Today I’ll work on my missing blog posts (mise en scene preliminary task)
All posts by Honey Simpson
Filters
comparative opening draft
Luc Besson’s 1990 French film La Femme Nikita and Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 American film Basic Instinct are both distinctive neo-noir????? films that feature the classic ‘femme fatale’ character trope as central characters, although developed very differently. They are incredibly recognisable, from the classical cut-throat villain in Basic instinct, to the violent action featured in La Femme Nikita.These films have been chosen as they were made in contrasting cultures, so the separate representation of the character trope can be clearly seen.
Male gaze movie poster
BRITISH NEW WAVE
Metz: model of genre development (1974)
‘zombie movie’ sub-genre of horror films.
- Experimental – Night of the Living Dead
Set the standard for zombies being seen in horror and sets up a lot of the tropes for movies to follow.
2. Classic – 28 days later
Uses the already set up conventions of a zombie movie in a post-apocalyptic horror drama.
3. Parody – zombieland or shaun of the dead
As people now understand the conventions of zombie films, filmmakers start taking the tropes and using them comically.
4. deconstruction – THE DEAD DON’T DIE
Jarmusch takes the classic conventions of zombie movies and subverts them, using his auteur style.
auteur example
“Auteur is a term used to describe an artist, usually a film director, who applies a highly centralized and subjective control to many aspects of a collaborative creative work; in other words, a person equivalent to an author of a novel or a play.”
Ari Aster is a noteworthy auteur that started his career with a handful of short films, but reaching his feature film directional debut with hereditary (2018) and later Midsommar (2019). Despite only having two feature-length films, Aster has made a significant impact on the horror genre.
His talents lie in capturing bewitching cinematography, slow burning yet effective horror and engaging stories. often subverting horror standards to a really amazing effect. i.e, trope of horror in darkness is subverted by the light in Midsommar.
soviet Constructivism ART EXAMPLE
constructed textiles, extremely simplistic
CITIZEN KANE TEST SHOTS
examples of classic german expressionist films
UFA (1917-present)
UFA, or Universum Film-Aktien Gesellschaft, is a German film production company, owned by the parent company Babelsburg studios, made just one year before the end of WW1 and producing through the years of Nazi Germany.
It became widely popular, rivaling large Hollywood production companies for being one of the best equipped and most modern studios, and even becoming the spear head in charge of Nazi-era propaganda.
Due to this, despite it’s dark history, the great creativity and reputation they had kept the company around for decades to come.
Berlin is known to be 20% cheaper to shoot in than in Hollywood, and therefore still useful to this day.
