D.W. Griffin and this ‘Birth of a nation’ is controversial as it portrayed black people as inferior, unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women and presented the KKK as a heroic force. This was popular as it started the forming of the KKK and by 1960 there were over 4 million members. It was also 3 hours long which made it the longest film at the time.

Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was a comedic actor who was born in 1889 and eventually ended up owning his own film studio and created physical theater movies and was one of the best actor of his time as his comedic films are hilarious. Chaplin Chaplin never spoke more than cursorily about his film making methods, claiming such a thing would be the same as to a magician spoiling his own illusion.

What was the name of the first film made by the Lumiere Brother and when was this?

1895 – Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, which is considered the first motion picture.

What is the “Phantom Ride”?

Phantom rides or panoramas were an early genre of film popular in Britain and the US at the end of the 19th century. Pre-dating true narrative, the films simply show the progress of a vehicle moving forwards, usually shot by strapping a cameraman to the front.

What was ground-breaking about the silent films “The Sick Kitten” and “Life of an American Fireman”?

Life of American Fireman was the first example of cross cutting and The Sick Kitten was the first example of a close up.

What was the name of the first “film star” in Hollywood?

Florence Lawrence (1886-1938)

Who directed Birth of a Nation and why is this film now considered to be controversial?​

D.W. Griffin and this film is controversial as it portrayed black people as inferior, unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women and presented the KKK as a heroic force.

Which nation’s film industry does Cousin’s describe as “the best in the world” in the 1910’s and why?

Denmark

BLANK SCREEN:
Against Black, TITLE CARD:
 "...and these children that you spit on,
 as they try to change their worlds are
 immune to your consultations.  They're
 quite aware of what they're going through...
 - David Bowie"

The Blank Screen and Title Card SHATTER to reveal...

1. EXT. SHERMER HIGH SCHOOL - DAY

During Brian's monologue, we see various views of
things
inside the school including Bender's locker.

 BRIAN (VO)
 Saturday...March 24, 1984.  Shermer
 High School, Shermer, Illinois.
 60062.  Dear Mr. Vernon...we accept
 the fact that we had to sacrifice a
 whole Saturday in detention for
 whatever it was that we did wrong,
 what we did was wrong.  But we think
 you're crazy to make us write this
 essay telling you who we think we
 are, what do you care?  You see us
 as you want to see us...in the
 simplest terms and the most
 convenient definitions.  You see us
 as a brain, an athelete, a basket
 case, a princess and a criminal.
 Correct?  That's the way we saw each
 other at seven o'clock this morning.
 We were brainwashed

I wasn’t in the group at first but as I was ill, I offered to edit a version of it. The breakfast club is a great film that’s starts with a good opening that was easy to replicate with a voice over. The memo of the film is that you should never judge a book by its cover which is what our whole group felt was a good message to portray for this small project. This was hard as I was given clips to put together, but I didn’t know which order was best and to make sure that the audio/ monologue went well with what I edited. When I edited together, I tried to show a progression of the school so that it shows the character moving through and show their adventure in a chronological order. There was a lot of miscommunication and if the communication was better, we would’ve been able to progress faster and allow me to work better so that they could catch me up on what had happened. 

There were many decisions I could’ve made but I chose to stay with the group so that I could show that I had improved my editing to show I could edit together a film with audio and show that I could use dissolves where they would mean something instead of doing it for every edit. If i were to do this again, I would be the cinematographer as i think that there could be many things that could’ve been done to intrigue the watchers like closeups and shots that go along with the audio.

	Production Role 1	Production Role 1	Production role 2	Production role 2	Production role 3
Role	Sound A	Sound B	Cinematography A	Cinematography B	Editing
Genre	Horror		Adventure
Influences	A Quiet Place – Monsters recreated through Foley this film also focuses it on sound so will help me with my inspiration for a horror short film. SchoolHorror
Target Audience	15+
Production Scale	Very small

Rating – 10/10

Memorable scene – when the man is in the plane and slowly lands on the sand but gets taken away by the enemy.

Film element focus – Sound

narration is used in many films to make many different effects. Some examples of this are: Bladerunner, Momento, The Shawshank Redemption and The usual suspects.

One show that uses a narrator is “The end on the … World” where he narrates a lot of it and it shows the audience how psychopathic he is

A J cut is a variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from a following scene overlaps the picture from the preceding scene

An L cut is a variant of a split edit film editing technique in which the audio from preceding scene overlaps the picture from the following scene

In spider-man into the spider-verse, when prowler enters a scene they use a sound motif to mark his entrance.

A Foley Artist adds in sound effects to the movie in Post-Product

Horse Hooves – using half coconuts filled with fabric to make a horse hoove sound

Punching sound – Celery covered in fabric to re create a puching sound

Diegetic sound: Is any sound that the character on screen can hear.

Non-diegetic sound: Any sound that audience can hear but the characters cannot.

Sound editor:  A sound editor is based on collecting certain sounds that are necessary for the specific parts of a film or scene.

Sound mixer: A sound mixer has the role of recording sound during the production of a film so then it can be used in the editing process

Diegetic Sound – Sound that is that the character or characters can hear.

Non-Diegetic – Any sound that the audience can hear but the character cant.