I come from a family obsessed with film. I have a lot of friends who are film majors. I have even speculated being a film major at times, though I have found contentment in participation in the UCA Film Club rather than making it my career. I have participated in production of a film or two but have found that producing is less enjoyable to me than watching a good film. For me, technical aspects of film-making (like panning, dollies, advances in HD technology, etc.) are not as interesting as mise-en-scene, motifs, and a good solid plot, things which I can easily enjoy from a distance. I have taken a few classes on film, though, so I know that all of those technical aspects I have just belittled are essential to a good movie. A good director will weave all of those technical aspects into a film without the audience becoming any the wiser that their enjoyment depends on a suspension of disbelief that think nothing about.
Our first evening in class, we scavenged McCalister for interesting action sequences. Sliding down banisters, jumping around in trashcans, flushing toilets-- we shot any sequence that would show a kind of cause-and-effect. It was a basic anti-plot, a montage of passive verbs interacting with inanimate nouns.
Our first evening in class, we scavenged McCalister for interesting action sequences. Sliding down banisters, jumping around in trashcans, flushing toilets-- we shot any sequence that would show a kind of cause-and-effect. It was a basic anti-plot, a montage of passive verbs interacting with inanimate nouns.
