Monday, February 28, 2011

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.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

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.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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.