Intro to Film Blog

On Sunday, before Halloween, my group and I set to film the scenes we needed for our fascination project. We decided to meet at the Bloomberg Lab in the business building so that we would be able to incorporate the business aspect of the comedy/horror/business genre we were attempting to create a film. We met up and began to review our storyboard created during previous meetings to see what shots would be plausible, what exactly we needed to film, and especially figure out any "b-roll" that we would need to have so that Josh had a comfortable amount of material to edit together. Our group was very lucky that Josh had previous editing experience and was able to execute the group's vision for the film in a way I never thought possible.  Being an actor in a film was definitely a first-time experience for me and it was certainly an awkward one. Because we recorded ideas as they came to us, we certainly had limited rehearsal time for most of the shots, and we had to figure out...

Monty Python Black Knight GIF from Monty Python GIFs After being introduced to the fascination project as a group film, I was able to join a group looking to create a film with a business/comedy/horror theme. I took that to mean a very cheesy type of horror where the characters are in typical horror movie scenarios but something about either the acting, the setting, the props, or even the music adds a very light, comedic lens to the traditionally terrifying scene. During the first class, we were provided with time to work on the projects, my team and I used it as a brainstorming session to just share any "bits" or scenes that we think would work well and to get a basic grasp of the type of film we were looking to produce. Never Give Up No Surrender GIF from Never Give Up GIFs Personally, I think that movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail would be a good type to try and match in terms of humor and such. I especially think a scene with either the victim...

Growing up, my family and I have always enjoyed watching and reading anything that fell into the fantasy or science fiction genre, and Pan's Labyrinth falls perfectly into that fantasy section. Pan's Labyrinth can be described as a dark fantasy film and Guillermo del Torro fully embraces this description. He does so by creating a realistic fable that leaves you wondering if any of the events Ofelia went through were real or if it was all in her head. Throughout the film, del Torro shares both the wonder-filled, child-like side of fantasy as well as the darker side through his iconic monsters, with some genuinely horrifying moments to snap the viewer back into a sense of reality.  The primary lens of the film focuses on Ofelia, who discovers that she is supposedly the daughter of the King of the Underworld. To prove she hasn't become entirely human and still contains an amount of  "godly" essence within her, Ofelia must complete three trials that will test her stre...

After watching Lost in Translation, while I do think that the movie was very well-made and the cast did a good job with their characters,   I did not truly enjoy the film. Along with what seemed to be a large part of the class, I found the film was a little too dull and it felt slightly lethargic. I think part of the reason I did not enjoy the film was the age gap between the actors themselves as Scarlett Johansson was 17 for most of the filming and turned 18 around the time the film premiered.  The opening credit scene was certainly a part of the reason I felt this way, as it was intentionally long and awkward. However, even though I personally did not feel the scene was necessary, I can understand the reasoning Sofia Coppola might have had behind putting that as the opening credit and tackling the major question many people likely had about what type of gaze she would utilize being the writer and director of the film. She might have felt others wouldn't take her work serious...