challenges the viewers status quo. It could be revolutionary‚ horrific‚ countercultural or even just a little bit edgy. But documentaries are meant to show us the world around us in different shades of grey than we’re used to‚ and there no period of filmmaking that personified this more than the Cinema Verite movement in the 60’s and 70’s. But is there a line? Is there a point where we can all collectively say that enough is enough and that a certain film shouldn’t have been made? If there was ever a
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20th century cinematic history with the 1915 release of his creation‚ the Birth of a Nation. This film in known for its use of breakthrough cinematic techniques Within the process of making this groundbreaking film‚ the technologically innovative filmmaking techniques really blew the minds of people in the early 20th century. According to Tim Dirks’s Filmsite.org‚ a web site offering comprehensive summaries of classic films‚ production began in 1914 and the film pioneered such camera techniques as
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Christopher Nolan Many know Christopher Nolan for his directing skills. He has directed movies such as Interstellar‚ Inception‚ and the Dark Knight. While he is a talented director‚ he also is a talented screenwriter. He has been the screenplay writer for movies such as Memento‚ Insomnia‚ Inception‚ and many others. This will go into the writing process Nolan goes through and the steps he makes when writing a screenplay. In 2010 a writer named Ed Brubaker asked Nolan a few questions about his
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little more specific) at the time. Tradition plays apart in film history as filmakers learn what counts as a good performance‚in effect‚ it favors certain creative choices over others. One example of a filmmaking tradition is from American Studio Cinema‚ when the Hollywood tradition influenced filmmaking aroundthe world. Traditions nudge filmmakers towards certain choices and away from others. Filmmakers also tend to rebel against tradition and start a short lived trend known as a movement. (Bordwell&Thompson
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concept film is produced to be highly marketable. With Hollywood simply being a profit seeking business‚ the high concept film provided an assurance of box office revenue in a time when the industry was in decline. It can be argued that this change in filmmaking merely altered the style of Hollywood films‚ allowing film makers to thrive conceptually in simpler narratives. Conversely‚ it can also be argued that this resulted in the production of creatively bankrupt films‚ where the importance of marketability
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Film: Then and Now The film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that neither has truly won out over the other in the span of the industry’s existence‚ demonstrates a lot of information about the nature of capitalism. The modern film industry was born around
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YouTube—Almost everyone has heard of this video-sharing website or seen videos on this website. YouTube has become massive‚ from just an ordinary video-sharing website‚ to something that connects the people of the world. Ordinary people who make videos YouTube are able to become celebrities overnight. An example is Chris Crocker‚ 21‚ who made a video called “Leave Britney Alone”‚ where he is crying and screaming at everyone who made fun of Britney Spears’ disastrous performance at the MTV Video
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China National Film Museum A museum is the ideal place to get a crash course on a country’s history and culture. This time is about the Chinese cinema; China National Film Museum ( CNFM ). China National Film Museum ( CNFM ) is the world’s largest proffesional film museum. This museum was founded in 2005 to celebrate 100 years of Chinese cinema and opened to the public on February 10‚ 2007. The building’s design reflects the concept of finding balance between film and architecture. The grand exterior
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messiah-like legacy. Men such as Alfred Hitchcock‚ John Ford and Fritz Lange are believed to inhabit the ranks of the cinematic elite‚ and not surprisingly most critics are more than willing to bestow upon them the title of Auteur. By regarding filmmaking as yet another form of art‚ Auteur theory stipulates that a film is the direct result of its director’s genius. With the emerging prominence of auteur based criticism in the 1950?s‚ the role of the director became increasingly integral to a film’s
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influence the world from a television screen thousands of miles away. Most people might have herd about the film industry in Hollywood or Europe and before sound that may have been all they saw. In the twentieth century filmmaking erupted throughout Latin America. Some of historical filmmaking countries are Mexico‚ Cuba‚ Brazil‚ Argentina‚ and Chile. Each and every country in Latin America has a story. For years Latin America and the population amongst it have been heavily influenced. There are some films
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