Personal Journal Entry #6

This week was good. It seemed to move too quickly. Even though we did not watch any movies this week it seemed hard to complete all of my missing work. Maybe next week will be the week that I finish all of my missing work. I hope that I do not have to go to the pep rally. The pep rally seems like a waste of time. I discovered the god faq and cheapcheapcheap.org this week. That is my personal journal entry for this.

Personal Entry #5

This week has already started slow. I think I will sleep through the class today. It's too bad that Calder is here today. If we don't watch any movies today I will work on my critiques if I don't sleep. My favorite movie so far was hotel Rawanda. Maybe I will do some of the critiques next.

Personal Entry #4

The class is going well. The documentaries are boring and require too much thinking for when it is time to try and discover why they were made. I hope that after watching movies for nearly one week that we will not watch any more next week. During that time I will attempt to write my missing journal entries and critiques. From now on I plan to try writing the critiques while watching the movie to save time later on when I want to work on something else. My next entry should be the one for devil's backbone. Althoug the dates on these journals may be off there should be 9 personal journal entries, 9 magazine article entries and all of the critiques for the movies we watch once this quarter ends.

Rear Window Critique
The movie rear window has a strange way of showing the audience the movie. The camera always shows the movie from the perspective of the crippled guy in the wheelchair. Almaost none of the camera angles come from a perspective that he cannot view. The different night and day scenes give me a sense that time is moving forward. The movie moves very slow. The protaganist just seems to sit in his wheelchair bored waiting for his leg to heal. The clothes the characters wear seem to match the 1950s life. The only time in the movie when the actors motion did not seem realistic was when the guy fell from the apartment. The set seemed to perfectly match a general New York community in the 1950s. The fact that almost no one locks their door seemed very unrealistic for a place like New York.

Lawrence of Arabia Critique

Lawrence of Arabia seemed to focus mostly on contrasting light and camera views over 30 feet from the action that is happening in the scene. The clothes worn by the actors and the actors themselves semmed to match the environment where they were placed in except for the kilt wearing soldiers. The music helped to make the sandstorm in the desert more realistic as did the sounds of people shouting in the town when Acaba was taken. Many of the camera techniques seemed to focus on only either the people talking or were long views to show the sizes of the people in comparison to other things like the train when it was raided or the distance between the prisoners and Lawrences' army when they were moving in the desert.