For the assignment I first watched the film 300: This is Sparta without sound seen here. With what I learned from Ebert’s article I noticed that while Leonitus remained on the strong axis, the person speaking to him seemed at first more dominant. Righteously so as this character is …
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The camera starts with showing a pair of shoes and slowly makes its way up until you can see it is Bubbles. He is sitting in the park. Camera view changes to see kids playing with bubbles (irony?) and a man biking. He straightens out his shirt. Bubbles watches …
After reading Ebert’s article on reading movies, I set out to analyze a selected short scene from The Wire, season 3, episode 8. Here, Stringer starts to build up financial connections through Senator Clay Davis.
When it comes to the artform of cinematography, there are intentions behind both the …
While watching the beginning scene of Season 3 Episode 8 the camera work is very fast paced. Within the first minute there are multiple camera angle changes. The producer zoomed in on specific objects or actions and then would change the angle or the view to something else. One thing …
The Article. Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie also offered some very interesting perspective to viewing films. I really love the idea of watching a film as a class, and having anyone being allowed to call “STOP!” at a… Continue Reading →…
Season 3, Episode 10 opening scenes with Brother Mouzone “Reformation” “We are in Baltimore, Lamar. Baltimore, Maryland.” I love Brother Mouzone’s intensity, and the clarity with which he delivers his lines. Each consonant is as precise as the knot on his bow tie. He is crisp, clean, and clear in …
Well this clip may as well have been silent because I obviously didn’t understand anything that was said (I took Spanish as my foreign language). I guess voice inflections kind of tell us a little bit but I really didn’t understand a whole lot. Anyway here is what I saw:…
The Scene from the Wire I chose to analyze was this:
Season 3, Episode 11:
Start: 41:23 – End: 42:57 – Link: http://www.wire106.com/the-wire/season-1/
Here is what I found; I’ll include an overall summary of this exercise in the end.
1. The Camera Work.
The first thing I noticed about this …
Fritz Lang’s masterpiece M was very interesting. When I first watched it I thought to myself “Is professor really having me watch something in German?” I was worried I would be too focused on trying to figure out what was going on and not look at the visual aspects. For …
The scene I am doing “Look, Listen, Analyze” for is the scene where Dennis tries to get his permits to transform the warehouse into a gym. The scene starts at 17:49 in Episode 9 of Season 3. These are my notes upon watching this scene.
Look:
Wide shot of Dennis …
