Carson Zuck's AICE Media Vlog

 

The camera work in this clip of Agent Carter focuses on the dialogue mostly of the characters. Specifically, the eye-level shots and over-shoulder shots really help engage the audience in the conversation between the two characters in the scenes. Specifically, the over-shoulder shot created an uncomfortable and unsolicited sense of sexual tension of Agent Flinn with Agent Carter. Along with this, misogyny in the workplace. Aside from the conversational aspect in this clip, the camera work also contributes to a lot of the anticipation in this film. For example, when Agent Carter is walking toward the warehouse, it gives her a sense of power and anticipation that she is going to “take care of business.” Anticipation of Steve Roger’s death is also established with a wide, action shot as the land comes closer to his crashing plane. There is also contribution of establishing shots in New York City. This grounds the audience into the new setting of the story.   The editing in this film...

The movie I watched was Star Wars: A New Hope, directed by George Lucas. The setting of this cinematic masterpiece takes place in an unknown, fictional universe. The reason why the setting of this fictional universe, along with the many abstract and planets in it, is so important because it completely withdraws the viewer from what they know to be reality. With objects and ideas like laser guns and "The Force", setting this movie in a different universe allows the viewer to accept these abstract ideas as true. Who could tell you, confidentially, that there cannot be space laser guns and the ability to move things with your mind in an alternate universe? Nobody.     Regarding the lighting, it all depends on where you are in this universe. If you are on Luke’s home-planet of Tatooine, the lighting is almost blindingly bright. This is due to the fact that it is a desert-oriented planet, and it is close to not just one, but two suns. If you are soaring through the cosmos in...

            Sound really helped my scenes convey more meaning in comparison to when they did not have sound. This is exemplified firstly in my contrast scene. The intense and frantic music that I added ( non-diagetic sound ) to the scene created much more of an anxious feeling which conveyed how the stressed student felt when he was trying to catch up on his late work in the scene. It also helped the idea of contrast because, in the second part of that scene, the student is sleeping in class and there is no music at all.          In addition to this, the addition of the elegant string and orchestra music that I added to the symbolism scene created a sense of elegance, intelligence and overall a serious and revolutionary mood. This sound displayed a sort of light bulb moment that was also being illustrated on the scene.          Furthermore, the voice over (...

  Simultaneously     In this scene of Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan, simultaneously is demonstrated as Bruce, our main character, falls through a well at the beginning of the movie. While this is happening, we see Rachel, Bruce's childhood friend, run to her and Bruce's parents for help. We observe Bruce being attacked by bats from the cave and Rachel at the same time getting an adult to help Bruce. The use of the cut in between these scenes allows the viewer to subconsciously understand that these two scenes are not happening chronologically, but are happening  simultaneously. This scene could also be used for contrast because the viewer observes how the scene goes from rather quite and unsuspecting to frantic due to the bats attacking Bruce.                                             ...

Contrast: I demonstrated contrast as I videoed a student that was working diligently to complete his assignments, then that same student sleeping in the next class creating contrast.  Symbolism: I demonstrated symbolism by filming a calculator and fading directly from the calculator out of the mind of a student doing math which implies that he is as good as a calculator at math.  Leitmotiff: I demonstrated leitmotiff by establishing the motiff as a strong front line. I then demonstrated how the two "body guards" and pawns are all apart of a strong front line.  Parallelism: I demonstrated parallelism in this shot by showing a student practicing the piano on his desk into him actually playing a real piano creating a parallelism between his life in class to his life as a musician.  Simultaneously: I demonstrated a simultaneous edit by filming two conversations between four people walking towards each other happening at the same time and demonstrated that they were occur...