beginning scene where Sullivan is convincing his co-workers he wants to act as a poor man and argues his point how it will help him create his next film. The man are talking and go back and forth about "trouble" and Sullivan is going on about how he knows about trouble and as he's saying his piece starts to realize his troubles haven't been anything compared to the true poor. The man to his right then starts to go on into real troubles he's been through, making it look like Sullivan is re-thinking what he said.

An example of "surging" I found was actually in a conversation between Sullivan and the woman in the car where they were talking about a film of his ( which she didn't know was his film- yet another instance of bleeding) and she asks him if he remembers when the boy and girl were the hayloft in "Hay Hay in the Hayloft" and she asked him to close his eyes and count to 3, and she made him kiss a pig instead. I felt like this is an example because he thought they were on the "same page" and realization set in when he kissed the pig and realized they weren't the same thing. This might be a little off of the exact definition of bleeding but I felt through a bit of interpretation it could be an example.

Quiz #1 Make-up ( Sullivans Travels paragraph)

Assignment: Take one particular point or observation from either of the assigned readings for the meeting you missed (the blog post and the pages from Freud) and discuss their relevance to a particular scene in (or recurrent aspect of) Sturgis' film Sulliivan's Travels.

I felt throughout the film there were re-occurring instances of bleeding and surging, but sometimes I felt I couldn't quite put my figure on whether it was exactly that or not. Sullivan and the woman go back and forth many times where I could almost just sense it but it wasn't quite "bleeding" or "surging." I found two instances where I felt the most confident on finding those terms. One is a conversation where Sullivan and the women are in the car, when they are newly friends and he references "Sullivan" that they have his car and she believes he is talking about a famous random director who is really Sullivan but is unknowingly sitting next to him, which is an example of "bleeding" except for she finds out not in that scene that he is indeed Sullivan ( finds out two scenes later in jail.

Rush 1: Initial Thoughts on Final Paper

Rush 1: Initial Thoughts on Final Paper ( 1/30/2011)

At first thought I think i would like to do an analytical paper and expand on what i chose for my mid-term paper. I am most comfortable with writing in this context and feel I can relate personally to some of the terms we are working on this semester. We have only watched a couple films so far but I am already intrigued by the "bleeding" and "surging" aspects of comedic films. I feel people can relate and to those forms of conversation, one with conversation taking an awkward turning point unknowingly and one where one also later realizes they are using the same words for different topics. I find this appealing to myself and observing this especially in silent films.

I think I would like my paper to be formed on this topic and to tie it into silent films, because I am always used to watching movie with dialogue and its almost as though it spelled out for the viewer in modern films. The idea of pure observation and interpretation which is much more so left to the mind engages the viewer much more and find that something unfamiliar to myself and fascinating. I also love Charlie Chaplin films so I think I might take his films and use them to fin patterns and connections with the actors emotions and visual expressions to tie into my topic. I might also want to add to this topic once we dive into more topic in the semester but so far this is what I feel i will be interested in for my analytical paper.

Bio- Questions Response

As a returning student I have answered the last question....

What would your dream job be 5 years from now?

5 years from now i hope to have a stable job at a company specializing in children's animation and illustration if I were to find a great local studio. I would also be interested in working at Microsoft in the design/creative department for the experience, opportunities, and benefits, and location. I feel that would be ideal at the time because it could launch me into other "higher" or more desired professions and give myself experience at a such a large company. I would also be very into moving down to California to explore the job market because I ultimately would like to work for Pixar. That would be my ideal "dream" job that most likely won't happen in 5 years but with experience could potentially happen later on.