What Gentlemen Think - @Dormtainment

This is video I thought would be interesting ,some scenes involve face angles that go the opposite direction as we discussed in class. Plus seeing the faces given you the viewer either have a positive reaction or a negative reaction to what men are thinking. 

BEST FUNNY MONTAGE

The reason why I took this specific video online was to show for many reasons how its relateable to our class. The Youtuber "ComedyShortsGamer" in his videos obtain millions of views a day, not just for his funny videos but his persona and creative videos.If you look at his video he uses jump cuts alot to lets his viewers know that he is getting straight to the point. Even though this may not be a film montage , This video specifically highlights why due to his personality , humor and loud voice he has many viewers on You tube. To get technical with his jump cuts , his fade to dissolve videos , and his editing. is very top notch

Black Swan Montage

Spongebob Montage

Top 10 Best Montages of All Time

Looking at this video shows that Montage does not just have to be a variety of clips to tell a story but describe the story in such a short amount of time but every director thinks about what story am I trying to tell. Could I be funny ? or could I be tragic? , or what kind of art am I trying to portray? When Cache mentions in class that every time she hears the word Montage she thinks of Rocky. Then watching this and seeing that Rocky 4 was 31 minutes of Montage shows how Stallone (who was the director) was trying his hardest to shorten his story to the make sure the viewer understands what is going on in a short period of time

The Godfather: Baptism Scene

This Montage is from the one of the breathtaking scenes in The Godfather, known as The Baptism Scene. The shooting scenes in this section, the Gothic and Catholic background music and the shootings interweave together and create the complexity and heartlessness of the protagonist himself. The paradoxical cuts builds up the tense of the movie.

Montage Film Editing

I wanted to pick a movie that I thought most of the students had probably seen already.  I think this movie depicts montage editing very well.  In the action scenes the cuts are pieced together in such a way to keep you involved and intrigued as to what's going on with the fights on the water as well as what is going on on land.  The action shots keep you thinking about multiple plots that are happening throughout the movie. 

Continuity Editing Example

I thought that the movie Hangover was a great example of Continuity editing. This video shows continuous and seemingly uninterrupted flow of action between shots. There is also examples of eye line match when the guys are being interrogated by the cops.  We can see them going back in forth. We also see the 180 degree imaginary line. We cannot see any cuts between scenes. We also see flashback technique takes us back in time reminding us where the characters was and where they ended up.  

Fast-Paced Montage in "The Rules of Attraction"

This video is a great example of a cinematic montage .

Montage Film Example

Famous Sports Movie Montages

Disney Film Montage

GoPro HERO4 Session: GoPro, Simplified-Demonstration of Montage Editing

continuity editing -- Splitscreen: A Love Story

Continuity Editing -- Splitscreen: A Love Story

And it has double, parallel story lines!

Different types of "matches" within continuity editing

As Cache informs us, continuity has to do with the "smooth, clear passage of time with the shots occurring and it's logical, the brain can follow the story line."  In other words, continuity editing refers to how the film-making team works to create a smooth narrative.  Consider some of those early films, where there was no story, just a shot that included people moving around.  When directors like D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein started splicing strips of film together to create a coherent story line, film was able to move towards becoming the art form we know today.

Continuity editing is that editing that combines shots in such a way that they create a coherent sense of story while also compressing time.  Continuity editing refers to those instances where the editing splices together shots that occur within a common space and time frame, or that show the continuation of one given action.

So let's look at this film clip from the 1990 Truly, Madly, Deeply, an early film by the recently deceased actor, the wonderful Alan Rickman:

The primary type of editing going on in this film is "continuity editing," because the scene takes place in one room, and advances the story of the relationship between the male character (who is actually a ghost) and the female character (who just can't get him off of her mind.)  

Now, our Cahir text makes us aware of a few different continuity editing tricks, including "match on action or match on movement", "match on a line" "eye-line match" "match on an object", "cross cuts", "fade" and "dissolve."  These are all methods that a film editor uses to move from shot to shot, to advance the story, and yet at the same time, to use time efficiently and economically.  Here are a couple lovely little film examples of a few of these techniques:

Match Cut (or "match on action"

The match cut is the opposite of a Jump Cut

(This video also includes an example of a cross cut)

Here's an "eye-line match"

Here's a very simple example of fade and dissolve

As you can see these methods allow the story to move forward coherently, while also cutting out unnecessary time.  

Tomorrow, I'm going to ask all of us to consider these concepts and go back to the Chaplin video.  But if you get to this blog before then, try to identify a little more specifically how "The Immigrant" gives us some examples of Continuity Editing. 

till tomorrow!

   

Continuity editing example - "Rolo"

In this video the publisher uses this short clip to display what continuity editing is. Throughout the clip their are also examples of Fade as well as Dissolve when the man is eating the candy and looking at his watch. Cross cut is also used a few times briefly. When the women enters into the frame it seemed the strategy Match on a line was also used.

"The Immigrant" -1917-One of Charlie Chaplin's most beloved short comedi...

Welcome to Spring 2016

My goal in creating this blog is to create conversations and topics that matter.  So yes, in one sense this blog is very public, in that the world can view it, if they stumble on it in a Google search.  Also, you and your colleagues can read and respond to each others' comments.  However, it is private in that only an elite community can write and respond to it.  As a member of this class, you are part of that elite community.  You will be invited to join the blog after the first week of classes, and immediately after you join, you will be asked to write on the blog.

You may write on the blog in two ways:
1.  You may either respond to an existing entry.  This is kind of neat way to respond to a blog, in that you are actually having a conversation.  If you respond to an existing entry, you should "talk" to the initial writer.  Comment on what they have said, add to it, agree with it, or disagree.  Be polite.  Be bold.
2.  You may open a new entry.  Please make sure you title that entry, and label it so we know which story or film you are responding to.

Our syllabus asks you to do a total of ten blog entries, at 10 possible points each.  Those assigned entries should be related to the readings/viewings we do for class.  However, I urge and invite you to do additional entries, each of which will earn you up two extra credit points.  I'd urge you, among other things, to write about your own film topic, or any other film related topic that you feel the class would be interested in.

Lots of folks blog on cinema.  It's a great way to both share and find ideas with the larger community.  Consider, for instance: The evening class,  or David Bordwell's blog for his cinema class (This, by the way, is a wonderful resource.)

This blog is your forum.  Enjoy it, and use it well.  How you choose to use it could deeply impact the way the course evolves.