A look into the past

Since I am further into my blogging I would like to take a look back into some of my earlier blogs.

My first blog was about the movie the six sense. I take a look at different visual cues throughout the movie that help the movie watcher better understand the movie. A couple things that I go through are the color red, and its meaning in the movie, Visual temperature changes, and Bruce Willis's conversations with people. If you are interested in finding out more click the link below.
http://movieknowhow.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-sixth-sense.html

The next blog I wrote about was Jaws. I go into an explanation of what a score is in a film compared to music. Then I took a look at Jaws score, and how it affected scenes within the movie. I give a visual description of how all the parts work together with the score and the visuals to help people understand why this aspect of the movie makes people feel suspense and terror. If you would like to see more about score and how it works within Jaws click the link below.
http://movieknowhow.blogspot.com/2017/02/jaws.html

To help movie goers get a more in depth view about film making I made a list of ten different Directors. This list is in no particular order, but it shows ten famous directors within the industry and the different film techniques they use. I also give out three or four different film recommendations per director to give an interested person things to watch by said director. If you are interested in taking a look into the directors and the film recommendations click the link below.
http://movieknowhow.blogspot.com/2017/02/10-directors-that-will-help-you-fall-in.html

Netflix

Netflix is a web streaming service that allows people to watch movies, and television shows for one flat rate. This service works for people on a budget trying to watch movies. The basic price per month is $7.99, and at the most for the premium service costs $11.99. This is a huge price cut compared to cable which can cost upwards of $100 or more.

This service is for a person who genuinely like movies, or television shows. They have the capability to binge watch what ever is on the service. The web service releases television shows and movies every month. The possibilities are endless for what one person can watch. Most films are theatrically released and are available on dvd, but they can be seen for one flat rate on Netflix. The services is now producing and releasing their own content. 

A couple down sides to the service is the selection is vast, but it is limited. That is why they offer new movies, and tv every month. They also lose those films and tv after a period of time. They also only have content that is released elsewhere, besides their self made content, that can be purchased without the service. The big turn down for opting out of cable for this is for sports fans. They would not be able to watch their favorite sports teams play.

Overall the product is made for people whos man objective is watching movies, and tv series. Even through the content is limited, I guarantee you will not be able to finish the library of things to watch before more content comes out

To visit the website for more information go to netflix.com. 

My review Star Wars Episode V

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back is considered by many the best star wars film in the franchise. This is for many reasons. One major reason is the dark tone throughout the film. There are many scenes that have dark actions happen, or dark visuals. The first dark visuals are shown when Luke first gets captured by the snow monster. There are visuals of the monster eating another animal, and Luke being hung upside down to show that he is going to be eaten next. Following this Luke kills the monster by injuring it, and then going into the snow to possibly freeze to death. After he is laying there Hon Solo saves him, but has to put him in an animal to keep him warm. This is within the first few minutes. Following this Luke goes to another planet and has to find Yoda. When he land on this planet his ship gets stuck in muck. The planet has very clear dark tones to show that this trip may lead to nothing and Luke may be stranded on the planet. While on the planet he confronts what he thinks is Darth Vader in a cave and ends up hurting him to only see his face in the defeated thing in the cave. Following this he leaves the planet because he sees visions of his friends being trapped. This is True and Hon Solo who saved him in the beginning of the film was frozen in carbon. While Luke tries to save Hon he has to confront Vader who sprung a trap on him. While Luke is facing him he learns that Vader is his father, and in the process losses a hand. Then Luke falls nearly to his death, but is saved by his friends. The film ends with many questions about what is going to happen in the future.

This film to me is great, but the predecessor a new hope was better in my opinion. In a new hope Luke starts his journey not knowing what is going on, and ends up a hero in the end. While Empire Strikes back does a great job story telling, it leaves to many questions unanswered. The third film in the trilogy wraps everything up. Yet, the whole film tries to wrap up everything, and makes the film unable to stand alone. A new hope leaves doors open for another film, it does a great job alowing the film to stand alone. Over all empire strikes back is an amazing film in its self. I would give the film four and a half stars out of five.

To find out more about this movie on IMDB click the link below
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/?ref_=nv_sr_3

My website

Today I am going to look into my website and how it is being developed. My main point I am trying to get across to the person who reads my blog is a more in depth look into film making.

I have looked into some movies such as Jaws and the Sixth Sense. The two ideas I was trying to get across in these films were about score in a film, and how color can affect themes. These ideas are essential to film making. Most movies, even ones that are not considered great, have a combination of both within the film.

This look at the films is meant to be unbiased. I do like both of these films, but each example is a great use of that specific part of film making. I may use movies in the future that I do not like as much, but i may use them as an example because they can highlight a specific part of the film that was done well.

Readers may not enjoy the idea of me not giving feedback on the films, but being unbiased will help me better explain aspects of film making through examples. The main idea for this is not for a reader to watch a movie because I like it or not, rather they watch a film that I discuss and have a better understanding of how, and why the film works. Then based off those ideas they can make a judgment for them selves.They can use these ideas as a resource rather than a judgment tool.

sound design

Sound design is taking audio elements and changing them to what fits your setting in your film. This can be anything from dialogue, Foley sounds (post production audio added in to mimic an action on screen, music, score, to any other sound found in the film.

First, dialogue for most movies is the main driving component of the film. Some things that a person needs to take a look at when making a film is if the character on screen can be understood clearly. Any sort of background noise can defeat what the actor, or actress is trying to get across. The person speaking can be saying something quietly to show they do not want another person to hear what they are saying, or a person can be yelling to show how angry they are. There are many in between scales of speech that can show different actions, or ideas without actually having to say them. One such example is in the movie Network. The main protagonist is fed up with the news network and decides to talk about what is happening on the news live. You can hear his voice as hes is talking go from frustrated to pure anger.

Another part of sound editing is the noises that are going around the characters. The blog Things I know about the movies does a great example of how this is done. The author talks about gravity in the post. The movie is set in space where noise can not be herd. A Quote from the blog describes how this affects the film. "In space, one wouldn’t exactly hear something approaching quickly, and there were a number of times where I cringed at the realization that a character had no idea of what was coming at them hot and heavy." This quote shows how lack of sound around a charter works as well. The idea of hearing nothing shows the character can hear nothing. Then a shot can be shown from behind the character the lets the audience know that something bad is coming and the character does not know about it.

If you would like to read further into the article about gravity from Things I know about movies click the link below:

http://everythingyoualwayswantedtoknow.blogspot.com/2013/10/gravity.html

Analyzing Dustin off the Reels

A look into another film blog brought me across Dustin Off The Reels. His area of blogging goes more into depth of looking at specific films and reviewing them, as where my blog goes more into what goes into making a film.

Dustin off the Reels blog takes a movie and dissects it. The first part of the blogs give an introduction to the film. Some times it is about a personal experience with the films, as other times it will give a background of sorts. It can discuss the director, and how the film on a surface level compares to the other films.

The next part of the discussion gives an overview of what happens in the movie. It will give names of actors with the name they go by in the film, then a basic preview of what happened in the movie. This gives the reader a chance to see what the author has to say without seeing the film.

The next part goes into a more in depth discussion of how the film was made, and what the author thought about the the film.

The blog does a good job of recounting what the film is, and tries to give a person interested in the film an idea if they should see the film or not. This is a film review page which is a little different from what my posts are about. The blogs can seem biased based off of what the author thinks about the films. The posts also could go deeper into the film making without giving any spoilers. But, on the other hand it is very informative about the film, and the author seems like they know about film making. The highest rated posts seem to be big movies that people have all ready seen, so they might be more inclined to see what other people think about the movie being reviewed compared to reading a post to see if they would like to see the movie

The overall layout of the movie reviews seem to be well done, and I personally agreed with many of the remarks said.

If you would like to see the Blog for your self click the link below.

http://dustinoffthereels.blogspot.com/