A Deep Dive

    This was my second time seeing this film, once in theaters and the other in class. The first time I saw it, I thought it was good but I had a lot of confusion. I kept getting hung up on the really strange aspects and not fully absorbing the message. The hotdog fingers, ketchup and mustard coming out of mouths, those men getting the award stuck in their assholes, etc. I just thought it was such a weird choice and I couldn't take the serious moments seriously. The second time I watched it, in class, I felt I truly understood why it won best picture at the Oscars. This might have been because I already knew of the weird aspects and could really give my attention to the sentimental scenes. I had heard of a lot of people getting emotional watching the film and when I first watched it, I couldn't understand why everyone was crying. I found myself in class tearing up and that's when I realized I understood. There are so many lessons pact in this story and all of them just leav...

              What a weird, wonderful film. I highly enjoyed the absurdity and far-fetched story and how impactful it turned out to be. The story is essentially about a man who has been stranded on an island and is about to hang himself after he loses all hope of being rescued. He then sees a man who washed up the shore, who ends up being a magnificent being who's able to do inhuman things that could potentially save his life. They end up becoming good friends and obtaining great hope to return to the life they left behind, even though the inhuman man doesn't remember his old life. The main character, Hank, tricks the inhuman man, Manny, into believing his life was extraordinary and helps him to "remember" it. What Manny doesn't know is the people and events Hank is describing to Manny actually happened in Hank's life. He does this because he thinks hearing about that life will spark real memories for Manny of his own. The movie ends with Hank and Mann...

  https://youtu.be/JIC-eONzS7Y       After finishing our short film, I definitely was able to identify what changes I would make. Having made this film with no professional equipment or actors, we really had to work with what we had. Also having made this film with a group of students prompted differences in schedules and having to shoot scenes on their own time. This made some of the ideas I had for scenes just not work out because I couldn't be there to implement my own creative ideas. I'm very proud of what we came up with and how we used our brains to work together but if I had more time and more professional resources, I feel we could have made it even better. Some categories that stuck out to me range from camera angles, lighting changes, more of a "climax" in the story, and implementing some dialogue that is significant to the story but not the main focus. I think the idea was strong but in a more professional sense, I would have gone in some different di...

                        After watching "Get Out" for class, I made an easy comparison with the protagonist of the movie trying to escape the crazy family's house. This aspect of the movie reminded me of other movies I have watched with similar themes. My favorite genre of film is "thriller" so I often see the use of suspense with the audience questioning "will they escape?" I mentioned in my Get Out blog post that I was a little disappointed with how quick the protagonist seemed to escape compared to other escape movies I have seen. I also go on to describe how that could have been a creative choice, which I can also admire. I wanted to create an additional blog post where I talk about 2 separate movies I have seen with cinematically successful thrilling escape scenes, in my opinion ;)     First up is the movie pictured above titled Ready or Not, directed by Matt Bettinelli and Tyler Gillett. The whole premise of the ...

    So as we were assigned in class, me and my group have been working on making our short film! The concept is showing the true life of a college student. This includes how draining it can be to work as hard as we do everyday. It really explores the idea of getting into a routine in your day to day life that can become repetitive. It becomes very difficult to make your days different than the others because of how time consuming schoolwork is.     The film opens with a walk through of a students average school day and how they are energized for the start of the week. As the film goes on, you can gradually see the student become more drained and depressed. It becomes harder to get out of bed, harder to listen in class, etc. I presented this idea to my group and they all liked it! We branched out from this general idea with "nitty-gritty" details that we felt it was important to include.     This project was a fun way to let ou...

    This was such a good movie! I have seen so many movies with similar themes such as Fresh (2022) and Ready or Not (2019). I was fascinated by how well the actors portrayed this story, specifically in the scene where Rose is speaking on the phone with Rod. She keeps empty facial expressions, as if she is in that hypnotized trance, while adding emotion to her voice to seem as if she cared. I wasn't suspicious of Rose though until she couldn't find her keys and then I knew. I loved how the opening scene ties into the story as well. I went back to rewatch the opening scene after Chris took the car and saw the mask from the beginning. I was rooting for all of those captured people to find their way out and I was so sad they all ended up dying (except Chris of course, who survived).      The music really added to the story as well. I love when thriller/horror movies use music as important elements because it makes the story e...