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How to Read a Movie

For this assignment, everything started with Roger Eberts, “How to Read a Movie” and this piece was awesome. Some of his points were things that i have never thought of before and some things were so simple that are just overlooked by all. After reading Eberts piece watching Notorious by …

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Video Essay

In the film Notorious, I chose to analyze the wine cellar scene.  I thought it was interesting as to why, in Brazil, they would have Champagne. Champagne is a product of France..I also saw that the bottle of Burgundy weren’t lying on their sides like the other bottles. It was …

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Ringing Again

For my video essay, I chose the movie “the postman always rings twice.” I chose this one because I had read the script for this story before and thought it would be nice be able to see what I had read come to life. Before watching it, I read Ebert’s …

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Video Essay

For this video essay I watched the movie by Alfred Hitchcock Notorious.

In this scene from the movie it shows a lot of different camera angles which is a big technique described about in Camera Angles and Techniques video. It shows Devlin walking up the stairs with the camera angle …

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Notoriously Brilliant

After reading the resources on how to read a video and use different shots, I watched Hitchcock’s  Notorious. I definitely noticed all the elements of film making we read about in the reading, so it was pretty hard for me to find the perfect scene to analyze. I decided to …

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Commentary

The video I chose to watch was Albert Hitchcock’s Notorious. I pay a lot of attention to the visual parts of film so that is what I commented mostly on.…

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Kiss Me Deadly – Cinematic Analysis

This week we were also asked to apply our knowledge of cinematography techniques and analyze a scene from a list of movies, I chose to analyze a scene from Kiss Me Deadly. I was originally going to record a voice over the video scene and talk about each aspect going …

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Video Essay-A Notoriously Amazing Shot

First thing’s first: I apologize for the title. It makes me gag a little bit too. I was stuck and I just couldn’t resist.

I’m a huge Hitchcock fan and have seen Notorious on numerous occasions, so I immediately knew where I was going  with what scene to pick. For …

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