Anna Hamillas Film Blog

Light Pollution: Here is a good source to see how to prevent/stop light pollution: https://coreglow.ca/news/5-ways-to-reduce-light-pollution-core-glow-with-the-international-darksky-association/ Sources of light Pollution: Street lights, cars, office buildings, advertising. The inappropriate or excessive use of artificial light – known as light pollution – can have serious environmental consequences for humans, wildlife, and our climate. Components of light pollution include: Glare  – excessive brightness that causes visual discomfort Skyglow  – brightening of the night sky over inhabited areas Light trespass  – light falling where it is not intended or needed Clutter  – bright, confusing and excessive groupings of light source https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution/ The effects: Human health- Disruption of the sleep process which had many health consequences Environmental- Disruption of circadian rhythms, inability to hunt, ...

Summary of the film taken from:  http://dramatica.com/analysis/rear-window “A news photographer, confined to a wheelchair by a broken leg, gazes idly at the behavior of the neighbors across the courtyard of his Greenwich Village apartment.  His observations lead him to suspect that one of the neighbors has murdered his wife, but he is unable to convince his fiancée and his detective friend that he is right.  Eventually, when the fiancée discovers incriminating evidence confirming his suspicions, the killer discovers he is being watched and tries to kill the photographer.  The snooper is saved in the nick of time, though his second leg is broken in the course of the rescue operation.” (Truffaut, p. 214.) Analyzing how this panning scene answers some of the plot questions: How is Hitchcock telling the story of the movie in just one long panning shot? ( pay attention to sound and the visual information): In one panning shot it shows you whats going on without usi...

List the sound effects you hear in this scene:   -Cars -Animals  -Clock -Kids Playing -Music -Birds Notes: -US films are darker and socially critical  -Film Noir  -HUAC blacklisted many actors, directors and writers for suspected ties to communism  -Television was introduced and Colored film  -Biblical epics, Westerns, and Musicals  -Italian Neorealism and Japanese Art Cinema - The US government's Office of War Information (OWI), formed in 1942, served as an important propaganda agency during World War II, and coordinated its efforts with the film industry to record and photograph the nation's war-time activities. Tinseltown aided in the defensive mobilization, whether as combatants, propagandists, documentary, newsreel or short film-makers, educators, fund-raisers for relief funds or war bonds, entertainers, or morale-boosters. Films took on a more realistic rather than escapist tone, as they had done during the Depression year...

I created a version of one with and without effects(This is the one without effects (Below) the one above is the actual film):  https://youtu.be/uoQg5KegbaY Reflect-  Refer to your notes and write a blog post explaining resolution and aspect ratio: Resolution is a the end result and for this end result I think it turned good. The resolution is important to make sure the film turns out as you wanted it to go. The aspect ratio in this film is important because its important to portray the meaning of the film and to be able to express the film, its also important for all the clips to be the right size. Discuss successes & recommendations (if you were to complete the project again): Successes where the teamwork, we all worked together and had important roles, i was the director and was featured in the beginning and Erika was the girl and then the boys moved the flower around to different shots. Recommendations are to have a good plan of action and to ...