Richland Digital Video Evening Class 2017

Hi everyone. Tran here. After reading “Creating Movies with a New Dimension: Time”, I get the point that motion picture photograph is more important than still photograph. It can help us to make action in the movie more significant by changing lens. As we read in the reading, with long focal length lens, the actor will seem to move faster than with the short focal length lens. When an editor knows how to manipulate the camera, they can make the normal action like dancing become more special. And what makes me really pay attention to the author’s view is “The desire to discover and to experience something new is responsible for growth and development in the individual, progress in civilization”. Although his view about motion picture is not new nowadays, his statement about growth and development has been right until now. We grow by learning, apply new skill, and try new methods. Never stop learning at any ages. To sum up, I will close my opinion by the quote of Albert Einstein “Life i...

The first thing that struck me while reading this piece is that I have never considered the timing or arrangement of a montage in a film, and it seems quite interesting to me that there is one based solely on time, or any of the aspects described, really. I will definitely pay more attention to this now in films. Although I feel I had the most trouble truly grasping all the aspects of this article, it was still worthwhile and interesting. Perhaps it is because I am a more visual learner that I would really enjoy being able to see some examples of each category, as I have not seen most of the films referenced. It is hard to differentiate without seeing the minute differences in each. That being said I can still imagine some of the more straightforward ones like the metric montage. Overall while I would likely still need further exploration in order to employ these in my own work, it is nice to have opened my mind to new ways of thinking about it.

It appears that this piece was written in 1929. It became obvious to me at the end of the reading and seeing the date that these findings may have been really significant almost 90 years ago. The descriptions of the different montages in today’s films seem to be common practice. Although I must admit when reading this, I never have really given it much thought how these different montages impact our viewing experience.

I believe what the writter is presenting has to do with how movie making is much different from still photagraphy, with time and motion being key differentiators. Good use of time and movement in scenes can greatly enhance the viewers sperspective, how they frame a movie, and  what will happen next, in ways that they did not even realize until after the film has ended.

Hi everyone. I am Tran. After reading “Methods of Montage”, I have learnt about 5 types of montage. Two of them I really like are tonal montage and intellectual montage.  With the tonal montage, editors use pieces of melody to produce a motion and light to give the meaning. 'Psycho’ can be a good example for this type.  With the rush rhythm, we can feel the intense of violence even though we do not see the killer doing the action directly.  To me, music is part of life, so that is the reason I really like this type of montage.  The other montage I like is intellectual montage. We do not need to show everything, but viewers still understand the message of that movie through symbols. “They Live” is a good instance for this.  When he wore glasses, he saw real messages like “obey” or “stay asleep” behind the beautiful or persuasive advertisement.  In my view, showing meaning thru symbols can make the movies more attractive. To conclude, thanks to this reading, ...

I loved this piece and thought it was a great read. Although it seemed to start off sort of slow and I had trouble trying to grasp what Deren was really getting at, soon enough I had hold and was deeply interested. I pictured the scenes that were being described and followed along to make sense of the time and space continuum creations. Since I have seen the film A Study in Choreography for Camera , it was easy to recall which scene Deren was talking about when creating movement from a forest to an apartment seemingly all within moments. I particularly recalled because I quite enjoyed that scene and thought it was neat. I also love how passionate Deren is about making it known that while these techniques can add great interest it is of the utmost importance they still flow correctly. I think she is right on so many levels about all of it, from not boxing yourself in to the mindset of others who may think motion picture and still photography must share the same rules, to being sure ...