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Blog #4

I found Kazuhiro Soda and his film Peace fascinating and refreshing. I have always focused on the visual aspects of filmmaking, and that has carried over to my view of the world around me. I have recently started filming small events I think deserve to be captured. This appears to be the basis for much of Soda’s work. In his film Peace , moments in the film play out like dramatic scenes, yet all are spontaneous moments from life. You never know what you might find if you simply point the camera at the world around you for, as Soda himself found out while working at NHK, real life does not follow a script. In regards to his film Peace, the progression of the film’s narrative was a good introduction to Kazuhiro’s style of filmmaking. It starts out with him filming the cats his wife’s father is feeding, before focusing on the father’s transportation service for the disabled, before focusing on his wife’s hospice care for an old man who has lung cancer, but won’t quit smoking. All of thes...
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Media 160 Project 3

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Blog #3 - Editing analysis (or: How To Succeed in Action Without Really Trying)

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In this scene from the action movie El Mariachi , director Robert Rodriguez uses fast-paced editing, precise match cuts, and audience preconceptions of genre to hide his production’s extreme budgetary constraints. The protagonist is in an apartment, trying to escape from gun-toting gangsters. He runs up the steps, throws his guitar case on a higher walkway, and then jumps to grab onto the edge of the wall, narrowly escaping the gunfire as he climbs in. He runs down the hallway, only to find a dead end. But wait—there’s a passing bus...and a cable! He rides the cable like a zipline, and drops down on the front of the bus. A typical action movie stunt, except that El Mariachi is not a typical action movie—it was made for $7,000. Rodriguez could only afford single takes, yet the scene uses what appears to be several cameras and an elaborate stunt. How did he accomplish this? Well, the frequent cutting creates a sense of intensity and chaos, but pay close attention and the tricks star...
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Project 2

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Blog #2 - What I Hear

The “city symphony” became apparent to me as I walked through the streets of Greenwich Village. The cars driving through the streets, the sounds of their engines trailing off. The grinding noise of construction. The occasional police siren or car alarm. The rumble of the subway under open vents. And of course, the brief snippets of conversations that I will never know the context of. All elements I had been aware of, but hearing them together, I began to feel a sense of awe. The city was alive in a way I never noticed. I was one with the urban environment. In regards to the parts of the symphony, the construction sounds and distant alarms would be the keynotes. The most prominent “sound signals” would have to be the cars driving by. They really provide a sense of relaxation, sort of like listening to waves at the beach. Underscoring the cars are the footsteps of the people walking by, overlaid by their conversations as they walk past. The conversations can be in different languages, s...
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