CINE 350: Film and New Media

How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop? « ebin

2007-05-16T09:36:00.000-05:00

How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop? « ebin

Great Photoshop effect here that could be used to take basic digital images and then create cinematic look and feel. Could tell a story in the style of La Jetee, or even do something for print, suitable for framing. Invoke a Hitchcock or Casablanca style with some local shots. Perhaps, the florist shop downtown Champaign, the diner, even stage some people in fedoras or rain coats.

YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple

2006-06-06T10:51:00.000-05:00

YouTube - O! News - Apple v Apple

web mockumentary movie just for fun with either A Hard Day's Night or Forrest Gump

DealBook - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds - New York Times

2006-06-06T10:43:00.000-05:00

DealBook - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds - New York Times

Weekend Video: Columbia B-Schoolers Rock on Fed Chair

Startle Notes for Class

2006-02-14T12:42:00.000-06:00

The Startle Response

My wife is often startled when the phone rings. The phone doesn’t bother me or the kids, but all of us have, at one time or another, found ourselves alone in a room only to turn and be startled by someone hovering behind us. More typically, I recently saw a horror film with a friend. He was startled so frequently and forcefully that I worried he would pull a muscle. Millions have been startled while watching threatening film scenes. We can pinpoint the frames in Cat People where one of film’s first startles—a public bus of all things—bursts into frame; we can study the exact moment in Jaws when Hooper, while scuba diving, is startled by a corpse popping through a shattered boat hull; we can inspect the infamous startle in Wait Until Dark when Alan Arkin’s psychotic killer (supposedly incapacitated) leaps, Olympian-like, after Audrey Hepburn’s blind housewife. Since the early 40s, films have refined and increasingly used the startle effect. For instance, 1941’s Cat People deploys two startle effects, while Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake offers 8, a typical example of the hypersensationalization of the post-Psycho horror and thriller film.

A Hard Day's Night Discussion Points

2005-09-12T21:58:00.000-05:00

Dear Crew,

There are any number of things you might want to discuss with A Hard Day's Night. Here are some obvious categories and references of note:

Music Video, "rock video" "rap video"

Film Musical genre

documentary style, or, cinema verite

classical Hollywood narrative--linear narrative,

continuity editing vs. montage

media-within-media

zoom lens

advertising & marketing: discovery of "teenager" market; invention and marketing of "cool"

pop music, rock and roll, punk aesthetic

As noted, comments can cover anything and everything.

best

Robert

Assignment 2 Tips from Prof. Baird

2005-09-12T20:07:00.000-05:00

Dear Class,

Assignment 3 regarding the editing analysis comparison and contrast of Casablanca and Fight Club is not as hard as it seems. We talked about continuity editing of the classical Hollywood system, which aims to create "invisible editing" and how that contrasts strongly with the in-your-face, selfconscious editing of later films like Fight Club. Just look for 2 or 3 examples from each film to compare. The more interesting and revealing your comparisions the better. No 2 papers will be the same. Perhaps you want to compare a typcial type of scene, say, a fight or action scene and how each film uses a different style of editing. Or, perhaps you choose something very simple like a scene that uses shot-reverse shot during a conversation at lunch. Just some ideas.

good luck

Classical Hollywood Cinema
http://faculty.uwb.edu/mgoldberg/courses/definitions/classicalHollywoodcinema.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema

Robert Baird, Ph.D.
Coordinator of Instructional Development
Assistant Professor Cinema Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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