One of Steven Spielberg’s signature filmmaking techniques is known as ‘the Spielberg Face’ or the ‘awe and reveal’ technique. In this technique, Spielberg actively denies the audience the satisfaction of the reveal shot in order to create visual tension and dramatic suspense. It also enables the audience to identify with the point-of-view of the character and their emotion. “The […]
“The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.” – Francis Ford Coppola “Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to […]
“There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labour of thinking.” – Sir Joshua Reynolds The Brief This week you have Cinematic Freedom. You are charged with designing your own task. You will produce a short video clip that will enhance your showreel. You should work individually or […]
“To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.” – Daniel Barenboim, conductor “The beautiful image today means nothing. It’s worth shit. In fact, it’s almost as if it has the opposite effect, because you’re just like everything else out there.” – Wim Wenders, writer/director/producer A good cinematographer […]
“Painting is concerned with all the ten attributes of sight: darkness and light, solidity and colour, form and design, distance and nearness, motion and rest.” – A Treatise on Painting, Leonardo da Vinci. “To be concise and short in painting is both necessary and in good taste. The man who is concise makes one think; […]
260MC Creative Brief – Task Four Analysis “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance” “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” -Confucious The Brief As professional media producers you will often have to train yourself to acquire knowledge in a […]
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Søren Kierkegaard “Study the past if you would define the future.” Confucius “ …everything has a past. Everything. A person, an object, a word: everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future. Chaim Potok, Davita’s […]
