A Collection of Creativity
CC Image “Toast” by Ozzy Delaney at Flickr.com Spring 2020 Leadership Summary of Project As a final leadership project for film, I decided to create a short film for the TCMedia Silent Movie Homemade Media Challenge. I heard of the project through an email thread and I was interested to get creative, especially while not…
CC Image “Avatar” by Susan Alexander at Flickr.com Episode 15 – Cinema Today and the Future Notes: 2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle – and the Future of Movies. Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach Painted background, studio set Includes an innovative humor Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg Hollywood with playful, absurd and new The…
CC Image “pulp_fiction_frame” by Abraxas3d at Flickr.com Episode 14 – New American Independents & The Digital Revolution Notes: The 1990s: The First Days of Digital – Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia. Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott Smoke from buildings, everything was made to look like a real city But practically everything in the…
CC Image “La Haine” by Robbert van der Steeg at Flickr.com Story of Film – Episode 13 – New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America Notes 1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid – Before the Coming of Digital. The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf Based on a true story of a father isolating…
CC Image “Do The Right Thing Movie Poster” by Tiger Pixel at Flickr.com Story of Film – Episode 12 – Fight the Power: Protest in Film Notes: The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest – Around the World. The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang Speaking truth to power (especially Conservative ideas) The greatest rebirth of culture in the…
CC Image “Sholay” by Ashish M at Flickr.com Story of Film – Episode 11 – The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream Notes 1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture – Around the World. The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang Musical, feminine and studio set Highly colored and perfectly set A Touch of Zen (1971)…
CC Image “THE GLOBE” by Sulaiman alkhairi at Flickr.com Story of Film – Episode 10 – Movies to Change the World Notes 1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s – Make State of the Nation Movies. Fox and His Friends (1975) (a.k.a. Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder The new goal was to make films made our…
CC Image “The Graduate’ (1967) Movie Poster” by Ron Cogswell at Flickr.com Episode 9 – American Cinema of the 70s Notes 1967-1979: New American Cinema. Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey satirize society oppose expectations Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin European film looked like a cartoon (bright colors) Catch-22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols one of the great movie satires…
CC Image “Hubble Sees Galaxy Cluster Warping Space and Time” by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Flickr.com Episode 8 – New Directors, New Form Notes 1965-1969: New Waves – Sweep Around the World. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda apparel choices reflected personality (man wears dark shaded glasses to cover his eyes) Wajda distinguishes meaning…
CC Image “Wave” by Francesco Paroni Sterbini at Flickr.com Story of Film – Episode 7 – European New Wave Notes 1957-1964: The Shock of the New – Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière easy to compare changes in cinema since this time Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman…