Blog Assignment 2

Well, I recently went and rented The Godfather and studied the film to its utmost extent. I noticed that Francis Ford Coppolla used many techniques to further enhance the film and make it one of the best films ever made. The way that each shot was framed and the way the camera moved in each shot made the characters come to life and traits in each characters become easily relate able with the viewer. Each sequence was filmed in a certain point of view. That point of view made the movie more personal for the viewer making it easier for each viewer to further relate with the story at hand. Even though it was an intense mobster movie, with much drama and action, each shot and each sequence told a story. That story was about a mobster on a revenge streak. The movie followed Vito and Michael Corlone, and the reign of the godfather of the Corlene crime family. This movie, alothough very graphic in nature, was very moving due to its intense story line and its wonderful directing. The way coppola directed Godfather made it easier for other directors to see what a great american film looks like, through the intense angles and techniques that Coppola used to make his film, he was able to make all the necessesary arrangements in his techniques to further enhance the film itself. The way that the movie itself was shot enabled many directors in the future to further enhance the style and use it in their own films, making it more apparent to the viewer that what they are watching could be considered real.

Museum of the Moving Image

Well, when i first got into the Museum i was amazed at how much my projected field has progressed since the first camera was invented. I had the chance to partake in multiple demonstrations of how the motion picture industry and the items used to produce a quality film have progressed through the decades. The one demonstration that i was quite fond of and that i felt had the greatest impact on film is the green-screen demonstration. Green screen has made it so much easier for films to be shot, if a director is not able to get on site location for his or her film ,they are able to shoot it in front of a lime green screen, and green screen the actors into the site that is needed for the shot. Green screening is capable due to the cameras ability to not pick up a green background therefore giving the editor (soon to be me!) room to work in post production. Green Screening or also known as chroma key is used in multiple films now, therefore making it more cost efficient and easier to use. Personally i have great experience with all aspects of film making and editing, but green screening and editing intrigue me, one being that i am extremely talented with my editing capabilities, and two that it is the most fun to make something come to life when you are given a bunch of nothing shots. Editing i believe might be the most important part of film making due to the fact that it is where all of the nuts and bolts are worked out, making the film come together and look like an actual peice of work.

Hey, if your reading this you probably know why I created this blog. I am an aspiring film editor with such knowledge of Final Cut Pro and the Avid suite which i have vast experience in. I have edited pieces which have seen much local acclaim such as a piece on the Angle Fly nature preserve and i recently entered a contest for REM which I edited together a music video for one of their new singles Supernatural SuperSerious. I am also a aspiring film writer, I have had much experience stidying film and how it is written along with how it is shot, edited and produced. I am currently working on a TV show which i hope to pitch to a major network in the fall. I study most famous directors and how they make movies therefore i can learn what a good work of motion picture looks like.