Eisenstein and Hitchcock

The film techniques that Eisenstein use in the Odessa Sequence was tracking shot, high angle, low angle, close-up, medium shot, series of montage, pan, zooming in, and the eye-line match in the scene. The shower scene and the Odessa Sequence both uses high angle and low angle. Also they both uses montage and the expression on their faces pretty much tell the whole emotion. But the difference between the shower scene and the Odessa Sequence is that in the shower scene doesn't use the music to tell the story but in the Odessa Sequence it does. Also the Odessa Sequence depends mostly on the music to tell most of the story.

The Master of Suspense

Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense because he is able to use film techniques, actions, comedies, and sense of humor to create suspense and so that adds more of a suspenseful feeling and pull the audience into the movie even more because they want to know what is going to happen next. The film techniques that he use is high angle, tracking shot, cross-cutting, eye-line match, pan, zoom in, and a lot of medium shot to show what the neighbors are doing as he watch out the window in the movie Rear Window. Yes, I have noticed a lot of these film techniques through the movie and it kinds of bring you to get more interested and you can't wait to find out what is going to happen.

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The Showdown

The showdown between the three guys were awesome because they uses a lot of close up on the faces, medium shot, continuous movement to show the gun and then back to the faces. There was also high angle, low angle, tracking shots, pan, and a lot of montage during the gun fight. I think the way that he continue to move continuous from one shot to the other was really amazing and I think that he got the idea from Einsenstein's movie Battleship Potemkin. The continuous movement creates a lot of suspense and you keep on wanting to know what is going to happen next in the movie. He reinvented this typical Western device by using film technique from Einsenstein.

Evolution of the Western

Western change over time by adding more of the music to go along with the movie. They also put more of the action according to the audience sense of appealing to violence, so that lead to stars such as Clint Eastwood to start to become the favorite star of most people. They also trued to experience with a lot of other thing. This reflect changes in the U.S. and maybe the world by showing us that people preferred more actions, violence, and more of cowboys chasing each other. It also show how the US and the world are gradually rejected the law of cinema and start to do their own little stuff.

Reinventing the Western

Some characteristics of Western film are cowboys, shooting between the protagonists and the antagonist, a lot of duel between people. Also some other characteristics of Western are film in the country and maybe in the 1979. The difference between The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and The Man who Shot Liberty Valance is that in the movie The Man who shot Liberty Valance didn't show who shot the other guy until the end when they have the flashback to what actually happens. While in the other movie, they face each other head on and settle their dispute and their revenge on each other.

Film Timeline and Film Techniques

We are in 1959, where the directors such as Truffaut and Godard direct their film. The next time period is 1968 and it is about how the Motion Picture Producers Association replaces the1930 Codes and the grading systems of movies are created. I think that jump cuts, mise-en-scene, tracking shot, wipe, eye-line match, high angle, low angle, medium shot, close-up are film techniques that are related to International Cinema.

Film Festival Reflection

I think that the movie Cost of a Soul is pretty good and very amazing because of the story plot that made it very interesting. I think that this is a very good movie and I would recommended this movie because it is truly mind-blowing and I would recommended because you just get so much into it that you actually get more interesting and then you just want to find out more and more. Yea, I think that we can connect to the class because there were a lot of film techniques and editing. No I think that I like it the way it is because it tells a lot of truth in Manhattan and so it is good to see how the neighborhood and cities is in Manhattan.