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 →…
One very interesting thing that kept me engaged in the 10th episode of the third season of The Wire dealt with Cutty working on getting his gym ready for use. When he gets into a litlle altercation with Justin, a young kid, we see his patience. There was a lesson …
For this video week, aside from the inspires and daily creates and assignment bank tasks, we were also asked to do a few readings and analysis work for a couple clips. So that’s what this post (and probably a future… Continue Reading →…
I really enjoyed episode the ninth episode of of the third season. There were a couple of specific things that grabbed my attention while I was watching this episode. They both deal with the perceptions of the African American community. The first thing that caught my attention in the episode …
I am really enjoying the inspires! For my first inspire this week, I decided to choose Amy’s Backwards Shootout. I really like this! I like how she decided to use this particular scene because it was such a pivotal scene. Its an interesting spin as well because it is …
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 …
