Singin In The Rain

This was a colorful movie.  The movement was included cranes and other flying forms-Lyricism, choreography because there was much dancing and performing.  The camera seemed to sit still and focused most of the time.  There were girations involved with the charcters for example, the damcing and flipping up and down, doing the flips and somersaults.  The sylized convention regarding Gene Kelly's elaborate dance routine in a downpour.  He twirls around the lampposts, splashes through puddle. There's kinetic variation symbolizing his feelings about the girl.

The scenes where there are alot of people on stage and dancing when the camera has a wide-angle shot and view of them then goes to the overhead angle, the characters eyes follow the movement of the camera well.  There seemed to be some trucking and tracking shots taken from a moving dolly as well. 

The cameras kept up with the fast motion of the characters and caught their facial expressions very well.

Henry V

This is set in an old time; the language is old, archaic in fact- English? French?- Old empirical clothing with shields and armor.  The language is so passionate i.e. "I will keep for thee".  The acting is also as in the tussel that ensues before the three are convicted of treaso (betrayal to the king).  The words spoken create the effect needed to strike upon the audience of the intense air that is about in the room.  The colors ar drab, dingy and the lighting makes scenes look cool and dingy.  The English vs. French war that happens looks as though at night, with the darkness and the fire looks like a stage set, not an actual place-built.  The use of the cameras-the high and the low positions show the effect of grandeurism, God-like views and the effect of making someone seem "bigger than life". 

The voices speaking so gruffly in that "Sparta" form- we don't speak like that anymore for the most part.  We've gotten so lazy in our speech. 

The French to English lesson of the body parts scene is so bright and sunny in the fun and joy (lighting).  The lady and her maidservant have more fun time while the men fight and the ladies joke.  Such roles women and men played back then.

The cold, rainy, wet, and muddy path made me shiver.  No wonder so much sickness prevailed to sometime fateful ends for some.

"Shall the King hang a thief?" and the reply that "Not thou shall" and then the broken promise followed by the King terfully allowing so showed much emotion.

The first time me noticing the narrator talking straight to the camera and the lights dimming to introduce a more sinister, lurking danger, the camera followed him just right.  I felt I need the subtitles on with the blending of the words.

The Mise en Scene I noticed had the distance between the camera and it's subjects positioned well.  The battle scene showed a widescreen effect showing much detail with danger approaching much of its victims (fallen soldiers).  The slow motion made it that much easier to see and notice.  The scene with the Princess and Crispin had a balance to it when the King stood in the middle of them.  The cropping was good.

Snow White/Animation

Watching Snow White took me back to my childhood era.  Looking at it this past week in class reminded me of the exciting colors used.  It was kind of scary also with the queen and the jealousy she had of Snow White.  The lengths she went to to kill her off with the apple and poison, how vulnerable some women are.  There were still pictures used and for example, coupled with movement (i.e. the dark clouds).  In most of the frames both were used.  I've always been curious about the series of pictures, the animation and all the drawings used to make one film.  In Snow White the colors used were pastel and standard.  The astonishment drawn for Snow White's face as she is told to "Run, hide in the woods, anywhere!", were very well done. 

Going from the fun and singing scenes to the dark and scary and threatening were very well done also.  Capturing the movement of the characters and their shadows took quite skill and perfection.  I can see so much thought and detail put in the creation of this film.  The movement of the dust must've been difficult, I'd presume for the artist, and challenging.  In the cleaning scene it looks as though some time the tape was rewound to use the same picture to make the duration of the movement longer.  For example, the waterfal along the path the dwarfs followed home.  The sparkling of the diamonds and jewels where the dwarfs worked caught my eye as spectacular.  The fly making the bubble on the soap bar was done magnificently.
It looked as it does in reality.

The artists show shading in the skulls' brows that are realistic.  When Bashful starts to sing and turns a bit red, it's done in realistic timing.  The colors represent well.  I could see the expression in Snow White's eyes as she began telling her story of love, like the flutter of her eyes as she began to tell, rather sing, her story to the dwarfs.

In the reading it said that Snow White is where Disney made his signature trademark for the most acceptable type of fairy tale.  The fairy tales that followed basically followed the same type of script, with the princess in distress and some turmoil happening, but the being saved and loved by a strikingly handsome prince.

Disney taking this from the Grimm Brothers and making it all his own, isn't that what most moviemakers do today?  So why all of the fuss?  Disney not giving his animators credit and them having to fight for recognition, for the most part, is selfish and wrong.  He gets proper credit for a million other things, why not share the spotlight or at least give credit where it is due, because without these artists and animators, Disney would have gotten nowhere.

The Matrix

     The Matrix was afun movie to watch.  The special effect intensified everything.  The prolonged ringing of the telephone and the way the agents moved were special.  The storyline follows the basic structure with the plot, rising, climax, falling.  But the ending leaves you knowing that there will be a sequel, which there was.  The western style gunfight in the subway was awesome.  I love drama and action and this movie had both.  The lighting, which the book's first chapter focuses on agreed with the movie.  The darkness of most scenes was right for what went on.  It made me follow the movie more closely.  The colors showed through the darknes, although it was a bit off from reality. 
     The clothing the character wore went with the photography of the movie.  The slow motion moving of the bullets with the air being seen as disturbed was awesome.  The stunts and moves of Neo which turned into a dance move later, was shown with much detail.  The angles in which the movie was shot was right on also.  I enjoyed watching this film again, paying more attention to detail rather than the storyline.
     The theme which is photography was very prominent in the film.  It's what made the filming of the movie so unique and trendsetting.  I'd watch it again and again.